Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20121209010037/@comment-122657-20121211171857

Whew! I really wanted to Kudos some of these, but every one is so long, I don't agree with every statement in any of them, lol. So here's my two bits.

Is someone going to put these things to votes?


 * Minor Characters - Having been around during the whole Minor Character sub-page mess, and having to fix it all when it stopped working, I must remind everyone that there is a reason why each character is allowed to have their own page. Putting large clumps of people in any space (Manhattan, NYPD, etc) bogs down the page load times and screws up the site.  It's generally a bad idea to build any extremely massive page, which is exactly what you get when you start lumping people into large groups.  I personally say give each character their own page.  You never know when you'll be adding a cop named Charlie from Amazing Spider-Man in the early 80's, and find out that the same guy was drawn and written into a Daredevil book around the same time.  Writers connected that stuff sometimes.  If there's never another appearance, oh well.  At least we have a starting point for that character should they ever appear again.
 * Commercial Property - The complications arisen in the previous debates are exactly why we shouldn't allow this. There's a reason it hasn't been on the site thus far, and good reasons to continue the way we have been going.  There's plenty of work in the Marvel space alone!
 * Actors - Bad idea, in my opinion. Just like minor characters, you're going to have a hell of a time enforcing who is a minor and who is a major actor, deserving of a shot on the site.  Why make a page for an actor when all that information is better organized, cataloged, and maintained elsewhere?  Just link to IMDB or wherever can give users the information they'd be interested in elsewhere.
 * Imprints - I'd say it solely depends on the imprint. (Which is, of course, messy and complicated). Marvel owned characters and stories stay, non-marvel owned properties are linked to other, more comprehensive sites.
 * Pre-Marvel - Allow people to add it if they like. There aren't enough people interested in these to cause problems on the site, and the information is mildy interesting for others to read anyway.  Does it even matter if an old cowboy gets his own page?  It's not like it gets in the way of anything else... unless of course his name is Peter Parker.