Thread:DoNConoscente/@comment-61022-20170703165447/@comment-61022-20170703174923

No, you can't. There is nothing to support that other than presumption. Logically speaking, using the NYPD as an example, you have been tagging officers named Joe as though they are the same guy. However, New York City has over 8 million people, of them there are over 40 thousand police officers. Joe is such a common name it seems highly unlikely that one generic police officer is on all of the scenes you have attributed to him. Likewise, if you look at how these characters are drawn, they either look different or are drawn so generically they are indistinguishable with any other background person.

The going rule is this: Unless a character of this nature makes reference to a past encounter or event that they witnessed then they aren't the same character. Example: The cab driver in has appeared in  and. The reason why that connection is made is because that cab driver mentions at least one of those past encounters. Conversely, every NYPD officer named Joe that you have tied together don't make such references.

Frankly, these are all one-off characters. If it were up to me, I wouldn't allow people to create pages for these characters. It's junk information that doesn't really belong anywhere but comic summaries. Nobody is going to go looking around for "Joe the police officer" on this Wiki. There are other, more important information missing on this Wiki that we should be focused on instead of such trivial information. However, others seem to think that we need to add pages for everything. So if you really insist on creating these junk pages, can you at least do some proper research.