Er... what's the problem with that? The size of a page is just a result of how many people are willing to put an effort into finding tropes for it. Obviously if some of the tropes are shoehorns (which sounds like a possibility with the background characters) they should be removed, but it's not like there's any maximum number of tropes allowed for any one character. There's a size limit, of course, and if they're hitting it they should be split, but that's not the same thing as needing "cleaning up".
No, the other one.
Unless there are a lot of Zero Context Examples, or problems with shoehorning, there's no problem with having a lot of tropes.
edited 5th Dec '14 1:14:52 AM by AnotherDuck
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Yeah, "a character/work has a lot of examples" is not a problem at all. Main character vs. minor character status also don't matter here.
Now, if a lot of examples are ZCE or misused, that constitutes a problem - see the various threads in Long Term Projects for places to raise such issues.
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We've gotten to the point where the characters page for Friendship is Magic has become insanely bloated, and by "bloated", I mean "every main charcter has there own page the size of an actual tropes page for a work, and even the background characters have
a pagemultiple pages that are longer than most character pages". This has been talked about before, but I definitely think we need to clean it up now.edited 4th Dec '14 9:36:38 PM by SantosLHalper
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