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Compare [[Tropes of Legend]], [[Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions]].
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=== Some definitions: ===
* '''[[Blue Link]]''': A working link. Bluelinks may be '''[[Wiki Word]]s''' or '''[[Pothole|Potholes]]'''. Compare [[Red Link]].
* '''[[
* '''Compare''': A short list at the end of descriptions to note [[Sister Trope|Sister Tropes]] to the trope being described.
* '''Contrast''': A short list at the end of descriptions to note [[Opposite Tropes]] to the trope being described.
* '''Courtesy Link''': A link to a trope you are discussing in the forums, provided so your fellow tropers can easily access the trope you want to talk about.
* '''Creator''': Someone who participates in the creation of a work. On [[
* '''Crowner''': A system of voting this site uses, usually to decide whether to rename a page and then what the new name will be, but other actions are often voted upon. The crowners work differently than typical voting. Instead of whatever has the most votes, they are decided on whatever has the best ratio of yes to no votes.
* '''Curly Brackets''': A coding style for hyperlinks used by [[TV Tropes (Wiki)|the TV Tropes wiki]], but not supported by MediaWiki (the wiki engine on which All The Tropes runs). If you're a refugee from TV Tropes and try to code a hyperlink with curly brackets, you'll end up with a red error message in your text -- MediaWiki uses curly brackets to identify special customizable functions called "templates".
* '''[[Cut List]]''': Where tropes are proposed for deletion. It's not automatic though, and opportunity is given to site users to respond to/discuss the reasons given for the cutlisting, either in dispute or support of them.
* '''Description''': The part of a page describing what the page is about. Usually it's defining a trope or describing a work. Often comes in different forms, such as [[Self Demonstrating Article]] or [[Example As a Thesis]].
* '''Discussion''': A mirror page for any page on this site that has the typical editing code. These are for anything about the page that isn't related to the description or examples. It's sort of a forum for these specific pages.
* '''Example''': Items listed after a page description. The examples are usually two kinds:
* '''Folder''': A system for making examples more easily digestible, so a medium can be easily opened or closed.
* '''Known''': Basically being logged in here, just that it's not as extensive as making accounts in other sites.
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* '''Main Page''': The default '''namespace''', where you will find the trope '''description''' and '''examples'''.
* '''[[Media|Medium]]''': The format a work is presented in (for example: film, comic book, radio, etc.). Examples in trope pages are sorted by medium.
* '''[[Namespace]]''': <!-- This is the part of a page url before the last slash. The TV Tropes default namespace is
* '''[[Conversation in The Main Page|Natter]]''': Conversations in the '''main page'''.
* '''[[There Is No Such Thing As Notability|Notability]]''': An odd one, in that we use the definition used by [[Wikipedia]], but are against it. We don't require a work to meet any standards of notability for that site. As long as the work is published, and the page for it is good, that page stays here.
* '''"Not to be confused with"''': A disclaimer in descriptions to list any tropes that have similar names to the described trope, but are in no other way related. Oh, and okay, we'll admit it, sometimes used just for the giggle factor.
* '''[[Pothole]]''': A
* '''[[Red Link]]''': A link to a page that has not yet been created. Compare '''[[Blue Link]]'''.
* '''Referral Count''': The number of times a page has brought new users onto the site. You can view the referral count by clicking the "Related" button at the top of the page.
* '''[[Sinkhole]]''': Like a [[Pothole]], but where the linked article is irrelevant or only tangentially relevant to the context in which it occurs. We don't like these.
* '''[[Trope]]''': A common convention or device in media. These are not the actual literary definition of a trope, and should not be confused for it. This is just an informal definition we use for this site.
* '''[[Troper]]''': Anyone who contributes to this site. Those that are Known are listed in [[Special:ActiveUsers|Contributors]].
* '''[[Wick]]''': A link on this site to another page on this site. This is useful for getting attention for these pages across the site. You can see the number of Wicks by hitting the "Related to" button at the top of the page.
* '''[[Wiki Word]]''': A
* '''[[Works|Work]]''': Any form of medium. All of them use tropes.
* '''Works Page''': A page that briefly describes a work and lists all the tropes it uses. [[Works Pages Are a Free Launch]] because [[There Is No Such Thing As Notability]].
* '''[[You Know That Thing Where|YKTTW]]''':
* '''[[
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