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Is an article beingdesecrated repeatedly at an alarming rate? Is it the subject of heavy debate andconstant changes? In either case, if these become too much of a problem, then you've probably got a page that needs to be locked by an administrator or moderator until such unproductive tendencies are resolved (which, sadly, almost never happens). This can be a depressing sight on any wiki when a page is in need ofWiki Magic (or attention fromgrammaticians) — the best option is to try keeping things productive so administrators have to do this as little as possible.
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Administrivia
Pages in theAdministrivia/ namespace are meant to guide tropers on how to go about editing on the wiki. As such, the pages themselves have no need of examples or definition-tweaking. All pages except for a handful of exceptions (mostly ones related to maintenance instead of policy) must be locked to prevent either from happening.
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Archive
Administrivia.Wiki Archives contains the full list of pages in the Archive namespace. All archive pages are locked and will not be edited for anything. That's why they're archives. As such, do not request edits to these pages; such requests will not be honored.
Awesome
Characters
Comic Book
Creator
Curb Stomp Battle
Darth Wiki
Fanfic
- Fanfic.The Sith Resurgence: The page is locked because the author encouraged her followers to edit her fanfic pages to her liking.
Fanfic Recs
Film
Funny
Haiku
- Haiku.Sonichu: Locked due to persistent troping of the creator's personal life.
Harsher In Hindsight
Headscratchers
Heartwarming
Image Links
Just For Fun
- JustForFun.Chekovs Gun: Lock was carried over fromChekovs Gun, which was locked because people who didn't get the joke tried to "correct" it.
- JustForFun.Television Is Trying To Kill Us: Even after being moved toJust for Fun, the page kept attracting diatribes and complaining, culminating into politico-social soapboxing.
- JustForFun.TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life: People used to add crap that denigrated the wiki when it was in Main/.
- JustForFun.The Archive Of Bellicose Lexicon Entities: It was a series of articles listing tropers accordingly to their visions on trope naming, images, example lists and the like. Since it was determined that these articles, rather than serving their purpose as fun places for like-minded tropers to associate, were inspiring antagonism and factionalism among our user base, they have been discontinued and all of them now redirect back to that index, which now remains as a means of defining the acronyms only, and is locked to prevent tropers from listing themselves on one of those categories, which they can simply do through their userpages anyway.
Laconic
Literature
Magazine
Magnificent Bastard
Pages related to
Magnificent Bastard are getting cleaned and locked to prevent further natter, edit wars, and shoehorning.
Main
- Accidental Nightmare Fuel: At some point the constant arguments about the definition of this trope and ofNightmare Fuel were enough. Examples lockout due to continuousTrope Decay.
- Administrivia: List of policies, locked to prevent unilateral changes.
- Aliens Made Them Do It: ASexual Harassment And Rape Trope locked to keep it clean as examples drifted into creepiness.
- All Gays Are Pedophiles: Preemptive lock to prevent paedophilia apologism.
- Anatomically Impossible Sex: Examples lockout.
- Ask The Tropers: This page is an auto-redirect; the old markup does not need to be edited.
- Badass Gay: TheBadass tropes cleanup thread decidedBadass Gay wasn't actually a trope, too broad, and being listed in any work that had a gay badass character despite the old description specifically requiring it to be addressed in the work itself. It was turned into a disambiguation to keep the inbounds, and was locked after multiple unilateral attempts to revert the page to its former trope state.
- Badass Israeli: Locked to prevent agenda-based editing.
- Bad Writing Index: The previous name for theWriting Pitfall Index. Locked after it was turned into a redirect for the new name to prevent its restoration, along with the new name being locked and any potential new tropes having to be vetted.
- Bara: Enforcing a reduction in anime jargon.
- Base Breaker: People keep trying to reverse the Example Sectionectomy.
- Base-Breaking Character: Carrying over the lock on the original name,Base Breaker. Examples were locked out atBase Breaker after repeated restoration of the examples.
- Bishoujo: Enforcing a reduction of anime jargon.
- Black Bra and Panties: Page was restored after being cut for advertiser complaints. Safety feature to prevent any trouble.
- Eye colours: To keep people from trying to stealth add more not tropes that just point out a character's eye colour and otherwise do nothing.
- Black Eyes: To keep people from trying to stealth add more not tropes that just point out a character's eye colour and otherwise do nothing.
- Blue Eyes: To keep people from trying to stealth add more not tropes that just point out a character's eye colour and otherwise do nothing.
