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* '''[[ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability Notability]]''': An odd one, in that we use the definition used by {{Wikipedia}}, but are against it. We don't require a work to meet any standards of notability for that site. As long as the work is published, and the page for it doesn't cover content that crosses certain lines [[note]]we have [[Administrivia/FiveP a panel]] to decide that[[/note]], that page stays here.
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* '''[[ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability '''[[Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability Notability]]''': An odd one, in that we use the definition used by {{Wikipedia}}, but are against it. We don't require a work to meet any standards of notability for that site. As long as the work is published, and the page for it doesn't cover content that crosses certain lines [[note]]we have [[Administrivia/FiveP a panel]] to decide that[[/note]], that page stays here.
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* '''Works Page''': A page that briefly describes a work and lists all the tropes it uses. Administrivia/WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch because ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability.
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* '''Works Page''': A page that briefly describes a work and lists all the tropes it uses. Administrivia/WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch because ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability.Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability.
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* '''[[GetKnown Known]]''': Basically being logged in here, just that it's not as extensive as making accounts in other sites.
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* '''[[GetKnown '''[[Administrivia/GetKnown Known]]''': Basically being logged in here, just that it's not as extensive as making accounts in other sites.
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* '''Blank Launch''' (mislaunch): An unskilled attempt to launch a trope from YKTTW. Results in a red link instead of a trope and removes the YKTTW from the list. [[AGuideToEasyLaunchingOfYourYKTTW Learn the basics]] before you try to launch.
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* '''Blank Launch''' (mislaunch): An unskilled attempt to launch a trope from YKTTW. Results in a red link instead of a trope and removes the YKTTW from the list. [[AGuideToEasyLaunchingOfYourYKTTW [[Administrivia/AGuideToEasyLaunchingOfYourYKTTW Learn the basics]] before you try to launch.
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* '''Crosswicking''': Adding a trope example to a work's page and vice versa.
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* '''Crosswicking''': '''Administrivia/{{Crosswicking}}''': Adding a trope example to a work's page and vice versa.
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* '''Ptitle:''' Punctuated Title. In the past, all titles containing non-alphanumeric characters other than hyphens, or starting with a number (e.g. ''Film/ThreeHundred'') used to be ptitles. Ptitles couldn't be linked to with WikiWords, and could only be created with special markup. They were phased out with the advent of ThePtitleReplacementSystem; now we use custom titles instead, and the only remaining ptitles are redirects, preserved in order to avoid breaking inbound links.
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* '''Ptitle:''' Punctuated Title. In the past, all titles containing non-alphanumeric characters other than hyphens, or starting with a number (e.g. ''Film/ThreeHundred'') used to be ptitles. Ptitles couldn't be linked to with WikiWords, and could only be created with special markup. They were phased out with the advent of ThePtitleReplacementSystem; Administrivia/ThePtitleReplacementSystem; now we use custom titles instead, and the only remaining ptitles are redirects, preserved in order to avoid breaking inbound links.
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* '''Faux-redlink''' (fake redlink): A link which shows up as red even though the page exists (even as a redirect or a disambiguation). Done to discourage {{sinkhole}}s. Faux-redlinks are always locked and are not edited. A list of them can be found in the PermanentRedLinkClub.
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* '''Faux-redlink''' (fake redlink): A link which shows up as red even though the page exists (even as a redirect or a disambiguation). Done to discourage {{sinkhole}}s. Faux-redlinks are always locked and are not edited. A list of them can be found in the PermanentRedLinkClub.Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub.
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See also Administrivia/WelcomeToTVTropes, Administrivia/TextFormattingRules, PageTemplates.
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* '''ZCE''': Administrivia/ZeroContextExample. An entry on a trope or work page which just lists a trope link or work name without explaining anything.
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* '''CMOA''', '''CMOF''', and '''CMOH''': Crowning SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, Crowning [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Moment Of Funny]], and Crowning [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Moment Of Heartwarming]], respectively. CMOA/CMOF/CMOH are still widely used terms, but officially the pages have lost their "crowning" titles (which named '''crowners''') after finding a crowning moment of anything proved impossible.
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* '''YMMV''': YourMileageMayVary. See its entry in the first list.
