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At the moment, the following pages are locked:

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AATAFOVS

AATAFOVS.A Three Hour Tour: Was part of an old project and got locked as "done" when the illustrations came near to completion.

Administrivia

These pages are meant to guide tropers on how to go about editing on the wiki. As such, the pages themselves have no need of examples or definition-tweaking. Some pages must be locked to prevent either from happening. If the pages were locked for different reasons, it will be specifically noted below.

Administrivia.About Images And Copyright
Administrivia.All Blue Entry: Was moved from locked Main.All Blue Entry. Originally an article that included a list of such pages. Now such shrines of sinkholery are forbidden.
Administrivia.Auto Erotic Troping
Administrivia.Complaining About Shows You Dont Like: After Complaining About People Not Liking the Show had its examples deleted, someone dumped them here. After that, it was locked to prevent any more examples or complaining about the examples being deleted. We never allowed examples for this anyway, since Complain About Shows You Dont Like was created (and since deleted).
Administrivia.Complete Monster: Ruleset for the Complete Monster page, which is also locked
Administrivia.Conversation In The Main Page: Repeated attempts to make it self-demonstrating undermine the whole point behind the article.
Administrivia.Creating A Work Page For An Upcoming Work
Administrivia.Creating New Pages
Administrivia.Descriptive Vs Prescriptive Language
Administrivia.Edit War
Administrivia.Everythings Worse With Snowclones
Administrivia.Example Indentation In Trope Lists
Administrivia.Examples Are Not Arguable
Administrivia.Examples Are Not Recent
Administrivia.Five P
Administrivia.Get Known
Administrivia.Handling Spoilers
Administrivia.How To Cite TV Tropes
Administrivia.How To Create A Character Page
Administrivia.How To Create A Works Page: Was hit a couple times by new editors who may have thought it was a place to create a work page.
Administrivia.Just A Face And A Caption
Administrivia.Know The Staff
Administrivia.Locked Pages
Administrivia.Namespace
Administrivia.Needs An Index: The list of unindexed pages was judged to be pointless.
Administrivia.No Lewdness No Prudishness: Was a magnet for trolls and people trying to make a point.
Administrivia.No New Stock Phrases
Administrivia.No Video Examples Please: Got way too many questionable additions. This is a temporary lock.
Administrivia.Permanent Red Link Club: Too much of a vandalism magnet.
Administrivia.Prescriptive Vs Descriptive Language
Administrivia.Righting Great Wrongs
Administrivia.Rule Of Cautious Editing Judgment
Administrivia.Sinkhole:
Administrivia.Site Policies: Draft of a core policy page.
Administrivia.Speculative Troping
Administrivia.The Content Policy And The 5 P Circuit
Administrivia.The Fic May Be Yours But The Trope Page Is Ours
Administrivia.The Goals Of TV Tropes
Administrivia.The Google Incident: Information page created to describe an event in late 2010, no longer needed to be edited especially when it started getting hit by vandals.
Administrivia.The Great Character Alignment Debate
Administrivia.The Ptitle Replacement System
Administrivia.There Is No Such Thing As Notability
Administrivia.The Second Google Incident
Administrivia.TLP Guidelines
Administrivia.Trope Depiction Guidelines: Official Wiki policy. Feedback to be provided in the accompanying thread
Administrivia.Trope Repair Shop
Administrivia.Two Point Zero: Not quite ready yet.
Administrivia.Type Labels Are Not Examples
Administrivia.Weblinks Are Not Examples
Administrivia.Welcome To Tv Tropes
Administrivia.Word Cruft
Administrivia.Zero Context Example

Analysis

Analysis.Anti Hero: Consistent problem with type labels.
Analysis.Sliding Scale Of Anti Heroes: Lots of misuse.

Archive

All archive pages are locked and will not be edited for anything. That's why they're archives.

Awesome

Awesome.Player Accomplishments: Attracted Troper Tales-like examples; redirected to a more apropos page.
Awesome.You Can Play This: Posthumous controversy about its creator.

Characters

Characters.Final Fantasy VII Playable Characters: Transferring lock from Characters.Final Fantasy VII: Frequent target for Shipping-related Edit Wars.
Characters.Lilys Poke Madhouse: Getting caught up in Lily Orchard-related disputes.
Characters.Sonichu: Enough with the endless wonking about the comic's author. We don't want any discussion of her here.
Characters.You Can Play This: Posthumous controversy about its creator.

Comic Book

ComicBook.Liberality For All: The subject of the article is basically living breathing Flame Bait.

Conspiracy Theories

Being cleaned - and likely cut - up over Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement violations. The page on COVID-19 theories was also sent to the Permanent Red Link Club for this reason.

