Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1618941-20140207094945/@comment-61022-20140228005207

Well the standpoint of the Marvel Comics Wiki there is a pretty straight forward policy on licensed characters. Alien Legion is a licensed title since Marvel no longer owns the rights to the title.

Basically the idea is that any commercially licensed characters not owned by Marvel are not covered in this wiki. Mostly because these characters aren't owned by Marvel, or there are other Wikis based on those commercial properties. Good examples of this are Transformers, G.I. Joe, Dr. Who, Planet of the Apes, Army of Darkness, Star Trek (all with their own Earth-designations) and Star Wars (which does not). However there are some grey areas where there are licensed characters that were incorporated into the Marvel Universe. ROM, the Micronauts, Godzilla, Conan, Red Sonja, Kull, Fu Manchu, Doc Savage and Shogun Warriors being good examples.

The basic idea is, the licensed properties that were incorporated into the Earth-616 universe are covered on the Marvel Wiki. While the material might be covered on more subject specific wikis (Godzilla and Conan for example have their own Wiki) the principal is that since these characters interacted with Marvel characters these are "Marvel" versions of the franchises integrated into the mainstream Marvel continuity, these titles cannot be reprinted without the permission of both Marvel and the license holder as they are integrated into the Marvel universe. There are some exceptions to this, Dark Horse reprints the Marvel Conan and Red Sonja stories, but the characters are part of the Marvel Universe for the purposes of the books published by Marvel. As such they would be covered here.

This gets even more confusing when you consider other licensed properties that have Earth designations. G.I. Joe/Transformers, Dr. Who, Army of Darkness, and Star Trek all have universe designations due to the fact that they had interactions with other characters in the multiverse that are from Earth-616 or other unvierses that have Marvel created characters. Death's Head is a perfect example, he was featured heavily in the Marvel UK Transformers book and that's why the Transformers universe has a designation. The US Transformers Comic book has a universe designation because of the character Circuit Breaker who is owned by Marvel, she -- according to the Marvel Handbook -- has an Earth-616 counterpart, thus the US TF title had a universe designation.

The only universes that are not given universe designations are for cross-overs that involve super-heroes from other companies (DC, Image, etc) when it is an actual cross-over between worlds (mind you there are many stories where the different properties have a "shared" universe and THAT one has a designation)

At any rate, when it comes to licensed properties that exist in their own universes, but we will only cover the characters that are owned by Marvel that came from that universe. Not sure how that applies to Alien Legion though... I've never read the series. I would wager none (other than the universe designations) because other companies have announced reprinting the series (Dark Horse first, but they fell through an now Titan says it will be publishing it)

We do cover issue summaries, but for the primary characters we usually link readers to the profiles for these characters to whatever specific wikis. Using the Transformers as an example again, if you take a look at the Transformers comics that have summaries on the Wiki, if you click on the character appearances it links you to the Transformers Wiki.

But Alien Legion doesn't seem to have its own Wiki... So I guess I could take it up with the other admins and see if we can make a concensus on if we are going to cover that material or not outside of the usual issue summaries.