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== Action Figures or Collectibles? ==
== Two infoboxes enter, only one leaves ==


I was wondering if it would be more appropriate to have the sub-heading Action Figures read [[Collectibles]] instead? After all, the helmet replica is not an action figure, and changing to a collectibles sub-heading would allow for a cleaner way to denote any past or future Doctor Fate merchandise outside of television and film. [[User:DBHughes|DBHughes]] ([[User talk:DBHughes|talk]]) 23:26, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
We have two infoboxes in the article; one deals primarily with the subject, and the other deals with other incarnations (other folk who have worn the bucket that is Nabu). As far as I know, only one is needed for the article; the primary one. The other incarnations or publication history can be integrated in the primary one. Thoughts? - [[User:Arcayne|<span style="color:black">'''Arcayne'''</span>]] [[User talk:Arcayne|<small><span style="color:gray">(<sup>'''cast a spell'''</sup>)</span></small>]] 18:14, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


== Proper name for the helm? ==
:First, could you point to the policy, guide line, or consensus that ''limits'' the number of infoboxes in an article. If there is one, I'd really like to see it before going and running up infoboxes for character/series (which would be applicable here where the series are a minor part of the article), series/character (reverse situation), alias/series, and series/alias. Creating that for this article as a "special case" instead of a set of general 'boxes for like article is more trouble than it's worth. Also, having such a guide to point to would help with cleaning up a ''lot'' of articles that have multiple 'boxes. (Please note, I'm not trying to argue "other stuff", just firmly determine if this is a case of layout counter to consensus or an issue of taste on a non-addressed issue.) - [[User:J Greb|J Greb]] ([[User talk:J Greb|talk]]) 22:22, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
:I don't know, J. I do know that i haven't seen any other article s with multiple infoboxes (and that includes other media and article types), so I am presuming there is one. Maybe you could look for such a policy this weekend, as I am heading out of town and will not be checking in. Let me know what you find out. - [[User:Arcayne|<span style="color:black">'''Arcayne'''</span>]] [[User talk:Arcayne|<small><span style="color:gray">(<sup>'''cast a spell'''</sup>)</span></small>]] 00:07, 10 May 2008 (UTC)


I think its proper name is the "Helm of Nabu", but I've read here how some people call it the Helmet of Fate. Are they used interchangeably? Which is considered the primary term; we should use that. I've altered the heading in the article to reflect the "original" use for the helmet, but I welcome any cited references that contradict that view - hopefully, with some discussion beforehand. - [[User:Jack Sebastian|Jack Sebastian]] ([[User talk:Jack Sebastian|talk]]) 20:02, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
:::Other examples of multiple boxes in use include [[Justice League]], [[Teen Titans]], [[Justice Society of America]], and a veriaty of multiple character articles.
:::In most of those cases, the "suplimentry" 'boxes are tied to specific sub-sections of the articles, which isn't the case here, nor could it be given the subject. - [[User:J Greb|J Greb]] ([[User talk:J Greb|talk]]) 00:55, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
::::There must be a better way to do this that cluttering up the page than using multiple boxes. We can split articles and mark them as such, thus covering other sub-genres. thoughts? - [[User:Arcayne|<span style="color:black">'''Arcayne'''</span>]] [[User talk:Arcayne|<small><span style="color:gray">(<sup>'''cast a spell'''</sup>)</span></small>]] 01:27, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::Yes and no. The Titans article, for example, has what seems to be an onging give and take debate on compressing and splitting. And it may be that there is a difference in page layou concpt. Remember what I said about subsections and actually look at the Teen titans article. Except for the team 'box and original series, which are at the top of the page, the series 'boxes are set at the top of the relavent subsections. They function as they are supposed to and don't create designe or legability issues.
:::::While there are articles where the layout is and issue ([[Sandman (DC Comics)]]) or could be one (here), it isn't an automatic "bad practice" or, as far as I can tell, a forbidden one. Also keep in mind this aritcle is using a ''character'' box, the primay focus of the artile with all 6 comic book chrated addressed, and a '''''comic book series''''' box, listing the 3 self titled comic book runs.
:::::- [[User:J Greb|J Greb]] ([[User talk:J Greb|talk]]) 01:54, 11 May 2008 (UTC)


