Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1713281-20130314165720/@comment-61022-20130315224749

''Not necessarily true, particularly when you consider the animated, straight-to-DVD movies. It might get trickier once you consider the live-action SHIELD show premiering later this year. And if we lump them all together, that defeats the purpose of moving the Alternate Reality section to it's own page, as that sub-page just becomes what the disambiguation page is now.''

I don't really get how it can be "not necessarily true", if you check out the last run of Marvel Handbooks, pretty much every Marvel cartoon, tv show and movie up to that point in publication were assigned an Earth-number, the rest will likely follow suit. As for the SHIELD series, if I'm not mistaken it is set in the Marvel movie universe (Earth-199999)

I would wager that majority of people coming to the Wiki would primarily be coming to read about the Earth-616 characters.

I would only recommend doing a separate secondary page for all alternate reality characters (including movie/TV characters) if the character themselves has a large amount of alternate reality counterparts. Otherwise, I'd say keep it all on one page. So someone like Spider-Man would have his own alternate reality index page, versus someone like Killraven, who only has about 2 or 3 alternate reality counterparts.

''I don't understand why video game universes are so maligned. They're as just as notable as many of the What If comics that populate the Alternate Realities section. And you also have to figure that many of the video game characters tie-in to other properties, and that many of the video games get their own sequels. If you're against creating profiles for video game characters, then you could probably say the same for the vast majority of what's covered here.''

I think it's about the same as the reason why we don't create profiles for out of continuity characters that are featured in Marvel novels and children's books etc. The information about that character is so sparse when you divorce it from the source material.

Especially considering the fact that with a lot of older games didn't have very complex plots so there is only so much you could really write.

This is getting a bit off topic from the Disambiguation thing... But I'd say that while video games are also equally as important, I don't think that a profile for a character for each different video game they've appeared in is a bit much. If anything, I think they should be condensed to one article, for example "Peter Parker (Video Games)" And do a history of all the different video games the character has appeared in.