Thread:LuisDantas/@comment-220364-20140420155308/@comment-220364-20140420180510

Primarily it's that succession boxes applied to characters in works of fiction set in a shared universe are tenuous at best - they are only as valid as the most recent story. Writers and editors can and have inserted and removed characters after the fact. And then there is the tendency for fan WAG to fill in sections of a succession that hasn't appeared in print.

And then there is the following:
 * These type of boxes become more of a time sink than they are worth for upkeep.
 * Having this type of 'box on pages for what are generally tertiary characters is out of step when they are not used for secondary or primary characters. It is very unlikely that these would wind up on pages like the New Earth GLs, Robins, Starmen, or Batman.
 * Since not every President has appeared in a comic, having this type of 'box can present a problem of seriously unwanted red links. General practice on the Database is that a character page is never created for a character that has neither appeared or been mentioned in a story. There was also talk at one time that one-off appearances and mentions should not warrant a page either.
 * And there has been a point made that pages for adaptations of real people - as well as real places - should focus on the in-universe material presented in the story and rely on external links for readers to get a background on the real world person. The succession box for the PotUS generally falls under that "go look it up on Wikipedia with this link" process.