Template talk:Disambiguation

So, I have taken quite a liking to this wonderful template and have been going through and updating characters in the X-Men side of Marvel. Some of them have become quite huge like Beast and some are minor like the poor sad Stranger. The template, like many we have on the site, can be quite large with popular characters (steering clear of Wolverine for now...) and that leads to the common problem of long page loads and tricky edits. So I ask the site to weigh in on a discussion.

The template now has sections for Alternate, Others, and Related (as well as other media appearances). The question is two-fold: Who belongs in a characters "Others" section and who belongs in "Related"? Part two is "Should we have a 'Family' section?"

The common thought seems to be that Others=people who are not the character, but go by the codename (see Storm for three examples, although none have pictures) and Related are the characters, just under a different code name (often the 1602 characters are in this section). I feel that everyone who is clearly the character/codename we are talking about could go in the "Alternate" section (1602 characters included). The Others would be who they are now (see Angel for many examples). I think that the "Related" section, however, should contain family members. I figure that many people are interested in or unaware of some familial connections. I think that family should be limited to the 616 version since they are the most common and are usually duplicated across realities. We can, of course, write more information on character pages when the family relationship is confusing (Wolverine/Sabretooth).

So, what does this wonderful community think about turning the "Related" section into a "Family" section? Check out the bottom of Cyclops's page for an example of what I would like to do.

Artful Dodger 22:09, September 8, 2009 (UTC)