Board Thread:Policies/@comment-10473115-20160314013421/@comment-61022-20170420155041

I think I have a solution for the alternate reality thing for costumes. I think it can be integrated with the gallery method I described above. However, there are circumstances of where costumes in alt realities are identical to a pre-existing costume on Earth-616. Instead of having column after column of visibly identical costumes that exist in alternate realities (because you know someone is going to be crazy enough to do that and think this is a productive use of time) I think we can add another category like this:

Because usually these similar costumes there is nothing really to say about them other than the fact that they were wearing that particular costume in that reality.

I think with the costume list we can document all the Earth-616 costumes first then after that move onto the unique costumes from alternate realities after (Kind of like how we organize the disambig pages)

Now, when you get into a situation that is more complicated (example: Iron Man's different armors and how they are identified in different realities) it takes some thought.

The way I see it, in a situation like that there are only a handful of realities where there is enough suits of Iron Man armor that are unique enough to warrant their own pages I think the page hierarchy should work like this:


 * Iron Man Armor - A generic disambig page that identifies that there are many unique armors across various realities:
 * Earth-616
 * Earth-1610
 * Earth-19999
 * etc. etc. etc.
 * Other Multiversal Armors

With Iron Man, I think that a suit of armor should get its own unique page if there are a sufficient amount of information about it. Anything where there isn't much information about a specific suit of armor we should delegate to a gallery style idea like what I have suggested.

For the more expansive universes with multiple armors with great details should have their own specific disambig pages (naturally the big three here would be Earth-616, Earth-1610 and the MCU) I think that for these incredibly detailed pages we have a gallery style disambig page with a "Click Here for more" the brief descriptions of the armor and it takes you to the more detailed item page.

Then for all the various unique alternate reality armors that are unique to whatever reality that are just an esthetic appearance (meaning it looks different but nothing is really explained about its capabilities... Think that various What If? realities where Iron Man has a unique suit of armor) then the "Other Multiversal Armors" page would be a catch all for those armors.