Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1713281-20130314165720/@comment-1713281-20130318022454

Lucien61 wrote: Perhaps a Segregation should be made for disambiguation pages of "numbered", tradition-continuing, Earth-616 characters (for example, Captain America I-VII, or Goliath I-V who would receive their own clarifying essays) and disambiguation pages for their alternate reality counterparts (from What If?, Exiles, etc.). Admittedly, this shaves off only a tiny part off some popular characters. However, most alternates are one-shot characters never to appear again, and it is doubtful that they deserve their very own character pages. Could a simple link to their singular appearances (comic pages) and vice versa to the disamb page not serve the same purpose?

I don't really see that being an option for two reasons.

We, much like the official Marvel sites and handbooks, tend to avoid using the roman numeral system for code names that have been used by a number of people. There are a number of reasons for this, but the main one is to eliminate confusion, because no one's classification system will be exactly the same as everyone else's.

Secondly, any option that would remove information from the site is a no-go. We believe that all characters, with only the slightest of exceptions, deserve an entry, because we cover everything. That's one of the reason this site was started, was to cover everything Marvel, even stuff that other sites would pass over.

Sure, it would cut down on the entries on disambig pages, but you it would sacrifice more than it would improve.