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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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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
• 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