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* '''YMMV''': YourMileageMayVary.[[YMMV/HomePage Your Mileage May Vary]]. See its entry in the first list.
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* '''Crosswicking''': Adding a trope example to a work's page and vice versa.
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* '''Crowner''': A system of voting this site uses, usually to decide whether to rename a page and then what the new name will be, but other actions are often voted upon. The crowners work differently than typical voting. Instead of whatever has the most votes, they are decided on whatever has the best ratio of yes to no votes.
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* '''Crowner''': [[Administrivia/HowCrownersWork A system of voting this site uses, uses]], usually to decide whether to rename a page and then what the new name will be, but other actions are often voted upon. The crowners work differently than typical voting. Instead of whatever has the most votes, they are decided on whatever has the best ratio of yes to no votes.
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* '''Custom Title''': You can request these for any article to change how the title is displayed in wicks. See ThePtitleReplacementSystem for more information.
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* '''Custom Title''': You can [[Administrivia/HowToMakeACustomTitle request these these]] for any article to change how the title is displayed in wicks. See ThePtitleReplacementSystem for more information.wicks and the page title. The change is usually adding punctuation or altering capitalization in some way.
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* '''Faux-redlink''': A link which shows up as red even though the page exists (even as a redirect or a disambiguation). Done to discourage {{sinkhole}}s. Faux-redlinks are always locked and are not edited.
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* '''Faux-redlink''': '''Faux-redlink''' (fake redlink): A link which shows up as red even though the page exists (even as a redirect or a disambiguation). Done to discourage {{sinkhole}}s. Faux-redlinks are always locked and are not edited. A list of them can be found in the PermanentRedLinkClub.
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* '''Known''': Basically being logged in here, just that it's not as extensive as making accounts in other sites.
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* '''Known''': Basically being logged in here, just that it's not as extensive as making accounts in other sites.'''Forum gingerbread''': The fancy bits of the TVTropesForum including avatars, signature lines, and so on. Gingerbread is turned on by default; if you are '''known''', you can switch it on and off via [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/profile.php your profile page]].
* '''[[GetKnown Known]]''': Basically being logged in here, just that it's not as extensive as making accounts in other sites.
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* '''[[ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability Notability]]''': An odd one, in that we use the definition used by {{Wikipedia}}, but are against it. We don't require a work to meet any standards of notability for that site. As long as the work is published, and the page for it doesn't cover content that crosses certain lines [[note]]we have a panel to decide that[[/note]], that page stays here.
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* '''[[ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability Notability]]''': An odd one, in that we use the definition used by {{Wikipedia}}, but are against it. We don't require a work to meet any standards of notability for that site. As long as the work is published, and the page for it doesn't cover content that crosses certain lines [[note]]we have [[Administrivia/FiveP a panel panel]] to decide that[[/note]], that page stays here.
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* '''{{Pothole}}''': A WikiWord embedded in text. [[TheContributors We]] [[PerverseSexualLust like]] [[AllBlueEntry potholes]] [[ThisExists here]] [[ShortTitles at]] TVTropes.
* '''Ptitle:''' Punctuated Title. In the past, all titles containing non-alphanumeric characters other than hyphens, or starting with a number (e.g. ''Film/ThreeHundred'') used to be ptitles. Ptitles couldn't be linked to with WikiWords, and could only be created with special markup. They were phased out with the advent of ThePtitleReplacementSystem; now we use Custom Titles instead, and the only remaining ptitles are redirects, preserved in order to avoid breaking inbound links.
* '''Ptitle:''' Punctuated Title. In the past, all titles containing non-alphanumeric characters other than hyphens, or starting with a number (e.g. ''Film/ThreeHundred'') used to be ptitles. Ptitles couldn't be linked to with WikiWords, and could only be created with special markup. They were phased out with the advent of ThePtitleReplacementSystem; now we use Custom Titles instead, and the only remaining ptitles are redirects, preserved in order to avoid breaking inbound links.
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* '''{{Pothole}}''': A WikiWord embedded in text. text, known as a '''piped link''' over on ThatOtherWiki. [[TheContributors We]] [[PerverseSexualLust like]] [[AllBlueEntry potholes]] [[ThisExists here]] [[ShortTitles at]] TVTropes.
TVTropes. See also '''sinkhole'''.
