Thread:KalKent/@comment-24764729-20190216181830/@comment-4651179-20190216193603

Sorry for chiming in, but I think I need to address an important issue, one that concerns two pieces of trivia that you added to the article of. Since we are on the Internet, it's easy to impersonate people and hard to verify one's claimed identity. It goes against our best interests to present ourselves as a trustworthy source of information to let somebody claiming to be a certain person make unconventional changes and take their credibility at face value.

Additionally, it's in the nature of wikis to value the concept of a community over individual contributors. Because of this, for a casual reader it won't be a renowned historian who presented a certain piece of information, it'll be the Marvel Database itself, as if our site was a hive-mind. Not even experienced users can know who added what to a page without doing some extra work that involves checking a page's edit history. This is particularly tiresome if it's a page that a lot of people contribute to.

Because of these reasons, a contributor's own accounts are not enough to be considered infallible, which is why our site's guidelines require all sources of information need to be cited. Circling this back to the added pieces of trivia that I mentioned: while they are very interesting, I'm afraid that they will have to be removed unless you can provide a link to some reliable external source. It can be your own site, or some interview, or a book.

I hope that you don't take this the wrong way and understand that we're not trying to shun you or doubt your credentials, it's just the way our site has to process information since the Marvel Database is by nature a tertiary source of information like all wikis. Wikipedia themselves explain it very well in their Expert editors essay: "In Wikipedia, there are no listed authors. The only authority for content, is what sources say (...) it doesn't matter who you are or who you say you are - what matters is the quality of the sources you bring (...)"