Creator

Creator.Amber Heard: Locked due to controversy.
Creator.Donald Trump: Attracted understandable controversy and is now a redirect.
Creator.Emily Youcis: People kept adding comments on her political positions.
Creator.Fox News Channel: Attracted political-related complaining plus flame and edit wars.
Creator.Jimmy Savile: Locked due to controversy.
Creator.Ken Penders: Locked for complaining.
Creator.Lily Orchard: Locked for troping the creator and excessive opinionating that drew drama. The page was originally at Creator.Lily Peet.
Creator.Lily Peet: Keeps attracting drama and is now a redirect.
Creator.Marquis De Sade: Locking out editorializing, also squick magnet.
Creator.MSNBC: Got politically flame-baity, much like Fox News Channel.
Creator.Rob Liefeld: Creator- and work-bashing.
Creator.Seltzer And Friedberg: Consisted mostly of work-bashing.
Creator.Uwe Boll: Past iterations of this page invited penetrant Take That!-ing both on and off-page, thus it is locked so that it doesn't become another rantfest.
Creator.Vic Mignogna: The multiple sexual harassment allegations against him made the page a prime vandalism target.

Curb Stomp Battle

CurbStompBattle.Death Battle: Edit warring and people ignoring the cleanup efforts.

Darth Wiki

DarthWiki.Complain About Shows You Dont Like Discussion: Archive of a former discussion that does not need to be edited.
DarthWiki.Fallen Creator:invoked Vandalism magnet.
DarthWiki.Tropers Law: Ptitle page moved to normal title, relocking because it's a wiki policy article and not for editing. It also used to be a troll magnet.

Die For Our Ship

DieForOurShip.Inuyasha: Apparently houses one of the most rabid and militant shipping wars of all time. Locking pending cut.

Fanfic

Fanfic.Besides The Will Of Evil: Author is internet-infamous and politically flammable, leading to a preemptive lock request.
Fanfic.Its A Dangerous Business Going Out Your Door: Author is internet-infamous and politically flammable, leading to a preemptive lock request.
Fanfic.My Immortal: Unending stream of chaotic natter, editorialism, and "witticisms" that came across more as vandalism.

Fanfic Recs

FanficRecs.Sonichu: Enough with the endless wonking about the comic's author. We don't want any discussion of her here.
FanficRecs.Template Page For New Fandom Recommendations: Essentially an instruction page about how certain pages are supposed to be written.

Film

Film.A Serbian Film: Was autolocked when cut, lock kept after restoration. Was cleaned under the content policy.
Film.Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom: Lock and clean under the content policy.
Film.Vase De Noces: Lock and clean under the content policy.

Funny

Funny.Lilys Poke Madhouse: Getting caught up in Lily Orchard-related disputes.
Funny.Sonichu: Enough with the endless wonking about the comic's author. We don't want any discussion of her here.
Funny.You Can Play This: Posthumous controversy about its creator.

Growling Gut

Due to users constantly undoing Zero-Context Example markup without adding context, the following example subpages for Growling Gut are locked:

Haiku

Haiku.Sonichu: Enough with the endless wonking about the comic's author. We don't want any discussion of her here.

Harsher In Hindsight

HarsherInHindsight.Real Life: A bloated page filled with shoehorning. The page is temporarily locked pending further action by the Hindsight Cleanup thread.

Headscratchers

Headscratchers.Dragon Age Origins Part II: This is an archive.
Headscratchers.Dragon Age Origins Part III: Is an archive.
Headscratchers.Fallout New Vegas Archive 1: Archive page.
Headscratchers.Lolita: Page was autolocked when cut, lock was kept after restoration; reinstating.
Headscratchers.Mass Effect 1 Archive 1: Archive page.
Headscratchers.Mass Effect 2 Archive: Archive.
Headscratchers.Mass Effect 2 Archive 2: Archive.
Headscratchers.Mass Effect 2 Archive 3: Archive.
Headscratchers.Mass Effect 2 Archive 4: Archive.
Headscratchers.Pokemon Archive: Archive.
Headscratchers.Pokemon Archive Late 2010: Archive page.
Headscratchers.The Avengers Film Archive 1: Archive.
Headscratchers.The Dresden Files Archive: Archive. No reason to edit it.
Headscratchers.The Dresden Files Archive 2: Archive.
Headscratchers.Tropes: As we no longer allow Headscratchers pages for tropes, this was locked and changed to direct towards the Trope Talk section of the forums and the Analysis namespace.

Heartwarming

Heartwarming.Lilys Poke Madhouse: Getting caught up in Lily Orchard-related disputes.
Heartwarming.You Can Play This: Posthumous controversy about its creator.

Idiot Plot

IdiotPlot.Star Wars: Undergoing various edit wars and complaining/misuse. At the very least, a temporary lock to give a good hearty sweep of bad examples. Clean-up thread here.

Image Links

ImageLinks.Complete Monster: Locked as part of the Complete Monster cleanup process.
ImageLinks.Dominatrix: It's a joke page, locked to prevent people from spoiling the joke or adding actual dirty links.
ImageLinks.Hate Sink: Persistent shoehorning.
ImageLinks.Magnificent Bastard: Pages related to Magnificent Bastard are getting cleaned and locked to prevent further natter, edit wars, and shoehorning. Clean-up thread is in progress.
ImageLinks.Memetic Molester: Lewdness lockout.
ImageLinks.Shock Site: An imageless joke page. An earlier version of it got cut after someone linked an actual shock site and locked because that is a list we do not ever want.
ImageLinks.Tropes: To stop spamming attempts.

