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The way I usually do it is:
- Go to a pre-existing page, often by just hitting "Random Media".
- Manually change the URL to be what I need it to be;
- Hit "edit" on the blank page that ensues.
Or, you can just cut out the first step and make yourself a red-link to go to the blank page directly.
Either way, making pages relies on an understanding on the Namespace and Title system. If you want to make a page for a (hypothetical) show called The Adventures of Bob and Alice, you would make it under:
Series/TheAdventuresOfBobAndAlice
"Series" being the namespace (the work's medium).
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What page are you trying to make? Are you trying to make a new trope or make a page for a piece of media?
You need to write of the ulr. You go and type
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/(type
of work)/(title)
For example, if you want to to make a page for a fanfic, it goes
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/Title.
When you click on it, it'll lead you to a page. TV Tropes says that the page doesn't exist but you can make it.
You replace the "title" I put there with the actual title of the fic, written in typical trope format. For example, Fanfic/TheDimensionalDrifter. If it's an one-word title, you just put that. But ALWAYS capitalized.
(you can negate a link by putting [ = = ] (spaces removed). Editing if you want to add names like MacGonagal, which would become red links otherwise.)
Even in that page with the red letters, there should be an edit button. You press that and start writing whatever you want to. But before saving the page, you should add at least three tropes, because that's the minimum requirement.
Also, when editing there's an "Edit lock" timer that appears. That's not when the site will stop you from editing; that's for how long the site will stop others from interfering with your work and start editing over your edits. If you work alone on a page, don't pay the timer any heed.
Edited by Lermis Space Battles Dot Com fanworks (unnoficial) index in my Sandbox.
The Administrivia page didn't help.