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In wiki technical jargon, "namespace" means a section of the Wiki's organizational structure. It should become obvious enough when reading the URL of the current page you're on what namespace you're currently in. For example, the URL of this page is http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/Namespace. It is located in the Administrivia namespace.

Most tropes belong in the Main namespace. Because Main is the default namespace, you don't have to do anything special when writing Wiki Words to link to them.

To link to pages in another namespace, format them like this:

Namespace/PageTitle

or for single-word titles:

Namespace/{{Title}} e.g. Avatar.

The Article Count

page lists the currently-used namespaces and how many pages are in each. What follows is a general breakdown.

Media Namespaces

In a perfect world, every work on TV Tropes would be in its corresponding namespace. But in the words of Fast Eddie: "If we had had more forethought, that's the way we would have started five years ago."

We're relying on incremental change to migrate works to namespaces for their respective Media Categories: live action TV series to the Series namespace, comicbooks to Comic Book, movies to Film, etc. You can help by moving a works article you happen to come across that is in the wrong place. (See How To Move A Page for step-by-step instructions.) Careful, though. Sites all over the world link to our works pages. We need to leave a redirect in place to service those links.

The media namespaces currently used include:

Advertising/
Animation/ (A catch-all for animation that doesn't fit in Anime/, WebAnimation/, or WesternAnimation/.)
Anime/ (For both films and series. If a work is Anime First, it belongs here.)
AudioPlay/ (A catch-all for dramatic audio works that don't fit under Radio/ or Podcast/.)
Blog/
Bollywood/
ComicBook/
ComicStrip/
Creator/ (A catch-all for actors, writers, directors, artists, networks, studios, distributors, companies, videogame publishers and developers, etc. Works pages for musicians or musical groups should be in Music/; Wrestlers' personas go under Wrestling/; Let's Players go under LetsPlay/. Also, it is only pages under this namespace that should be marked as a Creator-type page. Everything else — including Music/, Wrestling/, and LetsPlay/ — should be marked as Work-type pages.)
FanFic/
Film/ (Animated films go in WesternAnimation/ or Anime/ as appropriate)
Franchise/ (for multimedia Franchises)
LetsPlay/
LightNovel/
Literature/ (includes eBooks and Web Serial Novels)
Machinima/
Magazine/
Manga/
Manhua/
Manhwa/
Music/
Podcast/
Radio/
Roleplay/ (used for online RPGs)
Series/ (used primarily for Live Action TV, but available for other series that aren't a Franchise)
TabletopGame/
Theatre/
VideoGame/
VisualNovel
WebAnimation/
Webcomic/
Website/
WebVideo/
WesternAnimation/ (for both films and series)
Wiki/
Wrestling/

Subpage Namespaces

These are namespaces whose pages relate to and link directly to a Main page. They contain info about the trope or work that would be too much to fit in the main page and are linked to them by the little icons at the top of the page under the search bar.

Analysis/ — Complex analyses of a work that don't fit well in a paragraph or elaborations that would derail a trope description.
Characters/ — Lists of characters in a work and the tropes associated with them. These are an optional split option for works with Loads and Loads of Characters. (The CharacterSheets/ namespace is used for genre-based lists of these pages.)
FanficRecs/ — Troper-approved Fan Fic Recommendations for a series, if you're into it. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
FanWorks/ — Indexed subpages that hold an index for the fan works of a given work.
Fridge/ — Pages for Fridge Brilliance, Fridge Logic, and Fridge Horror entries.
Haiku/ — Poetry in tropes / You wonder what the point is? / Rule Of Cool prevails.
Headscratchers/ - Things about a work that puzzle you and make you scratch your head.
ImageLinks/ — Links to extra images that wouldn't fit on the main page can go on the Image Links Wiki entry.
Laconic/ — This namespace defines tropes and works as briefly as possible, while still remaining clear and understandable. "Clever" is great; "Clear" is vital.
PlayingWith/ — Brief examples of ways to play with a trope (subversions, inversions, and so on).
Quotes/ — Each page is allowed one, maybe two quotes at the top. To keep pages from overflowing with competing quotes, the Quotes Wiki is the place the ones that don't fit as a lead-in for the article.
Recap/ — Fans of some shows use this namespace to write episode guides.
Synopsis/ - A brief summary of the plot of a novel, motion picture, play, etc.
Timeline/ - When a work has a very confusing timeline, you might want to create a subpage describing it all.
Trivia/ — Same idea as the Quotes but for stuff about the production of a work that aren't tropes in the work. A story about why a film was in Development Hell for so long, for example, is interesting Trivia, but not a trope.
WMG/ — Wild Mass Guessing: the place where Epileptic Trees grow and wild theories about works are shared. Has spawned its own memes on this wiki - you wouldn't believe how many people are secretly Time Lords, for example.
YMMV/ - YMMV: Here go things related to audience reactions and that can vary from troper to troper.

Moments Namespaces

These are the subset of subpages that list special moments from a certain show.

Awesome/ - Awesome Moments: The moments from a show that fans are amazed by.
Funny/ - Funny Moments: The moments from a show that cause fans to break out in laughter.
Heartwarming/ - Heartwarming Moments: The moments from a show that fans that gives fans warm and fuzzy feelings.
NightmareFuel/ - Nightmare Fuel Moments: The moments from a show that gives fans the shivers.
TearJerker/ - Tear Jerking Moments: The moments from a show that causes fans to reach for the tissue box.

Just for Fun and Other Namespaces

AATAFOVS/ - The show inspired by TV Tropes.
Administrivia/ — Used for Administrivia, pages about wiki policy and guidelines and stuff.
CompletedMigrations/ — For works and creators whose Wick Namespace Migrations have been finished.
DarthWiki/ — The Dark Side of the wiki. They have cookies, Complaining About Shows You Don't Like and bitching in general. Do not use anything from here as examples, and do not pothole to here except in descriptions.
Corpse/ — Exquisite Corpse
JustForFun/ — For pages that might not necessarily be part of the wiki's mission, but are too much fun not to have.
Pantheon/ - If tropes were embodied by gods...
RealLife/ — For actual examples of tropes.
Self Demonstrating/ — For Self Demonstrating Articles, among character pages written in the first person as if by the character they describe.
SoYouWantTo/ — For writing guides by tropers for tropers.
SugarWiki/ — Sugar Wiki is the Pink and Sugary Lighter and Softer Side of the wiki. This is where you can find Gushing About Shows You Like and more. And our cookies are better.
TropeCo/ - The TV Tropes Catalog!
Tropers/ - A Troper's personal profile pages.
TroperWall/ - A Troper's message wall.
UsefulNotes/ - Information explaining cultural, regional and other information that appears in tropes and works.

Trope and YMMV Namespaces

A few tropes and YMMVs have grown large enough that they had to be split into several pages with their own namespace. The ones with a percent sign have their own icon on top of the page. The ones with an ampersand have the icon, but are not displayed on top of the page. Currently they include:

Trope List

And some wiki-specific tropes:

TropeNamers/

YMMV subsets

Series Namespaces

Some series and franchises are big enough that they've gotten their own namespaces spun off. This is completely optional. Works that have gotten this treatment currently include:

Discworld/
Disney/ - Disney Animated Canon, individual Classic Disney Shorts, original Disney characters, nontheatricral sequels/prequels/midquels to the DAC, and whatever other Disney work would otherwise have a namespace conflict
MagicTheGathering/