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Here at All The Tropes, we only care about how things apply to fiction. ''Don't'' just tell us the facts; tell us the memes, tell us the archetypes, tell us the catchy ideas and symbolic roles that get planted in people's heads. Got the kernel of an idea bouncing about your head? Throw it down here and see what grows. If we're lucky, our [[Neologism]] for it will catch on. (And quite a few have already.)
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=== Wikipedia provides examples of: ===
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: [
* [[April Fools' Day]]: Since the very beginning, April Fools' pranks have run rampant on Wikipedia, even by established editors. See a list of them [
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Wikipedia's attempt to be a thorough information source presented in an easy, accessible format while maintaining a dry and formal tone of language sometimes leads to some unintentionally hilarious examples of this.
* [[Common Knowledge]]: The pop-culture version of Wikipedia is overflowing with ridiculously phony and inaccurate information ("[[George W. Bush]] is a time-traveler from the year 3000 sent back in time to fight the Martians from the planet Venus!") [[Did Not Do the Research|Quite unlike the real-life version]], it appears to have no blocking or vandalism policies whatsoever.
* [[Conversation in The Main Page]]: Averted hard and fast - this usually survives minutes, at most.
* [[Cowboy Bebop At His Computer]]: Anyone can add anything, whether it's correct or not. Depending on the subject it may be corrected within minutes or it may stay for quite a while before it's noticed and corrected.
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* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: And how!
* [[Iconic Logo]]: The puzzle globe dates to 2003; its first iteration had the pieces in different colors and blocks of text, in different languages, on it. Shortly after that, the more familiar version of the globe debuted, with all of the pieces light gray, and each having a letter/glyph on it. It stayed this way until May 2010, when a new version (which, unlike its predecessors, was an actual 3D rendering), with a darker gray, bigger pieces and corrected symbols on two of them, debuted; this is the one pictured above. It was revised again later that month, when the shade of gray was lightened to resemble its predecessor.
* [[Kuudere]]: If anyone's curious, Wikipedia ''does'' have a fun side to it. [
* [[Lumper vs. Splitter]]: [
* [[Locked Pages]]: Several forms, often involving different levels of user access required to edit.
* [[Meido]]: The various maintenance bots are sometimes personified as such.
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism]]: Yes, they have their own one. In this case: Wikipe-tan.
* [[Our Super Strict Language Policy]]: Very similar, minus funny being acceptable.
* [[Pothole]]: [
* [[Serious Business]]: The major two factions on Wikipedia are the Inclusionists and the Deletionists, as mentioned in the introduction. Deletionism was, for some time, the primary school of thought of Wikipedia--even against the wishes of its founders. Just look at the [[Internet Backdraft|flame war]] that kicked up when Jimbo Wales [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-webscout30sep30,0,2828599.story tried to start an article about a South African restaurant], only to have it deleted almost immediately. In addition, reading discussion pages on ''any'' topic is likely to result in a lot of [[Serious Business]].<br /><br />Unfortunately, besides the serial deleters, there's also a phenomenon of 'page hoarders' who will sit on a certain page and revert and delete ''any'' changes made to it, and will spend all day arguing about it until the admins give in to them. Forget [[Wiki Vandal|Wiki Vandals]], ''these guys'' are Wikipedia's biggest problem. [
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Played straight in some more technical article and inverted in Simple English Wikipedia.
* [[Small Reference Pools]]: One of the major underlying causes for conflict between Inclusionists and Deletionists, as well as systemic bias (see [[We All Live in America]] below and [[Serious Business]] above). If a Deletionist hasn't heard of something, it's ''obviously'' non-notable.
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* [[Trope Codifier]]: The MediaWiki software developed for Wikipedia and the style conventions set there have set audience expectations for reference wikis.
* [[Trope Overdosed]]
* [[TV Tropes in Other Wikis]]: We have [
* [[Troll]]: Some people put either totally irrelevant things on the page (sometimes [[Jerkass|wiping the whole page in the process]]) or mess it up by doing the summary wrong.
* [[We All Live in America]]: Many pages can turn into this, deciding that only information pertaining to America is useful. Especially jarring on pages meant for other countries entirely. Amusingly, there's a template specifically for flagging a page as being Americacentric (or Britaincentric, or other part of the world-centric). This can be applied to pages specifically written in reference to the country.<br /><br />They have a phrase for this: Systemic bias. It's not a problem limited only to English Wikipedia articles on North America, Great Britain, and Australia. Any sufficiently developed country with widespread use of English will have a significantly larger group of contributors than its non-English speaking neighbors. Hong Kong, Singapore and India being notable examples
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* [[Wikipedia Syntaxer]]: The original and trope namer.
* [[Wikipedia Updater]]
* [[Xenofiction]]: Well, except the "fiction" bit. The [
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