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<big>'''''TL;DR: Don't.'''''</big>
==== Copying text from TV Tropes: ====
'''''You can only legally do this if it's your own edits, or the edits of people who have specifically granted you permission to post it here as CC-BY-SA 3.0.''''' TV Tropes uses the incompatible CC-BY-NC-SA license for edits after June 2012, so we can't use those. See [[All The Tropes:Copyrights]] for more details.
What is legal, and kosher here, is copying Wikipedia to get an article started. It's certainly not going to be a good article from our point of view, since we'll need to make it [[More Dakka|much much tropier]]. But it's a lot better than staring at a white screen with no words; starting to write is always the hard part. If you do copy from any source, be sure to note it in the edit summary field (or page text).
==== Copying how TV Tropes does things: ====
Being consistent with TV Tropes is ''never'' a consideration for what All The Tropes chooses to do. If we wanted to do things the TV Tropes way, we would have never forked from them in the first place.
All The Tropes has its own style and its own way of presenting information. We prefer to use page categories, not list pages. We require license information on images (and have a very-long-term project going to put license information on the images that we inherited from TV Tropes at the time of the fork). We allow original works in User sandbox pages, but not in the main article space. And, possibly most importantly, we encourage the creation of [[Analysis]] subpages and [[Mechanics of Writing]] pages, so that people can actually use all of this data to create new stories.
=== Creating New Pages ===
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