Might I suggest starting by looking at pretty much any other work page on the wiki, and then at what's in your sandbox? And noting what's different between them?
The actual creation of a page with all the boilerplate markup in place is very easy.
- Go to the menu along the left edge of the page.
- If it's not already open, click on "Troping Utilities" to open that submenu.
- Click on "ATT Page Creator".
- On the page that appears, put your cursor in the input box that reads "Enter new work name". Type in the name you want the page to have.
- Click the button marked "Create Works Page"
- An editor page will open with a works page template in place.
Now go back to the Works Page Guidelines and read through the New Work Checklist section, and do everything in it that applies to the work you're trying to write a page for.
Protip: A work page is more than a dozen tropes without markup. You may not have noticed, but works pages always start with a description of the work. You will have to write one. A work page without a description will be deleted. No argument.
Protip: Trope names must be marked up with the link markup and a bullet. A bare list like what you have in your sandbox? If you dump something like that into a page and leave it that way... well, if you're lucky and the list is short, a friendly admin might do your work for you. If the list is long, the page will probably be deleted for not meeting our style and content guidelines and being too much effort to fix.
If you don't understand what something in the works page template does, do not delete it. Ask someone, either in the forums or by saving your work page and putting a question on its talk page. There are some helpful notes written into the template that address the stuff at the bottom of the page. Read them.
Go back to the Works Page Guidelines as needed to get an idea of what to do where. At a bare minimum, a work page needs:
- A description identifying the work, where it's to be found, who wrote or starred in it, and a reasonable summary of what it's about and why it's of interest. Don't give away the ending. It must be longer than a few sentences. If you can't say more than 100 words about a work, why are you even writing about it?
- At least a dozen tropes (and preferably more) applying to the work, with explanations why they apply. Tropes need to be marked up -- the value of a wiki is in its interconnections, and leaving off link markup makes your work valueless.
- We require that the description and the trope list be in proper English, grammatically correct, spelled correctly, and in full sentences. If you are not a native speaker of English and/or lack confidence in your writing, have someone you trust check your work. A page which cannot be understood communicates and contributes nothing, and is at risk of deletion if a moderator decides it can't be saved.
- Categories identifying the medium, genre and other relevant attributes of the work.
- Correct markup on everything. This cannot be emphasized enough.
-- Looney Toons
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