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Lord Kavpeny was technically supposed to have handled this issue, but he is extremely busy with school and work nowadays, so I suppose that I will have to try to manage it instead.
Anyway, as most of you probably know, our current policies regarding alternative canon and composite profiles are ill-defined.
We have allowed certain franchises, such as Marvel and DC, to get a considerable amount of profiles from spinoffs in cartoons, games, and movies, and also feature a few composite profiles, such as Link from The Legend of Zelda.
There is no particular difference between this and allowing, for example, manga characters the same courtecy for anime and game spinoffs that differ considerably from the originals.
However, there exists the potential problem of being swarmed by obscure non-canon characters, or ones that cannot get any valid justifications for the statistics.
Hence, I propose that we set some form of restrictions regarding notability, sufficiently extensive and divergent canon, and the ability to find and scale useful feats for the spinoff.
I also think that only extremely prominent well-known characters should be given composite profiles, and that these should only go by their own feats/exclude external power-sources, such as the Cosmic Armor Superman.
Input and analysis would be very appreciated.
Anyway, as most of you probably know, our current policies regarding alternative canon and composite profiles are ill-defined.
We have allowed certain franchises, such as Marvel and DC, to get a considerable amount of profiles from spinoffs in cartoons, games, and movies, and also feature a few composite profiles, such as Link from The Legend of Zelda.
There is no particular difference between this and allowing, for example, manga characters the same courtecy for anime and game spinoffs that differ considerably from the originals.
However, there exists the potential problem of being swarmed by obscure non-canon characters, or ones that cannot get any valid justifications for the statistics.
Hence, I propose that we set some form of restrictions regarding notability, sufficiently extensive and divergent canon, and the ability to find and scale useful feats for the spinoff.
I also think that only extremely prominent well-known characters should be given composite profiles, and that these should only go by their own feats/exclude external power-sources, such as the Cosmic Armor Superman.
Input and analysis would be very appreciated.