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Trope examples should be listed only once on the works page, and for the purposes of this rule subpages like character sheets count as part of the works page. So any given example should be listed on the character sheet or the main page but not both.
That's examples, not tropes: If more than one character is an example of a particular trope, it can be listed for each relevant character (but each time only giving the example relating to that character).
Wait, what? According to What Goes Where on the Wiki
- [Tropes] Are listed on a work’s main page, as well as its character sheet if it has one. [emphasis mine]
Always took that as that Tropes on a Characters page should also be duplicated on that Work's Main page.
^ No, they shouldn't, because the characters page is only an extension of the work page, they're basically just one page split for convenience. The part you quote means that tropes may be placed on work and character pages depending on where they are more appropriate.
In the wiki's organizing structure, a basic principle is that any particular example of a trope should exist once across all of a work's subpages. All of the various ways that we split up the articles are for organizational purposes, to make it easier to find any given example amid a vast sea of them. This can't always be kept rigorous — there's often duplication between Recap and main pages, for example. But it is the idea we want to get across.
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If a character page is formed, all character tropes get wiped from the work page, unless they recur?
As in they happen to more than one character?
Or are the entries duplicated? Character Sheets doesn't say...