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 Tropes have no meaning without works to provide them context.  To that end, we have [[Works]] pages.  These pages document information about individual works and the tropes they use. [[Works Pages Are a Free Launch|Any work can have a page if someone is willing to make it.]]
-Work pages are created with the [[MediaWiki:Works|Works template]].   This template automatically lays out the proper structure for a work page and assigns it to both the Works category and its own category.  There are also several other templates -- such as {{tl|tropelist}}, {{tl|tropenamer}}, {{tl|tropemaker}} and {{tl|tropecodifier}}, among others -- which can be used to mark and set off specialized subsections that a work page may contain.
+Work pages are created with the [[MediaWiki:Works|Works template]].   This template automatically lays out the proper structure for a work page and assigns it to both the Works category and its own category.  There are also several other templates -- such as {{tl|tropelist}}, {{tl|franchisetropes}}, {{tl|tropenamer}}, {{tl|tropemaker}} and {{tl|tropecodifier}}, among others -- which can be used to mark and set off specialized subsections that a work page may contain.
 Below are a few guidelines for creating a new works page on All The Tropes.  Unlike tropes, there is no vetting or refinement process involved -- if you want to create a page for a work, go right ahead -- [[Works Pages Are a Free Launch]].
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 == What ''Not'' To Do ==
 * Don't create a page for a work that no longer exists anywhere.  You can't document a work that can't be consulted and studied, and other editors can't go and check it out.  Don't do it.
+* Don't create a work page that consists of one sentence of description and one trope.  If you like a work enough to create a page for it, put a little effort in.
 * Don't try to cram different versions of a work into a single page, especially if they [[Adaptation Decay|vary wildly from one another]].  Create one page for the book, one for the movie, and one for the radioplay, and distinguish them by adding the media type to each page name:  "My New Work (novel)", "My New Work (film)", and "My New Work (radio)", for example.
 ** In such a case, set up the name of the work without a media type as a [[All The Tropes:Creating Disambiguation Pages|disambiguation page]].  For a good example, see [[Starship Troopers]].
-* Do not put multiple works in a series or franchise all in one page.  Create a page for the series/franchise with the "(franchise)" media type in the name, and link to the individual works in it from there.
+* Do not put multiple works in a series or franchise all in one page.  Create a page for the series/franchise with the "(franchise)" media type in the name, use {{tl|franchisetropes}} as the header for tropes common to all its installments, and create separate pages for the individual works to link to from the franchise page.
-* Don't create a work page that consists of one sentence of description and one trope.  If you like a work enough to create a page for it, put a little effort in.
 * Just like [[Examples Are Not Recent|examples]], ''Works Are Not Recent''.  It may have been the hot new movie in the theatres when you wrote the page, but in a month, or a year, or a decade, it ''won't be''.  Write your work page as though the work itself came out fifty years ago.