Just For Fun

JustForFun.Chekovs Gun: Lock was carried over from Chekovs Gun, which was locked because people who don't get the joke try to "correct" it.
JustForFun.Television Is Trying To Kill Us: Even after being moved to Just For Fun, the page kept attracting diatribes and complaining, culminating into politico-social soapboxing.
JustForFun.TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life: People used to add crap that denigrated the wiki when it was in Main/.
JustForFun.The Archive Of Bellicose Lexicon Entities: It was a series of articles listing tropers accordingly to their visions on trope naming, images, example lists and the like. Since it was determined that these articles, rather than serving their purpose as fun places for like-minded tropers to associate, were inspiring antagonism and factionalism among our user base, they have been discontinued and all of them now redirect back to that index, which now remains as a means of defining the acronyms only, and is locked to prevent tropers from listing themselves on one of those categories, which they can simply do through their userpages anyway.

Laconic

Laconic.All Your Colors Combined: Locked to keep the colour markup joke intact (since most of the used color markup was disabled site-wide, any edit to the page will turn the text black).
Laconic.Comedic Lolicon: The previous pages "lolicon" and "shotacon" had their examples cut and were locked due to nebulous legality in English-speaking countries and issues with advertisers. The two follow up pages were locked to avoid similar problems, as was Laconic.Comedic Lolicon.
Laconic.Cold War: Locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War
Laconic.Complete Monster: Locked as part of the Complete Monster cleanup process.
Laconic.Empty Room Psych: Preserving colour (since most of the used color markup was disabled site-wide, any edit to the page will turn the text black).
Laconic.Everything Fades: Preserve color markup (since most of the used color markup was disabled site-wide, any edit to the page will turn the text black).
Laconic.Magnificent Bastard: Request in the locked pages thread. Pages related to Magnificent Bastard are getting cleaned and locked to prevent further natter, edit wars, and shoehorning. Clean-up thread is in progress.
Laconic.Marital Rape License: Making it clear what the trope is, and keeping it that way.
Laconic.Not If They Enjoyed It Rationalization: Best be safe, as rape tropes are controversial.
Laconic.Sonichu: Enough with the endless wonking about the comic's author. We don't want any discussion of her here.
Laconic.Soviet Russia Ukraine And So On: Locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War.
Laconic.The Red Pill: Content inviting edit wars.
Laconic.Reds With Rockets: Locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War.
Laconic.Russia: Locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War.
Laconic.Wikipedia: Magnet for jokes about Wikipedia's policies.
Laconic.You Can Play This: Posthumous controversy about its creator, leading to vandalistic edits.

Light Novel

LightNovel.To Aru Majutsu No Index: To enforce the name change to the English title.

Literature

Literature.Fifty Shades Of Grey: Restored after cut. Most of the book's notoriety comes from its pornographic content. Locked to prevent creepiness.
Literature.Gor: Locked under the content policy.
Literature.Lolita: Restored after cut, keeping locked due to constant apologism.
Literature.The 120 Days Of Sodom: Lock and clean under the content policy. Was locked along with Vase de Noces because of content policy violations and some creepy gushing.
Literature.The Bible: Chronic edit war over Trope definitions and proper page tone and perspective, no doubt due to the subject matter. Was also a flame magnet.
Literature.The Quran: Chronic edit war over Trope definitions and proper page tone and perspective, no doubt due to the subject matter. Was also a flame magnet.

Magazine

Magazine.Playboy: Locked under the content policy.

Magnificent Bastard

Pages related to Magnificent Bastard are getting cleaned and locked to prevent further natter, edit wars, and shoehorning. Clean-up thread is in progress

