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
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
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
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 CleanupHere 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.
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
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.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?
- Dark Gathering (90,497)
- Dark Gathering - Captured Ghosts (43,524)
- Dark Gathering - Graduates (37,479)
Merge?
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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
Found Characters.Sanctuaryverse
A (seemingly?) orphaned Character page without a main page attached. And rife with weblinks in the folders (??)
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
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
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).
CSP Cleanup Thread | All that I ask for ... is diamonds and dance floors
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).
- Main Index: 21,246 characters
- Phaethon/Random Play: 15,369 characters
- Cunning Hares: 35,363 characters
- Victoria Housekeeping Com: 29,285 characters
- Belobog Heavy Industries: 23,806 characters
- New Eridu Public Security: 7,197 characters
- Other Agencies: 16,546 characters
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.
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. CSP Cleanup Thread | All that I ask for ... is diamonds and dance floors

Edit: Bloody page-topper
Edited by DoctorSleep on Jun 28th 2024 at 11:39:44 AM