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href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Sourced_and_Unsourced_sections" title="Wikiquote:Sourced and Unsourced sections">Sourcing categories</a> (guideline)</small></li> <li><small><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Fictional characters</a> (guideline)</small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Quotability" title="Wikiquote:Quotability">Quotability</a> (guideline)</small></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Conduct </th></tr> <tr> <td> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Assume_good_faith" title="Wikiquote:Assume good faith">Assume good faith</a> (guideline)</small></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Operation </th></tr> <tr> <td> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Blocking_policy" title="Wikiquote:Blocking policy">Blocking policy</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Bots" title="Wikiquote:Bots">Bots</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Deletion_policy" title="Wikiquote:Deletion policy">Deletion policy</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:GNU_FDL" title="Wikiquote:GNU FDL">GNU FDL</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikiquote:Policies and guidelines">Policies and Guidelines</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Proposed_deletion" title="Wikiquote:Proposed deletion">Proposed deletion</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Speedy_deletions" title="Wikiquote:Speedy deletions">Speedy deletions</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Username_policy" title="Wikiquote:Username policy">Username policy</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Babel" title="Wikiquote:Babel">Babel</a> (guideline)</small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Stub" title="Wikiquote:Stub">Stub</a> (guideline)</small></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote" title="Wikiquote">Wikiquote</a> generally does not include stand-alone pages on fictional characters. All quotes from or about a fictional work should be listed in an article on the work or its author. </p><p>Wikiquote also does not include quotes by fictional characters on the pages of performers who merely portrayed those characters, and it does not include quotes by fictionalized versions of real persons on the pages of the real persons. </p><p>Per <a href="/wiki/Wikiquote" title="Wikiquote"><i>What is Wikiquote?</i></a>, our goals are to be Accurate, Comprehensive, Notable, and focused on quotations. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Rationale" data-mw-thread-id="h-Rationale"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Rationale"></span>Rationale<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Rationale"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Fictional_characters&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Rationale"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are two primary reasons why pages on fictional characters are not permitted: </p> <ol><li>Such pages raise substantial copyright concerns. It is impractical to manage <a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:LOQ" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikiquote:LOQ">limits</a> on <a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:COPY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikiquote:COPY">fair use</a> when there are separate pages for elements of a fictional work.</li> <li>Such pages confuse real authorship with that of the character. Fictional characters do not <i>author</i> anything.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Exceptions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Exceptions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Exceptions"></span>Exceptions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Exceptions"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Fictional_characters&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Exceptions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Specific examples of exceptions where pages about fictional characters are allowed: </p> <ol><li><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eponymous" class="extiw" title="wikt:eponymous">Eponymous</a> works</b>: When the name of a character is the title of a work, or is the name by which a body of works is known (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Superman" title="Superman">Superman</a> comics), it may be used as the title of an article. Such articles are about the work: they are not just for quotes of the individual character, and they are not supplemental articles in addition to a main article about the work. Quotes attributed to the character <i>must</i> be properly sourced to the work from which they originate, and if possible the author of that specific work must be identified. If a character has a catchphrase or other oft-repeated line, the quote should be sourced to its earliest appearance.</li> <li><b>Themes <i>about</i> a character</b>: <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Wikiquote:Q" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikiquote:Q">Quoteworthy</a> remarks <i>about</i> a character, such as literary criticism, are ordinarily included in an article about the work, in an article on the author of the work, or author of the remarks. If the character appears in multiple works by different authors, and a quote does not relate to a specific work, then it may be included in an aggregate article on the body of works, or in an article on the primary work in which the character originated. If neither of these options are practical, it may be appropriate to create a theme article for quotes <i>about</i> the principal character of a body of works.</dd> <dd>Such a theme page on a character is appropriate only where:</dd></dl> <ol><li>The character has received significant coverage in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Reliable sources">reliable</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:No original research">secondary sources</a> that are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Sources" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Verifiability">independent</a> of the subject, <b>and</b></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOTE" class="extiw" title="w:WP:NOTE">Notable</a> authors, scholars, fiction critics, etc., have themselves made noteworthy quotes and comments on the fictional character.</li></ol> <dl><dd>An example of a quote appropriate for a theme page would be: <ul><li>Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He's weak. He's unsure of himself. He's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race. <ul><li><i>Bill</i>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Kill_Bill:_Volume_2" title="Kill Bill: Volume 2">Kill Bill: Volume 2</a></i> (2004), by <a href="/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino" title="Quentin Tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a>.</li></ul></li></ul></dd> <dd>This quote is from a notable work, by a notable author; it is about the character, Superman, but the characteristic described is one that appears in all Superman media, and thus it does not relate to any specific portrayal of Superman.</dd></dl></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Fictionalizations_and_quasi-fictional_characters" data-mw-thread-id="h-Fictionalizations_and_quasi-fictional_characters"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Fictionalizations_and_quasi-fictional_characters"></span>Fictionalizations and quasi-fictional characters<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Fictionalizations_and_quasi-fictional_characters"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Fictional_characters&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Fictionalizations and quasi-fictional characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many real people have been portrayed in various media in which the author of the media has scripted dialogue read by the actor portraying the real person. 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