Thread:Tupka217/@comment-1639863-20141102002912

Hey, Tupka,

I wanted to pitch this idea I had to another admin. A general post just didn't feel right.

The other day, I really started to appreciate how great our pages are here, especially for the big guys: Bats, Supes, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, the rest. Their pages are stuffed with information. We've packed years of a character's history onto one page, and I was just then realizing how amazing that was.

For a person familiar with comics, we're a one stop shop. Look up the page, find it, read it. You've got your info. However, for an average joe / non-comic reader, we might have too much information. A whole page detailing Batman and his adventures might be too complicated to search through to get the bare essentials on him. Then, I got hit with this idea.

What if we had a "DC for Dummies" section? Either in the Navigation or the front page or even just a basic page? Just somewhere that gives easy to read bullet points (10 max per person) that are necessary to understanding a character.

Batman's secret identity is Bruce Wayne, a billionaire in Gotham City.

Clark Kent's main love interest is Lois Lane, his best friend is Jimmy Olsen, and his boss is Perry White.

Oliver Queen, better known as Green Arrow, learned his archery skills when he had being stranded on Starfish Island.

Disambigs do a good job of giving the basics, but I feel it'd be easier to introduce a character to a new reader if we had a place that offered 10 basic and easy to read facts about him, one after the other. We could generate more interest for the characters and the wiki, like a trial version of DC comics! A person with no DC experience would read the bullet points facts, understand the core of the character, and then be able to advance to more advanced reading about the character.

Of course, we wouldn't have to do this for every character. I would think that the admins would discuss who would deserve intros, and we'd decide the facts ourselves. It wouldn't be anything that really needs to be constantly edited. If users would want to request a character to get an intro, we could have a page similar to the Prime Earth Project.

I don't want to make it sound like I'd be crushed if this didn't happen. I completely understand if you're not a fan of the idea. We might already have this kind of system here, and I simply haven't seen it. Let me know your feedback, positive and negative, and I encourage other admins to say their opinions as well. Thanks for hearing me out. 