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Sawkman Since: Apr, 2018
#1: Feb 10th 2020 at 9:51:20 PM

I've seen fairly lengthy character profiles that don't have their own page, so I was wondering what's the recommended number of tropes they should have before getting their own page apart from their group.

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#2: Feb 11th 2020 at 9:29:03 AM

There is no absolute requirement, but we do generally expect a minimum of three character-specific tropes before a subpage is created.

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Sawkman Since: Apr, 2018
#3: Feb 11th 2020 at 11:08:15 AM

Just to clarify, I meant their own dedicated page separate from a group. As in, when they can go from Adventure Time: Main to Adventure Time: Finn.

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#4: Feb 11th 2020 at 11:21:28 AM

From what I can tell, the Characters.Adventure Time Finn page has 170 trope examples (170 instances of "*" as a "word".) I personally think 200 is a good point for splitting and 150 should be the minimum, but if the main characters section or whatever the character belongs to is too long (I've made Characters.Persona 4 Yu Narukami because Characters.Persona 4 The Investigation Team was too long, and his section has 138 trope examples right now), it may also be done.

Edited by Piterpicher on Feb 11th 2020 at 8:24:28 PM

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#5: Feb 12th 2020 at 6:12:13 AM

The only time a split is mandatory is if the article is so long that it trips the automatic warning message. Other than that, it's a matter of preference. Character entries should live in folders, so visual overload is not an issue unless the subpage has so many characters on it that the list itself becomes cumbersome to read. 200 examples in a folder vs. 200 in a separate page seems to be an irrelevant distinction.

Edited by Fighteer on Feb 12th 2020 at 9:13:36 AM

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