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* Include the year the work appeared. If a TV show, give the years that it was on the air. If it's still on the air as of the time you're writing, put it as "20XX-Present" and trust to the [[Wiki Magic]] to update it when the show goes off the air.
** Also for TV shows: indicate the network(s), cable channel or service it first appeared on (which might not be the same as the channel that you saw it on, especially in the case of shows that were syndicated internationally), and if it's been in syndication after cancellation.
* If it is a [[Fanfic]] or other [[Fan Work]], make sure to identify what other work
* Provide a short but still evocative description of the plot ''without giving away the ending''. This bears repeating: Don't spoil a work in its description, unless [[It Was His Sled|the spoiler is already common knowledge]].
** If you want to give a longer (more than a single paragraph) description of the plot, or a description of the plot of a single episode of a TV series, you can put it on a "Recap" page. Please note that Recap pages for episodes need the recaps and can optionally also have tropes specific to the episode.
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The various subpage types are set up for specific subsets of information, so we expect to see those types of information on the subpages. If a "Headscratchers" page doesn't list things that puzzle a Troper, or a "Recap" supbage doesn't have a recap of the work, or a "Heartwarming" page doesn't list examples of things in the work that give at least one Troper a Warm and Fuzzy Feeling, (to name three examples), then readers are going to wonder what's the point of having the subpages.
If you set up a subpage, please make sure that the page has the type of information that a casual reader would expect to find on that sort of subpage. Please don't just list tropes on a subpage (not even on a "YMMV" or "Trivia" subpage - please give some context as to ''why'' they're problematic or trivial) – unless a work has so many tropes that we've spun off the work's trope list onto its own page or pages, and not even then if there's an option to add descriptions to the tropes.
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