Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-18172179-20141003193641/@comment-3361105-20141004031546

Can we go, like, a day without someone demanding an answer for some heavy question that will require an assload of work?

There are two schools of thought:
 * 1) Our information should be accessible to all readers - especially those who have never picked up a comic book in their lives. This makes using the historical first appearance and creators the logical method, given that when a person goes to the Superman (Clark Kent) page, they are expecting to see "THE SUPERMAN PAAAAAAGE!"
 * 2) Our information should be continuity-specific, because the character pages are based on continuity by virtue of Earth-Designations etc. A first appearance that doesn't reflect the actual first appearance of that version of the character is therefore inaccurate.

Personally, I feel that disambig pages satisfy the first school of thought's concerns - if we use them properly. I think things get muddy, though, when we think about the New Earth pages, because so many of them are one page for three different continuities because some admins back in ye olden times were - and because the way CoIE happened means that they all became one universe - so the characters are essentially the same. That's the argument that's made, anyway.

Both sides are reasonable arguments, I suppose, but I do think that if we're going to be worrying about people seeing Superman's first appearance on the Superman (Clark Kent) page and it being Man of Steel #1 and them being totally confused that it's not Action #1, we need to do more to ensure that they are able to find their way to the disambig page - which is where they should be able to find what they're looking for.