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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

GateStarX The Formatter from The Great White North Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
The Formatter
#2151: Dec 27th 2024 at 7:06:50 PM

I took care of the Adventure Time duplicate folders.

Edited by GateStarX on Dec 27th 2024 at 7:06:57 AM

It's gonna be fun on the bun!
guardianofthepark Since: Jun, 2024
#2152: Dec 28th 2024 at 5:51:43 AM

[up] There are still many characters that are in two folders, like Flame Princess and Betty.

GateStarX The Formatter from The Great White North Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
The Formatter
#2153: Dec 28th 2024 at 11:36:36 AM

[up]Damn. I knew I missed a couple. I'll get on those soon.

Edit: Ok now I'm done. I took care of Betty and Flame Princess.

Edited by GateStarX on Dec 28th 2024 at 1:12:48 AM

It's gonna be fun on the bun!
GateStarX The Formatter from The Great White North Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
The Formatter
#2155: Dec 31st 2024 at 4:07:49 PM

[up]Ok if that's the last one now I'm done

It's gonna be fun on the bun!
Shadeblade11 (Troper Journeyman)
#2156: Jan 1st 2025 at 3:49:46 AM

Characters.Fate Strange Fake has four subpages that I think are too small on their own. I think it would be best to instead merge both false and true Masters and Servants to just Masters and Servants.

There's also "Other Characters" that might be suited to a subpage so to convert the main character page into an index. I could also instead turn the 'Masters' page into a Human Characters page. Granted there some non-human character folders in 'others' but that feels like an argument of semantics.

Edited by Shadeblade11 on Jan 1st 2025 at 9:50:59 PM

Khoshekh6 Since: May, 2022
#2157: Jan 1st 2025 at 6:15:43 PM

From CrossCode, the folders for Lea and C'tron contain self fulfilling spoilers, while the folders for The Blue Avatar and Sidwell are pretty much entirely tags

I was thinking of making all four unmarked spoilers, but I figured I should probably get some kind of consensus first

guardianofthepark Since: Jun, 2024
#2158: Jan 3rd 2025 at 6:20:42 AM

The pages Kingdom Hearts: Organization XIII and Kingdom Hearts: Ansem and Apprentices seems to have many duplicate characters and tropes.

Similar problem with Kingdom Hearts χ Characters and Kingdom Hearts: Xigbar (the former could also be have some trope duplicated with Kingdom Hearts: Organization XIII, but i'm not 100% sure).

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#2159: Jan 3rd 2025 at 8:57:10 AM

[up] Which duplicate characters?

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
guardianofthepark Since: Jun, 2024
#2160: Jan 3rd 2025 at 9:00:40 AM

In the first two the non-Nobody forms of the members of the Organization XIII, in the other two the section regarding Luxu.

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#2161: Jan 3rd 2025 at 9:05:26 AM

"non-Nobody forms of the members"

They are separate characters then and are not forms technically. Pre-transformation tropes and images can be removed since they're unrelated to XIII activity.

Luxu needs his stuff to be moved, to either.

Edited by Amonimus on Jan 3rd 2025 at 9:07:53 PM

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
FoxyGrandpa12 Reze x Denji from New Jersey or New York (Troper Squire) Relationship Status: Do you like me? (Yes ⎕ Definitely ⎕ Absolutely!!! ⎕)
Reze x Denji
#2162: Jan 3rd 2025 at 9:57:59 AM

Same here.

[up]x5 Wait, these four pages add up to at most 200k? Merge them all as Characters.Fate Strange Fake Masters And Servants.

Edited by FoxyGrandpa12 on Jan 3rd 2025 at 1:04:20 PM

"Thing is, I believe that a single good movie will change your entire life." — Makima | aka Fox | he/she/they
NicMasterTrope (Troper in training)
#2163: Jan 5th 2025 at 8:10:21 AM

Bleach Character Page of Thirteen Court Guard Squads 8-13 reached the 250k character limit.
May I suggest reformating the court guard pages into Squads 1-5 (133 421), 6-10 (170 306), 11-13 (162 922). Seems proportiate enough in my opinion

Arawn999 Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
DukePresley Since: Dec, 2016
#2165: Jan 6th 2025 at 4:50:09 PM

Found some trope abuse and misuse on Dr. Facilier's entry on the Princess and Frog Characters page.

