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Don't mention it, thank Lephyr if he comes around (solely pinged him because he tends to be more active than others)
 
Well. The summary doesn't actually allow me to evaluate this easily, so I suppose I'm condemned to reading through the OP, follow-up posts, and online info; how vile.

I don't love the solutions presented by the OP. Either we take them as they are suggested by these media tidbits, as different versions (or fake versions) of a character, none so distinct as to be worthy of note over the others, or we just handwave the ordeal as being too complicated and composite them, as is your proposal. I think both options are pretty bad. Having read through the follow-up discussion, I maintain that it is very, very, very far from being a concrete thing, with a substantial amount of contextual information that makes it not only hazy, but downright unplausible, that these are all intended to be canon to each other.

In the end, I will still begrudgingly accept this as an extreme edge-case. I think the franchise gives ample evidence to say that these are not likely to be the same canons/same characters, and rather just flirts with nostalgia and references (a cynical part of me demands that I mention capitalistic greed as the apparent driving force behind this). Still, I accept that it is probably more harm than good to try and separate them/keep them separated. It sucks but it is what it is.

I wanted to ask, by the way. Insofar as I can tell, the profile is already a "composite", in that it tracks information from many disparate bits of media. What precisely is not currently included in the profile?
I think, worse case scenario, is to make profiles dividing it just like OP did

Manga History profile, TV History profile, OVA profile, Pachinko profile

But I do believe OP makes a compelling case that, since the franchise has directly composited itself multiple times, regardless how contradictory some stuff becomes, single profile with everything is making the best of a bad situation.
Don't mention it, thank Lephyr if he comes around (solely pinged him because he tends to be more active than others)
I don't consider myself more active, but more willing to evaluate literally anything presented to me

With that being said: @DarkDragonMedeus @Elizhaa @Maverick_Zero_X @Planck69 @Theglassman12 @ActuallySpaceMan42 @Propellus @AbaddonTheDisappointment any of you that could give any additional thoughts here would be appreciated.
 
I think, worse case scenario, is to make profiles dividing it just like OP did

Manga History profile, TV History profile, OVA profile, Pachinko profile

But I do believe OP makes a compelling case that, since the franchise has directly composited itself multiple times, regardless how contradictory some stuff becomes, single profile with everything is making the best of a bad situation.
Thank you for your input, the main reason we don't do it is because of those compositions. The separations would just end up bleeding to each other anyway since there are various points where they end up intersecting, making any attempt of distinguishing them from one another kinda redundant.

Can I interpret this as a approval? Because I have asked 4 of the mods you @ and from what I can tell they don't really want to touch this mess lol.
 
This can be used now, for the record.

I don't consider myself more active, but more willing to evaluate literally anything presented to me
Functionally the same, thank you.
 
Ah, even better then. I thought since the scope of the revision is quite big, a third one would be needed.
It functionally changes nothing in the franchise as it's literally the current status. Only reason it's not considered minor enough to require 1 vote is because of that scope.

The 48 hours is from the start of the thread.
FREEDOM!!!
 
I think, worse case scenario, is to make profiles dividing it just like OP did

Manga History profile, TV History profile, OVA profile, Pachinko profile

But I do believe OP makes a compelling case that, since the franchise has directly composited itself multiple times, regardless how contradictory some stuff becomes, single profile with everything is making the best of a bad situation.

I don't consider myself more active, but more willing to evaluate literally anything presented to me

With that being said: @DarkDragonMedeus @Elizhaa @Maverick_Zero_X @Planck69 @Theglassman12 @ActuallySpaceMan42 @Propellus @AbaddonTheDisappointment any of you that could give any additional thoughts here would be appreciated.
Seems reasonable to me.
 
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