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Is an article being desecrated repeatedly at an alarming rate? Is it the subject of heavy debate and constant changes? In either case, if these become too much of a problem, then you've probably got a page that needs to be locked by an administrator or moderator until such unproductive tendencies are resolved (which, sadly, almost never happens). This can be a depressing sight on any wiki when a page is in need of Wiki Magic (or attention from grammaticians) — the best option is to try keeping things productive so administrators have to do this as little as possible.

Moderators (listed here) have locking authority on this wiki, and can also edit them to fix problems. To get their attention, post your request on the forum, in the sticky topic about edits to locked pages. If one wants to request a page be unlocked, you can get the moderators' attention in this sticky topic.

For empty pages that are locked, see Permanent Red Link Club (unless they were deleted recently).

Note: If you were directed here when you clicked the Edit button on an article (even though it had a lock icon instead, you crazy dedicated Troper, you), it means the article is locked. Look below for the reason. If you don't see the article in question here, or on Permanent Red Link Club for blank locked articles, don't panic — maybe we haven't gotten around to listing it yet. Post on Ask the Tropers or the TV Tropes Fora.

People

 * Adolf Hitler: Controversial image caption change.
 * Barack Obama: This has been drawing heat... again. Cautionary lock until the political rhetoric season is over.
 * Brian Bendis: Creator bashing in a personal, non-work related level that spiraled into an edit war.
 * Osama Bin Laden: As you could imagine, it quickly turned into arguments and political Flame Bait, as well as attracting edit warring.
 * Self Demonstrating.Brian Blessed: The page contains jokes with disabled text formats. (Increasing text size.) Opening it to edit will cause the software to eliminate those formats.


 * Michael Cole: The guy's a flame magnet in pro wrestling.
 * Justin Bieber: Natter and bashing target.
 * The Prophet Muhammad: Islamophobic vandalism.
 * Rob Liefeld: Creator- and work-bashing.
 * Joe Quesada: Massive target for creator-bashing.
 * Seltzer and Friedberg: Consisted mostly of work-bashing.