  • Dirty Coward: Despite scamming countless people out of their money with his magic and planning to take control of New Orleans for his Friends to have for themselves, no matter what tricks he has to pull to accomplish that, he has the gall to beg for his life when he gets Dragged Off to Hell by those same Friends when his amulet is destroyed by Tiana.

Not a Coward. His reaction to getting dragged off to the voodoo afterlive is justifiable fear. Besides it falls more into Villains Want Mercy trope which is already listed.

This entry should be cut and kept off the page.

EDIT: I'll just assume silence means support and cut the entry if I don't hear back in a couple days.

guardianofthepark Since: Jun, 2024
#2166: Jan 7th 2025 at 2:05:11 AM

In regard of the Kingdom Hearts characters that i talked about some post ago, i'm not expert enough to make the changes.

FoxyGrandpa12 Reze x Denji from New Jersey or New York (Troper Squire) Relationship Status: Do you like me? (Yes ⎕ Definitely ⎕ Absolutely!!! ⎕)
Reze x Denji
#2167: Jan 9th 2025 at 6:42:37 AM

[up][up] Add it back. At the mercy of the Friends from the Other Side, he outright sells them the souls of an entire city to save his own hide; this is no different from Creek from Trolls 1.

"Thing is, I believe that a single good movie will change your entire life." — Makima | aka Fox | he/she/they
LoadsAndLoadsOfFreeTime RAM Day 4: Dr. Loboto & Sheegor (Season 2) Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
RAM Day 4: Dr. Loboto & Sheegor
#2168: Jan 9th 2025 at 7:45:29 AM

Since I brought this up at least 3 times on the too-long page thread now and have been completely ignored each time, I'll just bring it up here instead.

♪ DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN DUN ♪ "HWUH-HEOW" ♪ NRRRRRRRRR ♪ *BZZZZZT*
MB74 Since: Feb, 2024 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Super_Weegee Since: Feb, 2019
#2170: Jan 9th 2025 at 9:12:41 PM

Kingdom Come: Deliverance and its sequel have two character pages, which seems to be redundant since a lot of it is just copy and pasted from the former.

Arawn999 Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#2171: Jan 10th 2025 at 12:36:05 PM

And there’s a Zero Context Example just sitting right there.

impracticaltroper Since: Jan, 2022 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
#2172: Jan 10th 2025 at 9:58:27 PM

I strongly suggest merging all three pages for the I Know What You Did Last Summer film series. They're all short enough, and the ones for the sequels barely even have anything on them. See here and here.

Edited by impracticaltroper on Jan 10th 2025 at 11:59:10 AM

FoxyGrandpa12 Reze x Denji from New Jersey or New York (Troper Squire) Relationship Status: Do you like me? (Yes ⎕ Definitely ⎕ Absolutely!!! ⎕)
Reze x Denji
#2173: Jan 11th 2025 at 9:02:23 AM

[tup] the [up] merge; all three pages total 18,774. Merge them under the section "Sequel Characters", with each subsection per film.

Edited by FoxyGrandpa12 on Jan 11th 2025 at 12:02:28 PM

"Thing is, I believe that a single good movie will change your entire life." — Makima | aka Fox | he/she/they
impracticaltroper Since: Jan, 2022 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
#2174: Jan 11th 2025 at 2:31:38 PM

Also, both the Blair Witch character pages are ridiculously short (see here and here). Should those two be merged as well?

FoxyGrandpa12 Reze x Denji from New Jersey or New York (Troper Squire) Relationship Status: Do you like me? (Yes ⎕ Definitely ⎕ Absolutely!!! ⎕)
Reze x Denji
#2175: Jan 11th 2025 at 4:49:35 PM

Yes, they add up to 13,532 bytes. Merge the Blair Witch character into a spin-off section.

"Thing is, I believe that a single good movie will change your entire life." — Makima | aka Fox | he/she/they

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