Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-4651179-20131204015706

I want to bring to the table a new idea.

We have a pretty strict rule not to add the appearances of characters and the creation of new pages for characters until the comic where said characters appear and the new character appears is released.

But we basically do the total opposite with movies and TV series. We let the appearances of characters be put in the pages for movies months before the film is released, and we let characters' appearances to be written in articles for episodes of TV series days before said episode is premiered.

It is certainly not the best thing to list the appearances of characters before a movie comes out exclusively based only on the information we are given, neither to create a page for a new character which would demand certain modifications after the movie in which said character appears comes out.

A clear example would be Iron Man 3, not only there were certain corrections (and many more) needed to be made when the movie actually came out, but also one page had to be moved because of the events in the film, as we had been technically giving the wrong information for months that the Mandarin was the Mandarin-Mandarin.

To prevent things like this happening, I suggest to prohibit the creation of pages of characters and the addition of appearances until the film officially and internationally comes out. Not only something like not allowing to put the category of a character's appearances, but also to prohibit the listing of characters.

Maybe there's no need to be strict, we could allow the listing of characters in the wikia code of the page (to keep track of them), but not the appearance of said list in the html version. Maybe by writting between the list, or maybe by placing some kind of command that doesn't let the list be shown until certain date (like what happens in the comics' pages, that the list is not visible until the date of publication of the comic).

I don't think there would be any need to allow any kind of anything related to the creation of the pages, as before the release of a movie, the page for the new character from said film usually has nothing more than an image.

A similar prohibition can be made for TV episodes. We can give the example of an episode of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. which already has the appearances listed although it hasn't been released yet. 