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A page shouldn’t be blatantly inflated to justify a CSP - especially if misuse is involved. And even with Crow included, the parent page is 175k bytes, so it’s not in danger of being overly-long currently in any case. Shall we invite them here to discuss, perhaps?
Edited by lexii
Good idea.
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~Tropers/salvadorfranz - hi there. Do you mind dropping by this forum? There are some points around Character Specific Pages Ayumi and I would like to discuss.
If we're not allowing certain tropes on the page because they're "misused" (like the aforementioned Child Prodigy trope), then Dragon Ball: Vegeta, Dragon Ball: Son Goku, and those characters who have multiple pages are gonna need a LOT of editing because I went to Vegeta's page (because he's The Rival) and saw what tropes he had and followed it for the most part, remembering what Crow did throughout the Cold Steel games.
Edited by salvadorfranz
Hi, It's more so that creating a CSP shouldn't be an endeavour, or 'badge of honour' for a character; it's a way to alleviate technical limits on pages if all other options have been tried. I think the concern here is that you are deliberately inflating the page to qualify. Before a character is considered for a CSP, all misuse has to be cleaned up, and any non-character tropes (narrative tropes) moved to the main work page.
I mean it's fine if we wanna keep the status quo but if people find tropes (after cross referencing to those two trope character pages because that's pretty much the benchmark at this point whether a trope is misused or not), people are gonna add it one way or another. And honestly, it probably wouldn't have been an issue if the OG C7 page wasn't split into two, though I understand why it happened.
For context: Characters.Trails Series Crow Armbrust was recently merged with Characters.Trails Series Erebonia Thors Class VII Original Part Two ( a page I launched since the main OG Class VII page was getting two long) since Crow's page is not 250k characters long, as per the new CSP policy.
So troper salvadorfranz, has been editing the Characters.Trails Series Erebonia Thors Class VII Original Part Two page (as seen here
) to add more things to Crow's folder to make it even longer (the edit reasons stating that the goal is to reach 250k characters). This is kind of sudden, since Crow's page was moved yesterday. Additionally, they are both misusing a few tropes (like Child Prodigy being listed even though Crow is now an adult) and using tropes that more narrative based than character based.
What should we do?