Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20151231154206/@comment-61022-20151231155337

My position would be that all of the Pre-Marvel non-super-hero stuff (particularly the sci-fi/horror/giant-monster stuff) is of practical value to the Wiki. While their inclusion in anything canonical is unknown in a lot of cases, they are relevant to the Wiki. All those stories are owned by Marvel, so in theory these are characters that could be brought into future stories (although with the exception of the monsters, I doubt many would)

Perhaps a classification of some kind other than an (Earth-###) designation would be more appropriate. Maybe a genre designation instead? (which would also allow us to expand into other non-hero genres like the non-cannon westerns, romance, and war books from the 40s, 50s, and early 60s) With the examples you made above, maybe re-titling them to things like:


 * Aunt May (Horror)
 * Uncle Ben (Horror)
 * The Man (Sci-Fi)

Could work better?

I'd also a page header template that identifies the characters as non-cannon Timely/Atlas era characters. Maybe specify that "at this time these characters are not considered canonical but this designation may be subject to change at a future time."