Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1038387-20130914222534

Lack of research and overreliance on common misconceptions pretty much fucked up the Golden and Silver Age appearances of the Gods. Here's a compromise how we could handle them:


 * Merge all Earth-Two, Earth-One, New Earth and Prime Earth gods into one. They're not really portrayed consistently and have been used outside Wonder Woman plenty of times. Earth-S and Earth-Four get separate pages, see below.
 * On Wonder Woman pages, we use the Greek name; if the Roman name is used in the story, we'll simply use Mars
 * Other stories, like Silver Age guest appearances of Hercules in Superman, simply use the version whose name is used, even if they're mixed up. This is mostly pre-Crisis, though the Vertigo Kid Eternity series messed up as well.
 * Earth-S: One comic (I think in America's Greatest Comics) establishes that Zeus and Mercury are from the same pantheon in Earth-S. Several other gods appear as well, IIRC with their Roman names.
 * Earth-Four: Son of Vulcan uses Roman names without mistakes. That's worthy of a bit of appreciation.

And most of all, although I already cleaned that up: no extensive families. It's not helpful if you have to wade through a wall of brothers, nephews and cousins thrice removed before you get to any brats they've got walking around. And, as Eros once said, everyone on Olympus is related in at least two ways. 