Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20150717185409

Hey guys,

So I'm soon going to be working on an expanded history of the Inhumans and in doing my research and with my past experience doing an expanded history page for the Skrulls, I have am wondering if lumping all the alternate reality versions of a race into one page is still feasible anymore.

If I'm not mistaken, years ago the rational was that the various alien races did not have much in terms of history that condensing all the alternate reality versions of these races would be lumped together. Further it was the rationale that breaking them all up into individual pages would cause a number of pages with a small amount of information. I also think there was something to do with categorization? Was that a thing? I don't recall...

I'm wondering if the logic behind this is still valid on a couple of points...

(1) In recent years, particularly in the case of the Earth-616 versions of the Inhumans, Skrulls, Kree, and Shi'ar, alien races are getting fleshed out and more and more history is being fleshed out. Particularly with the increase in popularity of space related titles. Histories of these races are massive, in that they could sustain their own page (IE: Skrulls (Earth-616) etc.)

(2) The issue of having pages for each alternate version having their own pages that have a small amount of information is kind of a moot point these days when compared to the countless alternate reality versions of individual characters that are floating around that also have very little history (As one can see browsing any number of popular characters such as Spider-Man, Iron Man etc.)

(3) If there is a categorization issue, can this be fixed? If so, why don't we make that plunge?

I see some benefits from a research perspective in differentiating each alternate version. We can focus on the differences, flesh out these things and not worry about insane page lengths (except for the major races of 616, which will of course, have expanded history pages) Also when it comes to categories (if we can get it working properly) we can have different appearance listings so we can keep all the alternate versions apart from one another.

Thoughts? 