* '''Ptitle:''' Punctuated Title. In the past, all titles containing non-alphanumeric characters other than hyphens, or starting with a number (e.g. ''Film/ThreeHundred'') used to be ptitles. Ptitles couldn't be linked to with WikiWords, and could only be created with special markup. They were phased out with the advent of ThePtitleReplacementSystem; now we useCustom Titles custom titles instead, and the only remaining ptitles are redirects, preserved in order to avoid breaking inbound links.links.
* '''Query''': A discussion thread in AskTheTropers, LostAndFound, or YouKnowThatShow. These are simple forums without titles or '''gingerbread''' or similar as the main TVTropesForum has. The term comes from the URL for those areas.
* '''Ptitle:''' Punctuated Title. In the past, all titles containing non-alphanumeric characters other than hyphens, or starting with a number (e.g. ''Film/ThreeHundred'') used to be ptitles. Ptitles couldn't be linked to with WikiWords, and could only be created with special markup. They were phased out with the advent of ThePtitleReplacementSystem; now we use
* '''Query''': A discussion thread in AskTheTropers, LostAndFound, or YouKnowThatShow. These are simple forums without titles or '''gingerbread''' or similar as the main TVTropesForum has. The term comes from the URL for those areas.
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* '''Referral Count''': The number of times a page has brought new users onto the site. You can view the referral count by clicking the "Related" button at the top of the page.
* '''{{Sinkhole}}''': Like a PotHole, but where the linked article is irrelevant or only tangentially relevant to the context in which it occurs. We don't like these.
* '''{{Sinkhole}}''': Like a PotHole, but where the linked article is irrelevant or only tangentially relevant to the context in which it occurs. We don't like these.
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* '''Referral Count''': The number of times a page has brought new users onto the site. You can view the referral count by clicking the "Related" button at the top of the page.
page. The referral count is sometimes called the number of '''inbound links''' (inbounds).
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* '''[[{{Works}} Work]]''': Any creation in any form of medium. All of them use tropes.
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* '''ANF''', '''HONF''', '''NF''', and '''NFU''': AccidentalNightmareFuel, High Octane Nightmare Fuel, NightmareFuel, and Nightmare Fuel Unleaded, respectively. Pages about scary stuff. NFU was the [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes old name]] for HONF, which is now just part of NF again.
* '''ATT''': AskTheTropers. The catch-all query area for vandal reports, quick questions, and other stuff.
* '''BUPKIS''': Blank Until Pretty Kickass Image Suggested (or Suggestion). A {{stock phrase|s}} found in Image Pickin, often said in relation to pages which are hard to picture. See also '''KUBIS'''.
* '''GCPTR''': GettingCrapPastTheRadar. This trope has had to go through so many discussions that its acronym is well-established, unlike most tropes (which therefore aren't listed here).
* '''IP''':
## An Internet Protocol address. A string of numbers identifying your computer.
## ImagePickin. A forum for [[Administrivia/HowToPickAGoodImage choosing images]] and other such items.
* '''KUBIS''': KeepUntilBetterImageSuggested (or Suggestion). A {{stock phrase|s}} found in Image Pickin'. See also '''BUPKIS'''.
* '''PM''': Private message. A feature and term common to most sites, these are, well, private messages. If you are '''known''', you can find your mailbox [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pm.php here]].
* '''TRS''': The TropeRepairShop. A forum for renaming, removing, and otherwise reforming or refining tropes.
* '''TT''': [[TroperTales Troper Tale(s)]]. A long-gone wiki project involving recounting your personal experiences of tropes. Sometimes people still post anecdotes on discussion pages; these are Troper Tales and are not generally appropriate.
* '''TVT''': Wiki/TVTropes.
* '''YKTS''': YouKnowThatShow. A discussion area in which you may ask about a '''work''' you can remember but don't know the title of.
* '''YMMV''': YourMileageMayVary. See its entry in the first list.
* '''[=YKTTW=]''': [[YouKnowThatThingWhere You Know, That Thing Where...]]. See its entry in the first list.
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* '''ANF''', '''HONF''', '''NF''', and '''NFU''': AccidentalNightmareFuel, High Octane Nightmare Fuel, NightmareFuel, and Nightmare Fuel Unleaded, respectively. Pages about scary stuff. NFU was the [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes old name]] for HONF, which is now just part of NF again.
