Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-265341-20140828172133/@comment-3361105-20140829202148

Lawrence King wrote: The Guardians of the Galaxy link isn't a link to the Marvel Database -- it's a link to a podcast by one of our esteemed admins.

It is a podcast put out as a shared venture between the DC and Marvel database. It is one of the ways we are trying to generate more content than just encyclopedic information, and to demonstrate the fact that this wiki is contributed to by knowledgeable people who can generate better content than other sites.

Then the slider shows a photo of MrBlonde267 with the command to OBEY him and the other admins. Now, this is sort of funny, but it's basically an inside joke. Wikipedia doesn't put photos of its admins on its front page.

It is a joke - but it links to a page where you can learn about the administrators of the wiki, which is very important for new users. Getting to know your administrators is always a good idea. Wikipedia doesn't do a lot of things we do. We're not Wikipedia. We don't want to be Wikipedia. Wikia doesn't want us to be Wikipedia.

Lawrence King wrote: But maybe I don't really understand the purpose of the DC Comics Database itself? I'm not even sure why it's a separate entity from dcuwiki.net.

I'm not sure why you would think we shouldn't be a separate entity from the dcuguide...