Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20130318164952

Yes, I've summoned you all for more discussion about our policies and coverage. You're all undoubtedly thrilled, I'm sure.

This is just a few brief things that I wanted to get opinions on from the rest of staff, nothing to broad or world changing. Feel free to respond about any and/or all below. PLEASE NOTE: if you see this, but don't feel like responding, or you have no opinions one way or the other, that's perfectly fine. Please just let us know in a comment so we know not to hold out discussions for you, or pester you to respond.

Other Media from Imprints
Probably the biggest discussion this time around, the coverage on the site of other media from imprint publishers under Marvel. There's a handful of them out there:

From Icon:
 * the Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2 movies
 * Kick-Ass: The Game

From Malibu:
 * the Men in Black film trilogy
 * the Ultraforce TV series
 * the Men in Black TV series
 * the Night Man TV series
 * a number of Men in Black video games

My personal opinion: I don't know why the Kick-Ass material is not already here, and think it has a place. As for the Malibu material, I think we established the same precedent for Malibu content as we did for the CrossGen content we discussed a few weeks back: If it's not Marvel-centric, which in the case of Malibu stuff is either Marvel-published or Ultraverse-related, than it would be better left covered by Robert's Malibu Comics wiki.

As such, the Men in Black stuff can likely be left out here; aside from three or four one-shots from the period of the first movie, Marvel never touched Men in Black, and as such Malibu would do a much better job of coverage.

Ultraforce and Night Man are both based on Ultraverse stuff, so if majority thinks it's a good move, it likely has a place.

Obviously, if any of these are covered, they would be treated like an imprint comic issue (no character pages or appearances, realities, etc.), but the main question is whether or not to cover them.

"Unofficial Representations"
Something that came from a discussion between myself and LoveWaffle, the coverage of "Unofficial Representations" of Marvel Comics properties. As it stands, we don't cover these, simply because they are not sanctioned by Marvel. Note that this is not a push to allow any random depiction of Marvel characters; this would be the allowance of a small number of unofficial depictions that the site staff picks on a case-by-case basis.

From this discussion about this topic with Jamie, you can see that the only things brought up for this are two films: Dirty Laundry, a Punisher fan film made by The Punisher star Thomas Jane, and 3 Dev Adam a Turkish cult-action film starring Captain America and a bad guy Spider-Man. Laundry made big news when it premiered at Comic-Con 2012, and 3 Dev Adam gained a cult following over the years for it's overall cheesey nature and it's treatment of Spider-Man as an organized crime boss battling the duo Captain America and Mexican Lucha libre legend El Santo, all without Marvel's copyright consent.

Coverage of these would be purely for fun, and they would be treated in the same way as imprint or licensed issues. It would also be made very clear that these types of media are not allowed to be added by normal users, and it would be made highly clear that these are in no way canon or official.

Do We Own TRNs?
Kinda straight forward: Do we "own" TRNs? This comes from seeing the Spider-Man wiki, which is run by some small-time editors here on our site, which has recently adopted the use of Earth-Numbers to better organize their material. The fact that they use Earth-Numbers is not a big deal, since they are Marvel number; any one can use them. However, they've also swiped a few TRNs to categorize their info, mainly for the Ultimate Spider-Man series.

I in no way want it to come off as me wanting to bust them for theft or anything like that; the use of the number doesn't bother me that much. But I'm curious as to the rest of the staff's opinions as to whether other sites should be able to categorize with TRNs. 