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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

DoctorSleep Since: Nov, 2013
#1901: Jun 28th 2024 at 11:39:28 PM

[up][up]But there's no arguments on merging the alien races into one page, right?

Edit: Bloody page-topper

Edited by DoctorSleep on Jun 28th 2024 at 11:39:44 AM

The10thGeek Mysterious Fan from Somewhere in England Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Mysterious Fan
#1902: Jun 29th 2024 at 2:23:38 AM

[up]If you do decide to create that page, for the love of God, can you please rename it to Other Major Alien Races, as it sounds much better than the current page name!!

EDIT: Or better yet, Other Major Races, as the Homo Reptilia/Silurians are not technically extraterrestrial as two of the others (with the Order of the Silence being the other, as I believe the Silents are technically modified humans).

Edited by The10thGeek on Jun 29th 2024 at 11:24:09 AM

DarthDavros75 Since: Jan, 2023
#1903: Jun 29th 2024 at 4:50:47 AM

I don't have any problem with the other races being grouped to one page. Though I agree that it should be Other Major Races, since Silurians aren't aliens.

Does anyone have any problems if I created an Expanded Universe Doctors page like the Master has?

Edited by DarthDavros75 on Jun 29th 2024 at 4:51:01 AM

The10thGeek Mysterious Fan from Somewhere in England Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Mysterious Fan
#1904: Jun 29th 2024 at 6:56:28 AM

[up]Thanks for agreeing with my page rename suggestion my friend, much appreciated. As for the Expanded Universe Doctors page, I would suggest that you set up a draft page first and then get other people’s input on said page when you feel ready & able to.

DarthDavros75 Since: Jan, 2023
#1905: Jun 30th 2024 at 4:55:20 AM

How do I create a draft page? Do you mean a sandbox?

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#1906: Jun 30th 2024 at 5:08:31 AM

[up] Yes, I assume meaning a Sandbox.Doctor Who Expanded Universe Doctors and building up a preview version.

Edited by Amonimus on Jun 30th 2024 at 3:27:58 PM

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
The10thGeek Mysterious Fan from Somewhere in England Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Mysterious Fan
#1907: Jun 30th 2024 at 6:06:42 AM

[up] & [up][up]: Sorry for all the confusion there, it’s just that I’ve seen various users now refer to them more as draft pages rather than as sandboxes. I’ve should have been a bit more specific about that!!

DarthDavros75 Since: Jan, 2023
#1908: Jun 30th 2024 at 6:51:34 AM

It's fine. I'll do that now.

DarthDavros75 Since: Jan, 2023
#1909: Jun 30th 2024 at 8:04:06 AM

Here is a rough draft of an 'Expanded Universe Doctors page. Feel free to edit or add folders if you believe it necessary, or just let me know if there is anything you think I should change.

Furygildeman Since: Nov, 2017
#1910: Jun 30th 2024 at 2:51:36 PM

I’m thinking maybe there should be a unified Doctor Who cleanup thread. There’s discussion going on in the character specific page cleanup Thread as well, so why don’t we create a cleanup thread encompassing all Doctor Who so we can really have this discussion together?

The10thGeek Mysterious Fan from Somewhere in England Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Furygildeman Since: Nov, 2017
#1912: Jul 1st 2024 at 3:31:41 PM

The Doctor Who Cleanup thread is here

Arawn999 Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#1913: Jul 1st 2024 at 11:46:57 PM

DEATH BATTLE! (Season Four) is getting the too-long notification. One solution to this would be to split Kurama's tropes from Naruto's section and move them to the DEATH BATTLE! (Misc Characters) page, like what's been done with similar entities like the Beast of Darkness from Berserk.

Something like:

Kurama

Voiced by: Noel Wiggins

  • Animal Battle Aura: Kurama granting his jinchūriki his chakra causes a red fox-shaped aura to appear around their body. With Naruto, this is upgraded into Kurama Mode, which summons a translucent golden avatar of Kurama with black markings that the Tailed Beast can control.
  • Animalistic Abomination: Kurama may look like a giant nine-tailed fox with a humanoid torso and hands, but he's actually an entity comprised of solidified chakra, created by the Sage of Six Paths from the power of the Ten-Tailed Beast.
  • Asian Fox Spirit: Kurama is a kaiju-sized nine-tailed kitsune with reddish orange fur and the power to decimate entire countries.
  • Breath Weapon: Kurama's signature attack is the Tailed Beast Bomb, which charges a condensed sphere of yin and yang chakra inside the Tailed Beast's mouth and fires it as a beam or projectile.
  • The Empath: Kurama can sense negative emotions, which he uses to detect Ichigo and alert Naruto to the impending threat. It also allows the ninja to reliably keep pace with Ichigo for the rest of the fight.
  • Enemy Within: Kurama's relationship with Naruto was initially antagonistic, with the Nine-Tailed Demon-Fox seeking to corrupt his host, manipulate him into removing the seal, and/or take over his body to rampage.
  • Sealed Badass in a Can: Kurama has had three jinchūriki, of which Naruto is the most recent and the only one who he got along with.
  • Super-Empowering: Kurama grants his hosts an array of powers, including a Healing Factor; the ability to sense malicious intent; Combat Tentacles in the form of Tailed Beast Chakra Arms; Animal Battle Aura in the form of the Version 1, Version 2, and Kurama Mode; and a Breath Weapon in the form of the Tailed Beast Bomb.

