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All The Tropes is not just about tropes and the works that use them. Frequently information about an [[Authors|author]], [[Actors|actor]], [[Directors|director]], [[Producers|producer]], [[mangaka]], [[Composers|composer]], [[Animators|animator]], [[Video Game Companies|developer]], or other creator will be relevant to our understanding of the tropes in their works. To that end, we have [[Creator]] pages.
These pages document information about creators pertaining to their works and the tropes they use. [[No Such Thing As Notability|Any creator can have a page if someone is willing to make it.]] However, we want to see pages with substance – please spend the time and effort to tell us something about the creator and his work. If you can't say more than a single sentence about them, it may be deleted as a "Zero-Content" page. (And if the creator and his work inspire you to create a page for them, why ''can't'' you say more than a sentence?)
Creator pages are created with the [[MediaWiki:Creators|Creators Page template]]. This template automatically lays out the proper
Note that not all pages about people will fall into this
And it should go without saying, but do ''not'' create pages for fictitious or bogus creators. Doing so will get you [[All The Tropes:How We Do Bans Around Here|permanently banned]]. (Describe fictional creators on the "Characters" subpages of the works that they're from, please - an example here is [[Princess Tutu (anime)/Characters#Herr D. D. Drosselmeyer|Drosselmeyer]] from ''[[Princess Tutu (anime)|Princess Tutu]]''.)
== What can go on creator pages ==
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== What should ''not'' go on creator pages: ==
* '''IMPORTANT:''' Copying verbatim from [[TV Tropes]] is copyright infringement, and a good way to earn speedy deletion. See [[All The Tropes:Copyrights]] if you want to know why.
* '''Tropes applied to the creator as if they are a fictional character.''' Please resist the urge to apply character tropes to [[Real Life]] people. We've had a lot of [[Square Peg, Round Trope]] issues in the past with this,<ref>And we've had similar issues with Tropers who refused to check what some tropes are actually about - in one case, to the point that the Troper was banned for repeatedly inserting false information into pages. Please don't be that Troper.</ref> so as a general guideline, it's best to apply [[No Real Life Examples, Please]] to creators. If it seems harmless, it might be overlooked [[Just for Fun]], and there is an exception for [[Conversational Troping]] as mentioned above, but on the whole this is something [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement|best avoided]].
* '''Tropes that apply to ''individual'' works they've created.''' Any tropes listed should be relevant to their work as a whole, not to just one work. So if a trope only applies to ''one'' work they've made, please list it on that work's page
* '''Creator Bashing.''' Creator pages should not be used to complain about how much a person sucks. We're not here to hate on people. It's okay to have problems with their works, but that doesn't give you a license to abuse a creator. Please keep it reasonably neutral. If it ''can't'' be kept neutral, and/or descends into an [[Edit War]], All The Tropes may have to lock the page
* '''Subjectivity and YMMV.''' We don't list [[YMMV]] items for real-life people. That includes creators. Please don't list [[Audience Reactions]] or [[YMMV]] for a creator.
* '''[[Perverted Drooling|Drooling.]]''' In the past, we've had pages for actresses that consisted primarily of gushing about how hot they are. [[All The Tropes:No Lewdness, No Prudishness|This is not okay.]] It's inappropriate and will not be tolerated.
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