* '''ATT''': AskTheTropers. The catch-all query area for vandal reports, quick questions, and other stuff.
* '''BUPKIS''': Blank Until Pretty Kickass Image Suggested (or Suggestion). A {{stock phrase|s}} found in Image Pickin, often said in relation to pages which are hard to picture. See also '''KUBIS'''.
* '''GCPTR''': GettingCrapPastTheRadar. This trope has had to go through so many discussions that its acronym is well-established, unlike most tropes (which therefore aren't listed here).
* '''IP''':
## An Internet Protocol address. A string of numbers identifying your computer.
## ImagePickin. A forum for [[Administrivia/HowToPickAGoodImage choosing images]] and other such items.
* '''KUBIS''': KeepUntilBetterImageSuggested (or Suggestion). A {{stock phrase|s}} found in Image Pickin'. See also '''BUPKIS'''.
* '''PM''': Private message. A feature and term common to most sites, these are, well, private messages. If you are '''known''', you can find your mailbox [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pm.php here]].
* '''TRS''': The TropeRepairShop. A forum for renaming, removing, and otherwise reforming or refining tropes.
* '''TT''': [[TroperTales Troper Tale(s)]]. A long-gone wiki project involving recounting your personal experiences of tropes. Sometimes people still post anecdotes on discussion pages; these are Troper Tales and are not generally appropriate.
* '''TVT''': Wiki/TVTropes.
* '''YKTS''': YouKnowThatShow. A discussion area in which you may ask about a '''work''' you can remember but don't know the title of.
* '''YMMV''': YourMileageMayVary. See its entry in the first list.
* '''[=YKTTW=]''': [[YouKnowThatThingWhere You Know, That Thing Where...]]. See its entry in the first list.
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* '''Blank Launch''' (mislaunch): An unskilled attempt to launch a trope from YKTTW. Results in a red link instead of a trope and removes the YKTTW from the list. Learn the basics before you try to launch.
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* '''Blank Launch''' (mislaunch): An unskilled attempt to launch a trope from YKTTW. Results in a red link instead of a trope and removes the YKTTW from the list. [[AGuideToEasyLaunchingOfYourYKTTW Learn the basics basics]] before you try to launch.
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* '''ZeroContextExample''': An example that isn't fleshed out to give context to the trope and how it is portrayed in a work.
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* '''Faux-redlink''': A link which shows up as red even though the page exists (even as a redirect or a disambiguation). Done to discourage {{sinkhole}}s. Faux-redlinks are always locked and are not edited.
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* '''Launch''': The process of making a new page. Tropes should go through YKTTW before being launched; WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch.
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* '''Works Page''': A page that briefly describes a work and lists all the tropes it uses. WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch because ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability.
* '''{{YKTTW}}''': The recommended place to propose tropes ([[WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch but not works or people]]). There you can discuss if a trope is a proper trope, how to best define it, if [[Administrivia/DoWeHaveThisOne we have the page already or not]], and get some examples if you don't have enough.
* '''{{YKTTW}}''': The recommended place to propose tropes ([[WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch but not works or people]]). There you can discuss if a trope is a proper trope, how to best define it, if [[Administrivia/DoWeHaveThisOne we have the page already or not]], and get some examples if you don't have enough.
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* '''Works Page''': A page that briefly describes a work and lists all the tropes it uses. WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch Administrivia/WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch because ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability.
* '''{{YKTTW}}''': The recommended place to propose tropes([[WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch ([[Administrivia/WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch but not works or people]]). There you can discuss if a trope is a proper trope, how to best define it, if [[Administrivia/DoWeHaveThisOne we have the page already or not]], and get some examples if you don't have enough.
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* '''ZeroContextExample''': An example that isn't fleshed out to give context to the work and trope.
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* '''ZeroContextExample''': An example that isn't fleshed out enough that you can understand both the trope and the work just from reading it without knowing either ahead of time.
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* '''ZeroContextExample''': An example that isn't fleshed out enough that you can understand both the trope and to give context to the work just from reading it without knowing either ahead of time.and trope.
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* '''ZeroContextExample''': An example that isn't fleshed out enough that you can understand both the trope and the work just from reading it without knowing either ahead of time.