Tropes

 * Accidental Nightmare Fuel: Examples lockout due to continuous Trope Decay.
 * All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles: Restored after being cut due to NSFW content.
 * America Saves the Day: Edit warring over Real Life examples and excessive Misplaced Nationalism on the page towards and against the US.
 * Anatomically-Impossible Sex: Examples lockout.
 * Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: One, to keep examples from overloading the main page (they're in subpages for a reason), and also to prevent the use of images on the main page (if necessary, they can go on one of the subpages).
 * Baka: Examples lockout.
 * Big Bra to Fill: Examples attracted gushing and bad examples.
 * Bile Fascination: Natter magnet.
 * Brother-Sister Incest: Presumably to prevent anyone from adding any images. This Wiki is intended to be family-friendly, thank you.
 * Chekov's Gun: People who don't get the joke trying to "correct" it.
 * The Chick: Edit Warring and constant rewrites to try to make it about feminism rather than the character type.
 * Compensated Dating: Issues with advertisers. Unlike the other pages which had this problem, however, there is no examples lockout.
 * Complaining About Shows You Don't Like: After Complaining About People Not Liking the Show had its examples deleted, someone dumped them here. After that, it was locked to prevent any more examples or complaining about the examples being deleted. We never allowed examples for this anyway, since Complain About Shows You Dont Like was created (and since deleted).
 * Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch: Pure, distilled Fan Dumb and Hate Dumb. Constant natter, justifying edits, a factionalistic "all the haters are wrong" versus "you don't need to watch this to know it's crap" argument for many entries, and the concept is simply too broad for examples.
 * Complete Monster: Kept getting edited to play with the very strict definition, even though we agreed to leave it alone and put examples in the subpages. The subpages are now getting cleaned and locked to prevent further natter, edit wars, and shoehorning; if a subpage is locked, it's for that reason.
 * Dangerously-Short Skirt: Creepy gushing.
 * Wall Banger (Darth Wiki): Page was locked after the removal of overly-long text.
 * Dominatrix: Examples lockout after issues with advertisers.
 * Double Standard: Attracted excessive amounts of complaining about the topic as well as heated debates and soapboxing over feminism.
 * Edit War: Examples lockout. Many of the examples had a "You lost! Neener neener!" tone to them.
 * Emo Teen: The definition is broad and subjective, and the term "Emo" itself is heavily stigmatized. Examples were almost always slams against characters (regardless of their actual subculture), and brought in Natter as a result.
 * Fallen Creator: Vandalism target.
 * False Rape Accusation: The YKTTW of this trope attracted heated debate, so this page was launched with a lock on it. The very touchy nature of this trope would just attract flame wars.
 * Fetish: Examples lockout after issues with advertisers.
 * Fetish Fuel: Examples lockout. The examples often got out of Family Friendly territory way too easily. Previous examples were moved into an off-site wiki.
 * Fetish Fuel Future: Emergency Example Sectionectomy after issues with advertisers.
 * Five-Man Band: Definition drift. Subpages are still unlocked, except for The Chick (see above).
 * Freud Was Right: Examples lockout.
 * Garbage Post Kid: Examples brought nothing but Flame Bait, natter, This Troper, and nasty accusations, eventually attracting spiteful comments from one of the parties mentioned. Besides, most examples were too broad.
 * Gorn: Creepy examples.
 * The Great Comics Crash of 1996: Edit Warring.
 * Griefer: Real life examples lockout to prevent it from becoming a Self-Demonstrating Article.
 * Gushing About Shows You Like (Sugar Wiki)/Bio Ware: Vandalism target.
 * Hatedom: Examples lockout due to trolling and flame wars. Considering that any work can have a hatedom, adding examples is completely unnecessary.
 * Hentai: Examples lockout as part of the site's No Lewdness policy.
 * Het: Original version had a digression about fandoms and opinions about the trope that left little for the actual description. Locked to keep its readable state.
 * Horny Devils: Justification needed
 * Internet Tough Guy: Examples lockout. Most of the old examples were used to complain about people on the internet by latching onto any slightly mean thing they said.
 * It Was His Sled: Examples lockout to prevent accidental spoilerage when people add spoilers that don't qualify for the trope.
 * Kuudere: Examples lockout. The page defines the Fan-Speak term. For the broader trope and examples from media, see Sugar and Ice Personality.
 * Legal Jailbait: Cautionary lock following the No Lewdness policy.
 * Lolicon and Shotacon: Examples lockout due to nebulous legality in English-speaking countries and issues with advertisers. If they were unlocked, it would deter advertisers and attract NSFW ads.
 * Mary Sue: Edit wars over attempts to rewrite the incredibly complicated definition.
 * Mondegreen: Continues to attract non-In-Universe examples despite warning banners.
 * Moral Guardians: Edit warring about an entry about TV Tropes.
 * Nietzsche Wannabe: Actual Nietzsche Wannabes ranting, posting Natter, and engaging in Edit War due to the focus on philosophy and the Trope Namer, Friedrich Nietzsche. Not a philosophy site, guys.
 * Ubermensch and Ubermensch/Laconic: Natter, edit warring, and constant rewrites to make it more about Nietzsche than the character type, also due to the incredibly complicated philosophy and the tendency to attract actual Nietzsche Wannabes. The aforementioned wannabes and other such debating philosophers are instead advised to just look it up on Wikipedia and/or Take It to the Forums.
 * Older Than They Think: The page was split for being too big, but the examples kept getting re-added to the main page.
 * Orwellian Editor: Examples ignored the definition; bile and Take Thats aimed at any moderation at all.
 * Paedo Hunt: Description turned into an essay about paedophilia, which drew unwanted real-life examples and threatened to turn it into the same anti-persecution tract that forced us to change its name from All Pedophiles Are Child Molesters.
 * Panty Shot: Examples lockout due to creepy content.
 * Parabombing: As you can see, the temptation was great to make it a Self-Demonstrating Article.
 * Perverse Sexual Lust: Examples lockout. There is no need to list fans' personal lusts.
 * Protection From Editors: Kept attracting purely speculative, baseless examples to complain about a creator's output.
 * Sex Slave: Precautionary lock to prevent the infiltration of controversial material.
 * Shock Site: Examples lockout. We don't need such things posted here.
 * Sideboob: Was restored after examples cut.
 * Side Effects Include: Edit warring about the Overly Long Gag.
 * Snuff Film: Examples lockout.
 * Squick: Examples brought constant natter and This Troper, plus we really don't need a page of gross stuff. Also, having examples here is somewhat pointless, considering we have Disgust Tropes, and a character's reaction will often be similar to the audience's reaction.
 * "Stop Having Fun!" Guys: Examples lockout due to arguments over content and trope definition. Considering that the trope is more based around personal experiences, the discussion tab is more fitting for examples.
 * Tech Fu: Formerly described Gadgeteer Genius and Mad Scientist. The page is still there to define it as fan speak.
 * The Fundamentalist: Refusal to allow atheists to be included as fundamentalist, discussion over including fanaticism. Repeatedly reverted moderator and admin edits.


 * True Art: The Self Demonstrating joke got way too out of hand and was burying the index.
 * Underboobs: Restoration after cut for having creepy content.
 * Unpleasable Fanbase: Examples lockout. The page was getting way too big with both examples and constant natter. Considering that the trope is more based around personal experiences, the discussion tab is more fitting for examples.
 * Waggle: Examples lockout, as the page was an attraction to complaining about the Wii and other motion control systems and games.
 * Zerg Rush: Edit warring over unneeded parts of the description. Page was split so people can still add examples.

Works

 * Avatar (film)/YMMV: Edit warring and debates over the film's "originality".
 * The Bible, The Bible/YMMV and The Bible/Characters: Chronic edit war over Trope definitions and proper page tone and perspective, no doubt due to the subject matter. The newly created page The Bible was preemptively locked to avoid the same problems as the original from reappearing.
 * Cthulhu Tech: Restored after cut, but still locked.
 * Ctrl Alt Del: Edit warring, personal attacks, and other complaining. Its creator, Tim Buckley, is a member of the Permanent Red Link Club.
 * Drunkard's Walk: Page blanked by the creator in protest of the P5.
 * Duel Academy R 2: Page blanking by a Troper who wanted the page removed.
 * The Easy Breather: Chronic Edit War between three sides — the author and his devoted followers, who turned the page into a hymn of undiluted praise; the haters, who turned it into undiluted bile; and the people who tried to make it neutral, and got hit from both sides.
 * Evil Overlord List, Cellblock A, and Cellblock B: The original edition is final due to it being from another website. Our extensions are open.
 * The Fanfiction Forum: Judging by the discussion page, Flame and Edit Wars.
 * Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII/YMMV: Frequent target for Shipping-related Edit Wars.
 * Forbiden Fruit the Tempation of Edward Cullen: Unending stream of chaotic natter, editorialism, and "witticisms" that came across more as vandalism.
 * Fox News Channel: Attracted political-related complaining plus flame and edit wars.
 * Game Breaker/Fire Emblem: Edit warring.
 * The Garbage Pail Kids Movie: Edit warring over page tone.
 * Inheritance Cycle and Inheritance Cycle/Trivia: Natter and Accentuate the Negative/bashing.
 * The Irate Gamer: Target of many edit wars over the tone of the page, mostly due to the criticism the show attracts.
 * Let's Play: Edit warring.
 * Liberality for All: The subject of the article is basically living breathing Flame Bait.
 * The Libertines: Target of a persistent ban evader.
 * The Lonely Island: Work page that mainly consisted of profanities and in-jokes, and was impossible to read if you weren't a fan. It was moved to a sandbox until it was deemed fit.
 * Lolita: Restored after cut.
 * Maradonia Saga: The whole page was a Take That aimed at the book and the author. Locked to keep it neutral.
 * Mass Effect 3 and all subpages: Constant vandalism and complaining over the game's controversial ending.
 * Memento: Edit war over the article being in reverse-order that the film followed.
 * My Immortal: Unending stream of chaotic natter, editorialism, and "witticisms" that came across more as vandalism.
 * My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: Main page is locked due to it being a persistent vandalism target. Sub pages still open.
 * Original Life: Apparently, people couldn't keep the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement in mind.
 * Outnumbered/YMMV: Negativity magnet.
 * Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt: Main and YMMV subpage locked because of persistent trolling.
 * Pokegirls/Recap: Vandal magnet.
 * Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)/Professional Wrestling: Became a flame-fest between fans and haters.


 * Ranma ½/Fanfic Recs: Magnet for a persistent ban evader.
 * Sonichu and Sonichu/YMMV: Got way too focused on its creator to a personal, hostile level, to the exclusion of the comic itself. The examples have been edited to just focus on the comic.
 * Asperchu: As a satire of the life of said author, it had the same problems as the above. Page now has a cleaned-up description and Trope list, but will likely remain locked until further notice.
 * Dethroning Moment of Suck/Video Games: Edit warring over the inclusion of some entries.
 * Whale Wars: People for and against whaling couldn't resist the temptation, with obvious results.
 * Dethroning Moment of Suck/Zero Punctuation and Dethroning Moment of Suck/That Guy With the Glasses: Both turned into a massive edit war over the rules of DMOS.

