History DarthWiki / HowNotToWriteAnExample

** There're great ways to circumvent the [[Administrivia/CreatingAWorkPageForAnUpcomingWork annoying rules about upcoming works]]. For example, it's not speculation as long as you cite the source. Go ahead and write something like "The trailer implies that Evilus is going to be the BigBad". Alternatively, you can add pre-hidden examples like "%% BigBad: Evilus".

* If you're at a loss for any more tropes to add to your page, try adding tropes that describe the audience. Everyone will love seeing "GamerGirl: Some girls play this game" or even "MsFanservice: Some sexually attractive women play this game" on your favorite game's page and absolutely won't be creeped out by it. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Depending on your opinion about the work]], praise or insult its fans by adding intelligence or stupidity-related tropes.

* Don't forget to mention TheGame, so that everyone loses.
** If someone already has mentioned TheGame, you must mention [[http://xkcd.com/391/ this xkcd strip]].

* Remember, when assessing the quality of a work, always be sure to gauge critical reception ''solely'' with what people from [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses TGWTG]] think of it. Actual published critics, perhaps even essayists? What the fuck do the know? They're just a bunch of OscarBait loving snobs!

** Also, always quote an in-site meme from Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, or else you'll be SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL, and girls like PAAAAAAAANK! TIMING!

* When writing character pages, don't bother writing up a description for each character yourself. Just find an official biography somewhere and copy-paste it here. If you can't find an official bio, just copy it from [[TheWikiRule the unofficial wiki]] instead.

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%% BEFORE you add an entry, do your part to prevent TropeDecay and do not use this page to describe what you think people shouldn't do solely because it's your own personal Pet Peeve or your Berserk Button. It has to be a generally bad example form as well.

*** That, my dear, sweet marvelous troper with your [[AnythingThatMoves slender hands and thick, lush hair and, most importantly, your soul-piercing eyes]], is utter nonsense and/or just plain lies and you should be deeply ashamed of yourself to the bottom of your cold, wretched, overly small cardiac muscles. Administrivia/{{Justifying Edit}}s, you see, are always, ALWAYS an fantabulous idea to stick onto one of the pages on this wiki. And it unquestionably is, of course particularly preferable to all tropes that they are always, ALWAYS a mammoth, all-consuming WallOfText. They greatly grow upon the original entry on a page that another individual composed over the course of hours, with their fingertips deftly impinging the keyboard, and/or just plain clears a few things up in a TV Tropes entry that the first poster neglected to even reference once or wasn't decipherable sufficiently on. Moreover, it does a lot to solve the very grievous trouble of risking the comprehensive decimation of an entry, thus fleetly avoiding anything that could possibly perceived as a potential slight and quickly putting a cessation to the possibility for a long-lasting, acrimonious Edit War before it even begins to come about, because every last individual on this planet is absolutely cognisant that Edit Wars are the rootage of fury and avarice and lust and pridefulness and indisposition and all of the other unrighteousnesses on this damned, horrible planet and everything at all possible should be done to altogether avoid them at all costs, reasonable or unreasonable. In addition to everything else in this long, long, '''''long''''' piece of writing, mind you, an edit under an original entry encourages polysyllabic, interminable bouts of lively and spirited discourse on the subject at hand today and, with any luck, proves that snowmonkeys somehow driving snowmobiles and all parties involved in that affair share a pleasant, clear consensus. Also, troper, make sure that you never, ever omit your long, long, '''long''' tangents and segways. Those are the most crucial part of a Administrivia/JustifyingEdit, merely because if you can easily interpret, with perfect, peerless pellucidity, your train of cognizant thought than surely everyone else on this huge, all-encompassing internet site would be able to do the exact same thing because you, yes, ''you'' are a uncorrupted representative of every last one of all of your fellow writers on here and everyone else knows that since you are mad e of such pure concentrated awesomesauce, if your mind forms an opinion on something, whether it's exactly correct or based on false premises or anything in between, than everyone, ''everyone'' else has the exact same opinion on the subject at hand and will greatly appreciate with all of their hearts that you took precious moments of your extremely valuable time to make a justifying edit on this very wiki. But you also have to stuff into your edit in as much detail as humanly possible because, otherwise, how else do you accept, with absolute certainty, that anyone else would be aware that you had [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment randomly, on a whim]], commented on snowmonkeys driving snowmobiles swiftly down a steep, high gravely hill in the destitute wilderness of Appalachia (Eastern U.S, from Pennsylvania to Georgia), right in the intermediate of this exceedingly long, altogether inane and worthless argument if everyone who's reading this paragraph simply skips right to the end of this written material? And the part of all this nonsense that's the most egregious of all? Sometimes, or possibly even probably, such a large WallOfText Administrivia/JustifyingEdit can have many, many, many words contained within it but in reality says very little of dire importance, or even nothing at all.

* Feel free to link to work pages instead of tropes if the work's title represents part of your example well enough. For example, link to HijinksEnsue instead of HilarityEnsues, or to SassyGayFriend is a character's friend is sassy and gay.

** [[CloudCuckoolander It’s]] [[Series/GameOfThrones even]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse better]] [[AxCrazy if]] [[Series/BringTheFunny every]] [[OverlyLongGag word]] [[DudeNotFunny has]] [[BrickJoke a]] [[PlotHole Pothole]]

* If there's a show you don't like, and it's on a page that says it gets unnecessary hate (e.g {{Hatedom}}, PeripheryHatedom, HateDumb), make sure to reply with a long paragraph explaining why it deserves to be there. Even if [[Administrivia/TVTropesGlossary Wiki Magic]] deletes it, make sure to come back and rewrite it. Bonus points if it's ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' or any Disney Channel show.

** If TheirShow is ''Literature/TheSwordOfTruth'', ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', or ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'', this is ''mandatory''.

*** DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible: After all, what could be worse than a work promoting intolerance and hate, even unintentionally? It doesn't matter if some people actually agree with the work's message or think it's not bad enough to completely ruin the rest of the work. [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets They're bigots]] and [[NoTrueScotsman their opinions therefore don't matter]]!

* ''Italicize'' any ''WikiWord'', even if it's a ''Trope'' or a ''Creator''.

* Let's say you are reading an index, perhaps one about tropes that have dangerous consequences in real life, and let's suppose that you see that one of the tropes listed mentions that a certain plot point in a work of fiction you like is unrealistic. Completely ignore the fact that [[ExampleAsAThesis it is only being used to illustrate the point]] and delete the trope completely, while writing a nerd-rage Administrivia/JustifyingEdit in the edit reason. Then, when someone restores the trope because it genuinely belongs on the index, do the same thing again and repeat till they give up.