Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-3406131-20140314000018

Hi!

I need the opinion of my peers about the facts some users (and even myself at a period) add the information of the main version to their alternates: height, weight, hair or eye color (ex: A green goblin always depicted in costume), religion, origin field filled with a text describing the genesis of the character while nothing is really known in that universe (I used it to explain the origin of the powers regarding the race, tech, etc as most of the editors), former occupations and aliases, birthplace or even the whole package of categories regarding the powers (I suspect badges hunting), while nothing of that aren't seen on-panel or stated. Myself, I propose to stick to the facts known: If nothing is stated or depicted in the media, we only add a short version of the real name (as even the middle name change sometimes, I think), the alias corresponding to the costume and a "Seemingly the powers of ...".

My main argument for it is that the Multiverse is filled up with more or less little different and so it is better to assume the less possible of material, and instead give a real work of search. More work of research and less laziness by simply copy-pasting wrong or inexact content. The better example I have ("jurisprudence") is the mutant classification with the precise example of Jean Grey: She was a possessed Omega-class powers in Marvel Anime (or more exactly had a level comparable to Takeo, who possess Omega-class powers), she is an Omega Level mutant on Earth-616, she was an Alpha-class on 295/AoA, and a Class 5 in the movie. So we can't assume that every alternate of an Omega is an Omega.

I think to remember some admins and/or users tended to agreed (while some ignore my edits and add it back).

Here what I add posted on Jasonmaia's wall. "adding automatically information concerning a character definitively doesn't seems right. Better stick to the name (and even maybe not the whole name, but just the "common formal name"), alias and powers in absence of any other element, in order to preserve objectivity and don't spend time on information who aren't even known: Ex: the color of eyes of a Green Goblin seen only with his mask is definitively irrelevant."

Not really clear.

So, agree or disagree? An official position would be useful on the subject. (And if agree won, a template similar to the reference message could be useful, instead of the tetx I posted upper, who is really bad. I created myself (on my computer) some texts for the different things I have to say to editors. 