Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1713281-20130314165720/@comment-122657-20130314232745

I'd almost be interested in taking LoveWaffle's idea to the extreme.

Maybe, instead of housing all of the alternate versions of every character on one page, we should limit them to 8 (the first limitation of the template), and provide a link to ALL of the alternate versions on an extended page.

This would not only apply to the Alternate Universe versions, but the Movie, TV, Video Game, etc versions as well.

It would not be impossible to even have all of the information listed in the main page's template and used on the sub pages, like "Spider-Man in Alternate Universes" or "Spider-Man in Movies".

Our 'landing pages' for the main character could be more 'main version' focused, providing insight regarding others people may be looking for, but not focusing on the details or the extent of all of the others.

I would almost envision our Disambig pages as being 'Spider-Man for Dummies' pages. All the basic info would be there, with links to where ever on the site the other stuff you might want to know about him resides. Some basic cool stuff, like 'he's usually brunette, but there have been versions with alternate hair colors like The Spider.' or 'The spidey we know was bitten by a radioactive spider, but in some alternate universes, people like Aunt May and Flash Thompson were bitten instead, or Peter himself was bitten by a radioactive cow!' (Oh if that last bit were true).

What do you guys think about taking a different approach with them in general? Maybe we stop asking, 'Which Spider-Man did you mean, we have 500 of them?' and start asking, 'Here's what's always awesome about Spider-Man, would you like to read more?'