Main

Accidental Nightmare Fuel: At some point the constant arguments about the definition of this trope and of Nightmare Fuel were enough. Examples lockout due to continuous Trope Decay.
Administrivia: List of policies, locked to prevent unilateral changes.
Aliens Made Them Do It: A Sexual Harassment And Rape Trope locked to keep it clean as examples drifted into creepiness.
All Gays Are Pedophiles: Preemptive lock to prevent paedophilia apologism.
Anatomically Impossible Sex: Examples lockout.
Ask The Tropers: This page is an auto-redirect; the old markup does not need to be edited.
Badass Gay: The Badass tropes cleanup thread decided Badass Gay wasn't actually a trope, too broad, and being listed in any work that had a gay badass character despite the old description specifically requiring it to be addressed in the work itself. It was turned into a disambiguation to keep the inbounds, and was locked after multiple unilateral attempts to revert the page to its former trope state.
Bad Writing Index: An index about tropes generally associated with poor writing. It eventually became an index for Complaining About Tropes You Don't Like, even though the index itself said that the tropes listed aren't inherently negative or always the result of bad writing. As such, the index was renamed to Writing Pitfall Index, the old name was turned into a redirect for the new name, and both were locked, with any potential new tropes to be vetted.
Bara: Enforcing a reduction in anime jargon.
Bara Genre: Per Five P, as we don't want an index here.
Base Breaker: People keep trying to reverse the Example Sectionectomy.
Base-Breaking Character: Carrying over the lock on the original name, Base Breaker. Examples were locked out at Base Breaker after repeated restoration of the examples.
Bishoujo: Enforcing a reduction of anime jargon.
Black Bra and Panties: Page was restored after being cut for advertiser complaints. Safety feature to prevent any trouble.
Eye colours: To keep people from trying to stealth add more not tropes that just point out a character's eye colour and otherwise do nothing.
- Black Eyes
- Blue Eyes
- Brown Eyes
Comedic Lolicon: The previous pages "lolicon" and "shotacon" had their examples cut and were locked due to nebulous legality in English-speaking countries and issues with advertisers. The two follow up pages were locked to avoid similar problems, as was Laconic.Comedic Lolicon.
Compensated Dating: Issues with advertisers. Unlike the other pages which had this problem, however, there is no examples lockout.
Complete Monster: Keeps getting edited to play with the definition even though we agreed to leave it alone and put examples in the subpages.
Confirmed YKTS: Archive page.
Contributor Announcements: Was formerly a page where tropers made announcements. Now we use the fora for this purpose.
Creator Bashing: Was initially created to support complaining against creators, then changed by the admins to be against it. It was changed into a redirect for Complaining About Shows You Don't Like, as it was considered redundant to the latter.
Creator's Pet: The main article is for definition only, and is locked to prevent changes to it. Add examples in the subpages; any change to the definition must be discussed in the forum thread.
Cult Classic: Given an Example Sectionectomy; locked to enforce it.
Dandere: Keeps attracting examples despite the posted examples lockout. The page defines the Fanspeak term. For the broader trope and examples from media, see Shrinking Violet and Sugar-and-Ice Personality.
Dominatrix: Examples lockout after issues with advertisers.
Double Standard: Attracted excessive amounts of complaining about the topic as well as heated debates and soapboxing over feminism.
Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male: Flame Bait induced from being a Rape-related trope.
Edit War: To prevent any self-demonstration.
Emo Teen: The definition is broad and subjective, and the term "Emo" itself is heavily stigmatized. Examples also attracted character bashing and natter.
Ephebophile: Examples lockout.
Euroshlock: The topic is controversial. Was autolocked when cut; reinstating the lock as it was never lifted
Evil Overlord List and subpages: The original edition is final due to it being from another website. Our extensions are open.
- Evil Overlord List
- Evil Overlord List Cellblock A
- Evil Overlord List Cellblock B
False Rape Accusation: Flame Bait. The YKTTW of this trope attracted heated debate, so this page was launched with a lock on it. The very touchy nature of this trope would just attract flame wars.
Family Friendly: No reason for anybody to edit this, it's a hardcoded redirect anyway.
Fetish: Examples lockout after issues with advertisers, also the title is a problem.
Fetish Fuel: The original lock was because of confusion about which is the index, but was later maintained to uphold an examples lockout. The examples often got out of Family Friendly territory way too easily. Previous examples were moved into an off-site wiki.
Fetish-Fuel Future: Emergency Example Sectionectomy after issues with advertisers and to remove prurient content.
Five-Man Band: Was locked due to rampant misuse.
Flame Bait: Page assigns the Flame Bait banner, which needs to be restricted to prevent abuse.
Geek: Attracts bloat and definition drift.
Girl Love: To enforce a reduction in anime jargon.
Girls' Love: To enforce a reduction in anime jargon.
Gorn: Enforcing no examples as they were creepy.
Gratuitous Rape: Flame Bait induced from being a Rape-related trope.
Griefer: Real life examples lockout to prevent it from becoming a Self-Demonstrating Article.
Hachimaki: Presumably to enforce the name change to Martial Arts Headband.
Hadaka Apron: Presumably to enforce the name change to Naked Apron.
Haiku-Wiki: Now autoindexing.
Hazel Eyes: Part of the eye cleanup.
Hello Boys: Sex Sells clone, awful title.
Hentai: Examples and index lockout as part of the site's No Lewdness policy.
Heroic Sociopath: Attracted massive Trope Decay. The disambiguation was kept to take the inbounds, but the title was redlinked to discourage any more wicking.