== Four endings for Gerber run? ==
(←dent) I don't know, J - it seems a slim argument that tends towards sliding into in-universe infoboxing for one and excess triviality for the other. What is the exceptional notability for ''any'' volume of Doctor Fate over another? Remember, this is an article about the ''character'' from a comic book, not the comic book itself. Publication information can be noted at the end of the article, or - maybe not at all, as the distinguishing between volumes as to who wore the bucket and when seems trivial. And just bc TT or JL or JSA use it doesn't mean it's correct. As yu noted, there is a lot of discussion about it. - [[User:Arcayne|<span style="color:black">'''Arcayne'''</span>]] [[User talk:Arcayne|<small><span style="color:gray">(<sup>'''cast a spell'''</sup>)</span></small>]] 22:44, 11 May 2008 (UTC)


In my tpb copy of the Gerber run on Dr. Fate, there are four different endings, written by four of Gerber's friends after his death. But when I added that to this page, it was reverted. Is there a reason why that info cannot be kept on the page? [[User:Aristophanes68|<span style="color:magenta;">'''Aristophanes'''</span><span style="color:teal;">'''68'''</span>]] [[User talk:Aristophanes68|<span style="color:teal;">''(talk)''</span>]] 00:50, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
:Nor does it mean that it is incorrect. This is one of the two reasons I asked you if you had a consensus, guide line, and/or policy that ''you'' were coming from. ''If'' such exists, then there is a solid, or as solid as Wiki gets, reason for creating the combined infoboxes ''and'' enforcing a "the can only be one" mentality. Without that, right here, right now we have an attempt to create that consensus with an editor pointing out "I think this is wrong and we shouldn't do it."
:I can't say why it was reverted, but I can say it doesn't belong where it is. The fictional biography section should be ''fictional'' only. The real world information like the writer's death should be in the publication section. [[User:Argento Surfer|Argento Surfer]] ([[User talk:Argento Surfer|talk]]) 17:42, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
:There is also the fact that, and I'm going to hammer this point as hard as I can, the 'boxes in this article are doing ''two '''separate''' things''. One is the ''character'' 'box which list information, both in real world and in-universe context, of four of the six versions of the character and links to the article on the remaining two versions. The other is a ''comic book series'' 'box, which should 100% real world context and self-contained. The ''character'' 'box has pride of place due to the ''article'' being more about the characters than the three series. But even then that does not elevate content from the ''series'' box, making one series more important than the others, because the 'boxes are dealing with different ''types of content.'' - [[User:J Greb|J Greb]] ([[User talk:J Greb|talk]]) 23:50, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
::Okay, I get that. But my problem was that there are FOUR endings, and that the section as it now stands simply mentions one of them. I know in all four, Fate recovers, but otherwise the endings are different enough that it seems too simplistic just to say "here's what happened". Does that make sense? [[User:Aristophanes68|<span style="color:magenta;">'''Aristophanes'''</span><span style="color:teal;">'''68'''</span>]] [[User talk:Aristophanes68|<span style="color:teal;">''(talk)''</span>]] 18:30, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
::With the utmost of respect, arguing from the negative - ie, 'that doesn't make it incorrect' - is a sophistry argument, and less than useful here. If you want to make a point/alteration in policy that you need to make and find consensus for in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Comics|Comics Wikiproject]], and not testing the waters by putting it here. Virtually every other article within the wiki-en uses one infobox, and that includes other comic book articles. However, I could be wrong. If there are a number of FA articles that use multiple infoboxes, please point them out here.
:::Are the events of the ending significantly different enough to include the variations in the plot summary? Have any of their unique events been referenced over others in later canon? Were the alternate endings availble separately outside of the collection you mention? If the answer to all of these is "no", I think mentioning their existance in the publication history section is enough. [[User:Argento Surfer|Argento Surfer]] ([[User talk:Argento Surfer|talk]]) 14:55, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
