Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1618941-20130519231400

Something that is starting to bug me a bit is the way content from some of the game tie-ins is being used to rewrite character histories and data concerning the movie characters. The latest one I've seen is Aldrich Killian (Earth-199999), where some MODOK-related content is now suggesting that the character has come back from the dead as MODOK to be killed again.

And we've only just recently resolved the Jack Taggert/J. Taggart mash-up (yeah, there's still no evidence that the movie character is really named Jack).

A long-standing tradition on the Marvel Database has been that where any tie-in conflicts with the the source, then the source takes precedence and overrules the tie-in. Some people have other ideas and try to pile all sorts of information into articles, but clearly that Killian article is now trying to describe two distinct aspects of one character, and as we know two characters coexisting within one article doesn't work.

I actually think that the game versions of articles need some better advertised rulings to cover these information conflicts, or otherwise a new disambiguation clarifier to identify them so that the game articles can breathe on their own. 