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First, have your new page ready in another tab. This can be done by clicking through a red-link or modifying an existing URL to have the proper WikiWord. To make ''VideoGame.PostalIII'', go to:
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First, have your new page ready in another tab. This can be done by clicking through a red-link or modifying an existing URL to have the proper WikiWord.Administrivia/WikiWord. To make ''VideoGame.PostalIII'', go to:
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If you are splitting a trope page or a long subpage into subpages, then add a line about what you split it from. If you are creating a new work page, you will have to bring your new work page up to speed with the guidelines on Administrivia/HowToCreateAWorksPage. Here, this was done by copying the description from the old page's description and adding an examples line.
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If you are splitting a trope page or a long subpage into subpages, then add a line about what you split it from. If you are creating a new work page, you will have to bring your new work page up to speed with the guidelines on Administrivia/HowToCreateAWorksPage.Administrivia/HowToCreateAWorkPage. Here, this was done by copying the description from the old page's description and adding an examples line.
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Find the Edit button, which is located at the top right or bottom left of the page.
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Find the Edit button, which is located at the top right left or bottom left of the page.
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This example be soft-splitting YMMV.IntoTheWoods by separating entries for [[Theatre/IntoTheWoods the original stage show]] and [[Film/IntoTheWoods its 2014 film adaptation]].
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This example will be soft-splitting YMMV.IntoTheWoods by separating entries for [[Theatre/IntoTheWoods the original stage show]] and [[Film/IntoTheWoods its 2014 film adaptation]].
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All pictures have been cropped to show important components, pictures that have been resized should be clickable to an Imageshack version that has not been resized.
If you're splitting because it's too long you want the folders or split sections to be about the same length.
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[[folder: How to Soft Split a Page]]
As an example, we're going to look at the soft split that was done for the example on Administrivia/HowToMoveAPage. We're going to be looking at a Characters page that's being moved over, so our data is already existent. If you were starting a blank page, you would simply add the header for the appropriate version of the work or whatever you need done. This is done so people don't get confused if they come looking for a movie and you were talking about a book or some such circumstance.
Starting with a blank page, we're going to edit it.
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/233/newcharacterspageblank.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/new_characters_page_blank_resized_1869.jpg]]||
You should now have a source page for the original characters and a new, blank, characters page.
Edit the blank source page by adding some highlighted labels for which work the section is for:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/856/newcharacterssoftsplitn.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soft_split_no_info_resized_5.jpg]]||
Copy over the information from the source page:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/11/newcharacterssoftsplitw.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soft_split_w_info_resized_1835.jpg]]||
Click save and view the page to make sure everything fits properly:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/163/newcharacterssoftsplitf.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/softsplit_finished_resized_8392.jpg]]||
As an example, we're going to look at the soft split that was done for the example on Administrivia/HowToMoveAPage. We're going to be looking at a Characters page that's being moved over, so our data is already existent. If you were starting a blank page, you would simply add the header for the appropriate version of the work or whatever you need done. This is done so people don't get confused if they come looking for a movie and you were talking about a book or some such circumstance.
Starting with a blank page, we're going to edit it.
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/233/newcharacterspageblank.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/new_characters_page_blank_resized_1869.jpg]]||
You should now have a source page for the original characters and a new, blank, characters page.
Edit the blank source page by adding some highlighted labels for which work the section is for:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/856/newcharacterssoftsplitn.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soft_split_no_info_resized_5.jpg]]||
Copy over the information from the source page:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/11/newcharacterssoftsplitw.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soft_split_w_info_resized_1835.jpg]]||
Click save and view the page to make sure everything fits properly:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/163/newcharacterssoftsplitf.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/softsplit_finished_resized_8392.jpg]]||
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!!Soft splitting
[[folder:How to Soft Split a
As an example, we're going to look at the soft split that was done for the
This example
Starting with a blank page, we're going to edit it.
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You should now have a source page for
Find the
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Copy over the information from
This will then take you to the source
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Click save and view
Rearrange the page
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||https://static.tvtropes.
