Character pages are a large chunk of the wiki, but they're often filled with problems that don't get resolved. These problems include:
- Zero Context Examples
- Indentation problems, including bulleting tropes under supertropes or tropeslashing
- Spoiler tag misuse
- A lack of alphabetization
- Empty character folders
- Plagiarized character descriptions
- Misused tropes, or tropes that don't belong on character pages
- Broken or incorrect formatting
- Subjective / Trivia trope mentions
Per How to Create a Character Page, character pages should only include tropes that describe the characters. These tropes should fall under Characterization Tropes or one of its related indexes, Unless they're recurring character traits (distinctive things that the character does repeatedly). If you're unsure what counts as a character trope, you can ask about that at Are These Character Tropes
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All characters must have at least one contextualized trope for their section or folder to be visible. If you find a character that has no contextualized tropes present, comment out the entire section and add this tag:
Other relevant threads:
- Problems with pre-existing images on Characters page need to go via Image Pickin'. Low quality images can usually be upgraded without discussion, but don't change or delete images without Image Pickin' approval.
- Character Specific Pages have their own separate cleanup thread
- Self-demonstrating character pages also have their own thread.
- Inanimate objects and locations on character pages have their own cleanup thread
- Character pages for Reality Show contestants are on-topic here, but there's also a dedicated Reality Show cleanup thread which deals with the No Real Life Examples, Please! grey areas these shows create, and may sometimes be a better place to discuss them.
Edited by Mrph1 on Mar 26th 2024 at 6:20:01 PM
he/him | Image Pickin' regular
Characters.Shadowhunter Peril Demons has a lot of ZCEs, and shouldn't Characters.Pokemon Sword And Shield Anime be located at Characters.Pokemon Journeys, the official English name for this season?
Keet cleanup
Very Spooky
Characters.Lunia is extremely bad, and very likely not worth saving.
Edited by jandn2014 on Jan 4th 2021 at 8:36:28 AM
back lol
Friends forevermore
All the subpages of Codename: Kids Next Door need to be moved, because they unnecessarily omitted or abbreviated the series name.
(Yes, even the Delightful Children's page can fit under the character limit.)
Edited by bwburke94 on Jan 4th 2021 at 12:15:54 PM
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
Likes video games
War Thunder character page is quite weird, it only describes about the factions of the game rather than characters.
It doesn't have trope entries for most factions, and I really don't think you can write about the vehicles that appear in the game, since vehicles are NOT characters.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/WarThunder
Edited by namsan on Jan 5th 2021 at 6:46:14 PM
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Character pages don't just cover characters, they also cover factions, organisations, etc. so that is fine. Those stub entries should be commented out just like zero context examples however.
Edited by SebastianGray on Jan 5th 2021 at 9:56:55 AM
Knowledge is Power, Guard it Well
Likes video games
Oh, ok. I understand.
Very Spooky
Characters.Monster Buster Club is a ZCE-plagued disaster.
back lol
How sweet it is
Not to mention that some trope listings are spoiler tagged! Thinking we can move anything salvageable to the work page and axe the character sheet.
she/her
Characters.Oglaf is another one of those pages that just lists the characters and doesn't even try to list tropes for anyone.
How sweet it is
Cutlist that, definitely. It'll need to be redone from scratch.
Godzilla
When What If…? (2021) is released, will we put Trope relating to the cast on their respective pages, or on MCU The Multiverse? And in the former’s case, would Star-Lord Tropes go on MCU: Black Panther or MCU: Star-Lord?
SKREEEEEEEONK!
Boooo~~
I've been taking a whack out of the Reborn! (2004) character subpages, commenting out the ZCE's and removing the slashed/potholed tropes, and fixing grammar. Some characters didn't have any tropes left after and a lot of the remaining tropes still needs expanding. Any help would be appreciated.
Edited by cute_heart on Jan 20th 2021 at 11:52:19 PM
Read the letter Cricket!
How sweet it is
Big Brother 19 The Jury 04 To 06 needs a scrubbing, as does Big Brother 19 Winner and Runner Up...maybe other character subpages. I was brought to those two pages doing TRS cleanup, and those two had personality disorder speculations (or as we call it, armchair diagnoses) among other issues.
she/her | TRS needs your help! | Contributor of Trope Report
I've brought those up earlier in this thread, and pretty much the entirety of those pages could use some cleanup due to many cases of redundancies and entry pimping. So could the Total Drama character pages for that matter.
Angry babby
Skimming the Total Drama pages, I see a lot of ZCE, probably cuz they were made years ago and there's so many subpages it's harder to keep track. I'd be willing to help clean them up.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
Was doing TRS cleanup for The Rainman when I found, well...
TheVictorsProject.Districts 1 To 4, TheVictorsProject.Districts One To Four, and TheVictorsProject.Districts1to 4.
Different pages.
Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Angry babby
Are you sure the first and third are different pages?
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
Positive. There's a capitalization difference, so they go to different UR Ls.
...And I literally just pulled wicks off of both of them. Identical ones, of course, but still.
Edited by WarJay77 on Jan 28th 2021 at 7:10:26 AM
Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
I'm helping!
Pages aren't case-sensitive, though.
In any case, the "first and third pages" are orphaned and probably not intended to exist anymore, so we put them on the Cut List.
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
Well, these ones seem to be either way, since again I managed to edit both of them. -Shrug-
Godzilla
Thanks to both Word of God and Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), the Titansverse has been “dismantled” and the series are no longer connected to each other, and thus should have separate articles/indexes.
SKREEEEEEEONK!
Friends forevermore
Seems like an obvious split. It was brought up on ATT back when Crisis aired, but no one got around to it.
(I'd actually go further and cut all Titansverse pages, because it's a "work" that doesn't exist, has never existed, and will never exist.)
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
Godzilla
Started a cleanup thread.
Quick q: If a character sheet lists the same "character dynamic" trope entry in two individual character folders, those examples would be better off on the main page, right?
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Only checked out, not actually locked. Come back in 20 minutes or so.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.