Character-Specific Pages (CSPs) are created when individual characters have so many trope examples that they can't reasonably be included on a shared page.
The Administrivia Character-Specific Pages policy details the rules that apply to these pages. All Character-Specific Pages must also follow the basic How to Create a Character Page policy, as well as the wiki's more general policies about spoilers and examples.
This cleanup thread handles the following tasks:
- Reviewing and approving new CSP proposals. All new potential CSPs must be reviewed and, if necessary, cleaned up before they're created.
- Agreeing on page names for new CSPs.
- Ensuring that wicks are updated when a new CSP is created.
- Reviewing existing CSPs if there's a concern that they need cleanup, or if it's believed that the character may no longer qualify for a page.
- Merging existing CSPs into other character pages when necessary.
- Ensuring that wicks are updated when a CSP is removed/merged.
- Creating, updating and cutting redirects, as necessary, to reflect these splits and merges.
Crowners are not normally required but, where appropriate, can be used to formalise decisions on any of these points.
If a character no longer qualifies for a CSP, it's often more practical to turn the CSP into a redirect than to cut the page entirely. This keeps the page history visible to users, and also helps to steer offsite 'inbound' traffic (search engine results) to the right place. With that in mind, cut requests for CSPs may be declined and referred to this thread if they don't have a clear consensus.
Comments linking back to this thread can be added to CSPs when needed - e.g. to confirm their creation was approved, to warn tropers that a cleanup is in progress, or to note the date and outcome of a more recent review.
We also have some more general threads for character page help -
- Character Page Cleanup
: for trope misuse, zero-context examples, spoiler tagging issues etc.
- Are these character tropes?
: for queries about whether particular tropes belong on a character page or on the work's page.
- Character pages for the Marvel Cinematic Universe have a dedicated thread here
.
This is not a policy discussion thread, it's a cleanup thread — any requests for policy changes need to be raised in Wiki Talk.
Mod update 07 Mar 2024, reflecting new CSP policy, updated again 22 Mar 2024 to mention redirects for removed CSPs
- Other options must have been tried first, like splitting pages into further groups.
- The character's folder is cleaned up beforehand, fixing any Zero-Context Examples and Wall of Text entries and removing any outdated, misused, or non-character tropes.
- A character's folder is at least 6,000 words/40,000 characters (with spaces). Here
is a byte counter.note
- The current character page bypasses technical limitations and requires a split up.
- A single character takes up the majority of a page or is disproportionately bigger than other folders.
Splitting a character into their own page is a major change and needs to be run by the community before it is enacted. Even if you believe a character meets these requirements, they should be run through this thread first. Having other tropers take a look can help spot issues you may not notice or believe to be issues.
Per How to Create a Character Page, character-specific pages should only include tropes that describe the character. 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 the Are these Character Tropes?
thread.
If you have concerns with a general character page, they have their own separate cleanup thread
, as do the self-demonstrating character pages
.
Edited by SeptimusHeap on May 28th 2024 at 8:53:56 PM
Last time it was because of all those Wall of text entries. Was that fixed?
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread![]()
and
: Looking at it, there appears to have been no cleanup of the Wall of Text entries, so it should be cleaned up first. You can use the Wall of Text cleanup
or create a new STP thread since there's a lot of examples that need to be trimmed.
Paging ~STARCRUSHER99 because I'm back with the last CSP for Resident Evil, Ethan Winters. Edits are listed over on my Sandbox
E: Added archive link to preserve cleanup.
Edited by Hello83433 on Apr 19th 2023 at 6:38:31 AM
CSP Cleanup Thread | All that I ask for ... is diamonds and dance floorsI'm prepared to create a character-specific page for Rebecca Bluegarden. It's been brought to 44,178 bytes, updated and cleaned up from what's currently on the page EDENS ZERO: Main Characters.
The "Main Characters" page is currently at 131,597 bytes, and is itself a split-off from EDENS ZERO: Crew of Edens Zero (currently 174,313 bytes), but I'm also prepared to restructure the pages by creating two new subpages, separated by a significant chapter in the story (Chapter 104):
- "Before Dragonfall" (currently 170,772 bytes), which will include all of the Main Characters folders and those in the "Crew of Edens Zero" assembled by the end of Season 1. I plan to redirect "Main Characters" to this page.
- "After Dragonfall" (currently 86,880 bytes), which will include all the remaining folders.
- The current "Crew of Edens Zero" page (which would only stand at 6,031 bytes as is) will feature tropes common to the crew and their ship as a whole.
Edited by immblueversion on Mar 31st 2023 at 8:45:53 AM
Just as a heads up: MacronNotes said in the Trope Pantheons thread
that Character-Specific Pages for character folders in that project are okay.
The Character page of Zuma's Fear (a PAW Patrol fanfiction) hasn't been updated for over 3 years. It looks cluttered and very small.
I'm wondering if I should axe it all together, but I want to see what others think.
ValdoWould it be okay to move the “Core, Four” from. Scream: Recurring Characters to their own page? It’s 60 ,000 bytes and the page is 100,000 bytes without them
I don't see the need. Like maybe if the page was close to breaking. Though that could just be me.
Edited by Bullman on Apr 3rd 2023 at 10:32:33 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadYeah true. Though the Ghostface page is something I'm more worried about as unless I am missing something its far bigger at 240,581 bytes. Is there a way to shorten that? Anything that can be separated?
Can someone please explain to me if every God of War page was necessary because I'm still a bit worried?
Edited by Bullman on Apr 3rd 2023 at 5:50:02 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadThe thing is I feel like that wouldn't solve the getting to big problem. Maybe just separating the masterminds might make sense. They seem to make up most of it.
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadMy concern is that when I see a lot i grow worried about rather or not these pages are naturally getting big enough. I'm not familiar with the games but considering most of them come from one signal original page the Norse one it makes me a bit worried.
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread- God of War Series – Norse Gods: 116,273 bytes
All split-off pages
- God of War Series: Baldur (54,253 bytes)
- God of War Series - Freya (58,018 bytes)
- God Of War Series - Heimdall (57,557 bytes)
- God of War Series: Mimir (43,087 bytes)
- God of War Series - Odin (114,859 bytes)
- God of War Series - Thor (71,260 bytes)
Again my concern is rather thet reached their length naturally. We just went through a big fox with Resident evil for pages being lengthend just to get one. Though I don't think that is the case here I just want to be watchful of that.
Edited by Bullman on Apr 4th 2023 at 4:05:17 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadSo Arrowverse: Team Arrow is getting a bit big 247,291 bytes. I was wondering if it there was a good way to shorten it?
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadI just heard that Characters.Fate Stay Night Kirei Kotomine was created. While it meets the byte sizes and word requirements, I'm not sure whether to include his Fate/Zero tropes on that page as well.
Eh, good enough.I've managed to get a DCEU: Darkseid sandbox with a byte count of 41,798. Given his limited screentime I'm hoping we can reach a consensus on whether or not he properly fulfills all the tropes listed.

I really hate to bring this up given it was already dealt with in the past, but My Hero Academia - All For One currently has over 313,000 bytes and is likely going to go over the byte limit yet again any day now. If that does happen, should the page be split or go through yet another clean up effort?