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* '''{{YKTTW}}''': The recommended place to propose tropes ([[WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch but not works or people]]). There you can discuss if a trope is a proper trope, how to best define it, if [[DoWeHaveThisOne [[Administrivia/DoWeHaveThisOne we have the page already or not]], and get some examples if you don't have enough.
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* '''Curly Brackets''': ''{{ }}'' The way to make single-word titles WikiWord (for example, ''{{Metallica}}''), or a way to make larger wiki words and control the spacing. Compare '''CamelCase'''. See TextFormattingRules for how to implement them.
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* '''{{Namespace}}''': This is the part of a page url before the last slash. The TV Tropes default namespace is Main/. We have other namespaces for media (ex.Film/), sub-pages (ex. Analysis/), and trope pages (ex. [=NightmareFuel=]/).
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* '''{{Namespace}}''': '''Administrivia/{{Namespace}}''': This is the part of a page url before the last slash. The TV Tropes default namespace is Main/. We have other namespaces for media (ex.Film/), sub-pages (ex. Analysis/), and trope pages (ex. [=NightmareFuel=]/).
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* '''[[ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability Notability]]''': An odd one, in that we use the definition used by {{Wikipedia}}, but are against it. We don't require a work to meet any standards of notability for that site. As long as the work is published, and the page for it is good, that page stays here.
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* '''[[ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability Notability]]''': An odd one, in that we use the definition used by {{Wikipedia}}, but are against it. We don't require a work to meet any standards of notability for that site. As long as the work is published, and the page for it is good, doesn't cover content that crosses certain lines [[note]]we have a panel to decide that[[/note]], that page stays here.
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* '''Informal Wiki''': A term we use to describe the attitude of this site in relation to editors. It means we don't have rules and procedures for editing pages. It doesn't mean this site can be anarchy. We have guidelines.
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* '''Informal Wiki''': A term we use to describe the attitude of this site in relation to editors. It means doesn't mean we don't have rules and procedures for editing pages. It doesn't mean this site can be anarchy. We have guidelines.pages, but they are far fewer than other sites.
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* '''SubjectiveTropes''': Most tropes are deliberate choices of those making a work. It doesn't matter what we think of them, they are in that work. Subjective tropes differ in that they are entirely what an individual viewer feels. A writer can try to put something scary in a work, but HighOctaneNightmareFuel is when something actually is scary for a particular viewer.
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* '''Ptitle:''' Punctuated Title. All titles containing non-alphanumeric characters that aren't hyphens, or start with a number (e.g. ''[=~300~=]'') are ptitles. They cannot be linked to with WikiWords, and cannot be created without special markup. These are obsolete now that we have ThePtitleReplacementSystem, but a whole lot of them still exist. You can't make new ones anymore.
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* '''Ptitle:''' Punctuated Title. All In the past, all titles containing non-alphanumeric characters that aren't other than hyphens, or start starting with a number (e.g. ''[=~300~=]'') are ''Film/ThreeHundred'') used to be ptitles. They cannot Ptitles couldn't be linked to with WikiWords, and cannot could only be created without with special markup. These They were phased out with the advent of ThePtitleReplacementSystem; now we use Custom Titles instead, and the only remaining ptitles are obsolete now that we have ThePtitleReplacementSystem, but a whole lot of them still exist. You can't make new ones anymore.redirects, preserved in order to avoid breaking inbound links.
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Like a lot of things relating to specific fields of knowledge, we have acquired some terms and idioms particular to this site. This page is to give you a quick overview of their meanings.
Compare TropesOfLegend, CanonicalListOfSubtleTropeDistinctions.
See also WelcomeToTVTropes, TextFormattingRules, PageTemplates, WhatPageTypesMean.
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!!Some definitions:
* '''Blank Launch''' (mislaunch): An unskilled attempt to launch a trope from YKTTW. Results in a red link instead of a trope and removes the YKTTW from the list. Learn the basics before you try to launch.
* '''BlueLink''': A working link. Bluelinks may be '''WikiWords''' or '''{{Pothole}}s'''. Compare RedLink.
* '''{{CamelCase}}''': The usual way of creating '''WikiWords''' onsite, achieved by removing the spaces between two or more words, e.g. [=CamelCase=]
* '''Compare''': A short list at the end of descriptions to note {{Sister Trope}}s to the trope being described.
