alt title(s): Need A Better Description
You've just launched a trope,
it may or may not have a good title, you
may or may not know what index it fits in, but you can't think of a good description. The one you had on
YKTTW was
too short, too dry, not clear, etc. So you put up this trope title as a message, on
both this page and the trope page, for others to bless you with their
Wiki Magic.
Now if you are instead one of those people who've seen one of those messages, and want to help, here are a few pointers:
- You don't have to be cute, just understandable. When in doubt, be Boring But Practical.
- We have Indexes for related tropes, you don't need to reference every similar trope within the article.
- Page quotes are optional, but should be helpful to the description, not merely cool or funny.
- Unless the trope is an index and has dozens of different connotations, there is no need to make the description a thesis paper. Simpler and shorter descriptions help keep the examples clear.
- Examples go in the example list, the description should be free of them. The only exception may be the Trope Namer or an Older Than They Think example.
Tropes listed here are supposed to have a link back to this page — please follow that convention when you add to the list. Please both remove a trope from this list and remove the link from that trope's page to here once a better description has been given.
For the convenience of those working on this list, it is divided into a number of subcategories. Please try to keep these up to date by correcting categorizations as needed. Obviously, some of the categorization is subjective, so feel free to move something that seems to be in the wrong place. If you put a page on the list of defective pages, please also put a note in the discussion for that page as to what seems to be the problem.
Put pages here first:
Any troper could do this:
Description seems fine, up to possible tweaking:
Could use a lot of work or just a decent paragraph:
Works best described by their fans.
Needs serious reviewing for accuracy.
Universal tropes not yet described at all (from List Of Shows That Need Summary).
