Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20121209010037/@comment-1713281-20121209231355

I don't know that you have a flaw really. Maybe it just seems that way because it's easy.

I think that we all can admit that we need a line in the sand. If we don't have a cut-off somewhere, our users will add everything; it's in their nature.

At some point I'll need to give my opinion on the subject, so why not now. I agree with most, but not all, of the points made by Nick. Characters not interacting with a character established in a Marvel reality, mainstream or otherwise, don't need an article here. On top of that, as Nick points out, most of the big ones have wikis here on Wikia that cover, and in most cases specialize, in the characters and series, and it's not effective to cover them again when we can link to a place with much more detail than we would care to have.

However, I disagree with a few of these things as well. If John Carter shows up in Manhattan and shares some beers with Spider-Man, then he upgrades to in-continuity. That's the same way that Outlaw Cowboy #36 makes the cut when he crosses Apache Kid. And even if the Transformers or G.I. Joes or Earth-5556 Doctor Whos don't seem to fit here, they still make the cut because the have established reality numbers.

I realize that my views may be very black and white, but I feel that they need to be. If you make aan exception for one character or series, people will either want an exception for another, or simply assume the exception counts for another. Is it the solution I'd like? No, I hate it, as it cancels out most of the sci-fi/horror schlock from the Atlas-era anthologies like Journey Into Unknown Worlds or Adventures into Terror that I would otherwise index to death. But I think that it's the best for the site, because it's the easiest (in my eyes) and the most efficient.