* '''Contrast''': A short list at the end of descriptions to note OppositeTropes to the trope being described.
* '''Courtesy Link''': A link to a trope you are discussing in the forums, provided so your fellow tropers can easily access the trope you want to talk about. Image Picking and Trope Repair Shop now require these when making a thread.
* '''Creator''': Someone who participates in the creation of a work. On TVTropes, these include writers, artists, actors, bands, and companies.
* '''Crowner''': A system of voting this site uses, usually to decide whether to rename a page and then what the new name will be, but other actions are often voted upon. The crowners work differently than typical voting. Instead of whatever has the most votes, they are decided on whatever has the best ratio of yes to no votes.
* '''Curly Brackets''': ''{{ }}'' The way to make single-word titles WikiWord (for example, ''{{Metallica}}''), or a way to make larger wiki words and control the spacing. Compare '''CamelCase'''. See TextFormattingRules for how to implement them.
* '''Custom Title''': You can request these for any article to change how the title is displayed in wicks. See ThePtitleReplacementSystem for more information.
* '''CutList''': Where tropes are proposed for deletion. It's not automatic though, and opportunity is given to site users to respond to/discuss the reasons given for the cutlisting, either in dispute or support of them.
* '''Description''': The part of a page describing what the page is about. Usually it's defining a trope or describing a work. Often comes in different forms, such as SelfDemonstratingArticle or ExampleAsAThesis.
* '''Discussion''': A mirror page for any page on this site that has the typical editing code. These are for anything about the page that isn't related to the description or examples. It's sort of a forum for these specific pages.
* '''Example''': Items listed after a page description. The examples are usually two kinds:
## If the page is a trope, the examples are the works where the trope shows up. These usually start with "Examples:" in a banner at the top of the list and are sorted by medium.
## If the page is a work/person, the examples are the different tropes that show up in that work. These usually start with "Provides Examples Of:" (or some variation) in a banner at the top of the list.
* '''Folder''': A system for making examples more easily digestible, so a medium can be easily opened or closed.
* '''Known''': Basically being logged in here, just that it's not as extensive as making accounts in other sites.
* '''Informal Wiki''': A term we use to describe the attitude of this site in relation to editors. It means we don't have rules and procedures for editing pages. It doesn't mean this site can be anarchy. We have guidelines.
* '''Launch''': The process of making a new page. Tropes should go through YKTTW before being launched; WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch.
* '''Main Page''': The default '''namespace''', where you will find the trope '''description''' and '''examples'''.
* '''[[{{Media}} Medium]]''': The format a work is presented in (for example: film, comic book, radio, etc.). Examples in trope pages are sorted by medium.
* '''{{Namespace}}''': This is the part of a page url before the last slash. The TV Tropes default namespace is Main/. We have other namespaces for media (ex.Film/), sub-pages (ex. Analysis/), and trope pages (ex. NightmareFuel/).
* '''{{Natter}}''': Conversations in the '''main page'''. This is frowned upon, as it is generally distracting and unfunny.
* '''[[ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability Notability]]''': An odd one, in that we use the definition used by {{Wikipedia}}, but are against it. We don't require a work to meet any standards of notability for that site. As long as the work is published, and the page for it is good, that page stays here.
* '''"Not to be confused with"''': A disclaimer in descriptions to list any tropes that have similar names to the described trope, but are in no other way related.
* '''{{Pothole}}''': A WikiWord embedded in text. [[TheContributors We]] [[PerverseSexualLust like]] [[AllBlueEntry potholes]] [[ThisExists here]] [[ShortTitles at]] TVTropes.
* '''Ptitle:''' Punctuated Title. All titles containing non-alphanumeric characters that aren't hyphens, or start with a number (e.g. ''[=~300~=]'') are ptitles. They cannot be linked to with WikiWords, and cannot be created without special markup. These are obsolete now that we have ThePtitleReplacementSystem, but a whole lot of them still exist. You can't make new ones anymore.
* '''RedLink''': A link to a page that has not yet been created. Compare '''BlueLink'''.
* '''Referral Count''': The number of times a page has brought new users onto the site. You can view the referral count by clicking the "Related" button at the top of the page.
