Drag Race cleanup

Pulling this together from numerous conversations elsewhere about RuPaul's Drag Race and the wider Drag Race franchise.

As of January 2024:

• The RuPaul's Drag Race series page covers both the original series and the franchise as a whole. A few spin-offs have their own pages, but most don't. This probably needs to be disentangled.
• The Characters pages for each season (which are Spoilers Off) contain non-character tropes and are written to chronicle a contestants full history and achievements in the series, not just characterisation.
• As per Administrivia, Characters pages must have a brief intro for each person listed - the Drag Race pages have none.
• There are some other Fan Myopia issues with terminology and cross-references between seasons and shows. Many pages may not be written in a way that makes sense for a casual reader.
• Not only is "Fishy" a term that suffers from Fan Myopia, it's a loaded and potentially offensive label that runs into ROCEJ (something which, in 2023, was actually called out within the show). Only use it if directly quoting someone — and explain it if using it. Examples should be written to acknowledge it, not to reinforce it as an acceptable term.
• We can trope contestants (and their drag personas) as characters in a semi-scripted narrative, but there are some No Real Life Examples, Please! tropes listed, which should not apply - e.g. The Ace has been removed from some contestants, and tropes like The Twink have been incorrectly listed purely because tropers consider some contestants attractive.
• Tropes like Elimination Houdini (normally YMMV) can be listed on the main pages with [[invoked]] tagging if we're talking about discussion within the show itself (e.g. if someone survives 3 lip syncs and is then referred to as a "lip sync assassin" on camera).
• Information from outside the work creeps into some examples, which again crosses into real life troping - at that point it's no longer reality tv, as we should only be troping what happens in the work.
• Breakout Character should only be used for a contestant who returns in a larger role within the Drag Race franchise for non-gameplay reasons (e.g. if they become a judge).
• Tropes like The Scrappy, Base-Breaking Character and Creator's Pet can only be used if they're acknowledged within ''Drag Race'' itself. In which case they're likely to belong on the Series page for the show mentioning them (with an [[invoked]] tag) as well as, or instead of, YMMV.
• There are recurring issues with misuse of certain tropes to fit Drag Race scenarios - e.g. Dance Battler (now largely cut) was widespread for lip sync scenarios.
• There are some translation and language questions for non-English language shows in the franchise. For the English-language wiki, should English (e.g. from official subtitles) take precedence on quotes etc? At the moment, they're mostly in the original languages with English relegated to notes.
• Pages are very casual about spoilers - including spoilers from other seasons or shows in the franchise, which arguably shouldn't even be on the Spoilers Off pages without warning (e.g. I may be comfortable with spoilers off on a Drag Race UK page, but that doesn't mean I'm expecting spoilers for Drag Race Thailand to be there as well).
• Judges and Pit Crew are troped as if they were characters - but they're not contestants, and this may cross a line into real life troping (especially for people who are not performers with a drag persona).

Edited by Mrph1 on Jan 7th 2024 at 1:32:49 PM