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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.

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:

%% As per Administrivia/HowToCreateACharacterPage, every character must have at least one listed trope that's not a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample. All characters who don't meet this requirement have been commented out. Add more tropes or add more context to any existing ZCE tropes before uncommenting them.

There is a moratorium on merging character pages, so don't ask for that.


Other relevant threads:

Edited by kory on Aug 31st 2025 at 3:59:59 AM

MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
(she/her)
#901: May 28th 2022 at 5:30:34 PM

Alright, I'll just cut them then.

Macron's notes
GoldenCityBird from the UK Since: Oct, 2018
#902: May 29th 2022 at 11:41:49 AM

Most of the subpages of Characters.Taskmaster seem too short to warrant subpages. Perhaps they should be merged into groups?

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underCoverSailsman Peeks from Under Rocks from State of Flux Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Peeks from Under Rocks
#903: May 29th 2022 at 9:03:41 PM

[up]What would be a logical grouping for those, other than by series?

GoldenCityBird from the UK Since: Oct, 2018
#904: May 30th 2022 at 2:08:50 AM

The funny subpages group the series in groups of five, so maybe we could do that for the character sheets.

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wingedcatgirl mys. minty from the silly dimension from lurking (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Oh my word! I'm gay!
mys. minty from the silly dimension
#905: May 30th 2022 at 1:51:28 PM

It's been a year and a half and Characters.Avalon Code A Guide To Wasting Awesome Ideas never got fleshed out despite being "currently under construction"... we're like, maybe 40% awake right now but it seems likely that the solution here is to merge it into the main page...

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
STARCRUSHER99 The Moron from one of my unhealthy obsessions (Captain) Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Moron
#906: May 30th 2022 at 5:50:39 PM

Alrighty, MCU: Multiverse is now live with all of the variants, so I'll go ahead and cut the Sandbox. I only have two main concerns at this point.

1. I'd greatly appreciate if someone could go back and make sure I didn't somehow break any pages or cut any information - my computer is overheating due to a broken fan so I need to power it down ASAP and I can't double-check anything.

2. I have no idea how to organize Characters.What If 2021, since those folders now link to a bunch of pages where the info isn't because all the info is on one page. In all honesty, I'm kinda tempted to make Characters.What If 2021 a redirect to Characters.MCU Multiverse, since that's where all the information is now, but I don't want to do that without consensus.

I'll be back when my computer cools down, let me know what you think!

Edited by STARCRUSHER99 on May 30th 2022 at 8:50:49 AM

GoldenCityBird from the UK Since: Oct, 2018
#907: May 31st 2022 at 3:28:36 AM

Another page full of blank headers, folders, and zero-context examples: Survivor Xover Version. Is there anything worth moving?

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RobertTYL Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
#908: May 31st 2022 at 7:03:11 AM

[up] I say shred it.

Like this one: Characters.Five Worlds War

The only blue link is Loads And Loads Of Characters, and after that is removed...

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#909: May 31st 2022 at 10:03:39 AM

Re: Five Worlds:

That's axed now.

As for Xover, are there examples worth moving?

TPPR10 Craving for fish from up north Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Craving for fish
#910: Jun 1st 2022 at 2:01:34 AM

I was looking at the different Sengoku Basara subpages and noticed that most of them are actually pretty short. Toyotomi Clan page is the only one of the "clan" pages that really hits past 40k mark, only being beaten by "Other Characters" page.

That being said, the different subpages seemed to have made because the main page was getting long enough to warrant splits. I also don't know enough of Japan's history and game lore to know how to start merging the pages.

Only sometimes posts
Wafer Troy Verde from the Banjo-Tooie world, meditating (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Troy Verde
#911: Jun 4th 2022 at 5:00:55 PM

Not only is Characters.There Will Be Brawl littered with ZCEs, it has two separate sections for a spoiler character (technically several? I don't know) and a section for all the cameos in the series, which I doubt is allowed.

