All The Tropes:Administrivia

An index page for the site-maintenance items. Things on this page may or may not be policy in the new regime. Things that are definitely policy are linked from All The Tropes:About

Basic Stuff
 * Ask the Tropers: General questions about the Wiki and the forums
 * YKTTW: The place to propose a new trope page.
 * Lost and Found: The place to ask, "Do we have this one?" and "What's the trope about...?"
 * Five P: TV Trope's Censorship Bureau. It has no counterpart here on All The Tropes.
 * The Ptitle Replacement System: A hack for PMWiki implemented to support punctuation in page names. Irrelevant here, but the page is maintained for historical purposes.
 * What Goes Where On the Wiki

Manual of Style
 * About Rhetorical Questions
 * American and Commonwealth Spellings
 * Brevity Is Wit
 * Creating New Pages
 * Creating New Redirects
 * Creator Page Guidelines
 * The Definite Trope Name Clean Up
 * Edit Reasons and Why You Should Use Them
 * Everything's Worse With Snowclones
 * Flame Bait
 * The Great Character Alignment Debate
 * Handling Spoilers
 * Self-Fulfilling Spoiler
 * Spoilers Off
 * How Indexing Works
 * How to Alphabetize Things
 * How to Make A Custom Title
 * How to Pick A Good Image
 * All The Tropes:How to Write An Example
 * Examples Are Not Arguable
 * Examples Are Not Recent
 * Example Indentation in Trope Lists
 * Type Labels Are Not Examples
 * Weblinks Are Not Examples
 * Zero Context Example
 * In-Universe
 * Just a Face And A Caption - One particular problem that commonly shows up in page images.
 * Linking to An Article Within The Article
 * Template:Media Headers
 * Media Categories FAQ - some frequently asked questions about the standard list of Media Categories.
 * Naming a Trope
 * Everything You Wanted to Know About Changing Names
 * Launch Displacement
 * Renamed Tropes
 * No New Stock Phrases
 * Page Templates
 * Please No Natter
 * Repair, Don't Respond
 * Sinkhole
 * Text Formatting Rules
 * This Troper (The article exists, but is kept red as a Warning. Click on it to see why.)
 * Tips for Editing
 * Three Day Rule
 * Three Rules of Three
 * Trope Entry Template
 * What to Put At The Top of A Page
 * YKTTW Guidelines

Trope Maintenance


 * Analyzing Inbounds
 * Cut List
 * Dead Link
 * Frequent Redlinks
 * How Crowners Work
 * How to Do A Wick Check
 * Locked Pages
 * Permanent Red Link Club
 * Missing Supertrope
 * Needs Wiki Magic Love
 * Needs a Better Description
 * Needs an Index
 * Pages Needing an Entry Pimp
 * Pages Needing Example Sorting
 * Pages Needing Images
 * List of Pages Artists Can Illustrate
 * Pages Needing Wicks
 * Tropes Needing Examples
 * Works Needing Tropes
 * Search Word Fixes
 * Tips Worksheet
 * Wiki Curator
 * Wild Mass Guessing: Programme Note
 * Works Pages Are a Free Launch
 * You Know That Thing Where

Wiki
 * Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions
 * Laconical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions
 * Example Sectionectomy
 * Finding a Trope
 * The Great Crash
 * Lost and Found
 * Loaded Trope Word
 * Mistakenly Banned
 * Punctuated Titles
 * The Situation (2010/10/27 Google Ads)
 * The Second Google Incident (2012/04 Google Ads)
 * Subwiki
 * Trope Repair Shop
 * What Page Types Mean
 * Wiki Archives
 * Weirdest Inbound Link of the Day
 * Welcome to TV Tropes

See Also:
 * Predefined Messages