Thread:Koavf/@comment-1038387-20170625181301/@comment-3361105-20170625230752

Re: disambig links in the Description field with FairUse - The description field is not meant to be how you go to the page of the character depicted in the image. It is meant to be a catch-all for the character who appears, and it happens to be a link. It doesn't have to link at all. It could have been coded to be plain-text. It just is a link, because it seems helpful to link to a disambig when possible. The image subject fields are where the actual character - specific to a certain continuity - is listed and tracked for categorization. The infobox is where all of the relevant information required to identify the source, characters, and credits should be. The description field is merely a legal notice. It's not to anyone's advantage to specify that our fair use of an image applies only in the case of a specific version of a character, when those specific versions are delineated by arbitrary naming conventions that we came up with, like "New Earth" and "Wildstorm Universe", which are not legal terms - and are largely irrelevant when DC holds the copyright to every version of Batman (or Aquaman).

Re: automated edits - semi-automated edits are still considered bots by Fandom/Wikia, still require a bot flag, and still require sysop privileges on any wiki they are used on. Y'ain't got those.

Re: orphaned pages - having pages is more important than linking them to other pages. Orphaned pages aren't great for SEO, but if they can be found via the search tool, they are serving their purpose. If a page is currently an orphan because nobody bothered to make pages for related subjects/media, the goal should be to make those pages, not link to other pages just to get it out of the orphaned pages bucket.

There are several guidelines for working on different kinds of pages. An informal list of them can be found here. (It's informal because we haven't finished our cleanup).

For example, the question you put on my own message wall regarding Snippets is answered here: Help:Snippets.