Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-61022-20151108045713

Okay everyone, with some discussion with the other admins, it seems like I'm point leader on the editorial policy on how to handle the Secret Wars related characters. I am pleased to announce that we will be opening the floodgates on creating character profiles and alternate reality pages for the Secret Wars events.

EDITS THAT ARE STILL BANNED:
Please refrain from adding anything OF DETAIL pertaining to characters belonging to the Earth-616 and Earth-1610 universes until Secret Wars Vol 1 and Ultimate End Vol 1 are over. We will now be accepting GENERAL EDITS on these characters. **********

Details such as if a character lives or dies, goes through a dramatic change, or anything pertaining to their fate must not be revealed until the event is over. Likewise if you are adding anything regarding the All-New All-Different Marvel that may reveal something that happens in Secret Wars, please refrain from adding it until the event is over to avoid spoilers for other readers.

Alternate Reality Pages
We will not be assigning TRN's to alternate realities that comprise of Battleworld. Presently any information regarding those domains are being added to the location pages belonging to that domain. As such, creating a TRN page is pointless and redundant.

As such WE WILL NOT BE CREATING EARTH-TRN### PAGES FOR BATTLEWORLD DOMAINS.

When Marvel or the Unofficial Appendix assigns a reality number to a specific domain, we will rename the Battleworld Domain to that Earth-####.

So how to we identify the characters? Glad you asked.....

PAGE NAMES FOR SECRET WARS CHARACTERS:
From what we can gather from reviewing the available source material, there are not many universes used in the Secret Wars that are ones previously seen. Many are based on earlier events that happened on Earth-616, or are without a doubt variants of previously visited realities. Until Marvel gives some official numbers we are assigning special TRN numbers to each character. '''There are notable exceptions, they will be covered in the next heading. PLEASE KEEP READING.'''

Logic
This wiki has an in-house policy of assigning Temporary Reality Numbers (or TRNs for short) to realities that have been seen, but not officially indexed. An "official" index is either listed in a Marvel Handbook or on the Unofficial Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe.

We have maintained a detailed list of TRNs, these numbers are non-renewable when an official designation is provided.

In the case of Battleworld, we at least have some kind of identification for most of the domains. As such, we're assigning special TRNs to identify that these are fragments of Battleworld, at least until we have an actual universe designation to apply to them.

As such, if you recall, the Battleworld map lists numbers for each domain, all Battleworld TRNs will follow those numbers for identification purposes. Going forward, all unindexed domains will be identified as:

Earth-BW##

For example, the Peter Parker of the Spider-Island domain would be identified as: Peter Parker (Earth-BW07) because the Spider-Island is identified as domain #7 of Battleworld on the official map.

Battleworld Domains Not On the Map
Of course there are other domains are not numbered or listed on the official map. Breakland, Old Town, X-Topia Province, the Negative Zone etc.

Characters of these domains will be identified with an Earth-BW-- Which will represent letters in the name of each domain.

When you have a domain that has two words in the name, or is a compound word, you will use the first letters of each word, or the letters where the compound word can be broken up into two words.

Examples:


 * The Negative Zone will be identified as Earth-BWNZ


 * Breakland will be identified as Earth-BWBL


 * X-Topia Provice will be identified as Earth-BWXP

When the domain only uses a single word for identification the TRN designation will use the first and last letter in the word.

Examples


 * Wittland will be identified as Earth-BWWD


 * Nutopia is identified as Earth-BWNA


 * Salvation is identified as Earth-BWSN

The Deadlands and the SHIELD
As these are kind of no man's lands that are a dumping ground for undesirables and keeping characters apart, it will be incredibly confusing trying to separate every one. In order to avoid edit wars alternate characters that cannot be identified as belonging to a specific domain in Battleworld will be placed in a general that will be a "catch all" for all these characters.

This will be specifically the case for all the zombies in the Deadlands, given that multiple versions of one character appear in the Deadlands with little to no identification as to which domain they exist in.

'''If you are creating a character profile for someone who appears in the Deadlands or on the SHIELD and you assign a TRN number as above, be prepared to support your claims with detailed references in page, primarily what comic, what page, and panel that supports you assigning a TRN. If you don't know how to add a reference tag to a page, now is a VERY good time to go and read our tutorials.'''

Example: As such, a Deadlands entry for Sabretooth would be:

Sauron (Earth-BWDL)

The reason why we are calling it Sauron(Earth-DL) and not Kyle Lykos (Earth-DL) is because, as seen in Marvel Zombies Vol 2 there is more than one zombie version of Sauron in the Deadlands. However, we cannot assume that they are the SAME person, as there are version of characters that are different genders, ethnicity, or completely different characters.

Since there is more than one Zombie Sauron, information regarding BOTH will be ADDED TO THE SAME PAGE. This is because neither have had a Battleworld Domain assigned to them.

The Elsa Bloodstone that is seen in Marvel Zombies Vol 2 would be identified as:

Elsa Bloodstone (Earth-BWSD)

Characters from Unidentified Domains
There are some characters who are seen in a story are identified as belonging outside of a specific domain (The prisoners captured in Red Skull Vol 2 for example, Lady Deathstrike, Jack O'Lantern and Winter Soldier are from unidentified domains)

These characters will be identified simply Earth-BWUD

UD standing for "Unidentified Domain"

As with the Zombies, EVERY similar character from an unidentified domain will be placed in a single profile until they are otherwise identified clearly.

Identified Domains
The following domains have been identified:


 * Old Man Logans domain has been confirmed as Earth-807128 as specified in.


 * The Sorcerer Supreme Punisher seen in is from Earth-9140, based on information available in that book there is no reason to believe he is an alternate. (possessed by the spirit of Doctor Strange, is stated that his universe was destroyed and he has no domain in which he belongs to, etc)


 * The different Spider-People who appear in Spider-Verse Vol 2 are all the versions that appeared in the original Spider-Verse event as confirmed in.


 * The characters appearing in Secret Wars Vol 1 and Ultimate End Vol 1 that are obviously either from Earth-616 and Earth-1610.

Is this Domain this reality?

 * Domain of Apocalypse is NOT Earth-295 per this interview


 * Is Dystopia supposed to be Earth-9200. No there are a number of differences particularly the inclusion of Ruby Summers who appears to belong to that reality as opposed to Earth-1191 where we have previously seen a Ruby Summers. This version of Dystopia will have a TRN assigned to it until it can be conclusively explained which realities these characters are from as there is too much ambiguity at this present time.

DISCUSSIONS
Obviously the above does not cover every possible situation. '''Rather than bogging down this thread with conversation. If you wish to discuss how something is categorized we ask that you please create a NEW thread in the Questions and Answers section. The subject should start with 'SECRET WARS EDITING POLICY: Then followed by the topic you wish to discuss.

Example Title:

SECRET WARS EDITING POLICY: Why I think Dystopia is Earth-XXXX.'''

Please keep discussions respectful, do not engage in edit wars, also if you are going to make assertions that a certain character belongs to a specific reality, YOU WILL NEED TO PROVIDE PROOF FOR PEER REVIEW. Assigning a solid Earth designation must be done on the basis of FACTS, not supposition. 