Administrivia / Namespace

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 https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/Namespace. It is located in the Administrivia namespace.

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. The Namespace Index shows which pages use a particular namespace (enter the namespace after the = sign). Moderators can set some namespace specific functions on Namespace Config; regular tropers can see the settings. What follows is a general breakdown.

See also Sub Wiki for sections of the site with their own namespaces.

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Media Namespaces

Things that are not tropes, indexes, genres, or disambiguation pages do not go in the Main namespace. Instead, media have the following namespaces:

• 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, or the anime is distinct enough from the original source that it can get a separate page — e.g., Excel Saga — it belongs here.)
• ARG/
• Art/ (Works of classical arts.)
• AudioPlay/ (A catch-all for dramatic audio works that don't fit under Radio/ or Podcast/.)
• Blog/
• 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/. Also, it is only pages under this namespace that should be marked as a Creator-type page. Everything else — including Music/, Wrestling/, and Web Video/ — should be marked as Work-type pages.)
• Fanfic/ (For fan fictions in literary format; other kind of fan works go in the specific format of their medium [Webcomic/, etc.])
• Film/ (For live-action films; animated films go in WesternAnimation/, Animation/ or Anime/ as appropriate.)
• Franchise/ (A multimedia hub namespace for series with at least three work pages in different namespaces.)
• Literature/ (Includes eBooks, Light Novels, and Web Serial Novels.)
• Magazine/
• Manga/
• Manhua/
• Manhwa/
• Music/ (For bands, individual artists, music albums, and certain songs/music videos)
• Myth/ (Mythologies, legends and oral traditions.)
• Pinball/ (For Physical Pinball Tables and pinball disambiguation pages; pinball video games should go under VideoGame/ instead)
• Platform/ (Hardware, software, or locations made to experience certain works)
• Podcast/
• Radio/
• Ride/ (Covers both rides and theme parks.)
• Roleplay/ (Used for online Role Playing Games and LARPs. A roleplay must be accessible to the public in order to have a work article, and you cannot trope the players and/or game masters, only their characters.)
• Script/ (For texts in script format and Unproduced Scripts for other types of work)
• Series/ (Used primarily for Live-Action TV, but available for other series that aren't a Franchise.)
• TabletopGame/
• Theatre/
• Toys/
• VideoGame/
• VisualNovel/
• WebAnimation/ (Includes Machinimas in addition to other online animation.)
• Webcomic/
• Website/ (Websites are a mix of works, creators, and distributors. The users and administrators of a website are real people and troping them is prohibited. It should not have an index of works unless the website was involved in the production of the content, in addition to marketing/distribution.)
• WebOriginal/ (This namespace is mostly deprecated. It's mainly used for memes, which we don't want anymore, as well as holdovers from the infancy of namespaces.)
• WebVideo/ (Live-action videos and video-based Lets Plays originally or only released online. Covers both YouTube videos and web-exclusive series, but does not include those that belong in the WebAnimation/ namespace. For big-budget series exclusive to streaming services such as Netflix, use Series/ or the appropriate animation namespace instead.)
• WesternAnimation/ (For both films and series.)
• Wrestling/

Subpage Namespaces

These are namespaces whose pages relate to and link directly to a Main or Media 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 lots of characters. (The CharacterSheets/ namespace is used for genre-based lists of these pages.)
• DerivativeWorks/ — Indexes for works based on Public Domain works.
• FanficRecs/ — Troper-approved Fan Fic Recommendations for a series.
• 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 for 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.
• 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 gives fans warm and fuzzy feelings.
• NightmareFuel/ — Nightmare Fuel Moments: The moments from a show that gives fans the shivers.
• Shocking/ — Shocking Moments: The moments from a show that astound the audience.
• 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.
• Archive/ — Namespace for archived pages.
• 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.
• DrinkingGame/ — Namespace for Drinking Game
• Encounters/ — If TV Tropes was a gamebook.
• ImageSource/ — Namespace for Image Source pages
• JustForFun/ — For pages that might not necessarily be part of the wiki's mission, but are too much fun not to have.
• MediaNotes/ — Background information on media. How it is made, its history, elements involved in making them, and accolades given to them.
• Newsletter/ — Issues of Trope Report, our newsletter.
• Pantheon/ — If tropes were embodied by gods...
• QuoteSource/ — Namespace for Quote Source pages
• Sandbox/ — Tropers' personal testing grounds.
• SelfDemonstrating/ — 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 page.
• TroperWall/ — A space for other users to write things to or about a Troper.
• UsefulNotes/ — Information explaining cultural, regional and other information that appears in tropes and works. Also a catch-all for people and companies that don't belong in Creator/: politicians, historical figures, athletes (except for wrestlers), retailers, etc.

Trope and YMMV Namespaces

Numerous tropes and YMMVs have grown large enough that they had to be split into several pages with their own namespace. Below are the ones that have their own icon:

• AwesomeMusic/
• Horrible/ — So Bad, It's Horrible
• HoYay/
• Radar/ — Getting Crap Past the Radar
• ShoutOut/ — Lists of Shout Outs by a given work to other works.

Other

Translation namespaces

Partial translations of the wiki into other languages, to varying degrees of completeness. See Home Pages for a list.

Forum threads about namespaces

Of course, namespaces need some maintenance and that is provided by three forum topics: Media namespaces -- a battery of questions when you are not sure in which namespace to put a page, Wick Migration for help in moving wicks between namespaces and Suggesting new namespaces to propose new namespaces.

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