Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20121209010037

As most of you have seen, there was a large thread in the external forums that covered a large amount of content, all related to policy changes. This thread is not only for those who haven't seen it, or didn't get an opinion in, but also to so that we can finalize some opinons and either impliment new/updated policy, remold stuff we don't like into stuff we want, or disregaurd sub-par stuff.

I'll be listing different issues in sections, and it'd be helpful if everyone would leave an opinion on each section present (even if that opinon is indifference). So here we go:

Minor Characters
So minor characters have popped onto the radar again. Some example of what we mean are the resident galleries on pages like Manhattan or New York Police Department (Earth-616), most added by DoNConoscente. A solution that has been presented are adding these characters to the glossary: An image with a brief description and an appearance note.

The main questions are
 * What is the cut off for minor characters getting a full character page?
 * If we do decide that extremely minor characters need a place, where is it? The Glossary? Galleries on associated pages? Subepages of certain organizations.

Commercial/Licensed Properties
Keeping with the theme of capitalizing on the possibility of the glossary, the option to allow commercial property to have glossary entries was raised. I'd like to note that pretty much everyone that commented on this one shot it down, but I figured I'd put it here to make sure we're uniform (or close enough) on it.

Actors
In the last of the Glossary expansion ideas, the idea to allow actor listings, something we've outlawed up to this point, was also proposed. In order to keep this under control, actor listings should be limited to actors whose characters are notable enough to have character pages.

Another option for actor coverage is something from DC's side, which is their "Actor" namespace, which functions the same as our old "Comics" naespace, for those of you that remember it.

Imprint Content
The question was raised over how we want to cover imprint stuff going forward. This is a hefty subject, as it expands into so much more than comics: Malibu brings the Men in Black series to the fold, with movies, video games and even a TV series. The same goes with Kick-Ass and it's video game from Icon. Not to mention we have dozens of imprints from the previous decades that have come and gone.

Our current policy is non-linked appearances and plot summaries, nothing more. Question is do we want to expand this? Do we want to start expanding realities (likely TRNs) to imprint worlds? Giving them full character pages, appearances, images, the works? Or do we leave it the way it is?

Pre-Marvel Era
The question of how much coverage to give Timely and Atlas-era material (or pretty much everything prior to FF#1) has been raised as well. Currently, everything that is considered Marvel Canon has some presence or mention here in it's proper reality. These changes would effect the odd-ball stuff: one-off sci-fi, westerns, true crime and WWII stories from anthology series.

To be frank, 99% of this can be mainlined into Earth-616, with the futuristic sci-fi stuff sometimes needing TRNs. But, none of this has officially (as in Handbook, Marvel Comics-approved officially) been added into continuity. So either we follow Marvel's lead and not cover it (using the unlinked appearances and issue summaries we currently use for imprints) or add it in (within reason) so that it is covered, as most of this would never see the light of day otherwise.

Summary
That is the condensed breakdown of changes and thoughts of changes that we have. Feel free to opinionate and such. Hopefully we can get this all discussed so it doesn't end up forgotten about. Post away. 