* '''{{Sinkhole}}''': Like a PotHole, but where the linked article is irrelevant or only tangentially relevant to the context in which it occurs. We don't like these.
* '''SubjectiveTropes''': Most tropes are deliberate choices of those making a work. It doesn't matter what we think of them, they are in that work. Subjective tropes differ in that they are entirely what an individual viewer feels. A writer can try to put something scary in a work, but HighOctaneNightmareFuel is when something actually is scary for a particular viewer.
* '''ThisTroper''': ''Don't put that on the main page.'' It's a phrase that was on the site, but became redundant with the TroperTales namespace. We don't need personal comments on main pages.
* '''{{Trope}}''': A common convention or device in media. These are not the actual literary definition of a trope, and should not be confused for it. This is just an informal definition we use for this site.
* '''{{Troper}}''': Anyone who contributes to this site. Those that are Known are listed in {{Contributors}}.
* '''{{Wick}}''': A link on this site to another page on this site. This is useful for getting attention for these pages across the site. You can see the number of Wicks by hitting the "Related to" button at the top of the page.
* '''WikiWord''': A link to a page onsite. Can be made using '''CamelCase''', if the title has multiple words, or '''curly brackets''' if it is a single-word title. Frequently seen in the form of a '''{{Pothole}}'''.
* '''[[{{Works}} Work]]''': Any form of medium. All of them use tropes.
* '''Works Page''': A page that briefly describes a work and lists all the tropes it uses. WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch because ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability.
* '''{{YKTTW}}''': The recommended place to propose tropes ([[WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch but not works or people]]). There you can discuss if a trope is a proper trope, how to best define it, if [[DoWeHaveThisOne we have the page already or not]], and get some examples if you don't have enough.
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Compare TropesOfLegend, CanonicalListOfSubtleTropeDistinctions.
See also WelcomeToTVTropes, TextFormattingRules, PageTemplates, WhatPageTypesMean.
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!!Some definitions:
* '''Blank Launch''' (mislaunch): An unskilled attempt to launch a trope from YKTTW. Results in a red link instead of a trope and removes the YKTTW from the list. Learn the basics before you try to launch.
* '''BlueLink''': A working link. Bluelinks may be '''WikiWords''' or '''{{Pothole}}s'''. Compare RedLink.
* '''{{CamelCase}}''': The usual way of creating '''WikiWords''' onsite, achieved by removing the spaces between two or more words, e.g. [=CamelCase=]
* '''Compare''': A short list at the end of descriptions to note {{Sister Trope}}s to the trope being described.
* '''Contrast''': A short list at the end of descriptions to note OppositeTropes to the trope being described.
* '''Courtesy Link''': A link to a trope you are discussing in the forums, provided so your fellow tropers can easily access the trope you want to talk about. Image Picking and Trope Repair Shop now require these when making a thread.
* '''Creator''': Someone who participates in the creation of a work. On TVTropes, these include writers, artists, actors, bands, and companies.
* '''Crowner''': A system of voting this site uses, usually to decide whether to rename a page and then what the new name will be, but other actions are often voted upon. The crowners work differently than typical voting. Instead of whatever has the most votes, they are decided on whatever has the best ratio of yes to no votes.
* '''Curly Brackets''': ''{{ }}'' The way to make single-word titles WikiWord (for example, ''{{Metallica}}''), or a way to make larger wiki words and control the spacing. Compare '''CamelCase'''. See TextFormattingRules for how to implement them.
* '''Custom Title''': You can request these for any article to change how the title is displayed in wicks. See ThePtitleReplacementSystem for more information.
* '''CutList''': Where tropes are proposed for deletion. It's not automatic though, and opportunity is given to site users to respond to/discuss the reasons given for the cutlisting, either in dispute or support of them.
* '''Description''': The part of a page describing what the page is about. Usually it's defining a trope or describing a work. Often comes in different forms, such as SelfDemonstratingArticle or ExampleAsAThesis.
* '''Discussion''': A mirror page for any page on this site that has the typical editing code. These are for anything about the page that isn't related to the description or examples. It's sort of a forum for these specific pages.
* '''Example''': Items listed after a page description. The examples are usually two kinds:
## If the page is a trope, the examples are the works where the trope shows up. These usually start with "Examples:" in a banner at the top of the list and are sorted by medium.
