History Administrivia / PageTemplates

* Please keep "in-line" examples of a trope to a minimum -- save them for the "Examples" section at the end of the page. We have started segregating examples by media because {{Anime}} examples, for instance, only work for {{Anime}} folks and SpeculativeFiction {{Literature}} examples only work for people who read that sort of thing. There is a big overlap in those two groups, of course, but some fans of LiveActionTV, to pick a medium at random, don't do either, so the examples are just wasted space to them.

** Remove all the spaces between the words of a phrase: [=OrWasItADream=] will become OrWasItADream. Most pages can be created/referenced with this kind of WikiWord.

* It's a good idea to turn every program/series name into a WikiWord, even if there's no entry for it yet. Someday someone may write one, and you want to be ready for it.
* Similarly, make the names of books, comics, films, video games, and anything else that someone might want to link to someday into a WikiWord.

* There are two ways to form {{Wiki Word}}s:

** Single words, or phrases with embedded dashes or which need for some reason to retain any internal spaces can be Wikified by surrounding them with double curly brackets: For instance, [=LegionOfSuperHeroes=] becomes ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes when the Wiki magic works its way upon it.

** Single words, or phrases with embedded dashes or which need for some reason to retain any internal spaces can be Wikified by surrounding them with double curly brackets: For instance, [={{Legion of Super-Heroes}}=] becomes ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} when the Wiki magic works its way upon it.

* Please try to avoid common and simple spelling errors, like "teh" for "the", "thier" for "their" and so on. Also, although they may not be all that common in usual speech, on this site "existence" and "villain" come up a lot, so please don't spell them "existance" and "vilain". Especially when naming a trope. While the Administrivia/WikiMagic will take care of these sooner or later, you'll earn more props and credibility among the other contributors if your work looks polished to start with.

* Please try to avoid common and simple spelling errors, like "teh" for "the", "thier" for "their" and so on. Also, although they may not be all that common in usual speech, on this site "existence" and "villain" come up a lot, so please don't spell them "existance" and "vilain". Especially when naming a trope. While the WikiMagic will take care of these sooner or later, you'll earn more props and credibility among the other contributors if your work looks polished to start with.

** Linking to trope/program names with embedded symbols ("M*A*S*H", "Ranma ½") is done by typing the link out as if the non-alphanumeric characters don't exist—the symbols are imputed automatically in the link depending on the title of the page it links to. For example, [={{MASH}}=] becomes Series/{{MASH}} and [=RanmaOneHalf=] becomes Manga/RanmaOneHalf. These edited wikiwords can be changed across the site using the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/custom_title_request.php Customize Title]] tool.

** Exception: Don't italicize anything on index pages (e.g., CanadianSeries).

* Don't use ALL CAPS or *asterisks* for emphasis. Use ''italics'' instead. There is a special coding for what we call asscaps (all caps) [=[[AC:(your text)]]=]. It uses a smaller bold font, allowing you to shout in an indoor voice.

* Before you submit an edit, check the very bottom of the entry field. If there is an empty line there, leave it. If not, add one. The Page Histories always show the last line of any given entry as being edited, and it's easier to read if that line is a blank space rather than a category bar. Do ''not'' delete the empty lines. We beg you.

* Whenever using special coding to form a link, always put the italics markup ''outside'' the coding, or it will not parse properly: [=''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]''=] will result in ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'', but [=[[RanmaOneHalf ''Ranma 1/2'']]=] will become [[RanmaOneHalf ''Ranma 1/2'']].

* PlayingWithWikiTemplate-- For making PlayingWith pages.

* CharacterSheetTemplate -- For tropes that pertain specifically to the characters in a work.

* CategoryListingTemplate -- Not likely to be needed often, but here just in case.

** Single words, or phrases with embedded dashes or which need for some reason to retain any internal spaces can be Wikified by surrounding them with double curly brackets: For instance, [={{Stargate SG-1}}=] becomes {{Stargate SG-1}} when the Wiki magic works its way upon it.
*** You'll also want to do this if you want to add letters to the beginning or end of a word; for instance, [={{Achilles Heel}}s=] becomes {{Achilles Heel}}s.

** Linking to trope/program names with embedded symbols ("M*A*S*H", "Ranma ½") is done by typing the link out as if the non-alphanumeric characters don't exist—the symbols are imputed automatically in the link depending on the title of the page it links to. For example, [={{MASH}}=] becomes {{MASH}} and [=RanmaOneHalf=] becomes RanmaOneHalf. These edited wikiwords can be changed across the site using the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/custom_title_request.php Customize Title]] tool.

While some simple formatting advice can be found in each template, complete formatting guidelines and codes can be found on the pages TipsForEditing and Administrivia/TextFormattingRules.

While some simple formatting advice can be found in each template, complete formatting guidelines and codes can be found on the pages TipsForEditing and TextFormattingRules.

''Note:'' If you are creating more than one page at a time, you may want to save copies of the templates on your local machine and work from them. This is because (as of this writing) the edit process "locks" a page for twenty minutes -- and if you leave it without saving you can't get back in until that twenty minutes is up.

While some simple formatting advice can be found in each template, complete formatting guidelines and codes can be found on the pages PmWiki/TipsForEditing and TextFormattingRules.