The very first wiki page linked on any page, Tropes, is a bit messy. The first list is fine, but the second is a mish-mash tropes and non-tropes.

There's a comment stating "Check the four Main indexes and sub-indexes before adding a new index below" which suggests there isn't supposed to be redundancy with the sub-indicies. But as we'll find out, there is.

Here, I tried to sort them out, to better illustrate the trope relationships. This isn't an actual proposal for the final page, which I'll get to after this section.

Main Indexes:

• Genre Tropes
• Media Tropes
  • Wiki Tropes
• Narrative Tropes
• Topical Tropes
  • Information Desk
  • Show Business
    • Networks (also indexes creators)
  • Truth and Lies
    • Truth in Television (also indexed in Non-Fiction, The Shades of Fact)

Other Indexes (tropes):

• Formats
• Laws and Formulas
• Meta-Concepts
  • Lit. Class Tropes
    • Universal Tropes
  • The Oldest Ones in the Book (also indexed on Lit. Class Tropes)
  • Prop
    • Creator Speak
  • Trope Tropes
    • Forgotten Tropes
    • Omnipresent Tropes (also indexed on Lit. Class Tropes)
    • Overdosed Tropes
• Just for Fun
  • Snowclones
  • Tropes of Legend

Other Indexes (Not a Trope):

• Administrivia (cross-indexed with Sub Wiki) (Comment from 2015 or earlier states "Just so that this page appears on an index.", though it has several other indices now.)
  • The Contributors (no index visible)
  • Flame Bait (technically a trope index in Main, but it acts more as an Administrivia page)
  • Home Pages By Language
• Creators (indexed on Administrivia and Characters.Real Life)
• Fandom
• Genres
• Sub Wiki (cross-indexed with Administrivia)
  • Just for Fun
    • Trope Overdosed
  • Trivia
  • Useful Notes
  • Your Mileage May Vary (no index visible)
    • Audience Reactions
• Works (cross-indexed on Media; also indexed on Administrivia)
  • Derivative Works
  • Media (cross-indexed on Works)
  • Works by Subject
    • Books on Trope (also indexed on Non-Fiction)

OK, that's a lot to take in.

Besides removing deprecated pages, the index hasn't had any real changes since March 2017 as far as I could tell. In January 2017, a user also added many of the Not a Tropes listed there, going off What Goes Where on the Wiki, and removed a lot of Topical indexes.

My ideas for the tropes:

• Laws and Formulas and Meta-Concepts should be considered for the Main Indexes, because Tropes is still their only navigational index.
• Remove Information Desk. It's a little bit more specific than the other indices listed here, and already on Topical Tropes.
• Remove Forgotten Trope. It's an interesting page, but I don't think it's more important than other Trope Tropes.
• Remove Wiki Tropes and Networks, to avoid showing bias to certain kinds of media.

My ideas for Other Indexes (Not a Trope):

• Split this off from the actual tropes.
• Rework this into a "see also" section. A few important pages like Administrivia, Creators, Genres, Sub Wiki, Works could be linked here.

What do you think? What should be done to better sort the page?