Category talk:Fictional characters

message: What's the deal with duplicating this category with :Category:Fictional people? Ausir 10:43, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps a human/nonhuman distinction was meant? Believe, I didn't create this one. -- Pjacobi 12:01, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplicating categories

message: This seems a little out of place. I mean, the rest are all catagorized by some situation. I think this should be removed, and the Clive Barker characters should be seperated into their respective genres/catagories. Eirra 23:40, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clive Barker? 

message: Is there any clear and consistent method or reason to separate fictional characters from mythical characters?   Jwray (talk) 05:44, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Surely a mythic character is by definition a fictional character? Mythic are a sub-category of fictional. DionysosProteus (talk) 13:00, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Furthermore, is there any consistent way to separate mythical characters from characters of old religions?  Greek mythology is ancient Greek religion.  The only difference between a religion and a mythology is whether some people still follow it... Jwray (talk) 01:58, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Myths 

message: Here's another one: "Swanhilde" and "Swanilda."  They link to the same article. Rissa, copy editor (talk) 21:37, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: See immediately above and below. --P64 (talk) 16:08, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swanhilde 

message: FYI, no action recommended now.
We now have  (6000+ pages) and its parent[!]  (81 subcategories, 271 pages). All those cats are populated partly by redirect template , or {R fc} for short, commonly with a parameter value such as 'Narnia' that specifies one of the subcats.
Redirect categories and templates for fiction need more work than simply to make Redirected fictional character articles the parent and Fictional character redirects to lists its child subcat. Nor are those two categories comprehensive, even for redirects that have been placed in categories; for instance,  use a system regardless of characters, elements, locations, etc.
--P64 (talk) 15:47, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fictional character redirects 

message: The third definition for the adjective of titular on Wiktionary is:
:(proscribed) Named or referred to in the title
I am wondering if we have a category for this or if we could create one. The purpose would be to keep track of characters for whom a work is named after. There are a couple different forms.
The first is if the title is indistinguishable from a name used for the character:
:Aladdin
:Batman
:Doc McStuffins
:Harvey Beaks
:Henry Hugglemonster
:Naruto
:Sofia the First
In all cases there has been something like a TV series or movie named after the character. It need not be their full or legal name but just something to refer to them, where if you heard the title of the work, it could be used to refer to the character too.
Another instance would be if a character name is part of a title but it has other aspects added so that the title of the work could not be taken to refer to the character themself. Examples:
:He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
:Jake and the Never Land Pirates
:Miles from Tomorrowland
:Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
:Sheriff Callie's Wild West
Another interesting instance which I have seen in the -Fictional duos- category is series which are named after 2 characters. Examples:
:Goldie & Bear
:Maggie and the Ferocious Beast
:Ren and stimpy
:Sarah and Duck
I am guessing this could fit into the first one since they are also titular characters. I am not sure how to distinguish in a category name between the first grouping and the second grouping though. It seems like there ought to be a distinction between your name being mentioned in the title and your name being the title itself. In the latter case, confusion can be created since if you say -I like X- people may not know if you mean you like the character or the show. I feel like titular characters could be an empty parent category with subcategories for title-equals-character and title-mentions-character but not sure what to name them. Looking for ideas. I think there are dozens of series like this creating a filling for such a category. --184.146.6.191 (talk) 15:30, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Titular characters