Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20190311013206/@comment-16461120-20190316064633

To hopefully explain the backstory of how we got here, since that seemed to be in question for some... So the existing community consensuses just need a bit of further clarification it seems.
 * Several years ago (maybe four?) there was a community consensus to add a subsection for "Races and Species" to the Comic Template and track the races/species that appeared in each comic.
 * After about a year it became apparent that there were more than three different ways people were codding and tracking races, particularly those that didn't have have existing articles, so we reached a community consensus compromise to redirect many racial redlinks to their associated categories, that way when someone like Carol Danvers appeared, she wasn't counted as both Humans and Kree, but more correctly as Human-Kree Hybrids, and we weren't left with who knows how many redlinks to races or species that would probably never end up with articles.
 * Since then several of us, myself included, would also add animals that were relevant to the plot and had existing racial categories; meanwhile, others have been adding everything from glossary entries to inanimate objects.