Board Thread:Policies/@comment-26066818-20170628131213

I'm currently struggling with how to deal with "citations needed" for articles involving historical figures. Basically, we have a number of entries for figures who never actively appeared in Marvel Comics. They were either mentioned in dialogue at some point, or turned up in in the history section of various nations. However, because their full name or title wasn't mentioned in the Atlas text or dialogue reference, we have "citation needed" even attached to the names of the articles, for example:


 * Ferdinand II (Earth-616)
 * Oliver Cromwell (Earth-616)
 * Franz Ferdinand (Earth-616)

I don't think this sort of article benefits our readers. Historical figures who have interacted with Marvel Universe characters are one thing, but these characters apparently haven't. By having articles for them, all we're providing is small bits of information from their actual history which have been confirmed by Marvel sources, but no NEW information that only a Marvel wiki could provide.

Wouldn't it be better and more informative to just divert with a link to Wikipedia in these cases? 