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* '''Work''': A description of a piece of fiction in which tropes may occur, containing a list of the tropes that exist in that piece of fiction. This page type enables reviews, the YMMV tab, and several other features. Additionally, if the [[Category:Recap|Recap]] page for an individual episode of a series has its own reviews<ref>For example, [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E22 Hurricane Fluttershy|My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S2 E22: "Hurricane Fluttershy"]]</ref>, it will need this page type for tech reasons. '''Example''': ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]].''

* '''A work's examples page''': A page which is not the main page of some work, but lists some of the tropes that occur in that work anyway. These take three main forms: splits of tropes that occur when the main work page gets too big, [[Character Sheets]], and [[Category:Recap|Recap]] pages that include a list of tropes.<ref>Note that the YMMV page for a work, despite consisting of a list of examples, should ''not'' have this type but should instead be set as a sub-page; otherwise, [[Logic Bomb|you'll get a note saying the examples it lists don't belong and should be moved to the trope's YMMV page]].</ref> Examples: [[Avatar: The Last Airbender/Tropes A-H]], [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine/Characters]], [[Community/Recap/S1/E23 Modern Warfare|Community S1 E23: Modern Warfare]].

* '''Index''': Also called '''Category'''. A page whose main function is to list other pages. A page is included in an index by adding a Category tag (either via the HotCat tool at the bottom of the page, or typed directly into the page text in the form <code><nowiki>[[Category:Category Name Here]]</nowiki></code> -- usually at the bottom of the page). '''Example''': [[Espionage Tropes]].

* '''A Useful Note''': A page about real-life facts, with an eye toward explaining why and how they're used in fiction. '''Example''': [[Useful Notes/Japanese Honorifics|Japanese Honorifics]].