Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20160318145300/@comment-61022-20160323135751

Mrkermit wrote: I agree that empty pages which most likely will remain empty should be deleted. However, changing their format to some character stub won't help the situation because they would still be empty pages just with fewer empty fields and sections. Right now I would prefer to put those minor characters on gallery pages like the one linked from this post. Arranged to major cities, countries, continents or universes, depending on page lengths. But as already mentioned, it's not really a topic of this thread.

I agree that people could still potentially leave blank pages. Perhaps more enforcement should be made. Like if someone is going to create a new page they need to add something more than the bare minimum. If it were up to me and we had the ability, I'd revoke people's ability to CREATE new pages if that's all their doing until such a time they make a better contribution. I'd rather there be no page at all than someone just creating profile and slapping a picture and thinking they're accomplishing something on here.

As for the one-off, on-the-street characters.. I really think we should send out a global message to users telling them that there is a moratorium on creating any entries for these characters until we come up with a standard on what constitutes a character page and where they get mention if there is not one. But again, if it were up to me, I'd put a full stop on adding this information until some other information has been added..

Perhaps if we set up some information gap targets... Like say "Okay, we're asking users to focus on comic book summaries from 19xx. Or we need updates on characters from Earth-XXX" etc.

Mrkermit wrote: Categorizing users of popular codenames should be given a thought, but I would use only one category for each codename. In previous example, (1)primary and (2)secondary should be lumped to one common category and (3)temporary and (4)impostors won't necessary need an own category. Of course there might be exceptions to that rule, but in general, we shouldn't categorize character with one temporary use of a title to avoid the same problem as was with villain categories.

I like the example of structuring Steven Rogers's disambiguation but I'm sure that there would be also other possibilities to do that. Main point is that different disambiguation pages could and should be structured differently.

Yeah, my outline works specifically for characters who are "well travelled" meaning they've been reinvented, rebranded, had a multitude of alternate identities, existed without powers in other universes, and have been impersonated by both good guys and bad guys. Obviously for characters who have more "stable" identities (for lack of a better term) would not have these distinctions.