Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-26066818-20150725023815/@comment-1713281-20160312222500

Well, I have a handful of ideas that I've never done much with for badges, based off the following categories:


 * Category: Earth-199999 and Category: Earth-10005/Category: Earth-TRN414 - I touched on these above within the sub-categories talk. We have editors that routinely edit the site solely within the MCU pages, and the X-Men film series pages, and both of them are also a draw for non-regulars that visit our site, making them prime badge areas.


 * The roadblocks here are
 * 1) a track for these specific categories would only count for a small faction of the pages related to those Universes, because of pages being shoved into sub-categories (i.e. character page edits are in Category: Earth-199999 Characters and would not count towards a Category: Earth-199999 badge track)
 * 2) The X-Men franchise wants to make their timeline more complicated than it needs to be, hence the multiple realities.


 * The solution to this would be, as someone said earlier, to add a specific badge-tracker category to all relevant pages. The only issue I see there would be making sure that the category is subsequently added to future relevant articles. I know there's a way to automate that process, which was used during the Iron Man 3 tie-in badges, but we'd need specifics, especially since that Iron Man 3 process eventually broke down into every newly created page having that Iron Man 3 badge category added on.


 * Category: Films, Category: Television Series, and Category: Video Games - Again, we have a section of our traffic that only comes here for digital medias like these, and why he have never implemented tracks for these formats, when we already have one for "Comics" puzzled me. These are not the most abundant categories, but I feel like they would still make good additions. Films and Video Games would be ready to go immediately, but Television Series runs into the sub-categories issue again, since episodes are not included in the category. There's also the option to create a track for our other format, Category: Novels, but I don't know that it would get much use, as that's always been a weak spot in our coverage.


 * I feel like badges for alternate universes would be an interesting idea, but there are very few that are active and large enough to make it worth our while. Ultimate comes to mind, but that's really it.


 * Badges tied to the bigger imprints (Epic, MAX, Icon, etc.) seemed intriguing, but they again are very small, and may not be a practical use of our time. Then again, they may help to drum up interest in those imprints and their series. While not "imprints" per say, I also think that categories for Timely and Atlas era pages would be a much more widely utilized edit track in this same vein.


 * Finally, "limited-edition" badges have been floated around a number of times, and even implemented with things like the Death of Spider-Man and Iron Man 3 badges, where you only have a certain window to earn them before they disappear forever. The problem is that we'd need admins creating these in an actively and timely manner to capitalize on whatever event or movie premiere the badges are tied to. Additionally, we've previously discussed "seasonal" badges, where badges tied to something re-occurring are turned on-and-off at specific times. One thought passed around during the Iron Man 3 badges was to create MCU-specific badges, which are only activated when a new MCU movie was to premiere in theaters. How this would have been implemented with several concurrent TV and Netflix series premiering throughout the year was not address, as this idea stalled out. I would not push for something like this on the MCU today, but the "seasonal" option is something I think would work with the right topic.

In addition, these were all mentioned above and would make good additions:
 * Category: Marvel Staff - No brainer
 * The Various "Ages" - The main discussion on doing badges for "Golden Age", "Silver Age", etc. would be if we want to
 * 1) Add a specific badge to all relevant pages, to create one super-category
 * 2) Create individual tracks for each relevant sub-category, like Characters, Comics, Teams, etc.
 * 3) Do both; tracks for individual aspects of each Age, all of which would simultaneously contribute to a manually added badge-track category.