Thread:Edkaufman/@comment-16461120-20150803070728/@comment-16461120-20150803103948

For context, the Age of Apocalypse (Event) is a huge favorite of mine, (so I was thinking of potentially focusing on improving the articles about the 1995 X-books sometime after Secret Wars ends) so had noticed there are both a Category:Age of Apocalypse and a Category:Age of Apocalypse (Event).

The former category is templated as an Event, but honestly isn't an Event, though I'm not sure what exactly it would be better to call it. It's mostly a mismatch of several loosely-related realities that weren't part of the original Event, nor any other Event, rather better described as a subsequent plethora of What If? spin-offs. There is also partial inclusion of at least one of the later series that revisited Earth-295, which probably could be included in the main event category similar to a tie-in despite being released on the tenth anniversary. (One solution might be to move Ages of Apocalypse to Ages of Apocalypse (Event) with an all-new Category:Ages of Apocalypse (Event) and then consider all the What If? realities as Ages in the Category:Ages of Apocalypse and render the Category:Age of Apocalypse largely obsolete.)

The latter category has all the comics from the original event, plus a few seemingly random articles thrown in (Infinites (Earth-295), Pale Riders (Earth-295), Raven Darkholme (Earth-295), Rex (Earth-295), and X-Men (Earth-295)), but there doesn't appear to be much rhyme nor reason for their inclusion.

So mainly what I was wondering was, should we remove that latter categorization from the few random characters that landed in there, since the comics properly included there will have links to all the characters, teams, locations, etc. that were featured in the Event anyway? (They could theoretically then be included in the refined former categorization along with other things that debuted during the original Event or are otherwise exclusive to Earth-295.)

For what it's worth, I don't believe these categories should simply be merged, since there are multiple events with similar names and articles that definitely weren't part of those Events yet are still related to various Ages of Apocalypse, but maybe I'm overthinking it.

I'll revisit the proper naming for the new Marcus article once the moratorium on Secret Wars character creation ends.

Yeah, all good. I hadn't realized every part of the edit needed the repeated reference tag, but that's because from my point of view I knew I had a single source, but realize that isn't always obvious despite the fact that it was done in a single edit, so now I know it's better to be overly referenced than to have to do it twice and/or create unnecessary work for y'all on staff.

Anyway, sorry for writing a virtual novel here and thanks again for your time. If you think it best I make the "AoA(s) Categorization Revamp sales pitch" somewhere else in particular, so that more can weigh in, then just let me know and I will.