Het: Original version had a digression about fandoms and opinions about the trope that left little for the actual description. Locked to keep its readable state and also to preserve the funny aspects, which people kept removing.
High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The trope invited constant arguments about its definition, until someday in 2012 enough was enough.
Hollywood Tactics: Locked due to persisting Natter problems despite there being a huge warning against it.
Home Page: The home page used to attract vandalism; not it's only meant to contain a forced redirect.
Horny Devils: One of the Sexual Harassment and Rape Tropes locked to keep it clean.
Hot Dad: As per Hot Mom.
Hot Mom: People are consistently unable to understand that this must be In-Universe only. It was eventually made a disambiguation page.
I Am Not Making This Up Discussion: Meant to be an archive.
If You Know What I Mean: The old name for Lampshaded Double Entendre. Was made a deliberate redlink due to tropers potholing their own double entendres to the page.
Image Links Wiki: Autoindexing now.
Incredibly Lame Pun: Page is a redirect for a reason; if it were disambiguated lots of people would waste time cleaning the wicks when there never was consensus to do so.
Index-Index: No reason for anybody to edit this page as it's an automated redirect.
Internet Backdraftinvoked: Was turned into a Flame Bait Definition Only Page due to being used for complaining. Locked to enforce the definition and Example Sectionectomy.
Internet Counterattack: Edit warring over the Zoe Quinn debacle.
Internet Tough Guy: Examples were locked out when this was still an independent trope because most of the old examples were used to complain about people on the internet by latching onto any slightly mean thing they said.
It Gets Worse: Was locked to preserve faux-redlink.
It Got Worse: Was locked to preserve faux-redlink.
It Just Bugs Me!: Locked during the rename to Headscratchers, recreated just to explain the history of the term.
It Was His Sled: Examples lockout to prevent accidental spoilerage when people add spoilers that don't qualify for the trope.
Justice League: Main disambig, locked to prevent accidental editing.
Kuudere: Examples lockout and to enforce a reduction in the use of Anime jargon. The page defines the Fanspeak term. For the broader trope and examples from media, see Sugar-and-Ice Personality.
Laconic Wiki: The indexes were too big to be on a editable wiki page and not crash the server, but locking the page would not let the index update. Instead, there is a link to a non wiki page that lists every page with the corresponding namespace.
Lolicon: The previous pages "lolicon" and "shotacon" had their examples cut and were locked due to nebulous legality in English-speaking countries and issues with advertisers.
Lolicon and Shotacon: The previous pages "lolicon" and "shotacon" had their examples cut and were locked due to nebulous legality in English-speaking countries and issues with advertisers. The two follow up pages were locked to avoid similar problems, as was Laconic.Comedic Lolicon.
Lolita: Page was autolocked when cut, lock was kept after restoration; reinstating.
Magnificent Bastard: Requested by the cleanup thread.
Mary Sue: Edit wars over attempts to rewrite the incredibly complicated definition.
Memetic Sex God: No longer considered to be tropable. The discussion attracted significant controversy, thus the page was locked to prevent arbitrary attempts at reversing the outcome.
Naughty Tentacles: Locked after a first cut in 2012, still locked to prevent any restoration of creepy content.
Netorare: To enforce a reduction in anime jargon.
No. Just... No: Originally created for a character's reaction to a Squicky moment, it got misused as a pothole for editors inserting their own reaction to what was in the example. In-Universe examples were moved to "No. Just... No" Reaction. While redlinked, this is still used as a redirect to the new article to keep appropriate links and remove unnecessary wicks.
"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: One of the Sexual Harassment and Rape Tropes locked to keep it clean.
Orwellian Editor: Before the redirecting, the examples ignored the definition; bile and Take Thats aimed at any moderation at all.
Pædo Hunt: Description turned into an essay about paedophilia, which drew unwanted real-life examples and threatened to turn it into the same anti-persecution tract that forced us to change its name from All Pedophiles Are Child Molesters.
Panty Shot: Examples lockout due to creepy content.
Parabombing: Before it was redirected, the temptation was great to make it a Self-Demonstrating Article, spoiling the purpose of the page.
Pink Bishōjo Ghetto: Locked pending rework as it was unduly anime specific. Was later renamed but the redirect is still locked.
Political Correctness Gone Mad: A disambiguation page that attracted drama and edit warring before it was split, and was kept locked as a precaution.
- Political Correctness, Political Correctness Run Amuck, and Politically Correct: Redirects to the Political Correctness Gone Mad disambiguation page; locked as a precaution.
Political Correctness Is Evil: Split from Political Correctness Gone Mad's Trope Repair Shop thread. Locked to prevent the drama and edit warring seen with the original page.
- Political Correctness Is Bad: A redirect to Political Correctness Is Evil; locked as a precaution.
Political Overcorrectness: Split from Political Correctness Gone Mad's Trope Repair Shop thread. Locked to prevent the drama and edit warring seen with the original page.
- Political Correctness Gag and Political Hypercorrection: Redirects to Political Overcorrectness; locked as a precaution.
Pot Hole: Didn't work as a Self-Demonstrating Article, but kept getting edited to be one.
Program Entry Template: Instruction page that is locked for the same reason as pages in the Administrivia namespace.
Protection from Editors: Attracts drama and edit warring.
Ptitle: Some kind of artifact of the old system that keeps directing page creation to this article.
Punctuated Titles: Archive page that documents the pre-2011 method to make punctuated titles.
Query Bugs: No reason for anybody to edit this as it's a hardcoded redirect.
