Is there a TV Tropes policy on making/adding to a page of your own work?

Alright, I wanted to do a page based off my namesake (which I have a story for), so I can do that? I think it'd be fun.

I made the page but I think I screwed it up.

^^ About your handle, you mean? You could do it on your contributor page. Sylizar.

I think he means he has a work that he named his profile after. In which case he'd use the main namespace for the work, and the tropers namespace for himself.

Of course, I could be wrong, not that clear.

Troper Works isn't a namespace, right?

Not anymore. If it's an actual published work, whether a troper wrote it or not is irrelevant; it should go in the proper medium namespace. If it's not published, then it goes elsewhere.

Yeah sorry about being unclear, it was a troper work I was talking about.

^^ So where does it go if it's not published?

Darth Wiki, I believe.

Aye, under Unpublished Works.

We should have a page of on a short leash by staring lunatic and maybe Meanding the breach http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6044626/1/

I know that it's still rude to edit YMMV subpage of your own works.

It's not exactly rude so much as it is from the wrong perspective. Audience reactions should be left to the audience.

Two questions about adding my own works to the wiki:

• What is the policy on spoilers? Is it the same as the general wiki? What about a work that would spoil the end of a series, such as my Harry Potter stories using the kids from the epilogue?
• When it says "published works," can a story that is in-progress count if it's up on the Internet for people to read? Or does it have to be finished?

edited 20th Mar '11 12:30:15 PM by Rainbow

For our purposes "published" is a lot broader than its actual meaning. As long as it exists in a format where other people can see it (blogposts or entries on FF.net included) then it counts.

edited 20th Mar '11 1:30:40 PM by joeyjojojuniorshabadoo

What about subjective tropes, such as Butt-Monkey or Woobie? Like if you see your own character as being pitiful and that character gets beat on a lot, can you put that on the work page?

I'm pretty sure they go on YMMV regardless.

Can you put in YMMV entries for your own work at all, especially on Unpublished Works? Seems a little questionable to me.

Sneaky way to do it: mention in a comment on the original source that you're trying invoke the trope (which, as the author, you can do), and then you can link to the comment to list it as They Plotted A Good Waste.

edited 20th Mar '11 8:22:03 PM by troacctid

Can't the author just mention it on his contributor page, or personally give a signed assertion on the work's discussion page?

It kind of reeks of Wikipedia-like bureaucracy if the author has to go through convoluted hoops just to make a statement about a work.

You could. But my way is cooler.

edited 21st Mar '11 12:17:18 PM by troacctid

Wait, since when is Butt-Monkey YMMV?

edited 21st Mar '11 12:30:34 PM by nuclearneo577

Audience reactions and YMM Vs go on their own tabs. As the author you can note that you were trying to use one of them, but you cannot say that you did.

Can I add stuff for an upcomming chapture? Like I'm sending Kim and Shego to Paris if I ever pick up the story agin.

edited 6th Apr '11 5:38:59 AM by RandomChaos

Personally, I'd limit such to a sentence or two in the Description area like "The author has announced plans to have the characters go to Paris sometime in 2011."

But I wouldn't, for example, list Gay Paree in the Tropes section, since it would only apply to a work that does not yet exist.