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Complete Monster is a subjective character-based trope. Those types of tropes aren't handled the same way as many other tropes on the wiki.

Additional supporting information is a good thing, sure. If the "no natter on the main page" rule doesn't apply, we can allow it, I guess.

Ah, so if the rest of you crossed a line, that explains the problem. Working with absolutely zero restrictions would only make things go wild on the edits on this Wiki like what happened on the Wikia version of this site. Not being ultra Draconian and strict with adherence to rules and guidelines like on TV Tropes isn't exactly licence for total lawlessness in terms of what we could do.

I don't want to control what gets posted as an example. The trope has plainly laid out criteria that controls that, and character who come close enough to the mark are allowed to be cited as examples on YMMV page just as much as characters who definitively check off all points of the criteria.

It IS a subjective trope, even if not entirely so due to the criteria in place that a character needs to pass in order to qualify as an example of the trope. CM being a subjective trope is what puts it on YMMV pages in the first place, and most of the examples cited on subpages will also be cited on the YMMV pages of their work. If average tropers consider Innominat to be a CM, then he can be cited as an example on both the YMMV page for the game he's featured in and on the Tales series CM subpage. There has never been a problem with having them on both.

I would never veto a character getting added as a CM to a YMMV page, but I would veto the idea of making that character's CM entry into a page unto itself when there's already an existing page for that example to go on.

TL;DR: I don't want the Wiki to do things "my way", I want them to do things in a way that is sensible.