::Of course, that is a bit of sophistry on my part, as there aren't FA articles that have a plethora of infoboxes. The article covers all aspects of the character within one article. It covers publication history, publication dates, etc. The article doesn't distinguish betwen the value of the fictional information and the publication dates of that fictional information. As [[Help:Infobox|infoboxes]] are summaries of the article for the purposes of classification; a far briefer summary of the article that even the Lede is.
::Perhaps, arguing for a more ''extensive'' infobox instead of arguing for a multiplication of them is the wiser tack here. - [[User:Arcayne|<span style="color:black">'''Arcayne'''</span>]] [[User talk:Arcayne|<small><span style="color:gray">(<sup>'''cast a spell'''</sup>)</span></small>]] 03:52, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
:::[[Sandman (DC Comics)]] also uses two infoboxes, and usefully so. --[[User:Scottandrewhutchins|Scottandrewhutchins]] ([[User talk:Scottandrewhutchins|talk]]) 16:09, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
::::Okay, but again - that is a small list of articles that use more than one infobox. I would also point out that the second infobox could easily be deleted, and its information incorporated into the first one. - [[User:Arcayne|<span style="color:black">'''Arcayne'''</span>]] [[User talk:Arcayne|<small><span style="color:gray">(<sup>'''cast a spell'''</sup>)</span></small>]] 17:21, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
:::After two weeks without movement on how having two infoboxes is an improvement over one - which is used in the majority of articles in Wikipedia (and not just comics articles) - I've decided to be bold and remove it. It sets a bad precedent. The information in the second infobox can be utilized in the article and isn't particularly useful or relevant as an infobox. - [[User:Arcayne|<span style="color:black">'''Arcayne'''</span>]] [[User talk:Arcayne|<small><span style="color:gray">(<sup>'''cast a spell'''</sup>)</span></small>]] 18:13, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
::::And I've been bold and reverted.
::::Bluntly: Provide the guide line or policy that states that using more than one 'box is forbidden.
::::You've been asked to do this repeatedly and have fallen back on stating that the current, long standing usage must be shown as valid and that you don't like it. That doesn't cut it. Provide the cite ''or'' build a consensus to have it changed. At this point there is no consensus, so there is no change. - [[User:J Greb|J Greb]] ([[User talk:J Greb|talk]]) 23:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
:::With respect, I have already noted that the majority of the articles in Wikipedia don;t use it, and only a ''small'' handful of articles use the double infobox, the second of which is utterly unnecessary, and should instead be provided in the body of the article. It isn't a matter of ot likeing it, J - its a matter of uniformity (art of that whole encyclopedic thing). And allow me to be frank - it is in fact you that needs to beuild a consensus to change the standing consensus clearly inidacted by the lack of the template in other articles. You have to build a consensus to ''add'' it. I don't have to provide one to keep it out, especially when it is unnecessary. ou might want to take this discussion to the Comics project, as has been suggested before. Make policy there, not here. - [[User:Arcayne|<span style="color:black">'''Arcayne'''</span>]] [[User talk:Arcayne|<small><span style="color:gray">(<sup>'''cast a spell'''</sup>)</span></small>]] 00:24, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
::::Um... bull.
::::The pair of 'boxes hav sat quietly on the article until you decided it was an issue. We've hit [[WP:BRD]]. ''Yours'' is the bold edit at this point. ''Yours'' is the one that has garnered contention. ''Yours'' is the onus.
::::Frankly, I'd love to have something more than the "Other pages don't" on this since that would make it that much easier to create a solution that doesn't engender lay out problems, have editors shaking their heads at the look, ''or'' remove content.
::::Yes, there there is currently a discusion [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics#Infobox thoughts|here]], though it seems to have gone a little sideways. And a question put to the Project focusing on the 'boxes [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Infoboxes#Question re multiple infoboxes.|here]]. Feel free to add your thoughts at Comics, ot to take a whack at proding Infoboxes, but please don't go jumping that your bold edit is right, or shouting "edit war" when ''you're'' pushing the change. - [[User:J Greb|J Greb]] ([[User talk:J Greb|talk]]) 00:45, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
:::::I'd like to join in the discussion, but first I'd like to ask you both to consider your tone. Let's bring it back down to the [[WP:CIVIL|civil]] realms that I know we're all accustomed : ) - [[User:Jc37|jc37]] 01:13, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


