I just got rejected for submitting a Class as a "Character" for another game, but the Team Fortress 2 Soldier Class is where I got my inspiration from.

Is the Team Fortress 2 Soldier Character Page in error?  Should it be deleted and/or moved to a Concept?

Can someone please explain this discrepancy of consistency to me?

How is the Team Fortress 2 Soldier a concept? Seems like a character to me.

Yea, they got it right its a character

I was going to originally do my stuffs as a Concept but then i saw this, and it just totally threw me off... even though I thought, well in TF2 this kind of is more like a Character than a Concept.

Some of this stuff is very border-line.

I just wish that the Giant Bomb Moderators could just change the Submitted Page from Character to Concept, and vica-versa, instead of just flat-out Rejecting it though... but maybe the backend tools aren't quite ready for that yet.

I can make a guess as to why the soldier is a character while classes in other games aren't.

In most class games, the class isn't built from the ground up, it's just picking weapons, in COD4 if you pick sniper and you just get the camouflage and the weapon.
In TF2 Valve specifically made 9 classes on their own which have their own personalities and aren't just nameless skins.

I guess I was just looking at the word "Class" as just black and white, with no gray.

I will try to look at things more from the context of within each game, from now on.

Thank you all for your great explanations and showing me the error of my ways.

A soldier itself is a concept but since the soldier is a separate person in TF2, he's a character.

Yeah, TF2 even has "Meet the ____" videos where it shows dialogue from each class - its pretty hillarious.

Each character is more than just an arbitrary placeholder for a certain type of combatant - they have a voice, a personality, a taunt.