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But the "Select boilerplate" menu didn't appear at the top of the edit box.
 
Well, that's something that [[All The Tropes:Contact us|Well, that's something that the Moderation Staff]] needs to look into, so please let themus know.]] But in the meantime, you still want to create a page.
 
It's time to do it the old-school way - by hand.
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== 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.
 
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The trope list goes here
 
 
<nowiki>----</nowiki>▼
<nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki>
<nowiki>[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]</nowiki></pre>
 
You can add more categories, of course. We encourage at least the medium of the work (Film, Live-Action TV, Literature, Anime, Western Animation, and so on) be added as a category.
 
If the work's title starts with A, An, or The, you <s>can</s> should also add a DEFAULTSORT to the very end of the page. The code for this is <code><nowiki>{{DEFAULTSORT:Pagename-without-the-leading-article, Article}}</nowiki></code>. (For example, "[[The Wind in the Willows]]" has the tag "DEFAULTSORT:Wind in the Willows, The".)
== Tropes Pages ==▼
 
== Works Subpages ==
First, read the [[All The Tropes:Trope Workshop Guidelines|Trope Workshop Guidelines]]. If you're still going to create the page (instead of [[Take It to the Forums|taking it to the forums]]), please start it in the [[:Category:Trope Workshop|Trope Workshop]]. You can do this by starting the name of your page with "Trope Workshop:".▼
Some tropes should be listed on subpages for works - Crowners, YMMV, Trivia, and so on.
 
The minimum Work subpage structure:
▲<pre><nowiki>----{{work}}</nowiki>
 
The trope list goes here
 
<nowiki>{{reflistworksubpagefooter}}</nowiki></pre>▼
 
That "worksubpagefooter" at the end puts all the required categories and links onto the page. Please ensure it is the very last thing on the page (with the exception of any custom categories you're adding to the page and a DEFAULTSORT tag if the work starts with A, An, or The). A warning: "worksubpagefooter" breaks if you take it more than one level of subpages deep -- so please don't use it on Recap pages. Use {{tl|recapfooter}} instead of {{tl|worksubpagefooter}} on Recap pages.
 
▲== Tropes Pages ==
▲First, read the [[All The Tropes:Trope Workshop Guidelines|Trope Workshop Guidelines]]. If you're still going to create the page (instead of [[Take It to the Forums|taking it to the forums]]), please start it in the [[:Category:Trope Workshop|Trope Workshop]]. You can do this by startingputting the name of your trope candidate page withinto the box labeled "To create a new trope candidate:" on the Trope Workshop: page, then selecting the "Create a new Trope to be worked on" button.
 
The minimum Trope page structure:
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The work list goes here
 
<nowiki>----</nowiki>▼
<nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki>
<nowiki>[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]</nowiki>
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== [[Advertising]] ==
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
== [[Art]] ==
== [[Comic Books]] ==
== [[FanficFan Works]] ==
== [[Film]] ==
== [[Literature]] ==
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
== [[Music]] ==
== [[New Media]] ==
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
== [[Pinball]] ==
== [[Podcast]]s ==
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
== [[Radio]] ==
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
== [[Theatre]] ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
== [[Western Animation]] ==
== [[Other Media]] ==
== [[Real Life]] ==
</nowiki></pre>
If you find you're putting almost all of the examples under Video Games (which is certainly possible), you might want to useadd this list of headerssubheaders insteadunder the Video Games header:
<pre><nowiki>
=== Action Adventure4X ===
=== Action Adventure ===
=== AdventureAction Game ===
=== BeatAdventure 'em UpsGame ===
=== FightingArcade Game ===
=== First-PersonBeat'Em ShootersUp ===
=== HackCard andBattle SlashGame ===
=== MMORPGDriving Game ===
=== PartyEdutainment Game ===
=== PlatformersFighting Game ===
=== PuzzleFirst-Person Shooter ===
=== RacingHack and Slash ===
=== RPGSInteractive Fiction ===
=== Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game ===
== Shoot 'em Ups ==▼
=== StealthMaze BasedGame ===
=== SurvivalParty HorrorGame ===
=== Third-PersonPlatform ShootersGame ===
=== OtherPuzzle Game ===
=== Non-VideoRacing Game Examples ===
=== Real Time Strategy ===
=== Rhythm Game ===
=== Roguelike ===
=== Role-Playing Game ===
▲=== Shoot 'emEm UpsUp ===
=== Simulation Game ===
=== Sports Game ===
=== Stealth Based Game ===
=== Survival Horror ===
=== Tower Defense ===
=== Third-Person Shooter ===
=== Turn-Based Strategy ===
=== Visual Novel ===
=== Wide Open Sandbox ===
=== Other Game Genres ===
▲</nowiki>----</nowikipre>
If you find you're putting a large number of examples under Tabletop Games, you might want to add this list of subheaders under the Tabletop Games header:
<pre><nowiki>
=== Board Games ===
=== Card Games ===
=== Gamebooks ===
=== Tabletop RPG ===
=== War Games ===
</nowiki></pre>
 
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The minimum Trope subpage structure:
<pre><nowiki>{{trope}}</nowiki>
<nowiki>Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:</nowiki>
 
The work list goes here
 
<nowiki>----{{tropesubpagefooter}}</nowiki></pre>
 
<nowiki>:Back to [[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}]]</nowiki>
That "tropesubpagefooter" at the end puts all the required categories and links onto the page. Please ensure it is the very last thing on the page (with the exception of any custom categories you're adding to the page and a DEFAULTSORT tag if the trope starts with A, An, or The). A warning: "{{tl|tropesubpagefooter}}" breaks if you take it more than one level of subpages deep - use {{tl|tropesub-subpagefooter}} if the page is two levels deep, which is possible if you're creating a page of examples from a particular franchise or other large work. (If the page is three levels deep, you're creating something that we never planned for.)
▲<nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki>
<nowiki>[[Category:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}]]</nowiki>
<nowiki>[[Category:{{SUBPAGENAME}}]]</nowiki></pre>
 
Once you've made a subpage for examples of a trope, go back to the trope page and add the <code><nowiki>{{examples on subpages}}</nowiki></code> tag on a new line ''immediately'' before the existing <code><nowiki>{{examples}}</nowiki></code> tag. (If you've moved all of the tropes off of the main trope page, you can delete the <code><nowiki>{{examples}}</nowiki></code> tag.)
Please note that this 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 <nowiki>[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]</nowiki> at the end of the page) you see that the name of the page is in the Category list, in red. ItIf it's a work page, 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:
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[[Category:Wiki Policy]]
[[Category:Style Guide]]
[[Category:Page Templates]]
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