Edited by Wafer on Jun 4th 2022 at 5:01:31 AM

Guys how cool would it be if Super Megaforce had a green ranger...
RobertTYL Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
bwburke94 I am mad scientist! It's so cool! from 1.048596% (Y2: Electric Boogaloo) Relationship Status: She does the things you do, but she is an IBM
I am mad scientist! It's so cool!
#913: Jun 6th 2022 at 7:48:43 AM

There's nothing to save.

2025: the year it all ends?
Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#914: Jun 6th 2022 at 1:44:47 PM

Who's brave enough to tackle Namco × Capcom? We got ZCE's, we got subbulleted tropes, we got spoiler-tagged tropes...

RobertTYL Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
#915: Jun 6th 2022 at 8:50:41 PM

WebOriginal.The Tower Tournament

...aaaaand here's a page that couldn't decide if it wants to be a work page, or character page

Characters.An Unsung Song

There were 204 bullet points prior to the un-commenting. Made by someone who haven't logged in since 2015

Edited by RobertTYL on Jun 7th 2022 at 10:26:20 PM

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#916: Jun 7th 2022 at 9:42:37 AM

Characters.The Stanley Parable may need a look, with folders having only one trope and Speculative Troping born from in-jokes.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Malady (X-Troper)
#917: Jun 7th 2022 at 11:17:55 AM

Characters.One Step From Eden: Saffron: There might be a basis for this in quotes from the game, but no one has a list of such quotes.

  • Hot Scientist: Perhaps just as hot as the zone she can be fought in when playing as other characters.

Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#918: Jun 8th 2022 at 10:56:27 AM

Characters.Highschool Dragon

ZCE's, empty folders, sinkholed tropes, etc.

RobertTYL Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
#919: Jun 9th 2022 at 1:12:42 AM

More character page antics abound in Characters.In The Power We Trust

Redlink abuse aside (like, is that even allowed?) there's also a massive ZCE infestation (already commented out, thank you Microsoft Word and CTRL-F) and a LOT of on-page hypothetical casting for what was supposedly a fanwork.

According to the edit history, the last actual edit from the page's creator (barring commenting out ZCE, TRS) was from 7 years ago

underCoverSailsman Peeks from Under Rocks from State of Flux Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Peeks from Under Rocks
#920: Jun 9th 2022 at 10:16:17 PM

Characters.Tales Of The Five Hundred Kingdoms has entries that are duplicated on the Literature page, Incident/Plot tropes applied to characters, ZCE, and is folderised in an odd "First appearing in <installment>" style.

  1. Does this folder organization make sense? I sort of get it, but feedback would be appreciated.
  2. Would cleaning this up be best done in a sandbox, or as a series of smaller edits?

Malady (X-Troper)
#921: Jun 10th 2022 at 6:34:33 AM

Well, there's only ~123 bullets, including sub-bullets, a series of smaller edits should be fine?

So, at least Passing the Torch does seem Plot.

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underCoverSailsman Peeks from Under Rocks from State of Flux Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Peeks from Under Rocks
#922: Jun 10th 2022 at 7:28:54 PM

[up]As well as a couple instances each of Break the Haughty and Groin Attack... and a Training the Peaceful Villagers.

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#923: Jun 11th 2022 at 5:42:40 AM

Trinton Chronicles needs a look. I took care of the YMMV items, but there are ZCE's and grammar problems.

sudrictoon Any pronouns from Sodor/Crystal Tokyo Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
Any pronouns
#924: Jun 11th 2022 at 5:26:06 PM

Is it okay to split Haruhi Suzumiya? It's long enough that the title character has her own page now.

Sinners are TRASH / And they are A**HOLES
GoldenCityBird from the UK Since: Oct, 2018
#925: Jun 16th 2022 at 11:11:07 AM

Characters.Aladdin was recently split up by a new troper. Some of the pages look rather lackluster (Aladdin's own page being 36k characters, Aladdin Other Residents Of Agrabah? being 6500, and Aladdin Antagonists being 6300), so should they be merged back?

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