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All The Tropes:Community Portal
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"There is too much to do" is a terrible excuse for doing nothing.
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The Community portal is a place to find how to interact with your fellow tropers and tasks that need help on All The Tropes.
As for why we have these lists instead of simply fixing problems ourselves:
If a person takes in one work of fiction each week (that means, for example, reading an entire novel series or marathoning an entire television series or an entire web comic run, not reading a single book, watching a single episode, or reading a single strip), and that person has 80 years in which he or she can understand and appreciate fiction between becoming literate and becoming senile, then that person can experience 4,160 works - assuming the person never repeats a favourite work.
As of August 29, 2021, this wiki listed 6,375 pages in Category:Film. another 2,912 pages in Category:Literature and more works in the categories for the other media that we cover here.
This means that it is impossible for a single person -- or two people coordinating their entire lives so that they never watch, play, or read even one work that the other has experienced, for that matter -- to experience all works of fiction (without substantial life extension measures that do not appear to be forthcoming any time soon). It's simple grade-school math.
So, no, we cannot go and read or watch it ourselves - life is literally too short for that to be possible. We must rely on people reading and acting on these lists in order to alert people who are already familiar with the works in question that there's an issue.
Community Interaction and Help Pages
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Want to help out All The Tropes? Then check out the following sections to see what needs fixing. Stub articles
Works Needing Tropes
Pages Needing Images
Pages Needing a Better Description
Pages Needing Original Descriptions
Outdated Pages
Pages with Examples Needing Context
Pages with Examples That Are Not Timeless
Pages with Examples That Are Not Everywhere
Pages that need more categories
Recap Pages Needing Recap
Character subpages that need character descriptions
Work or Creator pages with multiple tropes that need context
Pages with names (or references) that need more specificity
Works that need their Central Themes listed
Works that need their Elevator Pitches listed
Online works that need links to the works
Pages Needing Cleanup
Pages to delete (admins only)
Examples Need Sorting
Pages Needing Disambiguation
Multiple Works Need Separate Pages
Pages with Broken Links
Pages with Examples Needing Verification
Pages with Unmarked Spoilers
Pages that should be turned into categories
Quotes subpages that still have Wikiquote formatting
Pages with too many spoiler tags
Pages Needing Wicks
Pages Needing a Better Title
Works That Have Vanished From the Web
Works Pages that were written by the works' creators
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