Query Wishlist: No reason for anybody to edit this as it's a hardcoded redirect.
Quotes Wiki: The indexes were too big to be on a editable wiki page and not crash the server, but locking the page would not let the index update. Instead, there is a link to a non wiki page that lists every page with the corresponding namespace.
Rape as Drama: Vandal target. As a rape trope, locking was an obvious solution.
Rape Discretion Shot: As part of the rape trope cleanup.
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: One of the Sexual Harassment and Rape Tropes locked to keep it clean.
Real Life: Usual problem with people running the joke way into the ground.
Recursion: People keep editing this to turn it into a circular redirect or remove the description. Enough is enough.
Search Wiki: Formerly a link to an inbuilt search function.
Sekaikei Genre: To enforce a reduction in anime jargon.
Sex Slave: Precautionary lock to prevent the infiltration of controversial material.
Shock Site: Examples lockout. We don't need such things posted here.
Shōjo: To enforce a reduction in anime jargon.
Shōnen: To enforce a reduction in anime jargon.
Shotacon: As per Lolicon.
Sideboob: Was restored after examples cut.
Snark Baitinvoked: Facilitated too much complaining, and was turned into a Flame Bait Definition Only Page.
Snuff Film: To enforce the examples lockout. Nowadays only fictional examples are allowed.
Sorry, I Left the BGM On: To enforce a name change.
Spikeification: To enforce a name change, on pain of banning.
Squick: Examples brought constant natter and This Troper, plus we really don't need a page of gross stuff. Also, having examples here is somewhat pointless, considering we have Disgust Tropes, and a character's reaction will often be similar to the audience's reaction.
"Stop Having Fun" Guys: Examples lockout due to arguments over content and trope definition. Considering that the trope is more based around personal experiences, the discussion tab is more fitting for examples.
Tech Fu: Formerly described Gadgeteer Genius and Mad Scientist. The page is still there to define it as fan speak.
The Art of Bra Removal: Page was restored after being cut for advertiser complaints. Safety feature to prevent any trouble.
The Chick: Edit Warring and constant rewrites to try to make it about feminism rather than the character type.
The Contributors: Page is supposed to be a hardcoded redirect.
The Fundamentalist: Refusal to allow atheists to be included as fundamentalist, discussion over including fanaticism. Repeatedly reverted moderator and admin edits.
The New '20s: Premature judgments on the entire decade from just one year did not stop, leading to the page being locked and cut until significantly more of the decade has passed.
The World's Breast Tropes: An index categorizing various breast tropes. Originally located at Keep Abreast Of This Index, it was cut during the initial 5P purge, but was much later recreated here. It's still locked to stop any potential trouble with the content policy.
This Troper: Attempts to make it self-demonstrating that undermine the point behind the article, as well as attempts to rewrite the definition out of a misguided belief that saying it's okay on that page will suddenly change the prevailing attitude. Its use in the first-person is not wanted.
Trope Entry Template: Instruction page locked for the same reason as Administrivia pages.
Trope Finder: No reason for anybody to edit this page as it's a hardcoded redirect.
Trope Launch Pad: No reason for anybody to edit this page as it's a hardcoded redirect.
Troper Demographics: Contained too many characters and started crashing the server; besides, the table was inaccurate from selection bias anyway. The list was replaced with simply a demographic picture from Google Analytics.
Troper Tales: Finalizing the current information on the page.
Tropes: Attracted vandalism.
True Art Is Incomprehensible: Multiple rewrites which got away from the actual meaning and towards insulting individual artists. Received an Example Sectionectomy.
TV Tropes: Presumably to enforce a redirect to Home Page.
Underboobs: Restoration after cut for having overly creepy content.
United We Chant: Enforcing non-dialog titles.
Unpleasable Fanbase: Examples lockout as it attracted complaining. The page was getting way too big with both examples and constant natter. Considering that the trope is more based around personal experiences, the discussion tab is more fitting for examples.
What Measure Is a Non-Unique?: Presumably to enforce the name change to Uniqueness Value.
Why am I banned?: No reason for anyone to edit this.
Wiki Vandal: Obvious vandalism magnet.
Wild Mass Guessing: People keep crufting it up with unnecessary junk.
Word Cruft: Policy page.
Writer Bashing: Policy page that was changed into a redirect for Complaining About Shows You Don't Like, as it was considered redundant to the latter.
Writing Pitfall Index: An index about tropes generally associated with poor writing. Originally located at Bad Writing Index, it eventually became an index for Complaining About Tropes You Don't Like, even though the index itself said that the tropes listed aren't inherently negative or always the result of bad writing. As such, the index was renamed to Writing Pitfall Index, the old name was turned into a redirect for the new name, and both were locked, with any potential new tropes to be vetted.
Xanatos Roulette: Enforcing name chnage.
Yes, but What Does Zataproximetacine DO?: Presumably to enforce the name change to Side-Effects Include..., although that page was also locked in the past due to "Edit warring about over-long gag".
Yiff: Locked under the content policy.
YKTTW: No need for anyone to edit this, as it's supposed to be a hardcoded redirect.
YMMV: The former index of YMMV tropes. The index was eventually moved to YMMV.Home Page, with the former location being locked and turned into a disambig for the new index location and Love It or Hate It, which used to be named Your Mileage May Vary.
You Know That Show: No need for anyone to edit this, as it's supposed to be a hardcoded redirect.
You Know That Thing Where: No need for anyone to edit this, as it's supposed to be a hardcoded redirect.

Manga

Manga.Lychee Light Club: Was formerly cut and thus autolocked, then restored by 5P which kept the lock under the name Litchi Hikari Club.

Monster

The subpages of Complete Monster get cleaned and locked to prevent further natter, edit wars, and shoehorning; unless specified otherwise, if a subpage is locked, it's for that reason.

Never Live It Down

NeverLiveItDown.Star Wars: Undergoing various edit wars and complaining/misuse. At the very least, a temporary lock to give a good hearty sweep of bad examples. Clean-up thread here.

Newsletter

Nightmare Fuel

NightmareFuel.Gen Lock: Frequent misuse and edit warring over changes made by the cleanup thread.
NightmareFuel.Lilys Poke Madhouse: Getting caught up in Lily Orchard-related disputes.
NightmareFuel.RWBY: Attracted rampant misuse, to the point where most "examples" were simply descriptions of scenes without any detail on why anything in it was actually scary, and any attempt to clean up the page repeatedly resulted in the edits being reverted. Locked to give the cleanup thread a break.
NightmareFuel.Sonichu: Enough with the endless wonking about the comic's author. We don't want any discussion of her here.
NightmareFuel.Super Smash Bros Ultimate: Per request of the Nightmare Fuel cleanup thread due to persistent shoehorning.

OTT

OTT.Transcript One: Part of a project by the former site owner.
OTT.Transcript Two: Part of a project by the former site owner.
OTT.Transcript Three: Part of a project by the former site owner.

Quotes

Quotes.Cold War: Locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War.
Quotes.Complete Monster: To curb misuse.
Quotes.Magnificent Bastard: Request in the locked pages thread. Pages related to Magnificent Bastard are getting cleaned and locked to prevent further natter, edit wars, and shoehorning. Clean-up thread is in progress.
Quotes.The New Russia: Locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War.
Quotes.Russia: Locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War.
Quotes.Sonichu: Enough with the endless wonking about the comic's author. We don't want any discussion of her here.

Sliding Scale

SlidingScale.Home Page: Locked because the creation of new sliding scales is discouraged.

Sugar Wiki

Crowning Moment of X pages: Locked a long time ago, presumably due the controversy that accompanied the renames of the "Crowning Moment of X" tropes into "X Moments" and/or in order to enforce said renames.
SugarWiki.People Letting All Trope Titles Exist Relishably: All articles on TABLE are under Wiki Talk review.

Tabletop Game

TabletopGame.FATAL: Trimmed down and locked under content policy. Pervasive objectionable content and confusing math.

Talk

Namespace was retired long ago, all leftover pages are supposed to be archives.

That One Boss

ThatOneBoss.Pokemon: Persistent shoehorning and attracted a lot of Natter and Walkthrough Mode. Locking was requested in a cleanup thread.

Trivia

Trivia.Lilys Poke Madhouse: Getting caught up in Lily Orchard-related disputes.
Trivia.Mumkey Jones: Attracting vandalizing fanbase.
Trivia.Sonichu: Inevitably attracted personal life troping after a controversial real life incident.
Trivia.The Red Pill: Content inviting edit wars.
Trivia.You Can Play This: Posthumous controversy about its creator.

Tropers

Some pages in the Tropers/ namespace are locked because while the namespace is automatically locked, the "locked page" icon automatically links to the edit requests forum thread through this page.

Useful Notes

UsefulNotes.Adolf Hitler: Controversial image caption change, and potential for controversial edits in general.
UsefulNotes.Asperger Syndrome: Bloating up. The subject has been covered.
UsefulNotes.Autism: Locked to prevent biased editing following a content dispute.
UsefulNotes.Bay Of Pigs Invasion: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Black Lives Matter Movement: Targeted with racially-charged edits.
UsefulNotes.The Chechnya Wars: Temporarily locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War
UsefulNotes.Christianity Discussion Archive: Archive page.
UsefulNotes.Cold War: Temporarily locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War
UsefulNotes.Donald Trump: Too much bashing of the real person.
UsefulNotes.The European Union: Temporarily locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War
UsefulNotes.From Russia With Nukes: Temporarily locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War
UsefulNotes.The Glorious Federal Subjects: Temporarily locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War
UsefulNotes.High Functioning Autism: Edit warring. The parties involved hashed out wording they all agreed was acceptable if not ideal. Locking to prevent further warring by new combatants. It's a Useful Notes page, it shouldn't need constant updating like a trope or work page.
UsefulNotes.Hillary Rodham Clinton: Flame Bait target
UsefulNotes.History Of The Cold War:Temporarily locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War
UsefulNotes.Kievan Rus: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Microsoft Windows: Pre-emptive lock to prevent trolling that got Microsoft itself put on the PRLC.
UsefulNotes.Mormonism: Concerns about warring points of view and/or whitewashing.
UsefulNotes.Moscow: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Moscow Centre: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Moscow Metro: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.NATO: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.The New Russia: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.The New Twenties: Premature judgments on the entire decade from just one year did not stop, leading to a vote that requested a lock.
UsefulNotes.Osama Bin Laden: As you could imagine, it quickly turned into arguments and political Flame Bait, as well as attracting edit warring.
UsefulNotes.Other Russian Towns And Cities:Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Polish Soviet War: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Red October: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Reds With Rockets: Locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Republic Of Artsakh: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Romanovs And Revolutions: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Russia: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Russian Heads Of State: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Russo Japanese War: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Russian Political System: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Russians With Rifles: Temporarily locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Russians With Rusting Rockets: Locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Saint Petersburg: Temporarily locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War.
UsefulNotes.Soviet Invasion Of Afghanistan: Temporarily locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War.
UsefulNotes.Soviet Russia Ukraine And So On: Temporarily locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War.
UsefulNotes.Spell Our Name With A Po:Temporarily locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War.
UsefulNotes.Tsarist Russia: Temporarily locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War.
UsefulNotes.Ukraine: Temporarily locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War.
UsefulNotes.Ukrainians With Depleted Uranium: Locked to prevent premature analysis on the Ukraine war.
UsefulNotes.Vladimir Putin: Temporarily locked to prevent edits related to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War.