Hit preview to ensure that all the content has been carried over, leave a note in the edit reason, and hit save. You now have a softsplit page. Here is the section for the musical:
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...And below it the section for the 2014 film:
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[[folder:How to Hard Split a Page]]
In most cases of hard splitting, somebody tried to lump two works/tropes together, and it's become something of a mess. Remakes are also common, as in most cases they're two different works with the same name and Administrivia/NameSpace. Or, you'll be splitting a subpage like YMMV that several works get used on. In this example, we'll be splitting the YMMV page YMMV.NightWatch because there's a 1)literature series 2)film adaption of the literature series 3)a Literature/{{Discworld}} novel. Normally, a subpage this small would not be hard split, however screenshots were desired for this how to page.
If you need to hard split a trope page, you'll need the assistance of a [[Administrivia/KnowTheStaff moderator]]. Post a request on AskTheTropers with your explanation.
Our original YMMV page looks like this:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/855/hssourcecropped.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hs_source_resized_2066.jpg]]||
First, you'll need to decide on names of choice. In this case, YMMV/NightwatchSeries, YMMV/NightwatchFilmAdaptation, and YMMV/NightwatchDiscworld were chosen based on medium/series, with "adaption" added to the end of the film version for aesthetic value. If there were multiple works in the same medium with the same name (such as Franchise/SherlockHolmes or {{Dracula}} or anything of that nature), the names for the articles would have any subtitles, or if those aren't usable, the year of creation. See Film.CaptainAmerica for an example of such a split. If you're not sure how to title the pages, make a thread in Trope Repair Shop and ask for help splitting the page.
Now, we'll need to move all the information to the new pages. See Administrivia/HowToMoveAPage for the full list of steps on how to move information from one page to the other. The result should look like this:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/28/hsymmvdisc.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hs_YMMV_disc_resize_506.jpg]]||
Click save once satisfied, do this for all the pages you're creating. You'll need to custom title the new pages to add parenthesis to the after title component, as well as add any punctuation. See Administrivia/HowToMakeACustomTitle.
Next up, replacing the original page with an index of the new pages. Due to size issues, this is purely a crop, rather than a resize. Click for full image.
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/825/editingymmvnightwatch13.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/YMMV_index_1709.jpeg]]||
After that, we've got some basic house keeping, namely fiddling with the page types of the different pages.
||https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/changing_page_type_427.jpg||
Click the button on the top of the left side labeled 1. This will drop down a list of options, click on the option labeled "set page type" marked by a 2.
You should see a screen resembling the following (actual type will vary depending on what it's set as to begin with. See Administrivia/WhatPageTypesMean for the various options):
||https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/page_type_start_3104.jpeg||
Now, we'll be changing it, from "subpage" to "disambiguation" and checking the "does indexing" box, since this is going to be an index of the other pages.
||https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/set_page_type_after_9590.jpeg||
The new pages should all be set as whatever the previous page type was, in this case "subpage".
In most cases of hard splitting, somebody tried to lump two works/tropes together, and it's become something of a mess. Remakes are also common, as in most cases they're two different works with the same name and Administrivia/NameSpace. Or, you'll be splitting a subpage like YMMV that several works get used on. In this example, we'll be splitting the YMMV page YMMV.NightWatch because there's a 1)literature series 2)film adaption of the literature series 3)a Literature/{{Discworld}} novel. Normally, a subpage this small would not be hard split, however screenshots were desired for this how to page.
If you need to hard split a trope page, you'll need the assistance of a [[Administrivia/KnowTheStaff moderator]]. Post a request on AskTheTropers with your explanation.
Our original YMMV page looks like this:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/855/hssourcecropped.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hs_source_resized_2066.jpg]]||
First, you'll need to decide on names of choice. In this case, YMMV/NightwatchSeries, YMMV/NightwatchFilmAdaptation, and YMMV/NightwatchDiscworld were chosen based on medium/series, with "adaption" added to the end of the film version for aesthetic value. If there were multiple works in the same medium with the same name (such as Franchise/SherlockHolmes or {{Dracula}} or anything of that nature), the names for the articles would have any subtitles, or if those aren't usable, the year of creation. See Film.CaptainAmerica for an example of such a split. If you're not sure how to title the pages, make a thread in Trope Repair Shop and ask for help splitting the page.
