Talk:List of fictional clergy and religious figures

Sound of Music
I would remove it, Sound of Music is based in The true history of Marie von Trapp--User:Atenea26, 30th, may 2007, 15:49 (UTC)
 * While Maria was indeed a real person, the story is highly fictionalized and the other sisters and mother abbess are not meant to represent any real persons. Leaving Maria off the list is appropriate, but the others should remain.Rockhopper10r 04:32, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Amen--Catholic, Baptist or something else?
From the 80s sitcom Amen, I notice that Deacon Fry is listed as a Catholic deacon, while Ruben Gregory, of the same church, is listed as Baptist. I was an occasional watcher of the television show, but I don't remember the church ever mentioning a denomination. I do recall one episode it was mentioned the church baptized by immersion. SonPraises (talk) (contributions) 17:21, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

More religious to add

 * Tripitaka from Journey to the West alias Monkey (Chan Buddhist monk) (yes, I know he's based on a real person but very fictionalised, far more so than Maria in The Sound of Music) m.e. (talk) 06:12, 9 March 2011 (UTC)|
 * various religious in Candide eg the Grand Inquisitor, Brother Giroflée, Martin. m.e. (talk) 07:34, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

The size of this list
This list is, at the moment of writing, 73,478 bytes long. WP:Article size says that a page of about 30 kB to 50 kB of readable prose takes between 30 and 40 minutes to read at average speed. Because of this, I believe the list in it's current form is too long to read comfortably, and that actions should be taken to reduce it's size. I propose to remove all entries where the name of the fictional character is not wikilinked from the list. This would reduce the size of this list by more than a half, whilst still keeping it useful for navigational purposes. Not a very active user (talk) 12:31, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Also, there are many individual character entries corresponding to one same media franchise (novel, movie, anime, game, etc.) within one same category; they could be collapsed into one single list item (rather than two or three), as in these two example cases:
 * (under Christianity & Denominations > Catholic Church > Monks and Friars)
 * Brother Francis Gerard – A Canticle for Leibowitz
 * Brother Kornhoer – A Canticle for Leibowitz
 * should be merged into:
 * Brothers Francis Gerard and Kornhoer – A Canticle for Leibowitz
 * (under Shinto > Miko)
 * Kaede – InuYasha and Inuyasha: The Final Act
 * Kikyo – InuYasha and Inuyasha: The Final Act
 * Kagome Higurashi – InuYasha and Inuyasha: The Final Act
 * could be merged instead into:
 * Kagome Higurashi, Kikyo, and Kaede – InuYasha and Inuyasha: The Final Act
 * (note that I reordered them in the same order they appear in the article List of Inuyasha characters according to their protagonist or support status)
 * This would not only save bytes by removing redundant mentions of one same franchise, but also reduce the amount of redundant wikilinkage (as is currently the case for A Canticle for Leibowitz, which was wikilinked twice within the same category). ‐⁠‑🌀⁠SilSinnAL982100⁠💬 19:28, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Right now I saved 368 bytes by merging and consolidating all mikos in Shinto > Miko; if this is practiced on all other categories, more bytes can be saved. Then, if more bytes need to be saved, then only the least-significant characters within a same franchise can be silently dropped and an &lt;!-- editor comment --&gt; can be put there advising editors to only include the most notable examples from each franchise if there is a significant difference in notoriety among characters from one same franchise within one same category (for the Inuyasha example above, maybe we can drop Kikyo and Kaede and keep Kagome who is the female protagonist there). ‐⁠‑🌀⁠SilSinnAL982100⁠💬 19:42, 11 April 2020 (UTC)