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[[Wildlife Commentary Spoof|Here we are, on the vast, bountiful plains of the All The Tropes wiki.]] Herds of tropers graze serenely on the Savannah of New Edits, while somewhere further south, in the rain-forest jungles of the Trope
This is a fragile ecosystem, each species supporting the lush landscape of the Wiki in its own special way. Each variety of troper has evolved to fill a particular niche, just as the finches of the Galapagos islands did. Some tropers form alliances and strive to make their habitat a utopia of literary and pop cultural knowledge. Others meander placidly around the wiki, neither contributing nor doing any harm. And, as with any species, some varieties of troper [[Metaphorgotten|just have to discover how annoying you can be before mods with big sticks kick you off the wiki]].
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* '''Troper Policeman''':
** Habitat: Omnipresent
** Function: Making sure nobody kills one another. Mediates in disputes and/or puts their foot down to end them. May ban or discipline other types, and normally has an important, if not deciding, say in any discussions. Edits are fairly rare, and usually a result of discussion in the forums
** Favourite Tropes: The ones that don't cause flame wars.
** Natural Enemies: The more negative troper types. This is invariably a one-sided battle, as ''Troperus Administerius'' and ''Troperus Mod'' sit securely at the top of the Wiki food chain.
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* '''Trope Repairman''':
** Habitat: The Trope
** Function: They tidy up tropes, rename them and occasionally put the floundering ones out of their misery. Very detail-oriented and diligent, occasionally nitpicky, they do the legwork when a trope's name is changed, picking through the trope's Wicks to reflect the name change. Often involved elsewhere on the forum; they like discussion. Any tropes that they themselves create will normally spend a long time in the Trope Workshop, to reduce the chance that their creations will end up in the repair shop.
** Favourite Tropes: Those that don't end up needing attention in the [[Forum:Trope Talk|Trope
* '''The Art Museum Curator'''
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* '''The Rewriter:'''
** Habitat: Edit page of tropes they haven't created.
** Function: A Trope Editor Variant. Rewords a trope description entirely. This is usually because of poor writing, and in such instances, the Rewriter is a major boon to the wiki, capable of making sense of the most muddled descriptions. However, occasionally they reword a perfectly coherent trope or works page simply to put it into their own words without going through the [[Forum:Trope
** Favourite Tropes: Generally the [[Works]] pages of their favourite shows / books.
** Natural Enemies: None, really, unless they encounter a particularly vigilant or sensitive Trope Creator, or a fellow Editor who was tweaking the page before the Rewriter wiped it and started again.
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* '''The Splitter'''
** Habitat: "Edit Page", the Trope
** Function: finds subtropes to split away from a more general concept.
** Favourite Tropes: the most specific of subtropes.
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* '''The Lumper'''
** Habitat: "Edit Page", the Trope
** Function: finds related ideas to combine into a central theme.
** Favourite Tropes: the broadest of supertropes.
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