Now, we'll need to move all the information to the new pages. See Administrivia/HowToMoveAPage for the full list of steps on how to move information from one page to the other. The result should look like this:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/28/hsymmvdisc.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hs_YMMV_disc_resize_506.jpg]]||
Click save once satisfied, do this for all the pages you're creating. You'll need to custom title the new pages to add parenthesis to the after title component, as well as add any punctuation. See Administrivia/HowToMakeACustomTitle.
Next up, replacing the original page with an index of the new pages. Due to size issues, this is purely a crop, rather than a resize. Click for full image.
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/825/editingymmvnightwatch13.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/YMMV_index_1709.jpeg]]||
After that, we've got some basic house keeping, namely fiddling with the page types of the different pages.
||https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/changing_page_type_427.jpg||
Click the button on the top of the left side labeled 1. This will drop down a list of options, click on the option labeled "set page type" marked by a 2.
You should see a screen resembling the following (actual type will vary depending on what it's set as to begin with. See Administrivia/WhatPageTypesMean for the various options):
||https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/page_type_start_3104.jpeg||
Now, we'll be changing it, from "subpage" to "disambiguation" and checking the "does indexing" box, since this is going to be an index of the other pages.
||https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/set_page_type_after_9590.jpeg||
The new pages should all be set as whatever the previous page type was, in this case "subpage".
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[[folder:Creating a
In most cases of hard splitting, somebody tried to lump two works/tropes together,
The basic procedure for hard-splitting has a
This example will be
If you need to hard split a trope page, you'll need the assistance of a [[Administrivia/KnowTheStaff moderator]]. Post a request on AskTheTropers with your explanation.
Our original YMMV page looks like this:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/855/hssourcecropped.jpg/ https://static.
[[quoteleft:350:https://static.tvtropes.
First, you'll need to decide on names of choice. In this case, YMMV/NightwatchSeries, YMMV/NightwatchFilmAdaptation, and YMMV/NightwatchDiscworld were chosen based on medium/series, with "adaption" added to the end of the film version for aesthetic value. If there were multiple works in the same medium with the same name (such as Franchise/SherlockHolmes or {{Dracula}} or anything of that nature), the names for the articles would have any subtitles, or if those aren't usable, the year of creation. See Film.CaptainAmerica for an example of such a split. If you're not sure how to title the pages, make a thread in Trope Repair Shop and ask for help splitting the page.
Now, we'll need to move all the information to the new pages. See Administrivia/HowToMoveAPage for the full list of steps on how to move information from one page to the other. The result should look like this:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/28/hsymmvdisc.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hs_YMMV_disc_resize_506.jpg]]||
Click save once satisfied, do this for all the
New pages
Next up, replacing the original page with an index of the new pages. Due to size issues, this is purely a crop, rather than a resize. Click
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/825/editingymmvnightwatch13.jpg/ https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/YMMV_index_1709.jpeg]]||
After that, we've got some basic house keeping, namely fiddling with the page types of the different pages.
||https://static.tvtropes.
Click
First, have your new page ready in another tab. This can be done by clicking through a red-link or modifying an existing URL to have the
->[[AC:[=https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/PostalIII=]]]
Then find the Edit button, located at the top right or bottom left of the
You should see a screen resembling the following (actual type will vary depending on what it's set as to begin with. See Administrivia/WhatPageTypesMean for the various options):
||https://static.tvtropes.
Now, we'll be changing it, from "subpage" to "disambiguation" and checking the "does indexing" box, since
Click this
||https://static.tvtropes.
The
Paste it in the new
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If you are splitting a trope page or a long subpage into subpages, then add a line about what you split it from. If you are creating a new work page, you will have to bring your new work page up to speed with the guidelines on Administrivia/HowToCreateAWorksPage. Here, this was done by copying the description from the old page's description and adding an examples line.
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In the old page's edit reason, leave a note saying you are splitting the page to avoid confusion. Hit save on both pages. You now have a shiny new page!
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Be sure to add your new page to [[Administrivia/HowIndexingWorks all
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Breaking Redirects]]
When splitting a work, you'll occasionally find that the page you want to move to is already a redirect. You can tell this is the case
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You will have to break the redirect in order to make the new page. This can be done first by going into the "Related" tab next to the "Edit Page" button:
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The "Related" page tells you how many Administrivia/{{wick}}s a page has. Any redirects it has are in a box on the right. Go on over there and click the redirect you want to break:
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That will then take you to the Related page for ''that redirect''. Hit Edit.
