On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
Summary: A joke character with a similar name existed in comics fandom. The writer who put this character in the comic book mistakenly thought he was a preexisting character, and it's possible he confused him with the character who had the similar name.
The Wikipedia article is allowed to mention none of this because it assumes that reliable sources are professionally published and we can't use fanzines and blogs for information... and professionally publishing anything about a joke character whose superpower is that his arm falls off is not too likely.
Put the character on a comics Wikia with all the desired information and have Wikipedia link to it. Presumably a Wikia on comics can establish its own reliable sources list to allow comic fan journals (or what have you).
If your desire is to overturn a central plank of Wikipedia policy - verifiability - then it would probably be wise not to present a "joke comic character" and a "fan fiction" dispute as plausible grounds to do so.
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