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...for several reasons.

Number one is that it already exists -- With Us or Against Us (with a lower-case "or") has been on this site since the fork, and has even been edited twice in the last 24 hours.

Number two, even if it didn't already exist, the version you tried to submit is a word-for-word copy of TV Trope's main page for the trope. This is copyright infringement as any changes or additions to the page which we do not already have postdate the fork and TV Tropes' subsequent change of license in 2012. Further, it is also plagiarism because you are not the only author of the changes made to that page since the fork. Because All The Tropes and TV Tropes run under different Creative Commons licenses, content created there after 2012 cannot legally be used here without the express written approval of all the editors who contributed to it.

Number two-A, even if it could be legally used, the page is carelessly and badly translated into MediaWiki markup, and many links both internal and external are so badly coded that they are useless. It also lacks all the markup required to integrated into the rest of the wiki, markup which would have been provided for you had you used the ATT Page Creator (found on the menu to the left) or the proper page template. It is, frankly, an unusable mess.

Number three, it is an attempt at proposing a trope, but was not created in the proper place for new trope candidates. Just like TV Tropes, we have a place where new tropes are created and worked on before they are added to the wiki proper. We call our version the Trope Workshop, which can also be found in the menu to the left. Or you could have just searched on "YKTTW", which would have brought you right there. New trope candidates flung willy-nilly into the main namespace indicate that their authors have not bothered to understand how we do things here.

Finally, we strongly recommend that you read All The Tropes:How We Do Bans Around Here. This isn't a threat -- this is the wiki policy strictly controlling how and when user bans can be applied by an Admin. We want you to be aware that unlike TVT, we do not ban users on whims or because we're cranky. But we'd like to emphasize that "Falsely representing oneself as having the right to authorize copying content from TV Tropes" is one of the very few ways there are to earn an immediate permaban here at ATT.

-- Looney Toons, admin

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