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Wiki Talk is one forum about talking about the Wiki and Forum proper. Our goal is to make improvements upon it through discussion and ideas.

There are quite a few threads in Wiki Talk. These include "Please Unlock a locked, cut page(not a member of the Permanent Redlinkclub)", "Screwed up Custom Titles to Fix", "Get Help with English Here", and others. Many of them are to help you with things, improve the wiki, discuss major changes to the wiki, or to talk about current wiki problems that may come up.

The first topic mentioned is about unlocking pages that have been locked, then transferring the data over to a new page, and cutting the old, outdated one. The next one is when Custom Titles go haywire. Reporting which ones cause problems allows the staff to find why it's not working and fix it. Finally, the English thread is for users who do not have English as their first language or are not good at it. The goal is to help improve their English so the entire wiki and fora is easier for everyone to read. Many other topics will appear with various improvements upon the wiki, staff, and fora much like these.

If you have a specific problem with someone causing trouble, please report it on Ask The Tropers. You can also asking about glitches, coding help, and other general questions that may come up. As usual, please follow the Forum Rules listed. I wish you a great time visiting and posting on this forum.

Have a nice day. ~Hydronix

Special Efforts is the place to organize and participate in large-scale efforts to improve the wiki, such as wick moving (after renames or namespace migrations), wick cleaning (removing misuse), and page cleaning (removing natter, correcting formatting, moving misplaced elements onto their proper subpages, etc.). Our goal is to keep the wiki looking nice and functioning smoothly.

The stickied threads (the ones at the top that have the image of a note pinned to a board next to them) are for fixing ongoing, wiki-wide problems: cutting natter (NATTER ALERT!); moving works pages and their wicks from Main/ to the appropriate namespace (Wick Migration); fixing pages which have major grammar and spelling problems (Calling all Grammar police!); general page cleanup, such as removing complaining or reverting vandalism (Cleanup help needed); and removing complaining from Headscratchers pages (The Great Headscratchers Complaining Clean-up). If you have time to spare, take a look at these threads; there's always work to be done in them. If, in your wanderings across the wiki, you encounter a page which needs cleanup in one of the aforementioned ways, but you don't have the time or knowledge to do it yourself, post a link and an explanation in the appropriate thread so that the problem can be fixed.

Two other significant threads are the Regarding the Trivia namespace thread, which works to identify which pages should be classified as trivia, and the Trope Description Improvement Drive thread, which tries to improve unclear, digressive, or overly long trope descriptions. (The Trope Description Improvement Drive thread functions in the same way as the stickied threads: if you see a problem description and can't or don't feel qualified to fix it, post about it.) The remaining threads deal with specific cleanup efforts.

Before getting started, I would recommend reading Text-Formatting Rules, Example Indentation, and How To Alphabetize Things, as they contain useful information for handling some of the more technical parts of improving the wiki. Welcome To TV Tropes also contains a lot of useful information, and has a lot of links to pages with more detailed information.

If, in the course of your cleanup, you come across a locked page which needs something fixed, add a post to this thread requesting the needed change. If a thread, a page, or a post needs some other sort of mod attention, use the yellow button (called the Holler button) which can be found at the top of each post.

This forum follows the general forum rules. If you want to rename a trope or think the description or definition needs sigificant revision, post in the Trope Repair Shop (TRS). If you are having problems with a specific troper, report the situation either by hitting the Holler button or by posting in Ask The Tropers. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any of the other staff.

Thank you for your help, and have a nice day!

Video Games is the place where we, well, talk about video games. It does not matter whether that game is "hardcore" or "casual", mainstream or niche, good or bad; if it's a video game, then it's all good to talk about. Our goal is a simple one: talk about video games, and having fun while doing it.

Now, do not take this to mean that anything goes here. Besides the general rules of the forum, there are three guidelines that you should follow if you want to have a good time with no problems:

1) No Complaint Threads: By this, we don't mean that you are forbidden from raising any issues towards any game in any thread altogether. We mean that you should refrain from threads whose only purpose is to complain about something you don't like. As our past experience with threads of this sort has shown, they have a tendency to incite flame wars and, generally, invite an unfriendly air to them, which goes against our goal.

2) No Fanboyish Behavior: By this, we mean that stuff like arguing and whining over which consoles you play your games on and why the consoles you oppose aren't up to snuff are not allowed. This ties in with Guideline #1, in that they generally go against our goal, incite thread-derailing flame wars and, frankly, they are just eyesores to read. So, yeah, kindly refrain from doing this.

3) Behave Yourself: By this, we mean that, well, you should be on your best behavior. If someone posts something about a game that you don't agree with, you should either address your concerns with it in a pleasant manner, or just be the better man and ignore it altogether. If you are having problems with a specific troper, report the situation either by hitting the Holler button or by posting in Ask The Tropers.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any of the mods. Do not be afraid to ask.

Thank you for your help, have fun, and have a nice day!