Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20130318164952/@comment-61022-20130320202400

The TRN thing? I think it's a moot point. Sure we coined it, if a similar wiki wants to use a similar system all the power to them. Although I question what point there is in having a Wiki specifically related to Spider-Man when the majority of stuff is here already. But hey, to each their own.

Other media/imprints: I've chimed in on this similar situation and I'd say with the imprints in general, they're usually creator owned characters and such, unless the imprint is all part of a inclusive reality (IE: Ultraverse, Crossgen imprints have a whole universe which encompass the majority of their titles, versus stuff on Icon and Epic were mostly self contained. There are exceptions to the rule obviously) If Marvel entirely owns the content of the imprint (IE: like with Ultraverse and Crossgen) then it should be covered here. If it's creator owned (stuff like Powers, Kabuki, and the like) I think they should not. Or rather, perhaps a sister Wiki should be developed to cover that material.

Commercial properties: Absolutely not. Unless they're owned by Marvel themselves. This is not a hard and fast rule, but I think that when it comes to this stuff and there are other wikis out there that cater to that fan base we should start redirecting them there if such content exists. I am a stickler for not duplicating information that can be found on other wikis, I'd even say that we should go as far as have issue summaries redirect to the related wiki's material on that. For example, the Transformers Wiki has summaries of all the Marvel Comics based on the franchise. Instead of having a similar summary here, just redirect people to that wiki's about the same material (Heck, I wrote the majority of summaries of the Transformers comics here, and having it replaced with a link over to the Transformers Wiki is not an issue for me)

Men in Black, absolutely not, for reasons above. There is a Men in Black Wiki, that material can go there.

There are some commercial properties that are somewhat tied to the Marvel Universe (There are Earth designation numbers for the Transformers universe, Planet of the Apes, Alien Legion etc) and again, I think we should just start redirecting people to those wikis instead of covering the material here.

Unofficial Stuff: Oh barf. No. There's a reason why it's not officially licensed. We might as well start publishing every god-awful fan-fic on the internet while we're at it :P