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Is your work a namespacegoeshere titled "Title Goes Here"?
e: ... Okay, non-sarcastic answer. For works pages a namespace shows what type of media a work is. Films go in Film/, anime goes in Anime/, and so forth. Your fanfic is a fanfic, so it goes in the Fanfic/ namespace.
The page title should be the title of the work, plus a disambig if there are other works by the same title.
So my fanfic titled "Beyond the Borders" is being troped at Fanfic.Beyond The Borders.
NamespaceGoesHere.Title Goes Here is never a valid page, and has been erroneously created so many times that it's actually locked now.
Edited by wingedcatgirl Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
No, you’ll make it at Fanfic.Insert Your Title Here. In that example, namespace and title are placeholders. So if I were to make a page for a film called, say, “Red Hair”; it would go at Film.Red Hair; if it were an anime it would go at Anime.Red Hair.
There’s this thread
if you need more help.
Edit: nja
Edited by Synchronicity
All that said, you should probably read some more administrivia and get a better grasp of how to operate the wiki, first. I would recommend starting with the Text-Formatting Rules and figuring out how to make a troper page for yourself.
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
As a side note, since you're the creator of the fic, you cannot write any entries for YMMV and audience reactions. You can fix some typos, but adding in entries is a no-go.
THE GOLDEN AGE WILL RETURN AGAIN!
You may want to draft it in a sandbox before actually making the page. For example, you could create Sandbox.Retribrutus (which would have a tab on your Troper page if you make one at Tropers.Retribrutus).
Edited by GastonRabbit Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Hello, I'm Retribrutus, and I'm having a bit of a dilemma trying to figure out how to create a works page for my fanfiction. I've read the Administrivia and it says to change the url to an already existing wikipage along with the title but I'm unsure on whether I should change the new page that the url (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NamespaceGoesHere/TitleGoesHere)
provided. Is it safe just to edit things or should I get some sort of permission first?