Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1257201-20161227233458/@comment-6369172-20161228125850

S >>(...) the whole point of removing them is that we don't want them anymore. Most of that information is unreliable and unverifiable.<<

Agreed with gusto, up to this point. Most of it is not only unreliable and unverifiable but uninteresting and/or completely speculative in the first place. BUT some of it is of actual value, and has been verified, and some of it is still work-in-progress.

S >>Going over and fixing all the wrongly included tags is too cumbersome and impractical. The best solution is to eliminate them altogether.<<

Disagreed; the best solution is to eliminate the bad ones, on their own merits, each time one is discovered. Haste makes waste, and all that.

S >> We don't even use it anymore in modern comics!<<

My main concern here is the body of nonmodern stories affected by Roy Thomas' long runs on All-Star Squadron and Young All-Stars. There are a bunch of places where the retcon episodes are shoehorned into the original episodes, in plausible ways. Ditto to a lesser extent Matt Wagner's Sandman series, plus several dozen Secret Origin stories from the late Bronze Age.

S >>The people who included those here probably just copied the DCUGuide chronologies<<

Some of us have picked thru the captions in Thomas' ASQ and YAS and Wagner's SMT and other books set in that era, and pieced together our best good-faith estimates of the sequencing of these stories. Brooming all that seems overly drastic.