Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-18172179-20141003193641/@comment-18172179-20141004010302

Well, after all this, I can agree that the generic names of the characters like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc, must have the first appearance credited to the first one ever. The disambiguation pages serve that purpouse and in almost all of them, it is pointed out. (and if someone wants a one-and-only first appearance, there's Wikipedia)

However, my concern from the beginning is that, with this in mind, we're going to have a "First Appearance" field filled out with different comics through history, but with the creators remaining the same in most cases. The problem is that it generates divergences. The Prime Earth project is already having this troubles. The Prime Earth characters are listing their 1st app. into the New 52 and that is correct, but the creators field are being filled at random with the original creator or the New 52 adapters. I think that's in part wrong but there are no policies on that matter.

There should be a policy regarding this matter. In the New Earth case, I think it can be done by searching the NE first app. of the character and creators should be the ones who created it first. The question is why it hasn't been done before? The thing is that not much people cares about it and not everyone is sure about some New Earth versions first appearances, like Hugo Strange (New Earth) for example; and to search for it would be troublesome.

My first point was: All New Earth character pages are already crediting the first app to the 1st ever. Is that correct? If not, then we should start changing all NE character's first appearances, and to me it would be easier to just change Superman (Clark Kent)'s page to match the other pages' format. Easier is not always right, I know, but due to the complexity of the task, I rather take the shortcut. And for what I see, the community is not really concerned for this issue.