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See our FAQ for Creators which in its second section explicitly says it's okay. Now beyond that we do have some more detailed rules about it, but I can't remember where they are. I'll search through the project namespace and when I find where they're specifically written down I'll share them with you.

Until then, what matters above and beyond the basic OK is how obnoxious you get about it. We had one guy who wrote a whole sheaf of pages for his fanfics for a particular cartoon, but after a while it became very obvious that he was something of a fetishist who was using pages allegedly about his works to get off on describing just how disgusting they were. When he wouldn't tone things down or scale back his language, we were forced to ban him and eventually deleted the works pages because none of us knew enough about the fics in question (nor did we want to) to clean them up ourselves. (Not to mention we weren't sure they could be cleaned up.) We had another guy who was a very minor voice actor and had a YouTube channel who did up a creator page for himself. Other than bad cases of Small Name, Big Ego and Small Reference Pools (he was apparently ignorant of any major film from before about 2010 and routinely credited his 3000-member channel with "rescuing" movies like Alien from obscurity) his page was relatively inoffensive although it was clear he was more a wannabe-celebrity than a real one. He eventually got banned, too, for basically ignoring trope definitions and creating "examples" that had nothing to do with tropes they allegedly demonstrated, but we left his creator page in place for years, until it came to our attention that his status as a creator had been dubious to begin with.

Meanwhile there are more than a few creators here -- including a goodly chunk of the mod staff -- who have frequently added their own comments and trope entries to pages other people wrote about their works. (That was once very welcome on TVT -- SF author Diane Duane used to trope her own stuff for example, back before the staff got very hostile toward creators who didn't like censorship. We like to think we're preserving the open and welcoming atmosphere that TVT threw away when it decided money was more important than anything else.)

Teal Deer: We're relaxed about it. But we have limits. Be cool and we will be, too.

So go ahead. Be aware that any page for yourself or your works that is solely by you is probably going to get a {{DOTA}} template put on it until other people start contributing to it. The DOTA template ("DOTA" = Death of the Author) puts a box at the top of the page that reads "The original version of this article was written by the creator(s) of the work being discussed. Other viewpoints are requested."

And yeah, we're more open than TVT. We go into a bit more detail how and why on All The Tropes:Why Fork TV Tropes and All The Tropes:So You're a TV Tropes Refugee, but basically we only have the absolute minimum of legally-required censorship here, and we have no ads, so we don't have the need to protect our revenue stream that drives so much of TVT's control freakery and "moral superiority".

Anyway, I hope that answers your questions. If it doesn't, or you have more queries, feel free to ping any of the admin staff just by adding {{admins}} to the end of any post on any talk page. It'll produce the line of "@" pings you'll see below my signature.

-- Looney Toons, admin

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