Board Thread:Policies/@comment-16461120-20170313235242/@comment-1895174-20170314214204

Shabook wrote: The characteristics justify the potential research. Somebody may be as interested in researching Inhumans through the comics they appear, and for exactly the same reasons, the interest in NuHumnas may be equal and as important as from a research point of view, The whole purpose of categorizing appearances, or so I have been led to believe, is to ease that research.

Hybrids are not always individual characters, so that generalization is extremely flawed.

And so, I fail to see a reason for not categorizing them that outwieghts its benefits. The point of categorizing appearances is to help readers find an individual issue et al a specific character, team, location, item, etc. appeared in. The sort of hybrids we're talking about are not something specific; it's either an incredibly small number of individuals (like Peter Quill being the only Human-Spartoi hybrid) or a group so diverse (as User:Undoniel points out) their presentation as hybrids comes on a case-by-case basis. If anyone is interested in looking up Aesir-Elder God hybrids, we're better off just presenting them with a list (like List of Living Mutants) of the characters who fit that description. An appearances category that isn't even tied to a page helps nobody find anything any easier.

And, honestly, NuHumans should just be listed as Inhumans or NuHumans by this point. We don't need to keep characterizing them as Inhuman/Human hybrids. They're here to stay. But that's a separate issue.

AnnabellRice wrote: By "as-is" you mean the plethora of ways currently seeing wide use with no true consistency, for example, presently at least three different potential categorizations for Thor Odinson being employed depending upon who last edited any given issue? I mean I'm fine with the original agreement.