== Khalid Ben-Hassin ==
===Nonrandom break 1===


I think it's real important to note that this guy is from Earth 2 [[Special:Contributions/68.173.11.102|68.173.11.102]] ([[User talk:68.173.11.102|talk]]) 04:21, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
:Thanks for interjecting, JC. Let's try this again:
::BRD means one makes a bold edit. Then, if there is a revert, discussion takes place. We don't post out view point inthe discussion page, and then go and revert back in something we KNOW is going to be in contention. Let's halt this slo-mo edit war and take the discussion over to the current one at Wikiproject comics. Please await the conclusion (and consensus that arises from that discussion, please).
:I'll add more thoughts on this tomorrow. I am off for the evening - [[User:Arcayne|<span style="color:black">'''Arcayne'''</span>]] [[User talk:Arcayne|<small><span style="color:gray">(<sup>'''cast a spell'''</sup>)</span></small>]] 01:28, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


==Jasper Winters==
:::So, let me make sure I go this crystal clear:
I am wondering if anyone knows if this name has ever appeared in association with Doctor Fate. Episode 1 of the now-airing Constantine TV series had the Fate Helm of Nabu or whatever you want to call it in the lair of Winters, but I do not see him listed as Fate. It made me wonder if Winters might have been a supporting character of sorts who might have held the helm in between its use by characters who took on the role. --[[User:Ranze|Ranze]] ([[User talk:Ranze|talk]]) 08:35, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
::::Content that was added 17 months ago[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Doctor_Fate&diff=96421002&oldid=96379273], and has been in place, without comment or problem is the edit that needs to be justified while the deletion of that content less than 2 weeks ago[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Doctor_Fate&diff=211214813&oldid=211214701], which ''was'' contested, is fine?
:::I'm sorry, I don't buy that, especially since the editor deleting it has edited the article prior to the deletion, yet left the 'box alone. That, and the long period the content was left in place speaks to the deletion being the bold edit in this case.
:::And if we are to await a consensus, at worst that means the article, or the relevant content "hold" at the point prior to the ''recent'' bold edit. - [[User:J Greb|J Greb]] ([[User talk:J Greb|talk]]) 01:45, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
::I think you have an adequate grasp of the situation, J. I didn't edit the infobox out because I simply didn't pay as much attention to this article until recently, and my edits reflected article content rather than a plethora of infoboxes. I don't see the eddition of one or more as a step in the right direction. If you feel the current ones are not up to the task, then they should be reworked. Adding more to make a point isn't really helpful. - [[User:Arcayne|<span style="color:black">'''Arcayne'''</span>]] [[User talk:Arcayne|<small><span style="color:gray">(<sup>'''cast a spell'''</sup>)</span></small>]] 15:13, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


== External links modified ==
:I've posted my general thoughts on the Comic Project in hope of moving things forward. My general feeling is that we should try and avoid multiple boxes if we can - the main case for them is where a number of different characters share the same name but we should look into splitting them - as has been done on [[Sandman (DC Comics)]] - an example which only appears to need one infobox as all others have their own entries. Where there are different people wearing the same cowl/mask/bucket then we can easily compact them (as J Greb did with [[Union Jack (comics)]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Union_Jack_%28comics%29&diff=212946896&oldid=212787466 here]).
:Teams may be a different kettle of fish so I suspect their examples may not be relevant to the discussion, as attempts to outline a roster would get messy quickly. I'd still like to look at the examples a bit more closely but it feels like apples and oranges and they could require a different approach.
: Given that I think this page works fine with the one infobox. Although I am open to arguments for the use of more. ([[User:Emperor|Emperor]] ([[User talk:Emperor|talk]]) 02:31, 23 May 2008 (UTC))
::I would agree with that assessment, Emperor. - [[User:Arcayne|<span style="color:black">'''Arcayne'''</span>]] [[User talk:Arcayne|<small><span style="color:gray">(<sup>'''cast a spell'''</sup>)</span></small>]] 15:13, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


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== Doctor Strange comparison redux ==


== External links modified ==
I am not sure why the comparison keeps being made, but the same citation that was being used to justify this bit of [[WP:SYN|synthesis]] before hasn't changed at all, and it doesn't make that comparison. This was already pretty much [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Talk:Doctor_Fate&diff=210792234&oldid=210637744 dismissed as inaccurate] in previous discussions. If someone is seeking to change consensus, it would seem wise to actually find a better citation to launch such an argument. - [[User:Arcayne|<span style="color:black">'''Arcayne'''</span>]] [[User talk:Arcayne|<small><span style="color:gray">(<sup>'''cast a spell'''</sup>)</span></small>]] 23:40, 12 May 2009 (UTC)


Hello fellow Wikipedians,
:First of all, the title you gave this thread proves you are not paying attention, as the passage we are '''currently''' in dispute over makes no "Strange comparison" ''per se''. Here it is (Wikilinks not recreated):


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::''However, he ''[meaning Dr. Fate]'' is still not much of a team player, maintaining his own team within the League. This unit, consisting of himself, Atlantean royalty Aquaman and man-monster Solomon Grundy, was designed to parallel the original line-up of Marvel Comics's superhero group The Defenders, sorcerer Doctor Strange, Atlantean royalty the Sub-Mariner and man-monster the Incredible Hulk.''
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:Note that the only specific comparison made is between the two teams as wholes, and not any one character to another. Here's the relevant passage from the source, which you yourself quoted in our original dispute, only I'm going to take it further:


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::The second paragraph of text begins: ''Bruce Timm on "The Teror Beyond" (circa 2004): "That's our backward homage to the Defenders."''


