Talk:Marvel Comics continuity
Can we get a timeline to go along with this? I can do up a template to (I think) make it really clear how US and UK stuff intercuts. (Which I guess means I'm asking should there be a timeline, then volunteering to work on a sane layout for it.)
I actually went and took notes on all the explanations of the Timeward US/UK split from the UK Letters pages- and I think I've got a pretty clear idea exactly how the two are separated. (or at last the official explanation thereof.) -Derik 17:50, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- I think a timeline would be prudent. Though I would imagine it might be hard to do outside a flowchart, what with the 30 million different continuity branchoffs. --ItsWalky 17:53, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- Depends on the approach. I'll mock something up.
- Unrelated, have we considered a 'year' page? Similar to our overall Transformers timeline but like 'in 1988, these comic issues were published, these episodes aired, this other major event took place...' I ask mostly because, technically speaking, you should always include a year on the copyright notice on pics, and sometimes I'm ballparking. -Derik 18:04, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
On plot summaries
I made a suggestion in regards to "in-universe" story summaries, but I made it in response to a year-old discussion on a character's talk page, so I think it probably was overlooked. I don't know if the suggestion is still relevant, but this seems to be a good place to put it forth again.
For context, the discussion was about writing summaries as in-universe, as actual events that really happened, and the counter-argument was that people may want to go back and view a story, but writing in-universe would not allow issue or episode number/title references.
What if we write the articles referring to plot points as events, as opposed to story titles, but we still put superscript links where appropriate, with the matching footnotes used to denote episode or issue numbers and titles? That way the article itself is still written "in-universe", but we also provide a reference for anyone who wishes to watch or read the plot in question.
Like I said, it was a year ago discussion I replied to. Maybe a solution's already been found? --Sntint 18:11, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
