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Sure. No one knows your work as well as you do. Feel free to pimp out the entry, and make it all nice and shiny. If the page doesn't exist, create it. We're happy to have you on board, making our site better with more information about your creation.
However, the website is about patterns in media and literary criticism -- not about selling your book. Flat out salesmanship isn't suitable for our site. And if we discover that you're the only person who's been talking about your work, we just might put a tag on the work page that specifically asks for other people's opinions (which of course would require other people to actually read, watch, or listen to your work -- which you ''want'', right?). The moderators who write for a living put that tag on the pages that we create for our own works, so you wouldn't be singled out here.
==What about if I haven't actually finished or released my work?==
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== The page on my work has all of these ideas that aren't correct at all.==
Keep in mind the concept of [[Death of the Author]]. Sometimes, people may see things in your work that you yourself do not. This is okay. It means that your work has captured someone else's imagination in such a way that they came to different
Feel free to offer alternate opinions, which you can even note as [[Word of God]]. If something is factually and demonstrably wrong though
== Your pages aren't written in a neutral point of view.==
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Most likely. We don't want to get rid of everyone's opinions, but we can present multiple points of view.
We like to think about All The Tropes as being a place for creators and fans to talk about literature and
Sometimes, fans can form a [[hatedom]], which is really just a love-hate relationship with your work. No one has watched the widely-reviled ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special|Star Wars Christmas Special]]'' without being a huge fan of ''[[Star Wars]]''. Don't take it personally. [[GIFT|There are lots of jerks on the internet.]]
Feel free to edit the page, or ask us to do so. If you do edit, try not to squelch other people's opinions; instead, ''add'' your own
But yeah, personal attacks, those need to be deleted. Hate the game, not the playa.
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== You aren't allowed to just copy my work.==
You're correct. We totally aren't (unless you released it under a free license similar to the one this site uses). Check out our [[All The Tropes:Copyrights|Copyrights]] policy. The short version: If you have a copyright infringement complaint or DMCA takedown request, you can [[All The Tropes:Contact us|contact us]], or send a DMCA request to [mailto:brent@allthetropes.
==Dammit, they spoiled the ending!==
Unless your [[Twist Ending]] has become a part of pop culture ("[[It Was His Sled]]"), we don't like spoilers to good plots, either. Those can be covered with spoiler tags, so that people can highlight the text to learn the surprise ending, if they so choose. If you have an account, you can just edit the page (see [[Help:Editing pages]] if need be), otherwise, just [[All The Tropes:Contact us|Contact us]] to make the adjustment.
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