Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-3406131-20140825125950/@comment-3406131-20140903011119

Peteparker wrote: I think there might not be enough of this data to really prove that it is useful.

Does every character in the handbooks have these kinds of statuses?

Well, I stick to the "What we care is what we know, not what we don't know"=If we know it, we add it to the database, if there is no clue, we had nothing, as it should always be.

Peteparker wrote: 'Registration' doesn't seem to be the right word for what you're describing. 'Legal status' is closer, but could be confused for things like being a minor versus an adult.

Registration is a legal status among others, but as I said "Legal status" could be the more simple option, and the better.

Peteparker wrote: There seem to be two different points that you'd like to add to the infobox, both based on the citizenship area of the profiles in the handbooks. The first would be weather or not a criminal record exists for the character, the second being the legal classification of the character, such as Mutant, Mutate, Superhuman, etc.

I'd suggest 'Criminal Record' as a separate field with yes/no answers and an additional text field for references and explanations:


 * CriminalRecord   = Yes
 * CriminalRecordRef =

The criminal record thing is indeed one of the interrogations I was unsure of it. For the legal classification, it's not a matter of superhuman classification, but a matter of official/legal superhuman classification status regarding the governmental response to their existence.

Peteparker wrote: The second is much more tricky, as legal classifications of individuals change over the years. Those who were legally registered heroes associated with the SHRA don't necessarily carry that classification anymore since the Registration Act was nullified.

That's right, but I assume registered mutants stay as such (they're still recorded) and SHRA-registered stayed as former SHRA-registered.

Peteparker wrote: Same thing with being a 'registered mutant'. With what agency is that referring to? The US Government? S.H.I.E.L.D.? What happens when those entities are disbanded? Are the individuals still registered? Where did they register? When?

That second piece of information feels like a bit of made-up fluff to make the profile sound more official in the handbooks.

I think Operation Zero Tolerance used S.H.I.E.L.D. or American datas. And most of the handbooks data concern those. And the rule is to follow what's in comics and handbooks, as far as it fits (had some trouble with Secret War's entries recently).

Peteparker wrote: I like the idea of covering everything listed in the handbooks, but I worry about fields like these that are either too simple or too complex.

Well, too simple is good, and too complex is just a thing to be solved by a clear policy, logic choices and some derogation regarding specific cases.