Thread:Haroldrocks/@comment-220364-20140126175336/@comment-3361105-20140126192817

Byfield wrote: For me, I'd try to avoid adding it to issue appearances where the origin is spanning more than 2 consecutive issues or the origin is a one panel, if that, re-cap. As for "Batman: Year One" or similar... I'd be inclined to add it to the collection/story arc article.

I'd be inclined to put it on the issue page for wherever it actually shows the event common to every version of the character - like, Batman, whose parents' murder is the common element of his origin, despite the fact that the whole story tells of how he became Batman.

Byfield wrote: If you want 'em piece meal, no problem.

I'd like there to be a simple way to know a) that a page needs to be made, and b) avoid sending everyday users into a labyrinthine mess of categories they give zero shits about. But I agree that not every needs an origin page, so this works.

Byfield wrote: Though I'd like an Admin to fix the "Meta data" fuck up that's putting "YY" at the top of the page when the Origin infobox is used. And you may have to live with them existing as non-main, non-first occurrence, and or non-comic write-up. That is aside from the BLANK ones because no one bothered to provide, or could get, a synopsis of the story.

Is there a decryption key for this paragraph? Like, every other letter? I can't make head or tail of it.

Byfield wrote: Frankly, I'd rather have a common page for recycled names, code or real. Give a short origin for each, and the major revisions of each.

I believe this is already the case - and if it isn't, it should be.

Byfield wrote: And there is a workaround. can be modified to allow a second field. So Robin would be. The question would be how to express the two links though. (side thought: It would also allow a direct link to a section on the code name origin page such as Robin Origins#Richard Grayson)

That solves a problem, but I think a table of contents on the origin page also solves the problem. And it happens automatically. :D

Tupka217 wrote: And what if a name is shared by unrelated characters? Starfire or Artemis?

I don't think either of them are hurtin' for an origin page.

Here's an idea. For those characters who rarely have their histories retconned as significantly as a Batman or a Superman, a brief blurb explaining the commonalities between the origins could be written on their character origin category page, since nothing else is there but a list.