Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-4908075-20190325105536/@comment-4908075-20190326051841

Aaronbill3 wrote:

"We must follow only what is stated canon, and not our own made-up version of canon. We will follow what the creators of the Wiki intended for the show while writing the episodes NOT what we feel makes sense or not."

Firstly, what you're actually stating here is to follow what me, Shades, Ulti, and Bike want the show to be. That's not right. Ahh, my bad. I meant, the creators of the franchise, not the Wiki. Gosh, how can I make such a mistake. I'll edit the post.

Secondly, what you actually want is to follow what the writers intended. The problem there is that the writers didn't give much of a damn to continuity. Yes. That's why retcons exist. In Matt Wayne's own words, they take what they want, and ignore the rest. But I really want to stress on this: That is NO excuse for taking it on our own hands. They made the show how they made it. The Wiki should represent that, not what they make sense of it. If the writing team sitting in a room said "you know what, the Ben 10k we will show, he will be the same one that appeared in OS", that's it. Sure he may look different, he may have a different watch. But the writers wanted him to be the same. We shouldn't and cannot ignore that.

My first actual problem with this is that characters from alternate timelines are outright different characters to one another, but with the same face and name. No-Watch Ben is clearly a different character to Ben 23 and Ben Prime. On that note, there's no point mixing No Watch or the Gwen 10 timeline variants if you're not going to mix Ben 23, Mad Ben, etc, since they're all the same difference. To an extent, I can see your point for No Watch Ben. But RAT, Goodbye and Good Riddance, Gwen 10 (What If?). These aren't "outright different characters" Ben 23 is, Mad Ben is, Benzarro is. But those that I chose to merge, they are literally the exact same person (personality, appearance, everything). Even if you ignore this, the What If? characters really don't need their own pages IMO. They are not even in actual alternate timelines.

But let's imagine we want to keep alternate timelines/What Ifs separate only. It still doesn't solve the problems I stated in the post:

A. Reboot and Classic (Prime) versions are on the same page (sub-pages exist only for editing, as we decided when coming up with this idea), while alternate versions that are actually more similar to Classic Prime than Reboot version is, are NOT on that page.

B. Linking to main page was introduced as a convenience to editors. There is 0 logic, IMO, in having a single link for Reboot and Classic, but separate links for RAT characters. Reboot? Ben Tennyson. Classic? Ben Tennyson. RAT Timeline? Ben Tennyson (RAT Timeline). WHY?!?!

C. Why do the RAT alien pages even exist for heaven's sake?

Give me a different solution for the above 3 problems rather than my solution and I am in. Or if absolutely nothing else, at least except my proposal for the What Ifs.