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::Now move down to the next paragraph, to the third sentence: ''"...but then I mentioned, 'You know, we've got Aquaman here and Dr. Fate; we've basically got two-thirds of a DC Comics alternate universe version of the Defenders.' Little light bulbs started going off over everybody's heads. I said, 'All we need now is the DC equivalent of the Hulk.' Somebody mentioned Grundy and it all went from there."''


== Hatnotes ==
::Next paragraph: ''Dwayne McDuffie on the absence of the "Silver Surfer" from the "Defenders" line-up: "Well, [Silver Surfer] wasn't in the original Defenders, he showed up in their second appearance. Hint, hint...."''


As there are multiple pages with the title "Doctor Fate," some of which include further disambiguation, they should each be included as a hatnote to this article or on a disambiguation page linked to this article as per [[WP:SIMILAR]]. [[User:AllegedlyHuman|AllegedlyHuman]] ([[User talk:AllegedlyHuman|talk]]) 21:27, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
:I repeat, the only comparison in the current version of the passage (which had been there since last July, BTW) is between the two teams as two wholes, which is definitely in the quoted passage (including, via McDuffie, a limit to the "'''original''' Defenders"). Yes, I added a list of the Defenders' original line-up, but that is '''not synthesis'''. It is left to the readers to decide who parallels who! If you insist, I'll move that list to after the current ref cite and add one for it giving ''[[Marvel Feature]]'' Vol. 1, #1, December 1971, the comic with that team's debut story. I won't absolutely insist on an open admission here that you were wrong, or an apology, but that would be the decent thing to do. --[[User:Tbrittreid|Ted Watson]] ([[User talk:Tbrittreid|talk]]) 21:25, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
:If you read [[WP:SIMILAR]], you may notice that that concerns similar names of completely different things. This page is about characters named Dr Fate. if there was a place called Dr Fate, New Hampshire, or some such, then we might need to disambiguate, but not when they are a shared topic on the same page where they are already disambiguated. - <b>[[User:Jc37|jc37]]</b> 04:50, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
::You're just looking at the one example given. The text says nothing about required dissimilarity: {{tq|"When two articles share the same title, except that one is disambiguated and the other not, the undisambiguated article should include a hatnote with a link to the other article."}} There are other Wikipedia pages with the title "Doctor Fate" and then parenthetical disambiguation. Either those pages should be renamed, or they should be linked here per policy. [[User:AllegedlyHuman|AllegedlyHuman]] ([[User talk:AllegedlyHuman|talk]]) 06:03, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
:::No, I'm actually looking at the whole page. (As well as [[WP:NCC]] and [[WP:CMOS]]). And by the way, the hatnotes that you are looking for are already in the article, at the top of each relevant section. Here are just a couple quotes from WP:SIMILAR:
:::''"...Mention other topics and articles only if there is a reasonable possibility of a reader arriving at the article either by mistake or with another topic in mind..."''
:::''"...Ideally, limit hatnotes to just one at the top of the page or section..."''
:::Anyway, these pages '''''are''''' disambiguated, in several ways. Adding duplicative clutter to the top of the page is not the intent of [[WP:SIMILAR]]. - <b>[[User:Jc37|jc37]]</b> 06:41, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
::::{{tq|"Anyway, these pages are disambiguated, in several ways."}} I think you may be misunderstanding the meaning of "disambiguate" on Wikipedia. There is exactly one way of doing that. This page does not, so long as there is not a hatnote. [[WP:NCC]] in fact has relevant guidance on this; see [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics)#By codename]]. Given that multiple articles have the same title, some of which use parenthetical disambiguation, there absolutely is {{tq|"a reasonable possibility of a reader arriving at the article either by mistake or with another topic in mind."}} The hatnote I added was also collapsed into a single hatnote, rather than a stack, as per policy. If you or any other editor feels inclined to coalesce those into a disambiguation page to further reduce clutter I would have no issue with that, but so long as another article has the same title as this one it '''needs''' to be linked at the top of the page. ''That'' is the intent of [[WP:SIMILAR]], and I am not convinced that anything you have provided refutes that point. [[User:AllegedlyHuman|AllegedlyHuman]] ([[User talk:AllegedlyHuman|talk]]) 22:24, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
::::::Well first, I might suggest that you read [[WP:DAB]]. This page is, by design, one that disambiguates. Just because we have a specific type of page called a "disambiguation page", which follows a particular format, does not mean that other types of pages do not disambiguate. See also [[Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists]] and [[Wikipedia:Set index articles]].
::::::Second, all of those [[Template:Main]] links in each section on this page are hatnotes. So we shouldn't '''also''' be adding duplicative hatnotes at the top, per the quote I listed above.
::::::And third, you may want to check the edit history of WP:NCC and find out [https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(comics)&diff=next&oldid=70664053 who wrote that section of the guideline], and quite a bit of the rest of it... It's possible that I may be rather well-versed in the intent of WP:NCC.
::::::All that aside, the goal here isn't to be difficult. Nor to blindly follow laid out guidelines. They are there for particular reasons. In this case, our overall goal is to be helpful to our readers, both to help in navigation, but also to reduce clutter to increase readability. And adding duplicative hatnotes at the top of this page when the sections below all already have them is, by definition, duplicative clutter. And we avoid clutter on Wikipedia in several ways, for several reasons. One of which is [[Banner blindness]]. It's also why guidance like [[Wikipedia:Avoid template creep]] exists. Noting that [[Template:For]], is of course, a template. See also - [[MOS:DUPLINK]] and [[MOS:LEADLINK]] among many other policies/guidelines.
::::::So yes, this page is a list which (among other things) disambiguates, with specific sections referring to the main articles for each of the various characters.
::::::I hope this better clarifies. If you have any questions on any of the policies or guidelines noted above, please feel free to ask. I am happy to help. - <b>[[User:Jc37|jc37]]</b> 03:46, 27 May 2021 (UTC)