- Brown Eyes: To keep people from trying to stealth add more not tropes that just point out a character's eye colour and otherwise do nothing.
- Circular Redirect: The page redirects to itself as a joke, and has been locked to prevent people from breaking the redirect, since the fact that the software no longer allows making circular redirects means remaking it wouldn't be possible.
- Comedic Lolicon: The previous pages "lolicon" and "shotacon" had their examples cut and were locked due to nebulous legality in English-speaking countries and issues with advertisers. The two follow up pages were locked to avoid similar problems, as wasLaconic.Comedic Lolicon.
- Complete Monster: Keeps getting edited to play with the definition even though we agreed to leave it alone and put examples in the subpages.
- Confirmed YKTS: Archive. No reason to edit it.
- Contributor Announcements: Was formerly a page where tropers made announcements. Now we use thefora for this purpose.
- Creator Bashing: Was initially created to support complaining against creators, then changed by the admins to be against it. It was changed into a redirect forComplaining About Shows You Don't Like, as it was considered redundant to the latter.
- Creator's Pet: The main article is for definition only, and is locked to prevent changes to it. Add examples in the subpages; any change to the definition must be discussed in theforum thread.
- Cult Classic: Given anExample Sectionectomy; locked to enforce it.
- Dandere: Keeps attracting examples despite the posted examples lockout. The page defines theFanspeak term. For the broader trope and examples from media, seeShrinking Violet andSugar-and-Ice Personality.
- Dominatrix: Examples lockout after issues with advertisers.
- Double Standard: Attracted excessive amounts of complaining about the topic as well as heated debates and soapboxing over feminism.
- Edit War: To prevent any self-demonstration.
- Ephebophile: Examples lockout.
- Euroshlock: The topic is controversial. Was autolocked when cut; reinstating the lock as it was never lifted
- Evil Overlord List and subpages: The original edition is final due to it being fromanother website. Ourextensions are open.
- False Rape Accusation:Flame Bait. TheTLP for this this trope attracted heated debate, so this page was launched with a lock on it. The very touchy nature of this trope would just attractflame wars.
- Family Friendly: No reason for anybody to edit this, it's a hardcoded redirect anyway.
- FAQ: Effectively an Administrivia page. Locked to prevent unilateral changes.
- Fetish: Examples lockout after issues with advertisers, also the title is a problem.
- Fetish Fuel: The original lock was because of confusion about which is the index, but was later maintained to uphold an examples lockout. The examples often got out ofFamily Friendly territory way too easily. Previous examples were moved into an off-site wiki, which itself eventually shut down.
- Fetish-Fuel Future: EmergencyExample Sectionectomy after issues with advertisers and to remove prurient content.
- Five-Man Band: Was locked due to rampant misuse.
- Flame Bait: Page assigns the Flame Bait banner, which needs to be restricted to prevent abuse.
- Geek: Attracts bloat and definition drift.
- Girl Love: To enforce a reduction in anime jargon.
- Girls' Love: To enforce a reduction in anime jargon.
- Gorn: Enforcing no examples as they were creepy.
- Gratuitous Rape:Flame Bait induced from being a Rape-related trope.
- Griefer: Real life examples lockout to prevent it from becoming aSelf-Demonstrating Article.
- Hadaka Apron: Presumably to enforce the name change toNaked Apron.
- Haiku-Wiki: Now autoindexing.
- Hazel Eyes: To keep people from trying to stealth add more not tropes that just point out a character's eye colour and otherwise do nothing.
- Hello Boys:Sex Sells clone, awful title.
- Hentai: Examples and index lockout as part of the site'sNo Lewdness policy.
- Heroic Sociopath: Attracted massiveTrope Decay. The disambiguation was kept to take the inbounds, but the title was redlinked to discourage any more wicking.
- Het: Original version had a digression about fandoms and opinions about the trope that left little for the actual description. Locked to keep its readable state and also to preserve the funny aspects, which people kept removing.
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The trope invited constant arguments about its definition, until someday in 2012 enough was enough.
- Hollywood Tactics: Locked due to persistingNatter problems despite there being a huge warning against it.
- Home Page: The home page used to attract vandalism; now it's only meant to contain a forced redirect.
- Hot Dad: People are consistently unable to understand that this must beIn-Universe only. It was eventually made a disambiguation page.
- Hot Mom: People are consistently unable to understand that this must beIn-Universe only. It was eventually made a disambiguation page.
