Thread:Nausiated/@comment-24800939-20161019140857/@comment-61022-20161019151700

Yeah I was going to add outlines later.

But I like the idea of merging the main page with the overview page. That might be a better way of doing it. The issue that comes up then is what do we do with the information that is already there? I'm thinking we'd have to cull it in favor of overviews for each section.

On the one hand, it handles all the data gaps (because most contributors seem more interested in adding new stuff), we can cull anything that was swiped from somewhere else (Wikipedia, the Appendix, Handbooks) which is a real problem with a lot of the major characters.

The other hand, we can clean up the main profiles. People can add the new stuff to their hearts content and curious people can read more about the expanded parts of the older stuff.

Which raises a question: When do we shift stuff from the main page to an expanded history page?

I think it should boil down to appearances and stacking it up to the Sliding Timescale. I think a character who has made over 40 appearances is a good candidate for an expanded history page, because by that point their histories are getting long in the tooth.

Once they hit that 40 appearance mark, we summarize everything prior to the 40 mark and organize everything else (in greater detail) in the expanded history page.

With characters who are well travelled (who we can anticipate being in circulation year after year) we can shuffle stuff into the expanded history page as soon as a Modern Age year rolls over. So we'd roll everything after a four year publication span (which equals one year Marvel time) for example all the stuff from November 2014 to October 2018 would get rolled back to an expanded history page after that date.

Certainly something to work on and look into. I think once we have a practical model we can look at the possible applications. I'm going to be working on finishing Reed Richards expanded history up to the present over the next while so we should use that as an example once it's all done.