Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-61022-20150615143617

Hi everybody,

So we're doing some massive clean up of some of our pages and one of the big ones is the Inhumans. I thought I'd let everyone know what the new editing policy on the Inhumans are and how to go forward. We are also asking all active users to help us hunt down the many pages that will need to be fixed in order for this to work. So please read this entire post completely

Motivation:

What prompted this change was review of the base page pertaining to the Inhumans, which is categorised as a Race page. What was determined was that for the longest time the Inhumans were synonymous with the Inhuman Royal Family (Whose proper name is actually the House of Agon) All sources to date -- that's including official Marvel sources and fan compiled sources online -- have usually lumped all Inhumans related things into one group.

Based on the way Race pages are done, it has been foreseen that this is going to cause some issues in terms of page length, narrative, and so on. It became pertinent that we deal with the issue given that the Inhumans movie is coming out in 2019. Until then we expect that Marvel is going to ramp up promotion for the Inhumans leading up to the movie being released. We are starting to see this in the comics as well as in episodes of Agents of SHIELD.

As such, we need to make some distinctions and break things up so that the information we are providing is more fluid. Also there are about 50 years worth of comics that will need to be retagged.

What's Changing

Moving forward we need to stop making the synonymous association between the House of Agon and the entire race of Inhumans. The issue being that while the royal family is very active, not everything they do have an impact on the entire race of Inhumans. Also we wanted to make it easier for to track what stories feature just the royal family, and what stories feature the royal family plus other Inhumans.

As of this writing the Inhumans race page has been locked down while we work on this (I am actually working on the Inhumans right now, so expect changes soon) and a new page for the House of Agon has been created (similarly locked).

But when the pages have been adjusted for this new change, the editorial policy will now be that we differentiate between the House of Agon and the whole Inhumans race.

Changes to Pages

From now on, when referring to the Inhumans, users should determine if they are referring to the entire race, or just the House of Agon and create links accordingly.

When updating the Inhumans race page (when it's unlocked again), the expectation is that users will only be including information that would be deemed as impacting the entire race. While this could (and usually does) involve the Inhuman royal family, this is not exactly an exclusive. That said, users who are referring to the House of Agon in the Inhumans race page should be specifying how the actions of the House impacted the entire Race, as opposed to a play by play of their specific doings.

For example, Amazing Adventures Vol 2 features a story where Black Bolt is lost in San Francisco and stricken with amnesia. In this story arc, the royal family is exiled from Attilan by Maximus who takes over the Inhuman throne again. This situation lasts until when Black Bolt returns and retakes the throne. There are stories in between of the Royal Family active in San Francisco.

In this instance the House of Agon page would document the exile and the events in San Francisco. Whereas the Inhumans race page would document Maximus taking over the throne, and Black Bolt regaining the throne, but not specify the events of what happened to the Royal Family in San Francisco because those events had no impact on the entire race.

We Need Your Help

With this change in policy there are many things that need to be fixed across the Wikia. They are as follows:

Comic Book pages that feature the Inhumans are going to need fixes. We will need tag appearances accordingly. As such, if you come across a page that involves the Inhumans, we will need you to label pages accordingly (or fix ones that have been added previously). They key point of course is to differentiate between the House of Agon and the entire race. As such comics that feature only the Inhuman royal family should count as an appearance of the House of Agon, but not the entire race. When other Inhumans appear in a story, then an appearance for the Inhumans (as a race) should be used. Example: features the first appearance of the House of Agon. No other Inhumans make an appearance, so the appearances in that issue would only be credited to the House of Agon and the individual members of the House. Whereas the following issue features the House of Agon, the Seeker, his nameless minions, and various Inhumans that are featured in flashback. This page would list an appearance of both the Inhumans and the House of Agon. Another example is which features many Inhumans (including Maximus and his followers) but not the Royal Family. This page would list an appearance to the Inhumans as a race, but -- obviously -- no appearance credited to the Royal Family (Maximus is a member of the House of Agon, but he is the only character from the House who appears in the story).

Rationale: The question that is probably coming up is "Well shouldn't pages that only feature the House of Agon also have a listed appearance to the Inhumans, they are Inhumans after all!" But that would be the same as adding Mutants as appearing in a story that features the X-Men. It's correct, but we also want to make a distinction. This will in turn make it easier for users who are looking for a distinction between the Royal Family and the entire Race.

Creating New Pages When it comes to Race pages, the editorial policy is such that all multiversal versions of a given race are all handled on a single page (For example Skrulls, Kree, and Badoon are all handled on one page as opposed to a page for each universal designation) There are exceptions to this rule on occasion, but this is the usual rule and the Inhumans fall under this rule.

As such, users CAN and are ASKED to make differentiations between alternate versions of the House of Agon, and the Inhumans race. This includes creating a page for an alternate reality version of the House of Agon. For example the House of Agon exists on Earth-2149, so a user can create a page for House of Agon (Earth-2149). However one should not assume that every reality has its own version of the House of Agon. As such the general rule will be that if THREE or more of the Inhuman Royal Family is depicted, or there is a reference to there being more than three members, then an alternate reality page for the House of Agon should be created. Where as Earth-2713 only features Black Bolt, but no other members of the Inhuman Royal Family, nor are they referenced. This will avoid the creation of useless pages for a group that makes no appearances and not add anything to the Wikia except for speculative data.

Naturally, we will not be creating alternate realty pages for the Inhumans as a race, this instead will be added to the "Alternate Realities" section of the main page. The only exception to this, and to date I don't recall there being a case of this, is if the Inhumans of an alternate reality are vastly different than any others. But cases like this are exceedingly rare (for example the Chitauri are an alternate reality version of the Skrulls, but they are different enough that they are given a separate page.) 