Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1038387-20150101215847/@comment-3361105-20150120002902

To clarify that "clutter" point - the function of a Wika branded wiki is to provide exhaustive information upon a particular subject, where notability is determined by relevance to that particular subject. On wikipedia, it's different. Notability there has different criteria, and their subject matter is broader.

Now, our niche is DC Comics. Only DC Comics. This is an encyclopedia of the world of DC Comics and its history. It is not an encyclopedia on the history of DC Comics itself (though we cover that), nor on the history of comics as a whole. It is an in-universe encyclopedia of the DC Universe. Fox Syndication, Charlton, these are not our domain. The history of these companies are not our domain. The publications printed by these companies are not our domain. While DC may own certain of their characters, it is only the in-universe history of those characters which falls under our purview. The historical value of comic pages from companies which once owned characters who are now owned by DC is not in question. Their value to us as a means to illustrating any in-universe information pertaining to DC's use of those characters is... zilch.

We still should have pages for the companies, detailing their significance in the history of DC Comics and its characters. We should still have notes on character pages indicating the history of their ownership. But having comic pages from these companies is not valuable to fans of DC. It is valuable to fans of Fox. We are not here for them.