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=== Proper English Grammar and Usage ===
This is ''important'', perhaps more important than anything else on this page: If your edit or your proposed new page reads like it was written by ChatGPT, Google Translate or a dyslexic ten-year-old (or any/all of them working together) it will either get rejected (if your edits are still being moderated) or reverted<ref>Although any user who is not subject to Moderation ought to be writing in proper English already -- it's one of the requirements for leaving "Moderated" status.</ref>. Although wiki admins have been known to step in and do their best to translate user contributions from whatever they were written in to proper English, it is ''not'' their responsibility to do so -- it is that of the user(s) who want to see their edit or page live in the wiki. If your text is so badly written a reader can't figure out what it means, or your examples are so garbled their relevance to the trope or work you've added them to cannot even be guessed at, it has ''failed'' at what it is supposed to do, which is ''communicate clearly and succinctly'' something about a pattern in storytelling.
Illiterate contributions ''will'' be rejected. And refusing to improve your contributions when this is pointed out to you is grounds for a ban.
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Since all headers on a page appear in that page's table of contents, section headers should not be used as a replacement for boldface. (Yes, we know we have hundreds if not thousands of pages, especially Characters subpages, where they are used this way; these pages were inherited from TV Tropes. If you see a page like this, please fix it!)
''A special note on the "References" and "Notes" headers:'' We are not Wikipedia. If we wanted to look like Wikipedia, we would have added the References header to the "reflist" template years ago. Don't add "<nowiki>== References ==</nowiki>" or "<nowiki>== Notes ==</nowiki>" to any of our Trope, Work, or Creator pages or their subpages. Similarly, don't add a line between the page content and the "reflist" tag unless there's a [[stinger]] on the page.
== Alphabetization ==
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|This is who said it|This is the work he said it in.}}
Note that the quote template automatically indents the quote; there's no need to do so yourself with additional markup. Nor do you need to separate the paragraphs (or lines) of the quote with a blank line
You can use virtually any markup inside a quote, including internal and external links. Note that each line inside a quote is, in effect, a separate paragraph, separate from the rest even for markup. Any kind of markup which you want to apply to the whole quote -- like putting it all in italics -- will need to be applied to each line separately.
The {{tl|quote}} template does have one annoying
That said, we have certain styles we use for different kinds of quotes that we strongly recommend and which will be eventually imposed on your quotes by a mod if you don't do it yourself. These are:
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We like to see lyrics in italics. Put each line on a separate line in the quote -- don't use slashes to delimit lines and put it all in one solid block. Separate verses with a single blank line, nothing else. And because of the line-is-a-paragraph behavior mentioned above, you'll need to start each line with italics markup. A lyric quote should look like:
{{quote|
''Violets are purple'']],
''Don't expect this to rhyme''
''It's just an example.''
''Second verse, same as the first.''
''{{'}}Cause I'm too lazy to write more.''}}
The last line demonstrates one other markup issue you'll need to be aware of, although it applies everywhere in the wiki, not just in the {{tl|quote}} markup. If you have a word which starts with an apostrophe -- like 'tis, 'cause, 'til -- and you want to put italics markup in front of it, you need to code it in a similar way to the equals sign to keep three single quotes in a row from turning into '''bold''' markup. Use <nowiki>{{'}}</nowiki> and the wiki won't know it's there and won't give you the wrong font.
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These are passages copied directly from a text work, and retaining their general layout. In general -- and especially when they're the top-of-page quote for a page -- we want to see them in italics. As before that means marking each line individually. And anywhere in the quote there was already italics needs to be turned into bold.
Further advice: Don't linewrap text manually -- one line
{{quote|''Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod '''tempor incididunt''' ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. ''
''Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.''}}
== See Also ==
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