Thread:Kyletheobald/@comment-3419446-20130422084653/@comment-3361105-20130422151404

The pseudonym field has limitless space, because it requires no coding at all. You could type a master's thesis in there, because no part of the template depends on that field to do something else.

The Employer field is different. Each new employer that you add requires a line of code that relates back to the first one, and the one before it, which means that adding just ONE more potential employer requires re-writing the whole thing, because it's... like an Ouroboros. It eats itself. That's on top of the fact that the employer field creates categories for each one.

So, when you add an employer for whom we don't have a page, it creates a red-link and a Wanted Category for that employer - and the more there are, and the more obscure, the less likely that category is going to have more than one person populating it, which means that there is no reason to have that category, which means that there's no reason to have that employer listed.

The field is designed to show which employers the person has worked for under the umbrella of DC comics and those publishers who have worked with DC during crossovers etc. We are a wiki for content relevant to DC Comics. The entire working history of its employees is not relevant to DC Comics.

However, if you would like to make exhaustive lists of past employers beyond the downright generous ten that are there, that would be something to add to the near-unilaterally blank "professional history" field.

Which, I'll note, is what people who visit staff pages are EXPECTING to see filled out - and are eternally disappointed that they are not.