Video Game

VideoGame.Final Fantasy VII: Frequent target for Shipping-related Edit Wars.
VideoGame.Rance Quest: To enforce the Five P decision which established a redirect instead of a dedicated work page.
VideoGame.Sengoku Rance: To enforce the Five P decision which established a redirect instead of a dedicated work page.

Visual Novel

VisualNovel.Saya No Uta: Was cut by Five P, but then they decided to recreate it. Locked to prevent further trouble with the Content Policy.

Webcomic

Webcomic.Asperchu: As a satire of the life of Sonichu's author, it had the same problems as the comic i.e it kept attracting bile. Page now has a cleaned-up description and trope list, but was left locked until further notice in 2010.
Webcomic.Lilys Poke Madhouse: Getting caught up in Lily Orchard-related disputes.
Webcomic.Sonichu: Got way too focused on its creator to a personal, hostile level, to the exclusion of the comic itself. The examples have been edited to just focus on the comic.
Webcomic.The Easy Breather: Locked to stop an edit war between the webcomic's author, fans and haters, and because of pervasive nudity in the strip itself.

Website

Website.Four Chan: Locked for safety reasons; its creation was long postponed because of the site's controversial nature.
Website.Literotica: Locked under the content policy.
Website.Something Awful: Troll target.
Website.Space Monkey Mafia Studios: Edit warring over the Isaac Baranoff entry, appears to be a drama magnet.
Website.The Fanfiction Forum: Judging by the discussion page, Flame and Edit Wars.
Website.Tumblr: Lots of bitching about real people doing stupid stuff.

Web Video

WebVideo.Mumkey Jones: Attracting vandalizing fanbase.
WebVideo.The Amazing Atheist: Too much arguing and controversial shit-stirring over his controversial opinions.
WebVideo.You Can Play This: Posthumous controversy about its creator.

Western Animation

WesternAnimation.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: The work page is locked due to it being a persistent vandalism target.

What An Idiot

WhatAnIdiot.Star Wars: Undergoing various edit wars and complaining/misuse. At the very least, a temporary lock to give a good hearty sweep of bad examples. Clean-up thread here.

Wiki Sandbox

WikiSandbox.OTT: Technical issues with the markup on the page.

WMG

WMG.Home Page: Presumably to enforce the redirection.
WMG.Poison Oak Epileptic Trees Archive: Archive.
WMG.Poison Oak Epileptic Trees Archive Two: Archive.
WMG.Real Life Archive One: Archive.
WMG.Real Life Archive Two: Archive.

YMMV

YMMV.Death Battle: Excessive complaining and flame wars, resulting in an overwhelming consensus to lock.
YMMV.Fifty Shades Of Grey: Restored after cut. Most of the book's notoriety comes from its pornographic content. Locked to prevent creepiness.
YMMV.Final Fantasy VII: Frequent target for Shipping-related Edit Wars.
YMMV.Its A Dangerous Business Going Out Your Door: Author is internet-infamous and politically flammable, leading to a preemptive lock request.
YMMV.Lily Orchard: Locked for troping the creator and excessive opinionating that drew drama. The page was originally at YMMV.Lily Peet.
YMMV.Lilys Poke Madhouse: Getting caught up in Lily Orchard-related disputes.
YMMV.Mumkey Jones: Attracting vandalizing fanbase.
YMMV.Pokemon Scarlet And Violet: Temporarily locked until the games are officially released in order to prevent knee jerk reactions and shoehorns.
YMMV.Sonichu: Given the hate for the main page, this one is also an easy target.
YMMV.The Amazing Atheist: Became about him, not his work.
YMMV.The Bible: Chronic edit war over Trope definitions and proper page tone and perspective, no doubt due to the subject matter.
YMMV.The Red Pill: Content inviting edit wars.
YMMV.The Quran: Locked to die to being a potential flame target.
YMMV.Santa Inc: Frequent target of complaining.
YMMV.You Can Play This: Posthumous controversy about its creator.

You Know That Show

Former subpages of You Know That Show are kept around only as archives.

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