Thread:Undoniel/@comment-3406131-20180524232225/@comment-4548390-20180605222811

Undoniel wrote: The Many-Angled One wrote: Undoniel wrote: Harasar wrote: Undoniel wrote: The description as "staff" for authors that have never worked for Marvel If they never worked for Marvel, and some of them (like Mary Shelly) died long before the Marvel even existed, then maybe it is better to just make a redirect to their wikipedia page? I don't know if it's a shared opinion, but for me, Wikipedia must be limited to links at the bottom of pages. I think there is relevancy to have a Robert E. Howard or even a Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Earth-1218) page on the Marvel wikia. Since we are a wiki that dwell primarily with what's Marvel, I think having articles for people who have no history within the Marvel Universe is unnecessary given that information about them can be easily found in other sites such as the Wikipedia. Characters that have should have a page here, like David Bowie and Beyoncé for example.

Nausiated wrote: A workaround to the "Staff" issue is to put a preface in the bio explaining that they did not work for Marvel, but had their works adapted by Marvel staff members. I think this would work nicely. I'm not sure where you're heading, given the two parts of your message, and the mention to characters here. But Robert E. Howard (Earth-1218) and Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Earth-1218) are part of "what's Marvel" in a certain way (being credited kind of makes them part of the team posthumously/retroactively), and I don't feel like Wikipedia does the work that good, when it is our part to focus on their relation to Marvel.

For Nausiated's proposal:

I don't think I have the right phrasing here. And should the text be in a messagebox, or in italics? I'm talking about categorizing real people as " " whenever they're mentioned when they have no history at all in-universe. That would make creating pages for them here no different than any other page that can already be found outside, and that's not our work. If a real person does have a history in-universe, their page should chronicle that and leave what's already known per "our reality" to Wikipedia to fill out (as in the person should click in the Wikipedia link in the page to get their full history per "our reality"). Earth-1218 pages of people who do have a history in other realities or people whose stories were later adapted are okay.

I think the message is fine and the messagebox works better as it catchs more attention than a text in italics.