== Typo in "General Powers" ==
::You'd grow old waiting, since I am not wrong. I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt, and presume you weren't trying to be a smartass, coz of course you are aware that that doesn't help two folk talk about things politely. You've been here long enough to get that, right?
::Any comparison to Doctor Strange not ''explicitly'' made ''is'' synthesis, Ted Watson/Tbittreid. You were told this months ago - and this observation was confirmed by a neutral admin. and you are attempting to add that very information yet again. albeit rearranging the text akin to deck chairs on the ''Titanic''. You are taking one cited example where the two are ''not'' compared and making the comparison all by your lonesome. As per [[WP:SYN]]. you are taking an interpretive leap that is not there. The reader doesn't know who the Defenders are - they came here to read about Doc Fate. You are taking your personal knowledge about the membership of the Defenders - super-team that has had a lot of members - and then Doc Fate's little band of heroes and drawn a connection between Doc Strange and Doc Fate that the reference did not make. In order to make that comparison, someone has to have knowledge of both teams and make the exact same interpretive leaps as you have. As the citation did not, i am guessing the average reader would not - we don't get to make up their minds for them. The same argument you make for Doc Fate being the parallel to Doc Fate could also be made for Son of Satan, Silver Surfer or Devil-Slayer. That said, I am not going to engage in a debate about the (dis)similarities here; that's better confined to a fan forum or something along those lines.
::In comparing the two, you are making a new argument not supported by the statements. You seem very interested in including the comparison - that's splendid. Just find a reliable, verifiable citation that says what you want it to and all will be copacetic. Until then, you cannot include it - any more than you could months ago. - [[User:Arcayne|<span style="color:black">'''Arcayne'''</span>]] [[User talk:Arcayne|<small><span style="color:gray">(<sup>'''cast a spell'''</sup>)</span></small>]] 13:52, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
:::I am going to say this one more time, and demand that you do not ignore it. No comparison between Doctor Fate and Doctor Strange is made in the passage currently under debate, only between the two teams as two wholes (it '''has''' been substantially altered from the one we had a dispute over last year). '''NONE! Read the damned thing and you'll see that!''' This makes virtually everything you said above completely irrelevant; you seem to be talking about the disputed edit from a year ago, and this one simply isn't the same thing. Again, the only thing in '''this''' passage that is not in the source is the original line-up of the Defenders, which I added, and as I said, which I am quite willing to separate from the other and give it its own ref cite. '''NOW DEAL WITH THESE STATEMENTS!''' If, as seems to be the case, you did not bother to actually read the "new" passage and see the differences before you deleted it either of these last two times (your remark about the readers of this article not knowing who the members of the Defenders are is impossible to interpret any other way since, as I just said, the relevant roster is included; to say nothing of the fact that I included the passage in my earlier posting above, equally indicating you read only the wrap-up of '''that'''), I certainly hope that you're not the sort of person who is too egocentric to admit it (if only by the implication inherent in saying no more and "walking away" from this thread). --[[User:Tbrittreid|Ted Watson]] ([[User talk:Tbrittreid|talk]]) 21:52, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