## If the page is a work/person, the examples are the different tropes that show up in that work. These usually start with "Provides Examples Of:" (or some variation) in a banner at the top of the list.
* '''Folder''': A system for making examples more easily digestible, so a medium can be easily opened or closed.
* '''Known''': Basically being logged in here, just that it's not as extensive as making accounts in other sites.
* '''Informal Wiki''': A term we use to describe the attitude of this site in relation to editors. It means we don't have rules and procedures for editing pages. It doesn't mean this site can be anarchy. We have guidelines.
* '''Launch''': The process of making a new page. Tropes should go through YKTTW before being launched; WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch.
* '''Main Page''': The default '''namespace''', where you will find the trope '''description''' and '''examples'''.
* '''[[{{Media}} Medium]]''': The format a work is presented in (for example: film, comic book, radio, etc.). Examples in trope pages are sorted by medium.
* '''{{Namespace}}''': This is the part of a page url before the last slash. The TV Tropes default namespace is Main/. We have other namespaces for media (ex.Film/), sub-pages (ex. Analysis/), and trope pages (ex. NightmareFuel/).
* '''{{Natter}}''': Conversations in the '''main page'''. This is frowned upon, as it is generally distracting and unfunny.
* '''[[ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability Notability]]''': An odd one, in that we use the definition used by {{Wikipedia}}, but are against it. We don't require a work to meet any standards of notability for that site. As long as the work is published, and the page for it is good, that page stays here.
* '''"Not to be confused with"''': A disclaimer in descriptions to list any tropes that have similar names to the described trope, but are in no other way related.
* '''{{Pothole}}''': A WikiWord embedded in text. [[TheContributors We]] [[PerverseSexualLust like]] [[AllBlueEntry potholes]] [[ThisExists here]] [[ShortTitles at]] TVTropes.
* '''Ptitle:''' Punctuated Title. All titles containing non-alphanumeric characters that aren't hyphens, or start with a number (e.g. ''[=~300~=]'') are ptitles. They cannot be linked to with WikiWords, and cannot be created without special markup. These are obsolete now that we have ThePtitleReplacementSystem, but a whole lot of them still exist. You can't make new ones anymore.
* '''RedLink''': A link to a page that has not yet been created. Compare '''BlueLink'''.
* '''Referral Count''': The number of times a page has brought new users onto the site. You can view the referral count by clicking the "Related" button at the top of the page.
* '''{{Sinkhole}}''': Like a PotHole, but where the linked article is irrelevant or only tangentially relevant to the context in which it occurs. We don't like these.
* '''SubjectiveTropes''': Most tropes are deliberate choices of those making a work. It doesn't matter what we think of them, they are in that work. Subjective tropes differ in that they are entirely what an individual viewer feels. A writer can try to put something scary in a work, but HighOctaneNightmareFuel is when something actually is scary for a particular viewer.
* '''ThisTroper''': ''Don't put that on the main page.'' It's a phrase that was on the site, but became redundant with the TroperTales namespace. We don't need personal comments on main pages.
* '''{{Trope}}''': A common convention or device in media. These are not the actual literary definition of a trope, and should not be confused for it. This is just an informal definition we use for this site.
* '''{{Troper}}''': Anyone who contributes to this site. Those that are Known are listed in {{Contributors}}.
* '''{{Wick}}''': A link on this site to another page on this site. This is useful for getting attention for these pages across the site. You can see the number of Wicks by hitting the "Related to" button at the top of the page.
* '''WikiWord''': A link to a page onsite. Can be made using '''CamelCase''', if the title has multiple words, or '''curly brackets''' if it is a single-word title. Frequently seen in the form of a '''{{Pothole}}'''.
* '''[[{{Works}} Work]]''': Any form of medium. All of them use tropes.
* '''Works Page''': A page that briefly describes a work and lists all the tropes it uses. WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch because ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability.
* '''{{YKTTW}}''': The recommended place to propose tropes ([[WorksPagesAreAFreeLaunch but not works or people]]). There you can discuss if a trope is a proper trope, how to best define it, if [[DoWeHaveThisOne we have the page already or not]], and get some examples if you don't have enough.
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