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A thing that helps a lot is communicating with your fellow tropers.
There's threads in the forums for developing/improving laconics
and Playing With wiki.
One thing is to check the Customs page. The essential rule is to be nice and to assume good faith.
The rest shall be added unto that.
Also, don't touch someone else's Trope Launch Pad drafts without their permission.
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Also, this might sound silly, but I promise it'll help: Read the Edit Banned thread. It teaches you a lot.
Before you use TLP, you'll want to read TLP Guidelines and How To Create And Launch TLP Drafts.
Main/Administrivia is where the pages on the rules live. There are a lot of rules/guidelines/formatting that you can't count on picking up just by observation, so best to peruse some Administrivia before you jump into editing. (Zero-Context Example, Example Indentation in Trope Lists, and Edit War are a few that trip a lot of people up.) As a corollary, don't assume that something is OK just because you see it on a page, since mistakes only get fixed when someone notices and fixes them!
If you get notifiers (i.e., direct messages about an edit you made), pay attention to them! They're someone warning you that they think your edit violated a rule so that you have a chance to course-correct before you get in trouble.
The interests you mention seem to lean a bit towards the "advanced troping" side—a lot of newbies seem to get themselves in trouble in Trope Launch Pad in particular by trying to propose new tropes before they really understand how the wiki works. I'd strongly recommend starting small by contributing to existing trope/work pages and by reading and participating in existing launchpad proposals/discussions before trying to propose any new tropes yourself.
Find a random page with a trope you're familiar with, start adding a few examples to "contribute" stuff, and after a week or so you'll easily get into the... uh, "flow" of how things work.
Source: Guy who used to spend 4 - 5 years in a different forum (that forum's dead now, don't ask) before joining TV Tropes after being an anonymous visitor for quite a while
I am a newbie to TV Tropes and I am interested especially in creating Laconic and Playing With pages and Trope Launch Pad. Any experiences?