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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.


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

Furygildeman Since: Nov, 2017
#2001: Aug 23rd 2024 at 6:19:28 PM

I would say that the X-Men who have CSP’s are some of the more prominent X-men And are more associated with the X-Men with the exception of Exodus, Magneto, And maybe Emma, Frost. I would say it’s the ones who don’t have CSP’s like Northstar and Frenzy who are more nebulous

GateStarX The Formatter from The Great White North Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
The Formatter
#2002: Aug 24th 2024 at 1:32:12 AM

Yeah the X-Men Characters pages are going to be some of the hardest to deal with, especially for the CSP's.

It's gonna be fun on the bun!
lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#2003: Aug 24th 2024 at 2:57:13 AM

I don't think the Titans character pages should have so many images.

Characters.Green Arrow Speedy, Characters.Wonder Girl Donna Troy, and Characters.Tempest all have basically every costume they wore for...some reason when 1 or 2 images should be enough.

Over on Characters.Aquaman Supporting Cast Mera has 3 images for some reason so I think one or two can be cut.

Edited by lalalei2001 on Aug 24th 2024 at 5:58:17 AM

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GateStarX The Formatter from The Great White North Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
The Formatter
#2004: Aug 24th 2024 at 3:11:52 AM

I've honestly never been sure what to do with the extra images. Either it should be the same as the main folder, or the folder should just be a link to the main character location.

Edit: I'm going to ping ~Elio Herondale, as he made the Tempest page and usually does alot of work on Teen Titans adjacent characters.

Edited by GateStarX on Aug 24th 2024 at 3:17:03 AM

It's gonna be fun on the bun!
DoctorSleep Since: Nov, 2013
Willowleaf24 Hog in a frog from Somewhere buried in snow Since: Nov, 2020 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Hog in a frog
#2006: Aug 25th 2024 at 5:12:01 PM

I found a few more sets of alternate-history-type game mods with a bunch of really anemic character pages:

I'm going to be combing through and hiding all tropeless Characters and adding a commented-out message at the top (probably the one in the pinned post). As always, any help is appreciated!

Edited by Willowleaf24 on Aug 25th 2024 at 7:13:48 AM

DoctorSleep Since: Nov, 2013
#2007: Aug 28th 2024 at 5:11:48 AM

South Park: Family Members is getting the "too long" warning. If giving Randy back his own page is off the table, have we considered making a separate page for the boys' families? If we did that, we could separate the Cartmans and the Tenormans.

Edited by DoctorSleep on Aug 28th 2024 at 5:15:15 AM

Furygildeman Since: Nov, 2017
#2008: Aug 29th 2024 at 10:17:18 AM

I’m slowly working on the Masako X - Dragon Ball What-If Character pages. I need help with indexing. I put the index indents on the page, but it’s not showing up on there. I also need to know where to index the main character page

Edited by Furygildeman on Aug 29th 2024 at 10:51:44 AM

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#2009: Aug 30th 2024 at 9:16:36 AM

[up][up]The Boys' families, and other families maybe?

Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#2011: Sep 1st 2024 at 11:25:02 PM

On Characters.Jack Jeanne, someone changed the top labels to highlight that the character Kisa Tachibana is the main protagonist. The problem is that Kisa is the only protagonist in the game and there is no perspective switching at all. Safe to revert to the old labels linked?

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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!
#2012: Sep 2nd 2024 at 3:44:29 AM

Might as well.

2025: the year it all ends?
Echidna from Ontario, Canada (Striking Back) Relationship Status: Two-timing
Veriamo (Handed A Sword)
#2014: Sep 2nd 2024 at 5:14:20 PM

Atelier Series character pages for modern sub-series have a weird layout, where main protagonists of every game have their own collective page. I'm not that familiar with the franchise, but byte counts currently look really bad, with the Secret series being the worst one.

Arland, Dusk, and Mysterious series have the same problem, if somewhat less pronounced.

Would it be correct to just move folders to character pages of their debut games?

Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#2015: Sep 2nd 2024 at 7:05:45 PM

[up] I thought that was weird to. If I had to make an educated guess, the troper who did that (hozzukichan) wanted to organize everything since the old pages repeated the main characters (IE. Ryza and co. were on each entry'd character page).

If I had to clean up the page, I would just put everyone in big character page and add headers on which game they debuted in.

Edit: grammar

Edited by Ayumi-chan on Sep 2nd 2024 at 10:09:43 PM

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Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#2016: Sep 3rd 2024 at 2:07:03 AM

Double post but Characters.Phantom Brave, there is a section on it dedicated to the characters appearing in Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero. Since that game hasn't been released yet, most of the info is from the website and we are not allowed to cute websites since those count as advertisment. What should we do about?

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TantaMonty Since: Aug, 2017
#2018: Sep 6th 2024 at 3:47:21 PM

Hi, I would like to request some advice regarding this page (Spoilers for Planetary).

The protagonist, Elijah Snow, is an amnesiac man. He works for an organization founded by someone simply referred to as the Fourth Man, whose identity is a major mystery. Halfway through the series, we find out Elijah and the Fourth Man are one and the same.

The problem is that the Characters page has two separate folders for the same character. The folder for Elijah Snow has tropes about him in general, while the folder for the Fourth man only has tropes about the circumstances that led him to lose his memories.

Just wondering if they should be merged or kept as is.

Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#2019: Sep 6th 2024 at 7:31:03 PM

The voice actors for Characters.Love And Deepspace have been moved to the top. Do I need to revert since it possibly violates the "first come, first serve" rule?

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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!
#2020: Sep 6th 2024 at 9:28:10 PM

[up][up] Probably kept separate, because an apparent major character not having a folder would be a huge giveaway that Two Aliases, One Character is in play.

2025: the year it all ends?
GateStarX The Formatter from The Great White North Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
The Formatter
#2021: Sep 7th 2024 at 2:32:10 AM

[up][up][up]First for future reference, as Wildstorm was bought out by DC, this can also be brought up in the DC Comics Cleanup and Maintenance thread. Just shilling the thread to build up traffic.

Second, I 50/50 on keeping them separate, as it’s a big spoiler for the comic. If you do want to merge them, you may want to put a spoiler in the folder title, and keep the fourth man folder as a redirect to Snow’s folder.

It's gonna be fun on the bun!
Furygildeman Since: Nov, 2017
#2022: Sep 8th 2024 at 7:18:19 AM

Would it be OK to move the cell juniors and present cell from Dragon Ball Red Ribbon Army to Dragon Ball: Cell ?

KOman 'Sup? Since: Jul, 2013
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#2023: Sep 13th 2024 at 7:16:57 PM

Regarding Bleach's character page: The Gotei 13, Espada, and Sternritter were each split in half (see here for the previous index), but were recently split into smaller pages. I don't think this was necessary, as the original pages weren't giving warning about getting clogged up.

Edited by KOman on Sep 15th 2024 at 6:54:48 AM

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Riolugirl Just "Rio" is fine! from Planet Sparkles (spaaaarklleeees...) (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: It's a god-awful small affair
Just "Rio" is fine!
#2024: Sep 14th 2024 at 1:25:14 AM

Characters.Jelles Marble Runs has no tropes, just images and lists of team members. Even then, it's incomplete.

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Bozzy Since: Feb, 2023
#2025: Sep 14th 2024 at 8:23:28 AM

Almost everyone listed on Just Add Magic Others is an empty folder with no tropes or even an image/description despite the page having been around for months, and even the characters who do have content are either only one or two tropes, or a redirect to another section.

Edited by Bozzy on Sep 14th 2024 at 8:23:46 AM


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