- I Am Not Making This Up Discussion: Archive. No reason to edit it.
- Idiot Plot: Was turned into aFlame BaitDefinition Only Page due to being used for complaining. Locked to enforce the definition andExample Sectionectomy.
- If You Know What I Mean: The old name forLampshaded Double Entendre. Was made a deliberate redlink due to tropers potholing their own double entendres to the page.
- Image Links Wiki: Autoindexing now.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: Page is a redirect for a reason; if it were disambiguated lots of people would waste time cleaning the wicks when there never was consensus to do so.
- Index Index: No reason for anybody to edit this page as it's an automated redirect.
- Internet Backdraftinvoked: Was turned into aFlame BaitDefinition Only Page due to being used for complaining. Locked to enforce the definition andExample Sectionectomy.
- Internet Counterattack: To preventRule of Cautious Editing Judgment violations.
- Internet Tough Guy: Examples were locked out when this was still an independent trope because most of the old examples were used to complain about people on the internet by latching onto any slightly mean thing they said.
- It Gets Worse: Was locked to preserve faux-redlink.
- It Got Worse: Was locked to preserve faux-redlink.
- It Just Bugs Me!: Locked during the rename toHeadscratchers, recreated just to explain the history of the term.
- It Was His Sled: Examples lockout to prevent accidental spoilerage when people add spoilers that don't qualify for the trope.
- Known Troper: Effectively an Administrivia page. Locked to prevent unilateral changes.
- Kuudere: Examples lockout and to enforce a reduction in the use ofAnime jargon. The page defines theFanspeak term. For the broader trope and examples from media, seeSugar-and-Ice Personality.
- Laconic Wiki: The indexes were too big to be on a editable wiki page and not crash the server, but locking the page would not let the index update. Instead, there is a link to a non wiki page that lists every page with the corresponding namespace.
- LCD: Previously locked page, presumably when it was a redirect.
- Lolicon: The previous pages "lolicon" and "shotacon" had their examples cut and were locked due to nebulous legality in English-speaking countries and issues with advertisers.
- Lolicon and Shotacon: The previous pages "lolicon" and "shotacon" had their examples cut and were locked due to nebulous legality in English-speaking countries and issues with advertisers. The two follow up pages were locked to avoid similar problems, as wasLaconic.Comedic Lolicon.
- Lolita: Page was autolocked when cut, lock was kept after restoration; reinstating.
- Magnificent Bastard: Requested by tropers cleaning up the trope.
- Mary Sue: Edit wars over attempts to rewrite the incredibly complicated definition.
- Media Finder: No reason for anybody to edit this as it's a hardcoded redirect.
- Memetic Sex God: No longer considered to be tropable. The discussion attracted significant controversy, thus the page was locked to prevent arbitrary attempts at reversing the outcome.
- Naughty Tentacles: Locked after a first cut in 2012, still locked to prevent any restoration of creepy content.
- Netorare: To enforce a reduction in anime jargon.
- No. Just... No: Originally created for a character's reaction to aSquicky moment, it got misused as a pothole for editors inserting their own reaction to what was in the example.In-Universe examples were moved to"No. Just… No" Reaction. While redlinked, this is still used as a redirect to the new article to keep appropriate links and remove unnecessary wicks.
- "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: One of theSexual Harassment and Rape Tropes locked to keep it clean.
- Orwellian Editor: Before the redirecting, the examples ignored the definition; bile andTake Thats aimed at any moderation at all.
- Paedo Hunt: To preventFlame Bait about paedophilia from being added.
- Panty Shot: Examples lockout due to creepy content.
- Parabombing: Before it was redirected, the temptation was great to make it aSelf-Demonstrating Article, spoiling the purpose of the page.
- Pedophilia Is a Special Kind of Evil: Description of its previous namePaedo Hunt turned into an essay about paedophilia, which drew unwanted real-life examples and threatened to turn it into the same anti-persecution tract that forced us to cutAll Pedophiles Are Child Molesters.
- Pink Bishōjo Ghetto: Locked pending rework as it was unduly anime specific. Was later renamed but the redirect is still locked.
- Political Correctness Gone Mad: A disambiguation page that attracted drama and edit warring before it was split, and was kept locked as a precaution.
- Political Correctness Is Evil: Split fromPolitical Correctness Gone Mad'sTrope Repair Shop thread. Locked to prevent the drama and edit warring seen with the original page.
