2016 January 17

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(Talk page for Santa Claus, Public Domain Super Heroes)

I just want to be sure I understand the rules: Indicating “Greek mythology” or “European and North American folklore” as a first appearance is wrong because there is no date, but indicating “Unknown” is correct … even though it has no date either. Having “Unknown” as a value in the info‐box for a first appearance is just as dateless as the other values. And indicating mythology or folklore as “publisher” makes even less sense to me. Mythology and folklore are not publishers; Rand McNally are publishers. In fact, the very reason the dates are unknown is because the characters started out in unpublished oral tradition. I am not about to change anything, least of all not for Santa Claus, but a better compromise would probably be to combine our concepts and indicate “European and North American folklore, date unknown” or “Greek mythology, date unknown” as a first appearance.

(My own talk page, Public Domain Super Heroes)

Thank you for alerting me to that conversation. It has firm statements by both an administrator and a founder in strong support of literary characters that are not necessarily superheroes.