Thread:Undoniel/@comment-3406131-20160105150003/@comment-61022-20160106191948

I think with the previous of the characters from past Ragnaroks.. When you go through all the published material.. doesn't really amount for much if you were to condense it to something that would practically fit a primary profile page. Thor would really be the only one with a lot of substantial information. Having read all those stories, they mostly focus on Thor and a lot of the other characters appear at least in one panel or to say a few lines and are not really integral to the plot of those stories. This is followed by Odin and Loki as second most used. The rest of them are there to fill up panels or a minor contrivance to further the plot along. For the most part, I figure that with the majority of these characters that information would fill up a paragraph of space -- including explanations about the Rangarok cycles and myth and blah blah blah -- So I think it's just breaking off information and giving users another page to navigate to find a small bit of detail.

If there is an extensive amount of material from those periods (like with Thor and Odin for example) perhaps a condensed version of events should go on the main page.

My vision with the Expanded History pages is that we could provide condensed versions of a character's history and then a link within a heading to a specific section of the Expanded History page for users who want to read more about that particular section of a character's history. Like with Thor for example, we have a heading in the history about his Origins, having a link first that says "See Also: Expanded Origin of Thor" followed by however many paragraphs that go into the important points. And continue on that trend with different sections.

I was thinking a way of "dividing" up a main profile page was divvying up headings into different categories (as applicable):

- Known history before they became a hero/villain whatever (So like, for most characters all their life events becoming super-heroes, or at least their life prior to the modern age) - If they became a super-hero prior to the modern age (Like the 1940s for example) we break all events down by decade as needed. - If they became a hero in the modern age, follow the "pre-hero/whatever" history with a heading about their origins.

Then everything else divided up by decades of publication (not specifically citing a decade of publication, but with generalized headings).

Like Spider-Man for example, I'd rework the main page like so:

(1) Early Life: Which covers the main points of his childhood. (2) Origin: Go into his origins, hitting all the pertinent points. (3) "Sixties Era" - Or basically his early career, covering the important points from that era (including all flashback stories that happen in that era that were published after the fact. Think Untold Tales and the like) (4) "Seventies Era" - Which would cover the following decades important points. (5) "Eighties Era" - More of the same but stories from the 80s (6) "Nintes Era" (7) "2000s era" (8) 2010's.

And so on... And then of course when things get larger in scale (like for major events like Secret Wars, Infinity War, the Clone Saga etc...) we have sub-subheadings.

Another method I would recommend is actually breaking down events based on the progress of years in the modern age. If the formula for the Sliding Timescale we could identify a "Year One", "Year Two", "Year Three" model and break things down on a yearly basis... Although that much detail might work better for an Expanded History Page (I was thinking of reorganizing my work on the Fantastic Four to fit that kind of esthetic based on the Sliding Timescale Model since they're the easiest to track from Year One to present)