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You'll then find a source box with the redirect markup. Remove this markup. Proceed with the move as discussed previously.
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First, you'll need to decide on names of choice. In this case, YMMV/NightwatchLiterature, YMMV/NightwatchFilmAdaptation, and YMMV/NightwatchDiscworld were chosen based on medium/series, with "adaption" added to the end of the film version for aesthetic value. If there were multiple works in the same medium with the same name (such as Franchise/SherlockHolmes or {{Dracula}} or anything of that nature), the names for the articles would have any subtitles, or if those aren't usable, the year of creation. See Film.CaptainAmerica for an example of such a split. If you're not sure how to title the pages, make a thread in Trope Repair Shop and ask for help splitting the page.
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First, you'll need to decide on names of choice. In this case, YMMV/NightwatchLiterature, YMMV/NightwatchSeries, YMMV/NightwatchFilmAdaptation, and YMMV/NightwatchDiscworld were chosen based on medium/series, with "adaption" added to the end of the film version for aesthetic value. If there were multiple works in the same medium with the same name (such as Franchise/SherlockHolmes or {{Dracula}} or anything of that nature), the names for the articles would have any subtitles, or if those aren't usable, the year of creation. See Film.CaptainAmerica for an example of such a split. If you're not sure how to title the pages, make a thread in Trope Repair Shop and ask for help splitting the page.
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If you're splitting because it's too long. You want the folders or split sections to be about the same length.
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[[folder: How to Soft Split a Page.]]
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If you're splitting because it's too long. You want the folders or split sections to be about the same length.
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First, you'll need to decide on names of choice. In this case, YMMV/NightwatchLiterature, YMMV/NightwatchFilmAdaption, and YMMV/NightwatchDiscworld were chosen based on medium/series, with "adaption" added to the end of the film version for aesthetic value. If there were multiple works in the same medium with the same name (such as Franchise/SherlockHolmes or {{Dracula}} or anything of that nature), the names for the articles would have any subtitles, or if those aren't usable, the year of creation. See Film.CaptainAmerica for an example of such a split. If you're not sure how to title the pages, make a thread in Trope Repair Shop and ask for help splitting the page.
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First, you'll need to decide on names of choice. In this case, YMMV/NightwatchLiterature, YMMV/NightwatchFilmAdaption, YMMV/NightwatchFilmAdaptation, and YMMV/NightwatchDiscworld were chosen based on medium/series, with "adaption" added to the end of the film version for aesthetic value. If there were multiple works in the same medium with the same name (such as Franchise/SherlockHolmes or {{Dracula}} or anything of that nature), the names for the articles would have any subtitles, or if those aren't usable, the year of creation. See Film.CaptainAmerica for an example of such a split. If you're not sure how to title the pages, make a thread in Trope Repair Shop and ask for help splitting the page.
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First, you'll need to decide on names of choice. In this case, YMMV/NightwatchLiterature, YMMV/NightwatchFilmAdaption, and YMMV/NightwatchDiscWorld were chosen based on medium/series, with "adaption" added to the end of the film version for aesthetic value. If there were multiple works in the same medium with the same name (such as Franchise/SherlockHolmes or {{Dracula}} or anything of that nature), the names for the articles would have any subtitles, or if those aren't usable, the year of creation. See Film.CaptainAmerica for an example of such a split. If you're not sure how to title the pages, make a thread in Trope Repair Shop and ask for help splitting the page.
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First, you'll need to decide on names of choice. In this case, YMMV/NightwatchLiterature, YMMV/NightwatchFilmAdaption, and YMMV/NightwatchDiscWorld YMMV/NightwatchDiscworld were chosen based on medium/series, with "adaption" added to the end of the film version for aesthetic value. If there were multiple works in the same medium with the same name (such as Franchise/SherlockHolmes or {{Dracula}} or anything of that nature), the names for the articles would have any subtitles, or if those aren't usable, the year of creation. See Film.CaptainAmerica for an example of such a split. If you're not sure how to title the pages, make a thread in Trope Repair Shop and ask for help splitting the page.
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Seeing as Main/ is now edit locked
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If you need to hard split a trope page, you'll need the assistance of a [[Administrivia/KnowTheStaff moderator]]. Post a request on AskTheTropers with your explanation.
