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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Lowellian (talk | contribs) at 02:16, 31 March 2005 (signing an unsigned comment by another user; re: splitting the article apart). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Erm. Forgive me, but if we will point out former and present identites taken by various characters, that forces us to list separate characters with the same name (i.e. Spoiler was the fourth Robin). Thus, I did some. Feel free to contest this. Apostrophe 05:54, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Please see Talk:List of Marvel Comics characters for formatting and stylistic guidelines for that can be applied to this page as well, for consistency throughout Wikipedia comics articles. --Lowellian 02:26, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)

a couple commens/questions --- dunno if anyone reads this

  1. . Etrigan *is* The Demon.
  2. . I just made The Elongated Man from an existing red link, with "The". I noticed here it was just [[Elongated Man]], with no The. SO I added the The. What's Wikipolicy on names? Ensiform 02:44, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
It was just "Elongated Man" probably because it was taken from http://www.toonopedia.com/index.htm which shows it as "Elongated Man". However the individual article over there says "The Elongated Man". Anyway can you clarify on what your question actually is. Does wikipedia:naming conventions help ? Jay 08:53, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
If you look in the archives of Talk:List of Marvel Comics characters you will find extensive discussion on the use of "The" in front of character names. Basically, myself (User:Lowellian) and User:UtherSRG thought that the article "The" should not be used in page titles; User:Michael Rawdon thought that the article "The" should be used in page titles. The issue was never satisfactorily resolved, and we just basically reached a truce where we left pre-existing pages alone. --Lowellian 19:23, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)
    • My question was whether the page needed to be just EM rather than The EM, but I think Lowellian is right and pre-existing pages should be left as is. The was there, so we'll keep The. Thanks to both of you. Ensiform 00:18, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Size of article

Uhh does anyone think the dc section is way too large? After all this is what you would expect from a comics history of over 70 years. I propose to edit the dc section with caps. What if marvel section gets that large? 32kb is the max quota. Even Marvel section has 37kb. This has whopping 45. AND their are different Aliases (characters were called something different in certain times.) User:Marvelvsdc

Splitting this article apart

To the anonymous user who split this article apart on March 27, 2005 (see [1]): Please don't make a change this large without soliciting the opinions of other Wikipedians first. I personally find this page much more useful when all the characters can be viewed at once. You might also be interested in taking a look at Category:DC Comics characters. —Lowellian (talk) 02:16, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

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