Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-3406131-20140311165139/@comment-122657-20140610222049

Undoniel wrote: Other thing: Clean-up/complete the AlienRace to Race, cf this thread here This user is right, it will be good to have this thing corrected, as it doesn't really work. My personal ideas would be: That would also help to diminish the Origin part of the template, and avoid problem of having the choice between categorization and link, for example for characters non-Kree who have a Kree-originated power.
 * To turn it into "Species"
 * To put at least "Species" and "Species2" as field, maybe more (the Species2 allowing to write large amount of stuff without appearing as one united link redirecting, to allow to write the hybridations and specific things on it)
 * Maybe to add a similar/related field for robot with "type" for robots ?

Well, as I stated today in the Marvel Database talk:Character Template page, we originally thought about the 'Race' name for the field title, but were worried people would be putting in Caucasian and Hispanic and the like. Since we want to stay away from controversial issues like that, sexuality, and religion, we've tried to keep them off the site.

I'm not sure "Species" works entirely. Aren't there several species of Humans? (Homo Sapiens, Homo Superior) And which is the right name for the species, Human or Homo Sapien? How would we know if we had the right name of the species for things like Symbiotes and Kree? They're much more commonly referred to as races in the comics...