Please go through these pages first before posting here:
- Work Pages Are a Free Launch: Yes, you can go and make a work page for something by yourself. This thread will also cover work page subpages (Characters/, Recap/, etc.) and Creator/ pages.
- How to Create a Work's Page: The basics on work page making, covering most things from the needed URL to putting the final touches on it.
- How to Collect Tropes: A simple guide on filling out your work page's examples section.
- How to Write an Example: How to write a good trope entry and avoid site no-nos like Zero-Context Example and incorrect Example Indentation.
Now that you've read all that, welcome! Making pages for your favorite works and creators is fun, but we get that there's a learning curve, especially for new tropers. This thread is intended to help people new to work-page making, and can cover anything and everything you aren't sure about after reading the relevant Administrivias: whether or not an example passes wiki standards, if the formatting and layout of your page is all right, if the summary is comprehensible, or if the page has enough meat to stand by itself. Or simply if you need a second pair of eyes to take a look at your work.
Things that this thread is not:
- A place to request work pages to be made - This Is a Wiki; if you are familiar with the work, then you are the best person to make the page. This thread is intended to be a peer review of work pages that are in progress or newly finished. If you feel like a work deserves a page but can't go about making it yourself for whatever reason, please list it in List of Shows That Need Summary.
- For help with trope-making: see the Trope Idea Sounding Board
(for incipient ideas) and the TLP workstation thread (for existing drafts) for help on that.
- For image selection: you can generally go and put up an image of the work by yourself (go through How to Pick a Good Image first, though), but if you have two or more suggestions, pop by Image Pickin instead.
Now - post your babies (sandboxes, new pages, TLP drafts, etc).! We are here to help. :-)
Edited by Synchronicity on Jul 13th 2020 at 3:11:19 AM
Lots of coffee
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IDK how that happened — edited.
Edited by mightymewtron on Feb 27th 2022 at 5:46:32 AM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
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I think you wanted the Trope Report thread?
Got another work page WIP—this time for the upcoming game Neon White. How's it looking so far? The game has a pretty extensive demo out, so it's not as hard to avoid Speculative Troping as I was worried it would be. It is, however, hard to rely on my own memory for examples instead of just referring back to a script/lyrics constantly. 
Edit: I made the page!
Edited by Palindromee on Feb 28th 2022 at 5:19:55 AM
Trope-tan is here! ➯ my pronouns are ze/hir
I'm working on creating a page for TabletopGame.One Night Ultimate Werewolf. It's currently in Sandbox here. I'm having some trouble with the description, specifically what I can put after what I've currently got.
What do you feel should go after? I don't see much of basic gameplay in the description.
So, that's what was missing. Does it look better now?
That's much better.
Do you see any other places I can make improvements before I officially start the page?
Ultimate Super Villains folder is misspelled. Animal Superheroes should describe what the dog hero does. Otherwise, the page is good to go.
(she/her)
Don't forget to add foldercontrol.
Macron's notes
Okay, I have now made a last few adjustments, created the page, and sent the sandbox to the cut list. Wish me luck.
lmao
So I'm in the process of crosswicking examples for the Mechamato (to be made as Animation/Mechamato) series which I made in this sandbox which I intend to launch soon. (Crosswicking before launching a work page is permissible, right?)
I was considering to only launch it when news of the upcoming film, maybe a release date, would be announced, but it's been delayed for more than a year at this point due to the ongoing pandemic note . Must Release Date Change have a solid date for an example to be written for it?
I also put a few tropes at the bottom under headers to indicate which subpage each would fall under. I appreciate any feedback, thanks.
Correct, I have been linking to Mechamato (currently a redlink).
Edited by BlackFaithStar on Mar 5th 2022 at 8:00:33 PM
Pantheon Wick Cleaning
I'm helping!
Redlinking to works pages that don't exist yet is acceptable, yes. (You are crosswicking to the redlinked location of the future works page and not the sandbox, right? It seems obvious, but so do a lot of other newbie mistakes, so we're checking anyway.)
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
I have a protopage for the new NBC series That's My Jam up at my Sandbox.Herald Alberich. It has enough tropes to launch, but I built it around the game-show and other structural tropes I recognized, chiefly Golden Snitch. I don't have anything about the actual contestants or what they actually did in any of the aired episodes so far. I have Hulu access to go back and watch the episodes over again with an eye for tropes, but I don't really have time. It's quite different from the other works pages I've done, for Star Wars books.
Should I launch it and hope for Wiki Magic, or does it need work, d'you think?
~Palindromee: As-yet-unreleased works have an additional rule: since we aren't troping the actual work, but its promotional material, you have to cite the promotional material (eg. released posters, trailers, or video game demos) from which you gleaned the trope. See Creating a Work Page for an Upcoming Work.
I'm OK with the approach of just troping gameplay and production aspects, in the case of "live" works like game shows the line for troping real people gets a lot blurrier.
I tried making a Dumbsville page, but it didn't work out. I still want to try because I think he's funny and deserves a page to himself. Especially now that he's doing lore stuff
I think the needle swings back a little in this case because the contestants are exclusively celebrities appearing for charity. But ok, I’ll take it live as-is and keep on improving it as I get the chance. Thanks.
Another idea I have is Cartoon Cafe. They are charming crossover shorts set in a cafe.
Edited by Ponymations on Mar 5th 2022 at 5:38:41 AM
x5 How should I go about citing it? I asked about it in the Unreleased Works thread here, but since the demo is just the first campaign of the finished game (thus all content from the demo will be in the final game), should I make a distinction?
I would still cite to be on the safe side. You don't know for sure that they aren't modifying anything from the first leg right now.
^^^Umm...go ahead! Is there anything specific you want this thread's help with?
Edited by Synchronicity on Mar 5th 2022 at 8:04:25 AM
What does that look like? Would it be in edit reasons, or just appending "in the demo" to any details?
Trope-tan is here! ➯ my pronouns are ze/hir
I'm helping!
The example text should read something like "In the XYZ demo, ABC happens"
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.Do you have any tips on how could I keep that from getting repetitive, since every example would be from the demo?
Edited by Palindromee on Mar 5th 2022 at 12:03:05 PM
Trope-tan is here! ➯ my pronouns are ze/hir
Discovered #DRCL midnight children and ironically, it's the anniversary of that page's launch and it has 0 wicks (now 1 because I was editing the author's page). ~MagiaRomantica, a reminder that pages are supposed to be crosswicked and indexed, at least at Manga list. Dorachuu has the same issues. I also highly recommend reading Administrivia.Zero Context Example.
Considering Magia Romantica is not an active troper, I guess I'll have to add this to my TO-DO. I can do the indexing for now at least.
(I know there are crosswicking and ZCE threads, but this one felt most appropriate)
Edited by Amonimus on Feb 25th 2022 at 5:32:06 PM
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup