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

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See Also:

• Predefined Messages

Basic Stuff

• What Goes Where On the Wiki
• Trope Workshop: The place to propose a new trope page.
  • Trope Workshop Guidelines
  • Naming a Trope
    • What Do I Call This Entry?
    • Clear, Concise, Witty
    • Trope Namer Syndrome
    • Everything's Worse With Snowclones
• Page creation guidelines:
  • Trope Workshop Guidelines
  • Works Page Guidelines
  • Creator Page Guidelines
• Lost and Found: The place to ask, "Do we have this one?" and "What's the trope about...?" Redirects to our Trope Talk forum.
• Forum Rules
• Our History

Manual of Style

• Style Guide
• About Rhetorical Questions
• American and Commonwealth Spellings
• Creating New Pages
• Creating New Redirects
• Creating Disambiguation Pages
• Everything's Worse With Snowclones
• The Great Character Alignment Debate
• Handling Spoilers
  • Self-Fulfilling Spoiler
  • Spoilers Off
• How to Alphabetize Things
• How to Pick A Good Image
• All The Tropes:How to Write An Example
  • Examples Need Context
  • Examples Are Not Arguable
  • Examples Are Not Recent
  • Examples Are Not Local
  • Example Indentation in Trope Lists
  • Weblinks Are Not Examples
• The Great Character Alignment Debate
• In-Universe
• Just a Face and a Caption - One particular problem that commonly shows up in page images.
• 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
  • Everything's Worse With Snowclones
  • Renamed Tropes
• Page Templates
• Natter (AKA "Conversation in the Main Page")
• Repair, Don't Respond
• Signal to Noise Train Wreck
• Sinkhole
• Text Formatting
• This Troper
• Tips for Editing
• Three Day Rule
• Three Rules of Three
• What to Put At The Top of A Page

Trope Maintenance

• Analyzing Inbounds
• How To Delete a Page
• Dead Link
• Frequent Redlinks
• How to Do A Wick Check
• Locked Pages
• Missing Supertrope
• Needs Wiki Magic Love
  • Needs a Better Description
  • 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
• Signal to Noise Train Wreck
• 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
• Loaded Trope Word
• Mistakenly Banned
• The Situation (2010/10/27 Google Ads, definitely not All The Tropes policy)
• The Second Google Incident (2012/04 Google Ads, definitely not ATT policy)
• Trope Talk
• What Page Types Mean
• Content Usage Guidelines