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* [[Special:CreateAccount|Create an account]] to start editing.
* [[Special:CreateAccount|Create an account]] to start editing.
* [[Help:Editing]] is the starting point for learning the wiki code used by our software.
* [[Help:Editing]] is the starting point for learning the wiki code used by our software.
* [https://allthetropes.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/sandbox?action=edit&redlink=1&editintro=Template%3AUser_sandbox&preload=Template%3AUser_sandbox%2Fpreload Your User Sandbox] is a place that you can feel free to edit and test without worrying about completely trashing an important part of the wiki.
* Your User Sandbox is a place that you can feel free to edit and test without worrying about completely trashing an important part of the wiki. To create one for your user page, type <code><nowiki>User:[your username here]/sandbox</nowiki></code> on your browser's address bar.
* [[Forum:All The Tropes|The Forums]] are a great place to ask basic questions, and get to know fellow [[Troper]]s.
* [[Forum:All The Tropes|The Forums]] are a great place to ask basic questions, and get to know fellow [[Troper]]s.


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To link to another page in the wiki, use double square brackets around the name, like: <code><nowiki>[[Page Name]]</nowiki></code>. If you want to display alternate text in the link, put a pipe character "|" after the name, like so: <code><nowiki>[[Page Name|my link to a wiki page]]</nowiki></code>. Lines starting with an asterisk "*" make new bullet points.
To link to another page in the wiki, use double square brackets around the name, like: <code><nowiki>[[Page Name]]</nowiki></code>. If you want to display alternate text in the link, put a pipe character "|" after the name, like so: <code><nowiki>[[Page Name|my link to a wiki page]]</nowiki></code>. Lines starting with an asterisk "*" make new bullet points.


If you need to mark an "spoiler" -- like the ending of the show or a major plot twist so that you have to select it to see it, put it in a spoiler template, like: <code><nowiki>At the end of [[Citizen Kane]], we find out that {{spoiler| Rosebud is the name of his sled}}.</nowiki></code><ref>This trope is called [[It Was His Sled]], since everyone has known the spoiler ending for like 50 years already.</ref>
If you need to mark an "spoiler" -- like the ending of the show or a major plot twist so that you have to select it to see it, put it in a spoiler template, like: <code><nowiki>At the end of [[Citizen Kane]], we find out that {{spoiler| Rosebud is the name of his sled}}.</nowiki></code><ref>This trope is called [[It Was His Sled]], since everyone has known the spoiler ending for about 60 years already.</ref>


To create new pages, look for a drop down menu on the edit view of the page you are about to make (under the words "select boilerplate" and select the appropriate page layout and click "Load". This will put down the page tags and templates you'll need so you can just focus on adding content.
To create new pages, look for a drop down menu on the edit view of the page you are about to make (under the words "select boilerplate" and select the appropriate page layout and click "Load". This will put down the page tags and templates you'll need so you can just focus on adding content.
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