Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-4651179-20130114214441

This is an idea brought to you by our fellow contributor Andy Nominus based on the long and lasting discussion which can be seen here about whether the profile image of Otto Octavius (Earth-616) should be one showing his classic interpretation as Doctor Octopus or the most recent as Spider-Man.

The side of the discussions are these two:

Use an image of Spider-Man: Because, in my opinion (shared with other two users, if wanted, I can give names), the main image of an article should depict the most recent and up-to-date aspect of the character, which would match the rest of the article being up-to-date as well the history section, current alias, etc.

Use an image of Doctor Octopus: Because, in LoveWaffle's opinion, a profile image should show the aspect in which the character is mostly known, as Otto Octavius is well-known for being Doctor Octopus for 5 decades, also using a classic aspect of the character, in other words, fat four-tentacled Otto Octavius with bucket haircut.

Cited above, Andy Nominus suggested us, the administrators, to create a policy (or something of the kind) in order to put an ending and prevent next discussions similar to the one previously mentioned. Other mentioned characters with this "problem" are Eddie Brock (Earth-616) because of his recent change to Toxin and Elizabeth Ross (Earth-616) to Red She-Hulk.

So, what is your veredict: Profile image must show an an up-to-date image of the character or a classic representation of the character?

Note: this policy would apply to characters with an important change of aspect, not individulas who just changed name and uniform (Carol Danvers from Ms. Marvel to Captain Marvel) or just uniform (Havok, Iron Man, Storm), or shouldn't it?

We can also discuss different things about profile images and related matters. 