By all available evidence, apparently not. But that's irrelevant to the thread.
Well put, blacbird.
I very much doubt that Dickens, Twain, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Wharton, P.K. Dick, Bradbury or any number of other highly regarded writers ever consulted a "list of character traits", exhaustive or not.
Possibly, they did not. We may never know, we can only surmise. . .
By far, the best way to come up with character traits is to observe actual people, and pay attention to how they behave.
You may be right, blacbird, but lists like that may be helpful to some writers. Writers look for inspiration in a lot of places. People watching, TV watching, reading, imagination. And lists like that. Observation may be the best way for most, but not for all. And I can imagine how a list like that might be a stepping off point for a writer, a point at which to start one's research or observations.
If anything, I take umbrage with the "negative" connotation there, as that's subjective. What one finds negative another may find endearing. Like, for instance, someone's tendency toward self-deprecation, or one's habit of trying to eck out the last woid. 
caw
Northstar. 