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First, you'll need to decide on names of choice. In this case, YMMV/NightwatchLiterature, YMMV/NightwatchFilmAdaption, and YMMV/NightwatchDiscWorld were chosen based on medium/series, with "adaption" added to the end of the film version for aesthetic value. If there were multiple works in the same medium with the same name (such as SherlockHolmes or {{Dracula}} or anything of that nature), the names for the articles would have any subtitles, or if those aren't usable, the year of creation. See Film.CaptainAmerica for an example of such a split. If you're not sure how to title the pages, make a thread in Trope Repair Shop and ask for help splitting the page.
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First, you'll need to decide on names of choice. In this case, YMMV/NightwatchLiterature, YMMV/NightwatchFilmAdaption, and YMMV/NightwatchDiscWorld were chosen based on medium/series, with "adaption" added to the end of the film version for aesthetic value. If there were multiple works in the same medium with the same name (such as SherlockHolmes Franchise/SherlockHolmes or {{Dracula}} or anything of that nature), the names for the articles would have any subtitles, or if those aren't usable, the year of creation. See Film.CaptainAmerica for an example of such a split. If you're not sure how to title the pages, make a thread in Trope Repair Shop and ask for help splitting the page.
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You should see a screen resembling the following (actual type will vary depending on what it's set as to begin with. See WhatPageTypesMean for the various options):
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You should see a screen resembling the following (actual type will vary depending on what it's set as to begin with. See WhatPageTypesMean Administrivia/WhatPageTypesMean for the various options):
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Now, we'll need to move all the information to the new pages. See HowToMoveAPage for the full list of steps on how to move information from one page to the other. The result should look like this:
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Now, we'll need to move all the information to the new pages. See HowToMoveAPage Administrivia/HowToMoveAPage for the full list of steps on how to move information from one page to the other. The result should look like this:
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As an example, we're going to look at the soft split that was done for the example on HowToMoveAPage. We're going to be looking at a Characters page that's being moved over, so our data is already existent. If you were starting a blank page, you would simply add the header for the appropriate version of the work or whatever you need done. This is done so people don't get confused if they come looking for a movie and you were talking about a book or some such circumstance.
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As an example, we're going to look at the soft split that was done for the example on HowToMoveAPage.Administrivia/HowToMoveAPage. We're going to be looking at a Characters page that's being moved over, so our data is already existent. If you were starting a blank page, you would simply add the header for the appropriate version of the work or whatever you need done. This is done so people don't get confused if they come looking for a movie and you were talking about a book or some such circumstance.
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Click save once satisfied, do this for all the pages you're creating. You'll need to custom title the new pages to add parenthesis to the after title component, as well as add any punctuation. See HowToMakeACustomTitle.
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Click save once satisfied, do this for all the pages you're creating. You'll need to custom title the new pages to add parenthesis to the after title component, as well as add any punctuation. See HowToMakeACustomTitle.
Administrivia/HowToMakeACustomTitle.
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In most cases of hard splitting, somebody tried to lump two works/tropes together, and it's become something of a mess. Remakes are also common, as in most cases they're two different works with the same name and NameSpace. Or, you'll be splitting a subpage like YMMV that several works get used on. In this example, we'll be splitting the YMMV page YMMV.NightWatch because there's a 1)literature series 2)film adaption of the literature series 3)a Literature/{{Discworld}} novel. Normally, a subpage this small would not be hard split, however screenshots were desired for this how to page.
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In most cases of hard splitting, somebody tried to lump two works/tropes together, and it's become something of a mess. Remakes are also common, as in most cases they're two different works with the same name and NameSpace.Administrivia/NameSpace. Or, you'll be splitting a subpage like YMMV that several works get used on. In this example, we'll be splitting the YMMV page YMMV.NightWatch because there's a 1)literature series 2)film adaption of the literature series 3)a Literature/{{Discworld}} novel. Normally, a subpage this small would not be hard split, however screenshots were desired for this how to page.
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In most cases of hard splitting, somebody tried to lump two works/tropes together, and it's become something of a mess. Remakes are also common, as in most cases they're two different works with the same name and NameSpace. Or, you'll be splitting a subpage like YMMV that several works get used on. In this example, we'll be splitting the YMMV page YMMV.NightWatch because there's a 1)literature series 2)film adaption of the literature series 3)a {{Discworld}} novel. Normally, a subpage this small would not be hard split, however screenshots were desired for this how to page.
