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* Similarly, a good quote from — or about — the work can give a sense of its flavor and feel in just a few words. But only one quote, please, and always at the top of the page. (If you have more than one good quote, put the rest onto the work's "Quotes" subpage.)
 
* And most importantly, try to haveHave at least five to ten tropes on the page. The wiki doesn't exist to simply catalogue the existence of a work — IMDb, IBDb, Wikipedia and a few other sites are sufficient to that task. What we are about is how the fundamentals of story construction — tropes — are used to build the story. If you can't add even one trope to your work page, you're not looking at the story like a troper. We want readers to be able to understand how the story functions, not just acknowledge that it exists.
 
=== Proper English Grammar and Usage ===
This is ''important'', perhaps more important than anything else on this page: Make sure your writing would pass a ninth-grade English class -- this means spelling, grammar, punctuation -- everything. If your 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 page go 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.
 
=== Notes for if You're Creating a Subpage for a Work ===
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