Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20160816205005

Hi everybody,

So during Community Connect, I had a chance to talk to Jamie about a bunch of stuff and how to move forward. We talked a little bit about how to deal with retcons, and I posed my idea and he thought it was a pretty good one, so I thought I'd run it by everyone and see if we should make it official policy or not.

As I'm sure all of you are aware a lot of Marvel retcons typically modernise and update past events to fit with the Sliding Timescale. Some of the more contentious issues that come to mind are *where* Tony Stark was injured and became Iron Man (many accounts state Vietnam while more recent stories say Afganistan), how old Sue Storm was when she first met Reed Richards (original accounts state she was 13, later stories say she was in her late teens because that's less creepy), where the Fantastic Four's ship crashed/how they were mutated/the technology used/why they were going into space, or when and how Ulysses Klaw murdered T'Chaka.

I was thinking about all of these conflicting stories, and if you were to simplify these events down to their basic points of these events are basically the same.

What usually comes to a point of contention with people is which version of events we accept as "truth". I was thinking perhaps it is better that we take an "all inclusive" approach to a certain degree.

I was thinking that in character profiles we should simplify the event down to the basic explanation of events, reference the comic where said events were originally told, then put in a notation that goes into it further -- explaining all the variations of the story and what comics those variations are depicted in.

For example, if you take a look at my Reed Richards expanded history (notably Notes 2, 4, 7, 8 and 9 as examples)

What do you all think? 