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. 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:
{{work}}
The description of the work goes here
{{tropelist}}
The trope list goes here
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
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:
{{trope}}
{{trope workshop}}
{{tropestub}}
The description of the trope goes here
{{examples}}
The work list goes here
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Trope Workshop]]
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):
== [[Advertising]] == == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == == [[Comic Books]] == == [[Fanfic]] == == [[Film]] == == [[Literature]] == == [[Live-Action TV]] == == [[Music]] == == [[Newspaper Comics]] == == [[Oral Tradition]] == == [[Professional Wrestling]] == == [[Puppet Shows]] == == [[Radio]] == == [[Tabletop Games]] == == [[Theatre]] == == [[Video Games]] == == [[Web Animation]] == == [[Web Comics]] == == [[Web Original]] == == [[Western Animation]] == == [[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:
== Action Adventure == == Action == == Adventure == == Beat 'em Ups == == Fighting == == First-Person Shooters == == Hack and Slash == == MMORPG == == Party == == Platformers == == Puzzle == == Racing == == RPGS == == Shoot 'em Ups == == Stealth Based == == Survival Horror == == Third-Person Shooters == == Other == == Non-Video Game Examples ==
Category Pages
You've created a new page, and (assuming you actually did put [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] 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:
{{main|{{PAGENAME}}}}
[[Category:Index Index]]