There is a moratorium on merging character pages, so don't ask for that.
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
- References to Dummied Out content for video game characters.
- YMMV / 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:
There is a moratorium on merging character pages, so don't ask for that.
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.
- Contentious characters attracting complaints and exaggerations (e.g. when their status as The Scrappy starts impacting examples for other tropes) have their own thread
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- Character-Specific Pages have their own separate cleanup thread
- Self-demonstrating character pages also have their own thread
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- 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.
- Character pages for the Marvel Cinematic Universe have a dedicated thread here
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Edited by kory on Aug 31st 2025 at 3:59:59 AM
Characters.With Pearl And Ruby Glowing has a ZCE problem (in that "I made a character page for a fanfic I liked but it's the first character page I ever made" way) as well as issues with trope-slashing. I tried to take care of some of it, but there are a lot of characters and I am tired. (Warning: the fic has a lot of triggering content and some of it is described on that page)
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Characters.Astral Chain is a bit of a mess. 60+ folders, many of which have 3 or fewer tropes (or are just empty), some ZCE here and there, etc.
Is there any general guidelines for dumping out folders with barely any tropes in them? I'm planning to do that with some of the minor NPC folders, will probably also just merge all of the enemy Chimera folders together.
We got ZCE's and spoilered-out tropes in Fairy Tail Redux Salamanders Time Traveling Escapades Main Protagonists.
So Winter Guard was created a few days ago, and it launched with a record-breaking zero tropes. The characters themselves were listed on Marvel Comics: Heroic Organizations beforehand, which incidentally also had zero examples, so the creation of that page was purely arbitrary, permission to cut?
SKREEEEEEEONK!
It's an orphaned characters page which isn't allowed anyway, as far as I know. (Though I know comic book characters are kind of weird with that right now.)
Can someone take a look at Characters.Battlarts? I had to edit it for Dummied Out cleanup and fixed some potholed trope names, but there's a lot of issues on the page I couldn't tackle. It might just be best to cut it.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallTried commenting out some examples but I did not want to spend time doing the entire page. I sent the creator a ZCE notifier.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Someone just recently created Characters.Miss Marple that consists of nothing but blank folders.
Characters.Rugrats 2021 was created some days ago, and it is unfinished and almost entirely empty. I thought it had been abandoned, but apparently it was edited yesterday. But even then, it was just to add a single trope under one folder. The others remain empty.
Edited by WackyPancake on Jun 2nd 2021 at 4:52:47 PM
"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."In addition to being misspelled, Characters.Australian Survivr 2016 is completely empty. (This leaves Characters.Australian Survivor as an index pointing to nothing, so it should be cut as well.)
2025: the year it all ends?Characters.Miitopia has a big problem with Zero-Context Examples and tropeless character folders...
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.Im going through some character pages that I think are overstuffed and creating individual pages for them. Right now Im doing so with several Danganronpa characters. Someone already did a page for Danganronpa — Junko Enoshima, and then I copied that format to make Danganronpa — Makoto Naegi. I could really use some help with these, in particular sorting the character's tropes into both a general folder and folders for corresponding game appearances.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/DanganronpaByakuyaTogami
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/DanganronpaKyokoKirigiri
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/DanganronpaTokoFukawa
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/DanganronpaHajimeHinata
Edited by IkeaHan on Jun 5th 2021 at 4:30:03 AM
Character Specific Page cleanupThe same goes for https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/AceAttorney
Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright// Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice// Ace Attorney: Miles Edgeworth// Ace Attorney: Franziska von Karma//
Edited by IkeaHan on Jun 5th 2021 at 3:34:25 AM
Character Specific Page cleanupShould the Variant be moved from MCU: Others to MCU: Loki? He is a version of Loki after all.
SKREEEEEEEONK!Characters.Mr Bogus is full of ZC Es. I'm about to comment it out but it could use some help.
"It's just a show; I should really just relax"Characters.Wario And Waluigi is heavily influenced by fan portrayals of Waluigi rather than what he gets in canon.
2025: the year it all ends?Tekken 3: I think it'd be good if Jin and Devil Jin were either separate folders or one folder split between two sets of tropes, since they are treated as separate playable characters in the Tekken series
Character Specific Page cleanup

Characters.Wonder Pets is a hot mess. I tried to clean it up, but it still needs attention.
For every low there is a high.