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In most cases of hard splitting, somebody tried to lump two works/tropes together, and it's become something of a mess. Remakes are also common, as in most cases they're two different works with the same name and NameSpace. Or, you'll be splitting a subpage like YMMV that several works get used on. In this example, we'll be splitting the YMMV page YMMV.NightWatch because there's a 1)literature series 2)film adaption of the literature series 3)a {{Discworld}} Literature/{{Discworld}} novel. Normally, a subpage this small would not be hard split, however screenshots were desired for this how to page.
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So, it looks like you need to split a page. Well, there's two ways to do it, and you'll need to pick one. '''Soft splitting''' is done by making a line break between the things that would be on the page, most commonly work subpages like YMMV and WMG, as long as the pages are relatively small. '''Hard splitting''' is when a page has all the content moved to a different set of pages and then the original is turned into a disambiguation or index. This is preferred for works and large pages.
All pictures have been cropped to show important components, pictures that have been resized should be clickable to an Imageshack version that has not been resized.
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[[folder: How to Soft Split a Page.]]
As an example, we're going to look at the soft split that was done for the example on HowToMoveAPage. We're going to be looking at a Characters page that's being moved over, so our data is already existent. If you were starting a blank page, you would simply add the header for the appropriate version of the work or whatever you need done. This is done so people don't get confused if they come looking for a movie and you were talking about a book or some such circumstance.
Starting with a blank page, we're going to edit it.
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/233/newcharacterspageblank.jpg/ http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/new_characters_page_blank_resized_1869.jpg]]||
You should now have a source page for the original characters and a new, blank, characters page.
Edit the blank source page by adding some highlighted labels for which work the section is for:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/856/newcharacterssoftsplitn.jpg/ http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soft_split_no_info_resized_5.jpg]]||
Copy over the information from the source page:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/11/newcharacterssoftsplitw.jpg/ http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soft_split_w_info_resized_1835.jpg]]||
Click save and view the page to make sure everything fits properly:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/163/newcharacterssoftsplitf.jpg/ http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/softsplit_finished_resized_8392.jpg]]||
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[[folder:How to Hard Split a Page]]
In most cases of hard splitting, somebody tried to lump two works/tropes together, and it's become something of a mess. Remakes are also common, as in most cases they're two different works with the same name and NameSpace. Or, you'll be splitting a subpage like YMMV that several works get used on. In this example, we'll be splitting the YMMV page YMMV.NightWatch because there's a 1)literature series 2)film adaption of the literature series 3)a {{Discworld}} novel. Normally, a subpage this small would not be hard split, however screenshots were desired for this how to page.
Our original YMMV page looks like this:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/855/hssourcecropped.jpg/ http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hs_source_resized_2066.jpg]]||
First, you'll need to decide on names of choice. In this case, YMMV/NightwatchLiterature, YMMV/NightwatchFilmAdaption, and YMMV/NightwatchDiscWorld were chosen based on medium/series, with "adaption" added to the end of the film version for aesthetic value. If there were multiple works in the same medium with the same name (such as SherlockHolmes or {{Dracula}} or anything of that nature), the names for the articles would have any subtitles, or if those aren't usable, the year of creation. See Film.CaptainAmerica for an example of such a split. If you're not sure how to title the pages, make a thread in Trope Repair Shop and ask for help splitting the page.
Now, we'll need to move all the information to the new pages. See HowToMoveAPage for the full list of steps on how to move information from one page to the other. The result should look like this:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/28/hsymmvdisc.jpg/ http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hs_YMMV_disc_resize_506.jpg]]||
Click save once satisfied, do this for all the pages you're creating. You'll need to custom title the new pages to add parenthesis to the after title component, as well as add any punctuation. See HowToMakeACustomTitle.
Next up, replacing the original page with an index of the new pages. Due to size issues, this is purely a crop, rather than a resize. Click for full image.
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/825/editingymmvnightwatch13.jpg/ http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/YMMV_index_1709.jpeg]]||
After that, we've got some basic house keeping, namely fiddling with the page types of the different pages.
