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
I've just made a Super Marios Bros Movie Jungle Kingdom sandbox since their folders have just passed the byte minimum.
SMBM Everyone Else is about 92k characters long, the split is not necessary.
~Random Troper 89 re-merged all of the characters subpages
on Characters.The Blacklist. Was there any discussion about this anywhere, because it seems like an unilateral change, and the page now displays the "too-long" suggestion during editing.
Plus, the character pages still exist, and haven’t even been cut-listed.
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1 on Oct 18th 2024 at 5:24:11 AM
Do not mess with creatures which you do not understand.Back in 2023, I made a proposal
for Black★Rock Shooter's character sub-pages reusing the same three or so characters (Dead Master, Strength, and BRS herself) over in every installment, and while it makes sense given each work is an Alternate Continuity, this leads to character tropes being repeated with little difference. However, being barraged with outside work, coupled with a lack of interest in me and other people as well as realizing that the BRS franchise as a whole is a Universal-Adaptor Cast for huke's characters, led to me abandoning the project prematurely.
That said, I refuse to let this project go to waste. Even as ubiquitous as a franchise BRS is, there's still issues regarding its character pages (the poor formatting, the abundance of ZCE and Word Cruft, misuse of certain tropes, etc.). I'll restart this project sometime by the end of this month and finish it before the end of this year. I'll mostly be doing this by myself this time around, but I wouldn't mind if I had a little help with this.
"It's requested that your death ends here, now!" - Sayaka, Death end re;Quest Code Z.New proposed/potential character sub-pages:
- Huke's characters/original creations (Black Rock Shooter, Dead Master, Strength, Black Gold Saw, Chariot; the latter two appear in Arcana and the last one in Fragment) - Note that this only applies to their incarnations in media, not their original concepts, nor does this include the other creations who lack narrative counterparts
- TV/OVA characters (Mato, Yomi, Yuu, Saya, Kagari, Arata, Mato's mother, Hiro, Taku, Yomi's mother, the Incomplete girls, Arata's implied "other self", Insane BRS since she technically appeared only in the anime)
- Innocent Soul (Ron, Ram, Jack Ollie, Leto, Io, Hanako, Acta, Nico, Cecil, Kaede, Ouru, Tiger, Cecil's mother, Jiou)
- The Game (Nana, Primary Support Service, Apostles, Wyler/Weiler, White Rock Shooter, Alexei, Dully) - includes versions featured in the manga
- Dawn Fall (Monica, Black Trike, Peacebuilding Forces, Education Institution, Isana, Jessica) - includes characters in the prequel novel Before Dawn
- Other Media characters (Rock-chan (Kuro, Shiro, Grandma, Stea), Arcana (Elder Caster, Farside Bunny, Loveness, Tightmare Elly), Fragment (Armaments, Mia, Sumina, Hilke, Collaboration characters))
I'd like to propose a partial re-working of the Tsukihime characters page
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At the moment, the pages treat characters who appear in both the original game and its remake as the same. This mostly works ok, but in one particular case, Big Bad Michael Roa Valdamjong, it's resulted in a -very- messy section. While the original Roa and the remake Roa are built from the same parts and share motivations, they're *very* different characters, and treating them as one results in a consistently contradictory page. For example, in the original game, Roa's undergone Death of Personality, and there's very little left of the man he once was. In the remake, Roa explicitly notes that his current incarnation is the closest he's been to his original self in a long time. Moreover, his motivations differ dramatically between the two versions.
One option would be to outright move tropes for Remake Roa to the page for characters added to later games in the series (including the remake). The other would be to split Roa's folder with a divider and separate the tropes specific to each version of the character that way.
Your thoughts?
I think it might be better to disambig the media with the same name first, which would make the clean up handy. Aren't some of them in different continuities?
Disambig thread is here
I am aware. My original draft for huke's characters (Black Rock Shooter Hukes Original Characters) was supposed to be a draft to collect all information for the OG character's iterations in different media (e.g. Black Rock Shooter has variations in the anime, the game, Innocent Soul, Dawn Fall, etc.) in a similar vein to the CPUs of Neptunia, who also have variations across different media in addition to canon dimensions. I scrapped it because, as you said, they are Alternate Continuities with a Universal-Adaptor Cast, which would make combining all iterations into a single page time consuming. The 'huke's original characters' draft might be reworked into a page for huke's drawings under the Art namespace, but that's for another thread.
Paradise PD Other Characters is only 10k. Should we move the contents back to the main character page?
Made in 2012. Apparently it's a CP for a fan-website of the Mario games...but not about the games itself.
Can it be saved?
Reporting a cleanup suggestion on Fairy Tail pages:
- merge Fairy Tail (in general, 17 133 characters), Fairy Tail’s Founders (55 477 characters) and Other Fairy Tail Members pages (61 853 characters) into one (134 463 characters)
- add Blue Pegasus (38 003 characters) and Lamia Scale (46 446 characters) pages to Official Guilds pages (122 191 characters; with the added one it will be 206 640 characters), and add Oracion Seis (85 547 characters) and Grimoire Heart (81 454 characters) pages to Dark Guilds pages (39 989; with the added it will be 206 990 characters)
Any suggestions on this
?
Posting this because the Character Specific Page thread stays silent:
My Hero Academia Students 1-10 page is over 251 000 characters long, the warning has been triggered, and (for the last time) there’s no excessive content in there. When Ochaco Uraraka’s CSP shall be re-created (it would be 83 000 characters long)?
Why is everyone ignoring that question? Also, there’s some serious issues I have with spoiler-tagging in Fairy Tail character pages, because there little to no spoiler tagging at all. I suggest to leave all pre-Sirius Island Arc spoilers unmarked, and all following spoilers marked if they’re deemed necessary. Who supports that?
Edited by NicMasterTrope on Nov 6th 2024 at 6:36:21 PM
So I found a quote to add to Big Smoke's entry on the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas character page.
- ""YOU PICK THE WRONG HOUSE,FOOL""!
The quote is more famous and character descriptive than the one occupying the page. Which is why I move to for this quote to be added to his entry.
EDIT: I'll just assume silence means support and cut the entry if I don't hear back in a couple days.

- Characters.The Wayne Household to Characters.The Batman 2022 The Wayne Household
- Characters.Gotham City Criminals to Characters.The Batman 2022 Gotham City Criminals
- Characters.Gotham City Government And Law Enforcement to Characters.The Batman 2022 Gotham City Government And Law Enforcement
- Characters.Gotham City Citizens to Characters.The Batman 2022 Gotham City Citizens
It's gonna be fun on the bun!