Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20160318145300/@comment-61022-20160318153917

Well one thing I think will alleviate some of the issues with the number of entries in the page is breaking up how they're organized.

I think the disambiguation pages for a code name (IE: Captain America, Spider-Man, the Hulk) should link to disambiguation pages for characters (on a given name basis) who have held that title. It's the disambiguation page that is for the character by their given name.

For example:

If you were to go to the Spider-Man page it would only link to disambiguation pages for Peter Parker, Otto Octavius, Miguel O'Hara, Miles Morales, etc. etc. We should really trim the fat on these pages. No universe designations, no differentiation between comics, television, video games -- whatever. If someone was ever called Spider-Man it should just have a link to their disambiguation page (the exception being if there is only *one* version of that character then it should just link directly to the page of that character).

Then when you click on a specific character, that's where we break it down. So on the Peter Parker page it breaks down the different realities/tv shows/etc where that character appears. I would actually recommend breaking it down by known aliases. Because in different realities Peter didn't always become Spider-Man. So we break it down to the realities where he was Spider-Man, the realities where he was powerless, the realities where he became Nova; the Hulk; Iron Man; etc (as applicable, Peter Parker is an example here) If they were only a Nova in one reality, we dump it into a catch all for the random things.

I think we should also scrap using the "Related Characters" pages, because honestly by that point it gets too distracted and the relations between those characters and -- say Spider-Man -- gets really vague. (Just look at Spider-Man, some of these characters are very relevant, others not such much. Honestly, just HOW related is Spider-Hound to Peter Parker? Not very other than being spider-powered.)

Iron Man is another good example. Just list all the characters who (at one point) were absolutely named Iron Man. You click on Tony Stark or James Rhodes, or whoever, you go to a disambiguation page.

Ditto for Captain America, or Bucky, or Ms. Marvel.

But when you are on the Spider-Man page the link for Peter Parker (for example) should be something like Peter Parker or something to that effect so depending on which Codename Disambiguation will not only load up the Given Name Disambiguation will jump you down to the section about that Code Name.

That should ease up things a little.

I would even go so far as break up comic book mediums and other forms of entertainment. So the main Peter Parker disambiguation page would focus on strictly comic book versions of the character. Since -- by comparison -- their appearances in other media is not prolific enough and (frankly in my opinion) of less importance there should be a Peter Parker/Other Media. That page would list every other version that originates from another form of media (To clarify, I know that sometimes characters from other media later appear in comics -- Spider-Verse and X-Men '92 are good examples, we should be classifying these based on the media format they FIRST appear in)

However just so people aren't going hog-wild with a labyrinthine Disambiguation scheme, we should have cuts off. Because while characters may appear across different media platforms and various realities it is not to the level where it would necessitate separate pages when only one page would work.

There should be some cut-off numbers. So for example (as a suggestion), if a character has 300+ comic book versions in alternate realities then it may be necessary to put other media appearances on another page. Someone like Peter Parker would need an Other Media page because he has over 300 comic book and 45 appearances in other media. Wheras someone like Sam Alexander would have everything condensed to one page about all his versions since he is a relatively new character and (As yet) doesn't have the same number of alternate versions in other media as say -- Peter Parker.