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Click the button on the top of the left side labeled 1. This will drop down a list of options, click on the option labeled "set page type" marked by a 2.
You should see a screen resembling the following (actual type will vary depending on what it's set as to begin with. See WhatPageTypesMean for the various options):
||http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/page_type_start_3104.jpeg||
Now, we'll be changing it, from "subpage" to "disambiguation" and checking the "does indexing" box, since this is going to be an index of the other pages.
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The new pages should all be set as whatever the previous page type was, in this case "subpage".
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All pictures have been cropped to show important components, pictures that have been resized should be clickable to an Imageshack version that has not been resized.
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder: How to Soft Split a Page.]]
As an example, we're going to look at the soft split that was done for the example on HowToMoveAPage. We're going to be looking at a Characters page that's being moved over, so our data is already existent. If you were starting a blank page, you would simply add the header for the appropriate version of the work or whatever you need done. This is done so people don't get confused if they come looking for a movie and you were talking about a book or some such circumstance.
Starting with a blank page, we're going to edit it.
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/233/newcharacterspageblank.jpg/ http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/new_characters_page_blank_resized_1869.jpg]]||
You should now have a source page for the original characters and a new, blank, characters page.
Edit the blank source page by adding some highlighted labels for which work the section is for:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/856/newcharacterssoftsplitn.jpg/ http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soft_split_no_info_resized_5.jpg]]||
Copy over the information from the source page:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/11/newcharacterssoftsplitw.jpg/ http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soft_split_w_info_resized_1835.jpg]]||
Click save and view the page to make sure everything fits properly:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/163/newcharacterssoftsplitf.jpg/ http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/softsplit_finished_resized_8392.jpg]]||
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[[folder:How to Hard Split a Page]]
In most cases of hard splitting, somebody tried to lump two works/tropes together, and it's become something of a mess. Remakes are also common, as in most cases they're two different works with the same name and NameSpace. Or, you'll be splitting a subpage like YMMV that several works get used on. In this example, we'll be splitting the YMMV page YMMV.NightWatch because there's a 1)literature series 2)film adaption of the literature series 3)a {{Discworld}} novel. Normally, a subpage this small would not be hard split, however screenshots were desired for this how to page.
Our original YMMV page looks like this:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/855/hssourcecropped.jpg/ http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hs_source_resized_2066.jpg]]||
First, you'll need to decide on names of choice. In this case, YMMV/NightwatchLiterature, YMMV/NightwatchFilmAdaption, and YMMV/NightwatchDiscWorld were chosen based on medium/series, with "adaption" added to the end of the film version for aesthetic value. If there were multiple works in the same medium with the same name (such as SherlockHolmes or {{Dracula}} or anything of that nature), the names for the articles would have any subtitles, or if those aren't usable, the year of creation. See Film.CaptainAmerica for an example of such a split. If you're not sure how to title the pages, make a thread in Trope Repair Shop and ask for help splitting the page.
Now, we'll need to move all the information to the new pages. See HowToMoveAPage for the full list of steps on how to move information from one page to the other. The result should look like this:
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/28/hsymmvdisc.jpg/ http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hs_YMMV_disc_resize_506.jpg]]||
Click save once satisfied, do this for all the pages you're creating. You'll need to custom title the new pages to add parenthesis to the after title component, as well as add any punctuation. See HowToMakeACustomTitle.
Next up, replacing the original page with an index of the new pages. Due to size issues, this is purely a crop, rather than a resize. Click for full image.
||[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/825/editingymmvnightwatch13.jpg/ http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/YMMV_index_1709.jpeg]]||
After that, we've got some basic house keeping, namely fiddling with the page types of the different pages.
||http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/changing_page_type_427.jpg||
Click the button on the top of the left side labeled 1. This will drop down a list of options, click on the option labeled "set page type" marked by a 2.
You should see a screen resembling the following (actual type will vary depending on what it's set as to begin with. See WhatPageTypesMean for the various options):
||http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/page_type_start_3104.jpeg||
Now, we'll be changing it, from "subpage" to "disambiguation" and checking the "does indexing" box, since this is going to be an index of the other pages.
||http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/set_page_type_after_9590.jpeg||
The new pages should all be set as whatever the previous page type was, in this case "subpage".
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