All The Tropes:Frequent Redlinks

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Red Links are often misspellings, abbrevs., or works we don't have pages on yet.

Here is a list of the common causes of red links and how to fix them.

Misspellings
Example: Anti-Villian instead of Anti-Villain
How to fix: Correct the misspelling.
Punctuation difference
Example: Anti Villain instead of Anti-Villain
How to fix: Correct the bad punctuation.
Plural Trope Names
Example: Complete Monsters
How to fix: Put the trope within two square brackets with the plural letter(s) outside the brackets.
[[Complete Monster]]s becomes Complete Monsters -- don't waste excess bytes potholing it like [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]].
Referring to pages that without a media type makes a redlink
Example: using [[Fantastic Four]] when only Fantastic Four (film) exists.
Solution 1: Edit the link to include the text -- a pipe trick will automatically skip the parenthesized text when it is viewed. So [[Fantastic Four (film)|]] (note the "|" at the end) displays as Fantastic Four.[1]
Solution 2: Add a redirect for the page, or a disambiguation page if necessary.
Works we don't have pages for yet.
Red links for works pages should not be removed.
How to fix: If you are familiar with the work, feel free to launch the page.
Pages Needing Restoration
At least a couple hundred pages were deleted by the admin staff of TV Tropes for failing to meet their advertisers' standards of moral hygiene after The Second Google Incident. At one time we had a list of known censored pages, but by late 2017 everything on that list had been accounted for. However, that doesn't mean there might not still be links to censored pages we didn't know about. It may be worth looking up the name of an obvious work on Google, and if it's Hentai, Porn, or simply suitable for persons more mature than TVT's P5, you may want to see if the Wayback Machine has a record of a TVT page for it -- one that vanishes after about April 2012. If so, grab the last intact version you can find dating from before July 9, 2012 (when TVT changed their license) and use that to reconstruct the page. If you're lucky, the Wayback Machine will have archived the source, and you'll be saved some of the work.

Common Red Links

The following are particularly common Red Links. If you have the time or are bored, you can help out by fixing them. The links will lead to a list of pages that have the Red Links. Ideally, they should be empty. If you clean up all the wicks, please write a note beside the link of the clean up date.

Different wikis have had different policies for editing other people's contributor pages. All The Tropes had a strong rule against it, including by moderators (except to protect the wiki - and fixing one of these links does not "protect the wiki" from anything. Leave a note on the corresponding User Talk page instead.)

Anything that hasn't been cleaned up since October 2021 -- or has never been cleaned up -- had its last-cleanup data highlighted on August 10, 2022. Please remove the highlighting and update the date when you clean up each entry.

1. Misspellings
3. Plural Trope Names
  • Complete Monsters (Should be marked up as [[Complete Monster]]s) - last confirmed as cleaned up January 17, 2024
  • RPGs (Going by the disambiguation page at RPG, "== Tabletop [[RPGs]] ==" should be changed to "== [[Tabletop Games]] ==". Otherwise, depending on the context, it should probably be [[Role Playing Game]]s, except when referring to rocket-propelled grenades) - last confirmed as cleaned up January 17, 2024
Should be expanded

Other:

  • AMVs (An abbreviation and a plural "trope" name; if it is referring to AMV, set it as a plural abbreviation [[AMV]]s. - last confirmed as cleaned up January 17, 2024
  • CoS/COs (Depending on the context, it should be Commanding Officers or Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and should expanded respectively) - last confirmed as cleaned up January 17, 2024
  • MMORPGs (An abbreviation and a plural "trope" name; should be either changed to one of its expanded forms or set as a plural abbreviation depending on which flows better in context) - last confirmed as cleaned up January 17, 2024
  • NPCs (An abbreviation and a plural "trope" name; should be either changed to one of its expanded forms or set as a plural abbreviation depending on which flows better in context) - last confirmed as cleaned up January 17, 2024
  • PCs (An abbreviation and a plural "trope" name; should be either changed to one of its expanded forms or set as a plural abbreviation depending on which flows better in context) - last confirmed as cleaned up January 17, 2024
  • GMs (An abbreviation and a plural "trope" name; should be either changed to one of its expanded forms or set as a plural abbreviation depending on which flows better in context) - last cleaned up NEVER
5. Works we don't have pages for yet
The fix for these is to create the pages. See Special:WantedPages for all the red links, not just the red links for works pages.
  1. ↑ This particular example is a bad one, since Fantastic Four (film) is a disambiguation page and the link will still need cleaning up if it's left that way. It just needs cleanup for a different reason.
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