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
Most of the subpages of Characters.Taskmaster seem too short to warrant subpages. Perhaps they should be merged into groups?
TRS Wick CleaningThe funny subpages group the series in groups of five, so maybe we could do that for the character sheets.
TRS Wick CleaningIt'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.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
Another page full of blank headers, folders, and zero-context examples: Survivor Xover Version. Is there anything worth moving?
TRS Wick Cleaning
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...
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 postsNot 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...Who's brave enough to tackle Namco × Capcom? We got ZCE's, we got subbulleted tropes, we got spoiler-tagged tropes...
WebOriginal.The Tower Tournament
...aaaaand here's a page that couldn't decide if it wants to be a work page, or character page
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
Characters.The Stanley Parable may need a look, with folders having only one trope and Speculative Troping born from in-jokes.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupCharacters.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.
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
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.
- Does this folder organization make sense? I sort of get it, but feedback would be appreciated.
- Would cleaning this up be best done in a sandbox, or as a series of smaller edits?
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.
Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
As well as a couple instances each of Break the Haughty and Groin Attack... and a Training the Peaceful Villagers.
Trinton Chronicles needs a look. I took care of the YMMV items, but there are ZCE's and grammar problems.
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**HOLESCharacters.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?
TRS Wick Cleaning

Alright, I'll just cut them then.
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