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:If we decided to abide by your criteria that admin can't act on situations regarding stories they haven't read, that would hamstring us to such a degree that the best alternative would be to declare any story invalid that none of our admins have read. And I can guarantee that wouldn't fly among the rest of the wiki's users. Thanks, [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] [[User talk:Shambala108|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:06, March 2, 2019 (UTC) | :If we decided to abide by your criteria that admin can't act on situations regarding stories they haven't read, that would hamstring us to such a degree that the best alternative would be to declare any story invalid that none of our admins have read. And I can guarantee that wouldn't fly among the rest of the wiki's users. Thanks, [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] [[User talk:Shambala108|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:06, March 2, 2019 (UTC) | ||
:: The following forum thread regarding another crossover seems relevant to the topic: | |||
{{quote|[Our] own lack of knowledge about the STU [Star Trek Universe] doesn't mean that we shouldn't be able to create articles on things which are clearly depicted, but unnamed by dialogue. After all, we have many articles that are based solely on visual inspection — like [[Volkswagen Beetle]], [[HMS Teazer|HMS ''Teazer'']], [[London Borough of Barnet]], real world people who appeared in archive footage, Doctor Who actors who played themselves — or aural examination, like practically the entire contents of [[:category:Songs from the real world]]. It seems to me that the better approach is to give things their proper name in the STU and then provide a "behind the scenes" note that it wasn't specifically named by the story, but that it is unmistakably that object/person/species.|[[User:CzechOut|CzechOut]] on naming pages for unnamed Star Trek persons and concepts.|Forum:IDW Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover}} | |||
::To add my own two cents, this scheme of using STU/Marvel names for things unnamed in DWU serves two related purposes, IMHO: 1) readers would be able to find the page easily via a search engine; 2) were information about the character to appear in a later story, editors would easily make the connection via the existing link. Having said that, I advise extreme caution in identifying by sight. It is easy to misidentify one of thousands comic characters. Equally crucial is to provide extensive "behind-the-scenes" notes explaining what is and is not known in-universe. Perhaps, we have a reasonable precedent in ''[[The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)|The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]'', which was chockfull of comic illustrations in-universe, and many of them have pages with reasonably uncontroversial identifiable names. [[User:Amorkuz|Amorkuz]] [[User talk:Amorkuz|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 01:42, March 3, 2019 (UTC) | |||