UTW:Beginner's guide

If you are joining UnTrash Wiki for the first time or have problems understanding how the wiki works, this page is here to steer you in the right direction to keep you from doing something wrong and getting blocked, not knowing why.

The Very, Very Basic Rudiments of UnTrash Wiki
UnTrash Wiki, at its core, is a website about fiction and the roles, troupes, plots, and other various things within it. Inspired by TV Troupes, UnTrash Wiki strives to cover as many of these fictional elements as possible in a way simple enough for a newcomer to grasp without having to read twenty other pages just to understand one. To make reading more interesting, it also uses examples from real-life franchises to further help its readers understand the world of fiction.

How To Edit On UnTrash Wiki
If you'd like to help UnTrash Wiki grow by becoming one of its editors, then you can start by choosing what type of page you'd like to edit. Read the sections below about the types of pages there are on UnTrash Wiki to know how they work and what writing them is expected to be like.

UnTrash pages
"UnTrash" is a name given to troupes in media, meaning books, video games, anime, TV shows, and so on. An example of an UnTrash is All Just A Dream. This page is the model page for future written pages, being complete in almost every way: applied slidetext, a lengthy definition, examples from media, notes listed at the bottom of the page, and a See also section.

Quick Vocab Definitions
Since UnTrash uses some "slang" of its own that might not make immediate sense to you, here is a list of words you're bound to see at least once during your visit on UnTrash.

Ladder: A list that shows how UnTrashes and UnTrash roles are related to each other.

Mirror: A list of different possibilities for how roles can be played.

Playing: Another word for "occurring" or "appearing". UnTrash Wiki didn't create this one, but it's still useful to know what "playing" means.

Slidetext: A short remark that is put at the top of any UnTrash or role page that's related to the page's subject. Slidetext, if it's written in a single line, should be like this, this, or this. If you're feeling fancy, feel free to write something like this or this for your slidetext.