I wish we had a standard way for nothign where stuff liek this appeared. This Insecticons story (unless I'm remembering a different one) is out of continyuity witht he rest of the UK comics.
And no where do I see a link to the story in question so the readercould learn that. (It's not very relevant for something liek this, I admit, but it is for others.) -Derik 01:44, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
- I totally agree. This is the main reason I am not fond of the mandate that we write articles "in-fiction" without making explicit references to stories. Walky has suggested linking to referenced articles with normal links (created like this: [http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Afterdeath] and appearing like this: [1]) but I don't really like that solution because it requires following the link to find out what the story was... is it a comic issue? An episode of some cartoon series? Which cartoon? Maybe it's just a random find your fate ending? You won't know unless you follow the link. Plus, linking to things that way breaks the database's knowledge of what articles link to what other articles, which is a very useful feature. I guess maybe this is another issue to be discussed in the community portal... --Steve-o 22:19, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
- In the case of this article, you know what kind of story it's from because it's under "UK Marvel Comics continuity." That is not rocket science. --ItsWalky 22:29, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
- Marvel UK continuity is pretty darn vast. And if a character appears in just one source, I wish there was a nice top-level way of noting it. (Which I've been doing for the Keepers Trilogy characters in their topnote, mainly to keep peopel from assuming they're runnign around the Dreamwave comics.)
- I deaely wish for a simple way to explain something's 'range.' "Appeared in two UK comic stories." "Recurring character." "Regular." Those definitions all suck though, because they're much too arbitrary.
- The Star Trek Encyclopedia has a... thing. A meta-note at the end of each entry- first appearance/mention. And for EPISODES, there's a summary- and then a meta-note "Here are all the articles with content that references stuff from this episode." -71.37.253.98 00:44, 22 June 2006 (UTC)