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== Editing Quick Start ==
For our impatient folks, this will get you started:
To link to another page in the wiki, use double square brackets around the name, like: <code><nowiki>[[Page Name]]</nowiki></code>. If you want to display alternate text in the link, put a pipe character "|" after the name, like so: <code><nowiki>[[Page Name|my link to a wiki page]]</nowiki></code>. External links use single brackets, like <code><nowiki>[http://www.example.com/]</nowiki></code>. To use alternate text with an external link, put a space between the URL and the text: <code><nowiki>[http://www.example.com/ See here.]</nowiki></code> <small>''More info: [[Help:Links]]''</small>
Lines starting with an asterisk "*" make new bullet points; lines starting with a hash "#" make numbered lists. <small>''More info: [[Help:Lists]]''</small>
Quotes use the quote template, like this: <code><nowiki>{{quote|quote text|author or character|work name}}</nowiki></code> -- but anything after the quote text is optional. So you can put in the full version like <code><nowiki>{{quote|Now is the winter of our discontent.|Shakespeare|Richard III}}</nowiki></code>, or go with something really short like <code><nowiki>{{quote| Here's Johnny! }}</nowiki></code>. <small>''More info: [[Help:Templates]]''</small>
And finally, if you need to mark an spoiler, put it in a spoiler template, like: <code><nowiki>At the end of [[Citizen Kane]], we find out that {{spoiler| Rosebud is the name of his sled}}.''</nowiki></code><ref>This trope is called [[It Was His Sled]], since everyone has known the spoiler ending for like 50 years already.</ref>
Those few things will deal with about 80% of the markup on the wiki -- check out [[Help:Editing]] for more when you need to know it. [[Help:Formatting]] provides the best overview.
=== Copying TV Tropes ===
You can only legally do this if it's your own edits, or the edits of people who have specifically granted you permission to post it here as CC-BY-SA 3.0. TV Tropes uses the incompatible CC-BY-NC-SA for edits after June 2012, so we can't use those. See [[All The Tropes:Copyrights]] for more details.
What is legal, and kosher here, is copying Wikipedia to get an article started. It's certainly not going to be a good article from our point of view, since we'll need to make it [[More Dakka|much much tropier]]. But it's a lot better than staring at a white screen with no words; starting to write is always the hard part. If you do copy from any source, be sure to note it in the edit summary field (or page text).
=== Creating New Pages ===
In general, you should select a boilerplate for the type of page you're making: work, trope, trope YMMV subpage, etc. It's a little menu just above the edit box; it's also automatically loaded from the "Create New" menu.
Don't copy paste from the current version of TV Tropes (see the section above). We don't use [[CamelCase]], we do use spaces and proper punctuation (e.g. ''[[Mars Attacks!]]''), and names are case-sensitive (except for the first letter). And if you're making subpages, they do not go in a different namespaces, as in TV Tropes. Instead, they are just normal subpages, like <code>Work Name/Trivia</code> or <code>Work Name/Recap/S1/Episode 1</code>.
== So What's Different About This Site? ==
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