Topic on User talk:Itasio

... to Rance/Characters but if it weren't so obvious you were in the process of restructuring it you would have been banned for blanking a page.

I have restored all the content you deleted inside a comment for future reference, because I noted that it had great deal of trope entries that your replacement didn't, and I would strongly recommend that unless you can prove them false or otherwise inaccurate you transplant them to your existing page, and any other pages you create. I also recommend that you carry over the image markups unless you plan to upload and insert all your own images (in which case I recommend you read All The Tropes:Uploading and Adding an Image to a Page before you even start).

Next: All The Tropes runs on MediaWiki, which means that unlike TV Tropes, we actually have a real tree structure for subpages. We do not plop subpages into the main namespace like a badly-hawked spitball. They descend from their parent page just like subdirectories under a main directory in any modern computer system. Thus, the page you created in the main space, "Rance Series - Rance and Sill‎", is both misplaced and misnamed. I have moved it to where it actually belongs, which is "Rance/Characters/Rance and Sill", and we expect that any future character pages will also be located under "Rance/Characters". To help you in this matter, I have already edited your version of "Rance/Characters" to point all its redlinks at the proper locations instead of the top level of the main namespace. You should also look into using the "Create New" button on every page for creating new subpages, and the ATT Page Creator for creating new "top level" pages (other than new tropes -- they go into the Trope Workshop). Both automate much of the process to make it easier.

Thirdly: When creating subpages, use the proper page markup, located in the proper places. Your "Rance and Sill" page was missing everything it needed to actually integrate properly into its place in the wiki. This one is vitally important.

I'm afraid this will have to be an official mod warning: If you persist in creating misplaced pages missing the necessary markup, you will be subject to tempbans for as long as it takes you to learn to do things correctly, or we give up on you. Please don't make us do that, as we're delighted to welcome folks from TVT bringing their work with them.

To help you get used to how we do things, I suggest you look at the following (suprisingly short) pages:

• All The Tropes:So You're a TV Tropes Refugee
• All The Tropes:Style Guide
• All The Tropes:Trope Workshop Guidelines
• All The Tropes:Uploading and Adding an Image to a Page
• All The Tropes:Copyrights
• All The Tropes:How We Do Bans Around Here (This is not to be construed as some manner of threat. Unlike TVT, we have guidelines for the admins and mods about what constitutes a bannable offense, and for how long to make bans; this page exists so users are fairly informed ahead of time instead of being sideswiped by Fighteer a bitchy mod who decides he doesn't like your tone and permabans you.)

All these and other useful articles can be found linked off of our Administrivia page.

Since I did give a formal warning above, I have to request that you reply and acknowledge the warning within two days -- call it noon Eastern Daylight Time on 18 April 2020. If you do not, you will be subject to a non-punitive "attention-getter" tempban until you do reply.

Thank you, and welcome again to All The Tropes.

-- Looney Toons, admin

CC: @Labster, @GethN7, @Robkelk, @QuestionableSanity, @Derivative, @SelfCloak