- Political Overcorrectness: Split fromPolitical Correctness Gone Mad'sTrope Repair Shop thread. Locked to prevent the drama and edit warring seen with the original page.
- Pot Hole: Didn't work as aSelf-Demonstrating Article, but kept getting edited to be one.
- Practically Joker: Disambiguation unilaterally reverted to its prior status as a trope; locked to prevent further reversion attempts.
- Program Entry Template: Instruction page that is locked for the same reason as pages in the Administrivia namespace.
- Protection from Editors: Attracts drama and edit warring.
- Ptitle: Some kind of artifact of the old system that keeps directing page creation to this article.
- Query Bugs: No reason for anybody to edit this as it's a hardcoded redirect.
- Query Wishlist: No reason for anybody to edit this as it's a hardcoded redirect.
- Quotes Wiki: The indexes were too big to be on a editable wiki page and not crash the server, but locking the page would not let the index update. Instead, there is a link to a non wiki page that lists every page with the corresponding namespace.
- Rape as Drama: Vandal target. As a rape trope, locking was an obvious solution.
- Rape Discretion Shot: As part of the rape trope cleanup.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: One of theSexual Harassment and Rape Tropes locked to keep it clean.
- Real Life: Converted to aDefinition-Only Page per TRS decision, with the previous "treat real life like a video game" joke page moved toJustForFun.Real Life; lock kept to enforce said decision.
- Recursion: People keep editing this to turn it into a circular redirect or remove the description. Enough is enough.
- Search Wiki: Formerly a link to an inbuilt search function.
- Sekaikei Genre: To enforce a reduction in anime jargon.
- Sex Slave: Precautionary lock to prevent the infiltration of controversial material.
- Shock Site: Examples lockout. We don't need such things posted here.
- Shōjo: To enforce a reduction in anime jargon.
- Shōnen: To enforce a reduction in anime jargon.
- Shotacon: As perLolicon.
- Snark Baitinvoked: Facilitated too much complaining, and was turned into aFlame BaitDefinition Only Page.
- Snuff Film: To enforce the examples lockout. Nowadays only fictional examples are allowed.
- Sorry, I Left the BGM On: To enforce a name change.
- Spikeification: To enforce a name change, on pain of banning.
- Squick: Examples brought constant natter andThis Troper, plus we really don't need a page of gross stuff. Also, having examples here is somewhat pointless, considering we haveDisgust Tropes, and a character's reaction will often be similar to the audience's reaction.
- "Stop Having Fun" Guys: Examples lockout due to arguments over content and trope definition.
- Tech Fu: Formerly describedGadgeteer Genius andMad Scientist. The page is still there to define it as fan speak.
- Tech Wishlist: No reason for anybody to edit this as it's a hardcoded redirect.
- The Art of Bra Removal: Page was restored after being cut for advertiser complaints. Safety feature to prevent any trouble.
- The Contributors: Page is supposed to be a hardcoded redirect.
- The Fundamentalist: Refusal to allow atheists to be included as fundamentalist, discussion over including fanaticism. Repeatedly reverted moderator and admin edits.
- The Sociopath: People go waaaay out of bounds with the description length.
- The Wiki Rule: Locked with examples removed because the page attractedZero Context Examples.
- This Troper: Attempts to make it self-demonstrating that undermine the point behind the article, as well as attempts to rewrite the definition out of a misguided belief that saying it's okay on that page will suddenly change the prevailing attitude. Its use in the first-person is not wanted.
- Trope Entry Template: Instruction page locked for the same reason as Administrivia pages.
- Trope Finder: No reason for anybody to edit this page as it's a hardcoded redirect.
- Trope Launch Pad: No reason for anybody to edit this page as it's a hardcoded redirect.
- Troper Demographics: Contained too many characters and started crashing the server; besides, the table was inaccurate from selection bias anyway. The list was replaced with simply a demographic picture from Google Analytics.
- Troper Tales: Finalizing the current information on the page.
- Tropes: Attracted vandalism.
- Tropes Are Tools: Redirect to locked Administrivia page. Locked to prevent unilateral changes.
- Trope Talk: Redirect. Effectively an Administrivia page. Locked to prevent unilateral changes.
- TV Tropes: To enforce a redirect toHome Page.
- United We Chant: Enforcing non-dialog titles.
- Unpleasable Fanbase: Examples lockout as it attracted complaining. The page was getting way too big with both examples and constant natter.
