Board Thread:Policies/@comment-10473115-20150611004425/@comment-24091837-20150701103608

Cyber-Shadow6 wrote: I'm not sure I understand. Would you mind clarifying what you mean? Alignment makes everything black and white (and grey, I guess). Emotionally complex characters shouldn't be boiled down to good guys and bad guys. Alignments no longer being used in the OHOTMU only supports that. Well then perhaps Good, Bad, Neutral, Uncertain/Unclear(mostly good), Uncertain/Unclear (mostly bad), & Undecided, as alignments might make it easier. But that is why I suggested original alignment & current alignment categories, as some characters started as villains but reformed for a while only to return to a life of crime. So you can see for reference sake how the character is currently being handled in the comics and/or other media at a glance. I live in a country where Marvel only ships a small portion of their comic titles & when a game/movie/tv series references a specific character I am unfamiliar with or even vaguely familiar with, I wish to quickly reference a characters overall profile stats at a glance without having to read through the paragraph(s) detailing the character. It also helps when you need quick reference for for those not really into comics to have a frame of reference when they check up on characters; also when someone wishes to create a rough template in their own personal comic book character creation process to make a homage character or original character while using a marvel character as reference point; and when someone is doing a thesis or something, and is putting a rough draft together as either a 1st step or as a proposal for their thesis/something similar: then quick referencing things like alignment, current alias, previous alias, base of operations, etc. is extremely useful, regardless of the headaches of edit wars. All pages should have a well moderated comment area underneath in addition to Talk Page & Discussion area. Discussions under a character entry need to be better moderated, & moved to a separate page where all discussions are filed, & a note needs to be put where the discussions were prior to their move informing all & sundry where to find discussions. Sure its a lot of work but it would help neaten things up hopefully.