Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20190509171612/@comment-24800939-20190509213701

Spencerz wrote: I don't necessarily agree with these, especially since for a long period, none of the pre-Marvel content was canon

So? Marvel's opinion on this has changed greatly in two decades, I don't see why that wouldn't allow us to follow the "canon unless explicit contradictions rule" to cover everything Marvel has ever done with these anthology stories.

Spencerz wrote: This kind of thinking on our part is also why so little of the creator-owned stuff and various other imprint lines were never given character articles here. Kick-Ass, Kingsman, Men in Black, Powers--all of those are major franchises, but none of them ever passed that barrier for inclusion.

And I think that's a great disservice to those stories, where unless there is a wiki better suited for the information, then if it was published by Marvel it should fall under our umbrella, we are the Marvel Database. I've never seen it expliclty defined we had to limit ourselves to just "Marvel Superheroes stemming from the works of Lee, Kirby, Ditko"

Nausiated wrote: I think that this is a currently evolving subject these days, particularly with Disney (and by extension Marvel) buying up all sorts of properties over the past few years.

100% agree, limiting ourselves may have to change in the future if Disney starts experimenting with the properties they own.

Nausiated wrote: Creating pages for one-off characters seems kind of a pointless endeavor since their profiles are going to say the same thing as the issue they appear in.

100% disagree with that, there are thousands of one-shot characters that the appendix alone found interesting enough to give a page. And just going through the golden age comics to see where a lot of them originated and 2011 you may have disagreed since you worked on a lot of one-shot characters (though i'm sure most if not all were connected to Cap, Namor etc in some way)

Nausiated wrote: However, if I were to think of a compromise, maybe we could come up with an Index page (like the Character Index) that lists all of these questionable characters.

I would be ok with this if enough people decided they weren't important enough for a page or reality, however I still think they are currently fine as is.