Administrivia/Policy
These pages are meant to guide tropers on how to go about editing on the wiki. As such, the pages themselves have no need of examples or definition-tweaking. Some pages must be locked to prevent either from happening. If the pages were locked for different reasons, it will be specifically noted below.


 * Everything's Worse With Snowclones
 * The Great Character Alignment Debate
 * Just a Face And A Caption
 * Home Page
 * Naming a Trope
 * The Ptitle Replacement System
 * Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment
 * Subtext
 * There Is No Such Thing as Notability
 * Trope Entry Template
 * Tropes Are Tools
 * Tropes Will Ruin Your Life
 * Welcome to TV Tropes
 * Word Cruft
 * Writer Bashing

Other

 * About Rhetorical Questions: An Edit War over whether it should be a Self-Demonstrating Article.
 * All Blue Entry: Originally an article that included a list of such pages. Now such shrines of sinkholery are forbidden.
 * The Archive of Bellicose Lexicon Entities: It was a series of articles listing tropers accordingly to their visions on trope naming, images, example lists and the like. Since it was determined that these articles, rather than serving their purpose as fun places for like-minded tropers to associate, were inspiring antagonism and factionalism among our user base, they have been discontinued and all of them now redirect back to that index, which now remains as a means of defining the acronyms only, and is locked to prevent tropers from listing themselves on one of those categories, which they can simply do through their userpages anyway.
 * Conversation in the Main Page: Repeated attempts to make it self-demonstrating undermine the whole point behind the article.
 * Costa Rica: Byproduct of the page's previous cut.
 * Laconic, Synopsis, and Quotes Wiki: The indexes were too big to be on a editable wiki page and not crash the server, but locking the page would not let the index update. Instead, there is a link to a non wiki page that lists every page with the corresponding namespace.
 * LOLcats: Edit warring over whether the description should be in LOL Speak.
 * Pothole: Didn't work as a Self-Demonstrating Article, but kept getting edited to be one.
 * Ryona: Examples lockout.
 * Something Awful: Troll target.
 * Troll: Obvious troll magnet.
 * Troper Demographics: Contained too many characters and started crashing the server. The list was replaced with simply a demographic picture from Google Analytics.
 * Tropers Law: To keep it from becoming a troll magnet.
 * Wikipedia: Obvious flame magnet.
 * Wikipedia/Laconic: Magnet for jokes about Wikipedia's policies.
 * Wiki Vandal: Obvious vandalism magnet.
 * Your Mileage May Vary: Technically not a trope, but was used as one anyway. Given its very broad and subjective nature, this resulted in links to the page getting overused. Definition was deleted and currently used as a redirect to YMMV Trope. The only reason it exists in the first place is because it was the old name for Love It or Hate It.

Deliberate Red Links
The following tropes are infamous for existing both on this page and in the Permanent Red Link Club. This is because, while these pages still exist for definition purposes, their actual use on this wiki is highly discouraged.


 * Heroic Sociopath: Attracted massive Trope Decay. The disambiguation was kept to take the inbounds, but the title was redlinked to prevent any more wicking.
 * If You Know What I Mean: The old name for If You Know What I Mean. Was made a deliberate redlink due to tropers potholing their own double entendres to the page.
 * No Just No: Originally created for a character's reaction to a Squicky moment, it got misused as a pothole for editors inserting their own reaction to what was in the example. In-Universe examples were moved to "No. Just... No" Reaction. While redlinked, this is still used as a redirect to the new article to keep appropriate links and remove unnecessary wicks.
 * Or Is It: Was supposed to be an Ending Tropes, but it rapidly degenerated into a troper Catch Phrase. Now known as The End - or Is It?. The page still exists as a redirect to retain inbounds, but is deliberately redlinked to discourage potholing.
 * This Troper: Attempts to make it self-demonstrating that undermine the point behind the article, as well as attempts to rewrite the definition out of a misguided belief that saying it's okay on that page will suddenly change the prevailing attitude. Its use in the first-person is not wanted outside of designated areas.
 * X Just X: Verbal Tic. Originally existed as a page to discourage examples that gave no context as to how they fit a trope, but the page's title inspired people to make potholes to the page. Now known as Zero Context Example.