Thread:Artful Dodger/@comment-100066-20150929175110/@comment-3406131-20150929183639

Artful Dodger wrote: Done.
 * Writers and editors often add things to comics which may or may not be correct. Once they are written, our job as a database is to record what was created. We also have a way to record the accuracy of what happened. In this case, we can record the fact that characters and places are referred to by one name, and we can then clarify the accuracy of their statements in the Notes or Trivia sections.

Artful Dodger wrote: Right.
 * References are of primary importance to our site, but we can go overboard if we aren't careful. Needing to provide a reference to the fact that police officers use police cars and other vehicles is excessive and shouldn't be required. However, very specific data such as "49,000 personnel, including more than 31,000 serving police officers" is clearly a 1218 fact. Unless you can provide a 616 reference, that information should be removed.

Artful Dodger wrote: Agree, with the limitation (analogous to the limitation you described at the previous point) of well-known aliases (like "Scotland Yard" for the Met), and with a reference to a comics as much as possible (like it was possible for "Scotland Yard" and is allegedly possible for "The Met", "the Old Bill", and "the Bill").
 * Information that we draw from our knowledge of 1218 can certainly apply to 616 things, even if it is not explicitly stated or referenced. The President is commonly called "POTUS" in 1218 and can be called that in 616 without a specific comic reference. Likewise, common 1218 terms like the Met, the Old Bill (or the CIA being referred to as "Langley" or Broadway being called "The Great White Way") can be used as 616 terms even if they don't show up in comics. It would be wrong for us to assume that they cannot be called by those terms even if they haven't yet been called that by Marvel.

Your resume seems right to me.

Thanks.