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war877 Since: Dec, 2015
2016-03-01 23:55:36

As best as I can tell, works are supposed to be added to the bottom of the lists, not the top. I would just move them all to the bottom of those lists.

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JapaneseTeeth Since: Jan, 2001
2016-03-02 07:55:43

The way I understand it, new entries go at the bottom of the example list for that media except in the following two situations:

1. The page is arranged in alphabetical order, in which case the example is placed according to that.

2. The new example is from a sequel to a work that has an existing entry on the page. I.e. if a page lists an example from BOOK, and you want to add an example from BOOK II, you could put the BOOK II example under the BOOK one instead of at the bottom so that all of the examples from the BOOK series are together on the page.

But other than that, yeah, it should go at the bottom, not the top.

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Candi Since: Aug, 2012
2016-03-02 08:37:50

And the answer to blatant self-promotion is, only on the troper's troper page. Anything else has to follow normal wiki guidelines, with a few extra restrictions on the creator editing the work page, such as no creating YMMV entries.

Entry-pimping or otherwise massively pushing a work you're a major fan of is also bad manners. From the tiniest work with three readers to Lord of the Rings the wiki policy needs to be follows.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
MaxwellDaring (Ten years in the joint)
2016-03-02 22:33:59

Mission accomplished! However, there are other problems. The WMG entries that mention the book are made to look like conversation, even though the page history clearly shows that the "conversation" was made in a single edit. In addition, it's in way too many genre indexes. Please tell me I can remove it from the Lit Fic page just based off of what I've seen in this editing trail.

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Kuruni (Long Runner)
2016-03-02 23:21:47

Mundane Solution. Delete them on ground of being natter.

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