All The Tropes:Creating a Page by Hand

You want to create a page. You've read the New User Guides and the Trope Workshop Guidelines. You already know Works Pages Are a Free Launch, and you've learned how to avoid writing a Zero Context Example. You've found out how to actually create a new wiki page. You've started to create the new page...

But the "Select boilerplate" menu didn't appear at the top of the edit box.

Well, that's something that the Moderation Staff needs to look into, so please let them know. But in the meantime, you still want to create a page.

It's time to do it the old-school way - by hand.

These are bare-minimum page skeletons that you can copy into your new page - nothing fancy, just enough to put everything in its expected place.

Works Pages
Since Works Pages Are a Free Launch and we don't divide the works pages up by medium the way TVTropes does, these can go straight into the main wiki space. Don't put a prefix on your page name.

The minimum Work page structure:

The description of the work goes here

The trope list goes here

Tropes Pages
First, read the Trope Workshop Guidelines. If you're still going to create the page (instead of taking it to the forums), please start it in the Trope Workshop. You can do this by starting the name of your page with "Trope Workshop:".

The minimum Trope page structure:

The description of the trope goes here

The work list goes here

Groups for Examples
If you don't want to get the "Examples Need Sorting" category added to your Trope page, you'll have to sort your works... Here's a list of headers that match most of the broad categories of works (although it would be a very odd trope that would have reason to use them all):

Real Life
If you find you're putting almost all of the examples under Video Games (which is certainly possible), you might want to use this list of headers instead:

Tropes Subpages
Sometimes, there are so many examples of a trope in a particular medium that it makes sense to split the medium off into a subpage.

The minimum Trope subpage structure: Examples of in  include:

The work list goes here

That "tropesubpagefooter" at the end puts all the required categories and links onto the page. Please note that "tropesubpagefooter" breaks if you take it more than one level of subpages deep.

Category Pages
You've created a new page, and (assuming you actually did put at the end of the page) you see that the name of the page is in the Category list, in red. It would be nice to change that to blue and add your new page to the big index.

Click on that red link to create the new category. Luckily, the basic text is exactly the same no matter what sort of page it was that you just created, so just copy and paste these two lines, then save off the new category: