All The Tropes:Creator Page Guidelines: Difference between revisions

Note, however, that not all pages about people will fall into this category. Some, such as [[The Presidents of the United States of America (politics)|The Presidents of the United States of America]], are [[Useful Notes]] and/or [[Historical Domain Character|Historical]]s.<ref>Unless, Domainlike Characters[[Ronald Reagan]], they were both creators and politicians... Othersand aresometimes pagesnot foreven then.</ref> '''Unlike [[TV Tropes]], though, we count performers of ''all'' stripes – including [[Musicians|musicians, bands,]] orand [[Professional Wrestling|professional wrestlers]] – as Creators.''' Please note that, whileeven theythough maywe lookinclude likeprofessional creatorwrestlers pages(because of [[Kayfabe]]), professional athletes of other kinds are actually''not'' workcounted pagesas forcreators. documenting theProfessional tropesathletes usedwho inare their''only'' performancesathletes, (andwho shouldhave benot also made efforts in thea Music/creative andfield Wrestling/such [[Namespace|namespaces]],as acting or respectivelywriting, withare outside the pagewiki's typescope. "work" We are not All The Sports. Being able to hit a baseball, bowl a wicked googly, or score a goal does not make a person a "creator").

* '''An overview of works they've created.''' A simple bulleted list of works they've been involved with is usually a good place to start.<ref>If one or more of their works does not yet have a wiki page associated with it, please list them as [[Red Link|redlinks]]s to make things easier in case the page gets created in the future.</ref>

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* '''Trivia about them.''' We have lots of tropes and [[Trivia Trope]]trivia that can legitimately apply to creators, like [[Dyeing for Your Art]], [[Trolling Creator]], [[Pen Name]], [[Creator Breakdown]], and [[Author Existence Failure]]. Most of these are okay to include on a creator page, or on their [[Trivia Trope]] subpage as appropriate.

* '''[[Conversational Troping]].'''. Normally, we don't trope [[Real Life]] people. But creators often give interviews, or [[Twitter| tweet]], or other such forms of [[Word of God]], and they often talk about tropes. So if they're [[Discussed Trope|discussing]], [[Conversed Trope|conversing]], [[Lampshaded Trope|lampshading]], or [[Invoked Trope|invoking]] tropes, those tropes are fair game for their page.

=== What should ''not'' go on creator pages: ===

* '''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 instead. (If that single work doesn't have a page yet, see [[Works Pages Are a Free Launch]].)

* '''[[Creator Bashing]].''' Creator pages should not be used to complain about how much a person sucks. We're not here to hate on people. Multiple creatorIt's pagesokay to have problems with their works, includingbut [[Uwethat Boll]]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 [[MicrosoftEdit War]], haveAll beenThe sentTropes may have to lock the [[Permanentpage Red– Linkor Club]]worse, becausedelete editorsit justand couldn''then'' lock it. We don't resistwant spewingto bilehave to do that. Please keepDon't itmake neutralus.

* '''Subjectivity and YMMV.''' We don't list [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]] items for real-life people. That includes creators. Please don't list [[Audience Reactions]] or [[Your Mileage May Vary|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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