Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-112155-20180104184608

I'd like to propose an encouragement of the creation of links for all availabe articles while filling an Appearances section, even if it means assuming "temporary names" for articles or even granting TRNs to some articles when they are displaced characters that appear outside of their native reality.

And I'll explain what I perceive through a series of examples:

When Secret Empire Vol 1 was released, I remember changing Kraken's link from a link to a disambiguation to the current Kraken (Secret Empire) (Earth-616) in order to, at least, keep track of his appearances. That was a name intended for a potential article that could be created or just replaced in case his identity was revealed in then-upcoming issues. Given that it wasn't, the article was ultimately created.

Even now, the article can be easily moved once/if the character's name is revealed, or merged if he turns to be an existing character. Just like it was done with the Female Thor when it was revealed she was Jane Foster.

While working on some things, I found the character Supreme Serpent (Earth-616) linked as a disambiguation. I checked all comics were the Sons of the Serpent appeared to link him before creating the article, but that could have been done in an easier way while filling the appearances section for the first time.

For characters whose reality hasn't been clearly defined, isn't that the main purpose of having TRNs? Are we going to run out of them for using them? There are instances of TRNs given to a single character appearing in a single comic, so the excuse of not assigning them for minor things is out of the table.

Between yesterday and today, I came across a bunch of articles through the comics they appear in, such as Stella Nega's Guardians of the Galaxy, or Skar and Angar from the New Revengers. Right now, those character articles will probably never be created unless someone comes across them, as they are not linked in any way, or the link to the disambiguation appears as that it has already been created.

And in the end, that is harmful to the construction of the database. Red links are more useful than misleading blue links, or than no links at all, as they are collected in the List of Wanted pages and everyone can check the articles that haven't been created yet and deserve to be here.

I'm already prepared for the usual kind of arguments of "and who's going to create all those article and TRNs", "those articles don't deserve to be created" or "there are other priorities". And I only want to remind everyone, staff and casual editor alike, that while we all edit the things that we like based on our personal favourite parts of the comics, that shouldn't hinder the overall work of the Marvel Database as a full encyclopedia.

Thank you and waiting for your opinions. 