Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-4651179-20140403020704/@comment-61022-20140523151557

I think assigning TRNs is a disaster waiting to happen. I still think we should condense video games into a catchall. Like a Peter Parker (Video Games) page. As I was saying above histories of in game character appearances are sparse at best. You could put everything in on article and just put === headers === to differentiating between games/consoles. In each heading the writer can explain what material the game is adapted from. This threat seems to focus a lot on current games that are mostly based on the Marvel films, but there are games based on actual comics, animated cartoons and other Marvel properties. Creating different pages for a character that has appeared in multiple games that source from vastly different source material... Especially when said material is anecdotal at best.. It excessive. I mean why stop there? Why not create a Spider-Man profile for every board game that Peter has been in. I'm sure everyone will flock to a TRN page for Spider-Man Monopoly.

I suppose my biggest contention is relevance. A lot of games are quickly forgotten once newer games and systems come out. Nobody is going to likely dig around for information on the Spider-Man games that were released on Atari, NES, Genesis etc. They'll look up whatever came out in the past few years, but that'll be for a limited time also.

I can understand our detail for comic characters, particularly one-off or obscure characters. But in perspective the Marvel wiki is focused predominantly on the comics because that is what Marvel is known for. It's to be expected. Video games on the other hand.. There are so many gaming websites that more than cover video games based on Marvel Properties, (I wouldn't be surprised if half the stuff we have on video games gets lifted from those sites even) I think when it comes to creating a profile for each iteration of a character for each different video game incarnation is a bit much.