::::I am going to give you the opportunity to re-write your post, Tbrittreid/TedWatson; it wasn't friendly and its bordered on being uncivil and, as written, there is no real way to respond to it without taking some of the bait. If you make the attempt to rephrase some of your comments and calm down, we can continue discussing the topic. I can assure you I am not ignoring your reasoning for wanting it in; I am simply ''disagreeing'' with it. You are trying to utilize a parallel between Doc Fate and Doc Strange that is not explicitly given in the citation provided. Seeking to end-run that by naming the members of the Defenders is not the appropriate way to make that comparison. You need to find a better source that connects the two, Tbrittreid/TedWatson. The source currently could be used to compare the two super-teams, but not the two Doctors.
::::Now, if you need to ask admin opinion on both my interpretation and your approach, please feel free to do so. I don't really feel like fighting with you about this, but I am not walking away from this. Understand that it isn't egocentricity, as you've suggested at least twice; we both know you need a better citation to say what you want it to say. - [[User:Arcayne|<span style="color:black">'''Arcayne'''</span>]] [[User talk:Arcayne|<small><span style="color:gray">(<sup>'''cast a spell'''</sup>)</span></small>]] 23:45, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


In General Powers, for this sentence: "...they temporarily coalapse into one being with combined powers..."
I am going to tell you what you told me: Provide a quote from the passage that is a comparison between Fate and Strange or admit that there isn't one. You can't because there isn't one, only between the two teams, which you have now conceded is in the source. I repeat, provide a quote from the passage to back up your claim of the existence such a specific comparison, or admit that there isn't one. --[[User:Tbrittreid|Ted Watson]] ([[User talk:Tbrittreid|talk]]) 20:08, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Is that word supposed to be "coalesce" or "collapse"?
--[[User:Techielaw|Techielaw]] ([[User talk:Techielaw|talk]]) 20:01, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

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Action Figures or Collectibles?

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I was wondering if it would be more appropriate to have the sub-heading Action Figures read Collectibles instead? After all, the helmet replica is not an action figure, and changing to a collectibles sub-heading would allow for a cleaner way to denote any past or future Doctor Fate merchandise outside of television and film. DBHughes (talk) 23:26, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proper name for the helm?

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I think its proper name is the "Helm of Nabu", but I've read here how some people call it the Helmet of Fate. Are they used interchangeably? Which is considered the primary term; we should use that. I've altered the heading in the article to reflect the "original" use for the helmet, but I welcome any cited references that contradict that view - hopefully, with some discussion beforehand. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 20:02, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Four endings for Gerber run?

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In my tpb copy of the Gerber run on Dr. Fate, there are four different endings, written by four of Gerber's friends after his death. But when I added that to this page, it was reverted. Is there a reason why that info cannot be kept on the page? Aristophanes68 (talk) 00:50, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I can't say why it was reverted, but I can say it doesn't belong where it is. The fictional biography section should be fictional only. The real world information like the writer's death should be in the publication section. Argento Surfer (talk) 17:42, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, I get that. But my problem was that there are FOUR endings, and that the section as it now stands simply mentions one of them. I know in all four, Fate recovers, but otherwise the endings are different enough that it seems too simplistic just to say "here's what happened". Does that make sense? Aristophanes68 (talk) 18:30, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Are the events of the ending significantly different enough to include the variations in the plot summary? Have any of their unique events been referenced over others in later canon? Were the alternate endings availble separately outside of the collection you mention? If the answer to all of these is "no", I think mentioning their existance in the publication history section is enough. Argento Surfer (talk) 14:55, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Khalid Ben-Hassin

