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
.
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
Friends forevermore
Characters.The Love Boat has no tropes.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
Very Spooky
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It hasn’t been edited since August, so I cutlisted it.
Friends forevermore
The Big Finish section of Characters.Torchwood has turned into a mess again. Should we just declare God's folder Spoilers Off and add a warning?
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
How sweet it is
To Belong has a bunch of folders that have no tropes.
she/her | TRS needs your help! | Contributor of Trope Report
My Superhero City Brand New Day has very short subpages, numerous slashed tropes and other editing issues, and duplicate content on subpages.
Nineandzero is in pretty bad shape and has a ton of completely spoilered text.
Edited by Tabs on Mar 8th 2021 at 5:52:58 AM
Something About is kind of a mess? There's weird mix of ZCE and actually detailed examples, a good number of characters only have one to two tropes listed, there's a few YMMV items listed as tropes, and no one has an image. I don't really know what to do with it.
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Someone needs to take a look at Minecraft’s page.
"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”
Godzilla
I'm almost done splitting Characters.Titansverse into Characters.Titans 2018 and Characters.Doom Patrol 2019, i just need approval to put the contents of Sandbox.Titansverse in the place of Characters.Titansverse.
SKREEEEEEEONK!
Friends forevermore
Hold up, I thought the plan was to cut all the "Titansverse" pages except for Series/ itself.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
Godzilla
But what about the redirects?
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Industrious Incisors
Characters.Balan Wonderworld was created, and so far it only has one trope and a ton of empty folders. Given the game's reception, I don't expect many tropers to stop by to add to it, but I still want to give the page creator some chance, so how long should I wait before taking it to the cutlist?
SoundCloud
Have you sent a stub notifier to the page creator?
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Industrious Incisors
Wrong place to post this. I'm not good with forums
Edited by Theharbo on Apr 5th 2021 at 9:10:59 PM
Industrious Incisors
Okay, so Characters.Balan Wonderworld was recreated, and again there's nothing but empty folders. I think we might need stronger action taken.
SoundCloud
I've sent a stub notifier to the person who recreated the page. I'm not sure if they are the same person who created it the first time.
Edited by Shadow8411 on Apr 4th 2021 at 2:44:20 AM
How sweet it is
Nope, it's a different user.
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How sweet it is
A Despair Odyssey has ZCE's plus empty folders.
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Professor Gigachad
The page doesn't have a corresponding work page so it would need to be deleted.
How sweet it is
Update on Balan Wonderworld, looks like they're fleshing it out. I'll spare it...but will send it to the NWML list.
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he/him | Image Pickin' regular
Characters.Fans says it's under construction, but it was created in January 2018 and only one trope has any context.
Keet cleanup
Very Spooky
Yeah, that’s not worth salvaging. It should just be cut.
Godzilla
Did a reorganization of Characters.Jurassic Park, anyone have approval?
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It’s such a huge reorganization I thought it needed approval, and are you sure about that?
Edited by GeneralGigan on Apr 10th 2021 at 6:20:13 AM
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Professor Gigachad
You don't really need approval to do that I think.
Yeah, that page is completely unsalvageable; it makes up random stuff for “tropes”. Cut it.
Edited by jandn2014 on Mar 3rd 2021 at 10:02:28 AM
back lol