Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fictional characters

Article dispute
Hello! I was wondering if I could get some help. I spent the last two weeks editing Princess Leia, but another user feels that I've drastically altered the page in a negative way. They have restored the page to a previous version that doesn't contain any of my edits. You can view their criticism here. I was wondering if there are any experts at writing about fictional characters who would be interested in taking a look at our dispute and offering insight. Thanks! Wafflewombat (talk) 23:04, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

FAR for Jason Voorhees
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Restructuring of Transformers character articles
Taking a look at the articles for some of the Transformers franchise, it's obvious that all of them have pretty big issues, being primarily just biographies of all the various iterations of a given character that exist across the Transformers media; films, cartoons, comics, games, etc. No information on these characters in terms of their creation, development in given media, or a critical response to these characters or their popularity. Clearly, a restructuring is needed for all these pages. My question is this. Which format should be followed?

The problem with the Transformers franchise is that it is a multi-media and multi-continuity franchise. I did consider something akin to the Iron Man or Captain America articles. Both of these characters, as with many others from Marvel/DC, have appeared in various continuities, in "what-if" comics and non-comics media. With such characters, despite their various incarnations, the articles themselves are always about the MAIN version of the character. Earth-616 for Marvel, the main universe for DC; whether thats Earth-Two, One, New, or Prime.

But one issue with that is that unlike characters from the Big Two where you can argue that the mainstream comics version of the characters is the main one, Transformers doesn't really have a truly "main" universe. Would it be where the characters first showed up? Whether it's the 80s cartoon, the movies, comics, or something else? To "solve" this problem, I did consider the character pages from the Neon Genesis Evangelion and Fate/stay night franchises. In pages like Kaworu Nagisa or Asuka Langley Soryu for example, the "Conception" and "Reception" sections does in a way focus on their representation in the series, but do also include some info on other appearances.

However, the issue with following that approach is deciding on which of the various films, cartoons, comics, and games to include in things like "Development", "Reception", and "Popularity"; and, of course, the "Biography" section. So, any thoughts on how the character pages of a highly significant franchise - with this being a problem across character pages of the entire franchise - should be improved upon? PanagiotisZois (talk) 22:25, 16 June 2024 (UTC)


 * @PanagiotisZois This is why most of fictional character articles are awful. This Wikiproject is dead 🍕  Boneless Pizza! 🍕 (🔔) 10:52, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of John Sheppard (Stargate)


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FAR for Pauline Fowler
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Merge proposal of Diana Prince
This is a notice of a proposed merger at Talk:Wonder Woman. Any comments there would be appreciated! Thank you. Trailblazer101 (talk) 06:17, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Morbius, the Living Vampire
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Morbius, the Living Vampire that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari Scribe Edits! Talk! 06:24, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Kiritsubo Consort
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Kiritsubo Consort that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari Scribe Edits! Talk! 22:51, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Black Widow (Yelena Belova)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Black Widow (Yelena Belova) that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 08:24, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Stephanie Scully
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Stephanie Scully that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari Scribe Edits! Talk! 23:17, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

FAR for Martin Keamy
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