Board Thread:Policies/@comment-220364-20140111204600/@comment-220364-20140111220502

I think the point of derailment there is what the Character page is.

Yes, a person using the names "Edward Thatch" and "Blackbeard" appeared in the story in ''Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne" #3. But we wind up linking that to Vandar Adg (New Earth), a fictional character. Generally, "Real People" covers cases where a real person has been written into the story as is - say most uses of FDR as an example - or that person is then highly fictionalized, but still uses the same name - such as Eliot Ness (Scar of the Bat). Not cases where the writer give that role from real history to one of DC's properties.