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new section "The Basics" - voice, tone, avoid Wall of Text, use boldface the first time you mention the work/trope/creator, use italics for long works and for emphasis
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Also, we inherited a ''lot'' of badly-formatted pages from [[TV Tropes]]. It has been, and will continue to be, the work of ''years'' to find and fix them all, and we're nowhere near done yet. Following the guidelines below will help the wiki by not adding to the workload.
== The Basics ==
All The Tropes aims to present a casual but reliable image. Please write in third person, without using [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]] or being formal. (This is a wiki, not a classroom.)
Short paragraphs are good for showing a casual style. If people have to read through a [[Wall of Text]], most of them will give up partway through. "Casual" includes knowing when to give people a chance to catch their breath.
The first time you mention the name of the work, trope, or creator on the page, please markup the name in boldface. Select the text and click or tap the "B" character at the top of the editing window.
Any time you mention the name of a work - any work - please highlight the work name. If it's a book, movie, TV show, or record album, please markup the name in italics - select the text and click or tap the "I" character at the top of the editing window. If it's some other type of work, please surround it in double-quotes (the " character) if you're using American English or single-quotes (the ' character) if you're using British English. This ''can'' (and should, please) be combined with the boldface markup that should be used the first time a work page's title is mentioned on the page.
Please also use italics for emphasis, not all-caps. Since the days of [[UseNet]], all-caps has meant "shouting" on the 'net, and most people avoid shouting in casual conversation.
== Page Titles ==
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