Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20150527024404

With Secret Wars in full swing, I think we should take some time to try and figure out what we're going to do moving forward. I know the event is still going and the outcome of the event is not going to be apparent until it's all over with, but I think we should start thinking of what to do so we can establish some ground rules for post-Secret Wars edits. Otherwise it's going to a huge free-for-all and an utter mess (think the Spider-Verse fiasco to the Nth degree)

One thing I would suggest is that we extend our moratorium on post-Secret Wars updates for a few months after the event is over, that will give us time to crunch through the event and figure out how to go forward.

Or at least lift the ban on updating character profiles and the like with items that occurred in Secret Wars (since at a glance it looks like these are still characters from the old multiverse until the event is over), but banning edits for anything AFTER the event until we have a clearer idea of what's happening next and how Marvel is choosing to classify it.

If we get people grumbling or complaining, we should point out that there are still tons of older material that is missing from the Wikia. Adding emphasis that while making contributions of what is new and current is great, there is still 75+ years of Marvel history that needs attention in a lot of important areas. But I digress, getting back to Secret Wars....

Without having read anything to do with the event yet, I would suspect that in the aftermath we're going to be looking at a whole new universe. In which case I think creating new profiles for all the post-Secret Wars characters. Something similar to what they do over at the DC Wikia separating Pre and Post Crisis versions of characters. But whereas they only did that for select characters (Batman, Superman have Earth-One and New Earth/Prime Earth profiles, while characters like the Barry Allen Flash and Hal Jordan Green Lantern do not everything is merged together) I think we should do separate profiles for ALL characters who appear post Secret Wars. (Because it's my opinion that if people actually did full profiles for Allen and Jordan they'd find that there are significant distinctions between their Pre and Post Crisis versions that would warrant separating the characters, they just haven't bothered because it wasn't apparent initially until a few decades after the original Crisis now it's too daunting an undertaking for most people)

Of course that begs the question of how do we categorize these characters? Something like "Peter Parker (Post-Secret Wars)" seems a little clunky, but it might be the best way to do it until we have some kind of identifier for this new universe.

Thoughts? 