Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-4651179-20180806025410/@comment-20551-20181218190616

Thanks for this, and thanks for Annabell for directing me here. Re: Marvel_Database:Layout_Guide, we have several instances where appearances are "Throng of unnamed bystanders". 1.) I think this is totally useless (virtually every comic book has someone's knee cap in the background of a panel), 2.) it doesn't actually say who appears just that someone or something appears, and 3.) we should explicitly say on this page that appearances are just for individuals with some kind of identification: be it a clearly-identifiable member of an alien race or someone whose job can be inferred from his clothing and is relevant to the story (e.g. a member of AIM--something that could be linked) or who has a name. Writing that passersby appear in a Spider-Man comic book is in no way helpful and doesn't meet the purpose of this section which is to identify and to mark for appearances.