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I think it's real important to note that this guy is from Earth 2 68.173.11.102 (talk) 04:21, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Jasper Winters

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I am wondering if anyone knows if this name has ever appeared in association with Doctor Fate. Episode 1 of the now-airing Constantine TV series had the Fate Helm of Nabu or whatever you want to call it in the lair of Winters, but I do not see him listed as Fate. It made me wonder if Winters might have been a supporting character of sorts who might have held the helm in between its use by characters who took on the role. --Ranze (talk) 08:35, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hatnotes

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As there are multiple pages with the title "Doctor Fate," some of which include further disambiguation, they should each be included as a hatnote to this article or on a disambiguation page linked to this article as per WP:SIMILAR. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 21:27, 25 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you read WP:SIMILAR, you may notice that that concerns similar names of completely different things. This page is about characters named Dr Fate. if there was a place called Dr Fate, New Hampshire, or some such, then we might need to disambiguate, but not when they are a shared topic on the same page where they are already disambiguated. - jc37 04:50, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
You're just looking at the one example given. The text says nothing about required dissimilarity: "When two articles share the same title, except that one is disambiguated and the other not, the undisambiguated article should include a hatnote with a link to the other article." There are other Wikipedia pages with the title "Doctor Fate" and then parenthetical disambiguation. Either those pages should be renamed, or they should be linked here per policy. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 06:03, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
No, I'm actually looking at the whole page. (As well as WP:NCC and WP:CMOS). And by the way, the hatnotes that you are looking for are already in the article, at the top of each relevant section. Here are just a couple quotes from WP:SIMILAR:
"...Mention other topics and articles only if there is a reasonable possibility of a reader arriving at the article either by mistake or with another topic in mind..."
"...Ideally, limit hatnotes to just one at the top of the page or section..."
Anyway, these pages are disambiguated, in several ways. Adding duplicative clutter to the top of the page is not the intent of WP:SIMILAR. - jc37 06:41, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
"Anyway, these pages are disambiguated, in several ways." I think you may be misunderstanding the meaning of "disambiguate" on Wikipedia. There is exactly one way of doing that. This page does not, so long as there is not a hatnote. WP:NCC in fact has relevant guidance on this; see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics)#By codename. Given that multiple articles have the same title, some of which use parenthetical disambiguation, there absolutely is "a reasonable possibility of a reader arriving at the article either by mistake or with another topic in mind." The hatnote I added was also collapsed into a single hatnote, rather than a stack, as per policy. If you or any other editor feels inclined to coalesce those into a disambiguation page to further reduce clutter I would have no issue with that, but so long as another article has the same title as this one it needs to be linked at the top of the page. That is the intent of WP:SIMILAR, and I am not convinced that anything you have provided refutes that point. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 22:24, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Well first, I might suggest that you read WP:DAB. This page is, by design, one that disambiguates. Just because we have a specific type of page called a "disambiguation page", which follows a particular format, does not mean that other types of pages do not disambiguate. See also Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists and Wikipedia:Set index articles.
Second, all of those Template:Main links in each section on this page are hatnotes. So we shouldn't also be adding duplicative hatnotes at the top, per the quote I listed above.
And third, you may want to check the edit history of WP:NCC and find out who wrote that section of the guideline, and quite a bit of the rest of it... It's possible that I may be rather well-versed in the intent of WP:NCC.
All that aside, the goal here isn't to be difficult. Nor to blindly follow laid out guidelines. They are there for particular reasons. In this case, our overall goal is to be helpful to our readers, both to help in navigation, but also to reduce clutter to increase readability. And adding duplicative hatnotes at the top of this page when the sections below all already have them is, by definition, duplicative clutter. And we avoid clutter on Wikipedia in several ways, for several reasons. One of which is Banner blindness. It's also why guidance like Wikipedia:Avoid template creep exists. Noting that Template:For, is of course, a template. See also - MOS:DUPLINK and MOS:LEADLINK among many other policies/guidelines.
So yes, this page is a list which (among other things) disambiguates, with specific sections referring to the main articles for each of the various characters.
I hope this better clarifies. If you have any questions on any of the policies or guidelines noted above, please feel free to ask. I am happy to help. - jc37 03:46, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Typo in "General Powers"

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In General Powers, for this sentence: "...they temporarily coalapse into one being with combined powers..."

Is that word supposed to be "coalesce" or "collapse"? --Techielaw (talk) 20:01, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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