Edited by Arawn999 on Jul 1st 2024 at 11:47:28 AM

AlicornGaia Fishy from Mega Man Zero Earth Since: Sep, 2019 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Fishy
#1914: Jul 2nd 2024 at 7:07:04 AM

The alternate is that like the other seasons, we split Season 4 into 2 parts.

"Come on Zero. Fight me. It feels so good :3"
Arawn999 Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#1916: Jul 3rd 2024 at 2:53:06 AM

Characters.Inside Out has a folder for Gloom, which....isn't really a character at all, let alone named—the point is that it's a symptom of Riley's mental state instead of a being, and Anxiety's folder has 'contrasting sequel antagonist' to it which doesn't really jive with it not being a character.

(Originally it was going to be a character but that was changed.)

Edited by lalalei2001 on Jul 3rd 2024 at 5:54:56 AM

The Protomen enhanced my life.
Mrph1 he/him from Mercia (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
he/him
#1917: Jul 3rd 2024 at 4:58:49 AM

Just reviewed Characters.Judgement Day Red Flood Africa as part of a wider look at the various Hearts of Iron mod pages.

  • None of the actual human characters had tropes - all are now commented out as ZCEs
  • Three factions do have some tropes... but are they character tropes? I'm not convinced.

Can we save this one?

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
jandn2014 SMILE! from somewhere in Connecticut Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Hiding
SMILE!
#1919: Jul 4th 2024 at 1:49:25 PM

[up][up][up] Yeah, "Gloom" is a complete non-character, and I don't recall the word even being muttered once in the whole film. I was going to make a comparison as to how the Force isn't a character either, but even that's much more clearly-defined. I'll go ahead and cut it.

Edited by jandn2014 on Jul 4th 2024 at 4:49:50 AM

RobertTYL Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
#1920: Jul 5th 2024 at 7:01:47 AM

Found Characters.Sanctuaryverse

A (seemingly?) orphaned Character page without a main page attached. And rife with weblinks in the folders (??)

king15 Have Faun Since: Mar, 2024
Have Faun
#1921: Jul 5th 2024 at 4:30:16 PM

There is a duplicate character in the character page for Dragon Age. In the DLC character subpage for Dragon Age: Origins, Mother Doroethea (a character in the DLC Leliana's Song) has a page. The character eventually becomes Divine (the equivalent to the Pope), takes the name Justinia, and appears in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Dorothea, as Justinia, also has a page in Dragon Age: Inquisition – Non-Playable Characters, separate to her Origins DLC one.

Normally, with these sorts of cases, the tropes associated with both incarnations of the character would be put in separate folders but on the same page (see the entry for Morrigan in Dragon Age: Origins – Mages), which is one possible fix. However, due to the fact that, overall, she is a fairly minor character (a very important one, but not one who appears much), I think it would be better to just pick one entry (either would work, though perhaps the DLC one would be best because it's her first appearance), remove the other, and move all the tropes from the removed one over to the remaining one.

Edit: As an addendum, perhaps it would be worth creating a separate folder for her appearance as a spirit in the Inquisition quest Here lies the Abyss. This is because it is an ambiguous situation about whether the spirit is her, or just a spirit that thinks it is her, so it might be worth creating a separate folder for tropes relating exclusively to the spirit.

Edited by king15 on Jul 5th 2024 at 11:34:53 AM

Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#1922: Jul 6th 2024 at 8:48:02 PM

Idol Corp Rin Penrose needs to be merged back into Idol Corp due to being only 12k in size.

Edit: Merge done, subpage has been made into a redirect to catch inbounds.

Edited by Berrenta on Jul 7th 2024 at 10:09:37 AM

Hello83433 (Lucky 7) Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
#1923: Jul 12th 2024 at 2:27:14 PM

Fortnite: Battle Royale is showing the warning (240K bytes). No one character or group is particularly long bytewise, so the only way I can think to split would be by which Chapter they were introduced in.

If I had to guess, either Ch.2 or Ch.5 should be split first (Ch.2 has the most characters (47, but only 26K bytes), Ch.5 has the most fleshed out folders (39K)) and is the current chapter with two more seasons not yet released.

Another idea would be splitting the Crossover and Celebrity characters into their own page (45K bytes).

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ToonAbby Have a Death-End Thanksgiving, y'all! from Gamindustri Since: Jan, 2022 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Have a Death-End Thanksgiving, y'all!
#1924: Jul 14th 2024 at 2:34:59 PM

[up] Either option is good.


So recently, TheBKaine split the characters for Zenless Zone Zero by their faction (and for the Proxies, a separate page dedicated to them akin to The Traveler and Paimon).

None of the above sub-pages exceed past 100k (with Public Safety being the shortest), and adding all of them up will lead to a 148k character count. Should I go a head and merge them back to the main index?

"It's requested that your death ends here, now!" - Sayaka, Death end re;Quest Code Z.
Hello83433 (Lucky 7) Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
#1925: Jul 14th 2024 at 8:42:09 PM

[up] Yeah, go ahead and merge them all back.


I ended up only splitting the crossover and celebrity characters since it brought the byte count down to 187K, so that'll be enough for a while.

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