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I haven't launched a new trope in a while, but when you launch the trope, it takes you to apage where you can confirm its name. The actual trope page itself used to be blank until you copy/pasted the code from your TLP entry into it. Though I think last time I did a launch that was changed so it should go right into effect. Just make sure your trope has the 5 hats on it to make sure it's prepped and ready. Otherwise it may get removed/taken to the tlp crash thread. In the case of the permanent link, it refers to the direct URL of your trope. In your case, for example, it'd be here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=ckb8jwyf4s1g59h81mw5ifae
"Click Launch. Add the trope title without wikiwording it. Click Launch again. A blank page for the trope is created. Edit the page and paste the code that was in the draft." This is correct. The other information is outdated.
I've launched a page with the old method and the new method. The new method links the first edit in the history to YKTTW, which can only happen reliably if it's automated. On top of that, you cannot create a new page in Main/ without clicking the launch button, which really helps on people unilaterally launching tropes and work pages in Main/.
The permanent link refers to the permanent link to the particular draft. Think of DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for academic articles, but for TV Tropes. You can find it by opening a draft and looking at the URL in the top of your browser. That URL is the "permanent link" to the draft.
Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they pretty
OK, it's launched. Turns out all I needed to do was adding the title; the info on the draft was copied over automatically.
So I want to launch my first trope, but am kinda confused over it after reading both YKTTW Guidelines and A Guide to Easy Launching of Your YKTTW. From the former I got "Click Launch. Add the trope title without wikiwording it. Click Launch again. A blank page for the trope is created. Edit the page and paste the code that was in the draft". But the latter says "Don't hit the launch button until you have the page up", which seems to contradict the other page.
Also, what is this permanent link I've been reading about? What does it do and where is it in TLP?