- What Measure Is a Non-Unique?: Presumably to enforce the name change toUniqueness Value.
- Why Am I Banned: No reason for anyone to edit this.
- Wiki Talk: Redirect. Effectively an Administrivia page. Locked to prevent unilateral changes.
- Wiki Vandal:Obvious vandalism magnet.
- Wild Mass Guessing: People keep crufting it up with unnecessary junk.
- Writer Bashing: Policy page that was changed into a redirect forComplaining About Shows You Don't Like, as it was considered redundant to the latter.
- Writing Pitfall Index: An index about tropes generally associated with poor writing. Originally located atBad Writing Index, it eventually became an index forComplaining About Tropes You Don't Like, even though the index itself said that the tropes listedaren't inherently negative or always the result of bad writing. As such, the index was renamed toWriting Pitfall Index, the old name was turned into a redirect for the new name, and both were locked, with any potential new tropes to be vetted.
- Xanatos Roulette: Enforcing name change.
- Yes, but What Does Zataproximetacine DO?: Presumably to enforce the name change toSide Effects Include..., although that page was also locked in the past due to "Edit warring about over-long gag".
- Yiff: Locked underThe Content Policy.
- YKTTW: No need for anyone to edit this, as it's supposed to be a hardcoded redirect.
- YMMV: The former index of YMMV tropes. The index was eventually moved toYMMV.Home Page, with the former location being locked and turned into a disambig for the new index location andLove It or Hate It, which used to be namedYour Mileage May Vary.
- You Know That Show: No need for anyone to edit this, as it's supposed to be a hardcoded redirect.
- You Know That Thing Where: No need for anyone to edit this, as it's supposed to be a hardcoded redirect.
Manga
- Manga.Lychee Light Club: Was formerly cut and thus autolocked, then restored by5P which kept the lock under the nameLitchi Hikari Club.
Monster
The subpages of
Complete Monster get cleaned and locked to prevent further natter, edit wars, and shoehorning; unless specified otherwise, if a subpage is locked, it's for that reason.
Newsletter
- Newsletters are not supposed to be edited after publication. SeeMain.Trope Report for the full list for the current incarnation of the newsletter, andArchive.Trope Report for the full list for the original run.
Nightmare Fuel
No Real Life
No Real Life Examples, Please! indexes are locked to prevent unilateral changes.
Previously, the NRLEP index was sorted by category; these are now redirects to the main page, but they have retained their locks to prevent unilateral changes.
OTT
Platform
Playing With
Quotes
Sugar Wiki
- SugarWiki.Crowning Moment Of Awesome: Locked a long time ago, presumably due the controversy that accompanied the renames of the "Crowning Moment of X" tropes into "X Moments" and/or in order to enforce said renames.
- SugarWiki.Crowning Moment Of Funny: Locked a long time ago, presumably due the controversy that accompanied the renames of the "Crowning Moment of X" tropes into "X Moments" and/or in order to enforce said renames.
- SugarWiki.Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming: Locked a long time ago, presumably due the controversy that accompanied the renames of the "Crowning Moment of X" tropes into "X Moments" and/or in order to enforce said renames.
Tabletop Game
- TabletopGame.FATAL: Trimmed down and locked under content policy. Pervasive objectionable content and confusing math.
Talk
Namespace was retired long ago, all leftover pages are supposed to be archives. As such, they are not to be edited.
That One Boss
Trivia
Tropers
Some pages in the Tropers/ namespace are locked because while the namespace is automatically locked, the "locked page" icon automatically links to the edit requests forum thread through this page.
Useful Notes
Video Game
Webcomic
- Webcomic.Asperchu: As a satire of the life ofSonichu's author, it had the same problems as the comic i.e it kept attracting bile. Page now has a cleaned-up description and trope list, but was left locked until further notice in 2010.
- Webcomic.Lilys Poke Madhouse: Getting caught up inLily Orchard-related disputes.
- Webcomic.Sinfest: Political drama importation.
- Webcomic.Sonichu: Gotway too focused on its creator to a personal, hostile level, to the exclusion of the comic itself. The examples have been edited to just focus on the comic.
- Webcomic.The Easy Breather: Locked to stop an edit war between the webcomic's author, fans and haters, and because of pervasive nudity in the strip itself.
Website
Web Video
Wiki Sandbox
WMG
YMMV
You Know That Show
Former subpages of
You Know That Show are kept around only as archives. As such, they are not to be edited.
