Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20160912200936/@comment-61022-20161031190208

So I've been plugging away at different models for Expanded History pages with my ongoing work on Reed Richards. Shout outs to Copeinator for helping me out with some concepts and such. I think I found a method that works best (separate pages for each deviating points)

The more that I'm digging deep into Reed Richards personal history I am finding that the Sliding Timescale is mostly flawless. There are some hiccups here and there but they are minor continuity glitches here and there (especially around publications circa 2004-2005) but the 4:1 ratio model works at least for the Fantastic Four, but I don't see why it won't gel with others. I think that method of breaking up expanded history profiles will work with any character who was introduced (or active) between the publication years 1961-1965.

But that'll take some more research to figure out if it can work outside of those parameters.

Anyway, me and Cope were talking about how to best integrate the main pages with the expanded history pages. I think that as we roll out expanded histories we can go through the main pages and condense all the data. We can focus less detail on older stuff and have the main page go over the origin of a character and then explain what is happening to them recently. Anything else can be pushed into the expanded history area and expanded upon in the appropriate detail.

This would help in a few ways:

(1) The main pages would be shorter and just cover the basics and what is current.

(2) We can root out plagiarised and unreferenced information.

Then we just set a stop off point where we roll stuff into an expanded history page. Me and Copeinator talked about some ideas in more detail here but this would be reserved for characters who are more-or-less continually published year after year and that the roll over would take place when the next Timescale year rolls over (the next roll over is October 2017)

We were also talking about word counts before rolling things back for characters who have longer histories, that after 2500-3000 words we start creating an expanded history page(s) for that character.

I was thinking we could reorganize a page like this: Here's how the Reed Richards page looks now. Here's how I propose we change it.

Suggestions? Comments?