Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-3048593-20170419232307/@comment-3048593-20170422220834

LoveWaffle wrote: Maybe there should be a third option? Any upcoming movie or TV series based on Marvel Comics could get a page if it meets at least two of the following criteria:
 * 1) It has an official title
 * 2) It has a MM-DD-YYYY release date
 * 3) It has entered production (beyond a pilot for a TV series)

So Marvel's The Punisher, Marvel's Cloak & Dagger and Marvel's Runaways could each have a article under this system because they meet #1 and #3. Logan would have had a page much earlier than it did because its title wasn't announced until a few months after it completed filming. New Warriors wouldn't because it only has the title, nor would have Most Wanted because it never got past the pilot stage.

I know it's not a fool-proof system, but the current one isn't, either (just see what happened to the Inhumans movie). But I think meeting any two of those criteria means we can say with a fair degree of confidence that it will get an official release.

I do think an official title should be the bare minimum for having the page created, whether it be a film, show, or even video game.

For the 3 MCU films that they have release dates for in 2020, even if we happened to know what one of those films would be the focus on (let's say another movie about Doctor Strange), I don't think that would warrant creating the pages for them (like Doctor Strange 2 for example) if Marvel themselves haven't confirmed what the titles of them will be.

And if Marvel confirms a title for something, we create a page for it, and if Marvel changes their mind on the title, we can change it to the new confirmed one. In terms of planned films it has happened twice with Avengers: Infinity War (moved from Avengers: Infinity War - Part I) and Avengers: Infinity War - Part II (which hasn't gotten a new official title yet). And for the latter I don't think we should move the page to be named "Untitled Avengers sequel" or Avengers 4, or even delete it, just because it has a release date and started production back to back with the former.

And in terms of video games, there is the planned PS4-exclusive Spider-Man game which is coming out in 2017 but has no MM-DD, is under development (since they usually announce video games during development), but is still under the working title of Spider-Man PS4. So unlike something like Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite (which has a title, is coming out in 2017 with no MM-DD, and is under development), I don't see the need for the creating a page for that Spider-Man game just yet, even if it had a MM-DD announced for it, which if once they do announce it, it will probably be around the time the official title is also announced for it anyway.