(Pronouns: he/him)
Troper Types (best fit): Between Trailblazer and Browser with a bit of Trope Editor.
(Note to self: When making a big edit, make sure you’ve gotten everything decided on and prepared before you even click the edit button.)
Editing Tips
Some of these are official, others are just my own guidelines. You're free to disagree with them (the rules as a whole or specific cases of them).
- Tropes should represent clear trends, or clear subtrends of other trends. Tropes that don't follow this rule tend to be People Sit on Chairs, Chairs Sit on People and/or The Same, but More Specific (or The Same, but More, for that matter).
- Don't use "trope" in trope titles (especially as a placeholder word) unless the trope is a Trope Trope. Otherwise, people might think the trope is actually a Trope Trope - the word “trope” has a specific meaning. Many tropes have been renamed for this reason.
- Don't use acronyms as titles or redirects unless it's part of a work's official title. For example, The O.C. (which stands for Orange County) is fine. But does just "OC" stand for Orange County, Original Character, or two dozen other things? Does SF stand for Science Fiction or San Francisco? Also, don't, for example, have JP as a redirect to Jurassic Park, for the same reasons.
- Similar to the last guideline, Short Titles should be avoided for trope titles, but not for work titles for obvious reasons. Stuff like IT, Elf, and Up are fine, but tropes like 555, BFG, and God aren't as much. Should they be renamed? Maybe, if there's anything suitable, but maybe not. However, we already have (for example) Number of the Beast instead of 666. Pages with extremely short titles are extremely hard to find (hence the page listing them) but shouldn't happen unless necessary.
- If a trope covers two different trends, there should be a clear connection between them.
- UPDATE THE RESPECTIVE IMAGE SOURCE PAGES EVERY TIME YOU ADD, CHANGE, OR REMOVE AN IMAGE.
- "X appears" is People Sit on Chairs; "X appears in a work that's not primarily about it" is still PSOC. A specific way of depicting the thing is or somesuch is more likely to be tropeworthy.
Works I Like
- Pretty much anything Pokémon-related
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Tolkien's Legendarium
- The Simpsons and Family Guy
- Calvin and Hobbes
- The Muppets and Sesame Street (who doesn’t?)
- MAD (even after they switched to mostly reprints, they can still take me on a tour of their long history)
- Back to the Future
- The Magic School Bus
- More to come.
