Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20130730145643/@comment-61371-20141204013059

Undoniel wrote: I have to say: Yes.

And that would relieve us from a lot of "I create a page, add the more categories as I can and run".

That could also save us the pain of erasing some TRN by not creating them in the beginning. About that: Does we have someone in link with the appendix ? We loose way much time in TRN due to realities being named a year or two after (cf. X-Treme X-Men).

The counter-argument would be: If readers want to know more about an ongoing arc/event: Where do they go ?

Here's the real argument (as you've hit on): Do you want us to have accurate information, or do you want us to be up-to-date? Waiting for an arc to end is nice, but even that's not enough. How many comics have had one arc that establishes something, a second arc that deals with something completely different, then a third arc that retcons/undoes the first arc? We're ALWAYS at the mercy of the latest story, because the latest story is ALWAYS potentially going to undo what we've done. Yeah, it would be nice to wait until something wraps up, but like you've pointed out TRNs, let's look at Red Hulk; a character we KNEW was going to be an existing character. But it wasn't until, what, two years later that we found out it was Thunderbolt Ross? He was the star of a comic. Do we not create a page for him because we know he's someone we know (female Thor's another example of this. Anyone using the Ronin identity is another), or do we create, essentially, a temporary page until we know more about who he is so people looking for info on mystery character #9 can get what we DO know about him?

ADour wrote: Well, I am one of the users that like to keep the wiki updated as much as possible. But I always take into consideration the pages I've edited, to keep updating them until the event/story ends.

However, what I do really hate is when users create a new page and leave almost no information. As if just putting an image would help whoever enters the site know what's up with said character.

Some people forget the fact that a page is made for the people who don't know about its subject. If you read the comic and know all about the character, good for you, but you're supposed to create the page for those who don't know about the character. Having a "The history of this character is unknown" in a page is almost as useful as having no page.

Even SOME information (even just a picture) is something. I've seen this site used as a reference based SOLELY on us being the only ones with a picture of a character (or simply being the first that pops up in a search engine). Is more information nice? Absolutely. But having NO page means no one's drawn to it, and when I was starting out here, I was always reluctant to create pages. Having a page that's already there, and is blank (or even just has an image)? That's a blank canvas. That means I, a reluctant new editor, know this character deserves a page and I can be the one to add real information. I can be first without worrying about being the one who creates an unnecessary page (or creates one that doesn't use the correct naming convention). No information sucks, and more is ALWAYS better, but it's not always a bad thing. I know a lot of my early edits were just adding pictures (and a few minor things). It's a small thing, but taking a character from having nothing to having a picture and, say, a gender, is something. It's a foundation for more.

Having said that, it IS annoying to see people going through and JUST adding blank pages and not really doing anything else. That's...annoying.