All The Tropes:Administrivia

This page needs some cleaning up to be presentable. MOD: We need to identify what is or is not policy on All The Tropes. We also need to identify whether "breaking policy" is or is not worthy of a tempban - this is likely to be different depending on the particular policy.

An index page for the site-maintenance items. Things on this page may or may not be policy on All The Tropes. Things that are definitely policy are linked from All The Tropes:About

Basic Stuff

• What Goes Where On the Wiki
• Trope Workshop: The place to propose a new trope page.
  • Trope Workshop Guidelines
  • Naming a Trope
    • What Do I Call This Entry?
    • Clear, Concise, Witty
    • Trope Namer Syndrome
    • Everything's Worse With Snowclones
• Page creation guidelines:
  • Trope Workshop Guidelines
  • Works Page Guidelines
  • Creator Page Guidelines
• Uploading and Adding an Image to a Page
• Lost and Found: The place to ask, "Do we have this one?" and "What's the trope about...?" Redirects to our Trope Talk forum.
• Forum Rules
• Our History

Manual of Style

The major page for this section is our Style Guide, which is definitely wiki policy. If anything else in this section conflicts with the Style Guide, it should be updated to agree with the Style Guide.

• About Rhetorical Questions
• American and Commonwealth Spellings
• Creating New Pages
• Creating New Redirects
• Creating Disambiguation Pages
• Everything's Worse With Snowclones
• Our Custom Templates
• Handling Spoilers
  • Self-Fulfilling Spoiler
  • Spoilers Off
• How to Alphabetize Things
• How to Pick A Good Image
• All The Tropes:How to Write An Example
  • Examples Need Context
  • Examples Are Not Arguable
  • Examples Are Not Recent
  • Examples Are Not Local
  • Example Indentation in Trope Lists
  • Weblinks Are Not Examples
• In-Universe
• Just a Face and a Caption - One particular problem that commonly shows up in page images.
• Template:Media Headers
• Media Categories FAQ - some frequently asked questions about the standard list of Media Categories.
• Naming a Trope
  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Changing Trope Names
  • Everything's Worse With Snowclones
  • Renamed Tropes
• Page Templates
• Natter (AKA "Conversation in the Main Page")
• Repair, Don't Respond
• Signal to Noise Train Wreck
• Sinkhole
• Text Formatting
• This Troper
• Tips for Editing
• Three Day Rule is a TV Tropes rule that we don't use here. We will trope no lines before their time.
• Three Rules of Three
• What to Put At The Top of A Page

Trope Maintenance

• Analyzing Inbounds
• How to Get a Page Name Changed
• How To Delete a Page
• Dead Link
• Frequent Redlinks
• How to Do A Wick Check
• Locked Pages
• Missing Supertrope
• Needs Wiki Magic Love
  • Needs a Better Description
  • Pages Needing an Entry Pimp
  • Pages Needing Example Sorting
  • Pages Needing Images
  • List of Pages Artists Can Illustrate
  • Pages Needing Wicks
  • Tropes Needing Examples
  • Works Needing Tropes
• Signal to Noise Train Wreck
• Uploading and Adding an Image to a Page
• Wiki Curator
• Wild Mass Guessing: Programme Note
• Works Pages Are a Free Launch
• You Know That Thing Where

Wiki

• Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions
  • Laconical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions
• Example Sectionectomy
• Finding a Trope
• Loaded Trope Word
• Mistakenly Banned
• The Situation (2010/10/27 Google Ads, definitely not All The Tropes policy)
• The Second Google Incident (2012/04 Google Ads, definitely not ATT policy)
• Trope Talk
• What Page Types Mean
• Content Usage Guidelines
• How to Get a Rule Changed

See Also

• Predefined Messages