All The Tropes:Creating New Redirects

You have a page for a trope or work, and the name seems to be fine, especially if it's an established term. But it's still kind of obscure outside of that particular Fandom or the entertainment industry in general, it has accented characters and/or it's hard to spell. So it's not that likely to be searched for easily.

This is a major cause of duplicates of existing tropes being proposed in the Trope Workshop.

So if a rename isn't called for, creating a redirect is the next best thing. This is popularly abbreviated by saying "redirects are free" -- but it should be noted that the ability to create redirects is not a valid argument for or against renaming.

For instructions (and general guidelines) on exactly how to create a redirect, see Help:Redirects.

When To Create a Redirect

• If a creator is equally known by both a nickname and his real name, one should redirect to the other: [[JMS]] to J. Michael Straczynski.
• If a page has accented characters in its name, create a redirect with the closest unaccented characters to make it easier to type into the search box: [[Pokemon]] to Pokémon.

When Not To Create a Redirect

Do not create redirects for the following:

• Misspellings: [[Magical Grrl]] to Magical Girl.
• Abbreviations: [[WoT]] to The Wheel of Time
• Variations in capitalization: [[On The Beach]] to On the Beaach.
• Specific examples: [[KMF]] to Humongous Mecha.
• Plurals: Regular plurals can be linked just by appending an "s" or "es" to the normal markup. For example, [[Game Breaker]]s becomes Game Breakers. Handle irregular plurals with Potholes.
• Definite articles that aren't part of a work title: [[The Tsundere]] to Tsundere.
• Character names that aren't used as official titles (e.g. [[John McClane]] to Die Hard).
• Memes to works that inspired them (e.g. [[Leekspin]] to Bleach).

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