Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-5106672-20140505190832

For what I gahter from the Wicked Witch's page, the new policy is to list the Enchanted Forest characters' status as the current status of their Storybrooke counterparts, i.e. Zelena is dead so the Wicked Witch is dead too. Which all in all is fine and perhaps less confusing than the previous policy, except new users might find it contradicting the "story" section as no demise is mentioned there.

To overcome this "issue", in both situations, during the winter break I suggested to list the Enchanted Forest characters who have a counterpart as "Cursed", which means they were transported to the Land Without Magic and their situation after that occourrence is treated separately in the other page. Of course, that was not appliable back then because the undoing of the curse resetted the whole thing, but I feel like digging up the subject now we have this new curse. The thing would work as follows:

• Enchanted Forest characters alive during the cast of the new curse listed as Cursed. Unless the show states otherwise (i.e.: Hook, Ariel, Prince Eric), we can presume everyone was cursed and brought back to Storybrooke, so this would wipe out the "Alive/Deceased" problem altogether.

• Enchanted Forest characters already dead during the cast of the new curse (ie: Cora, Johanna, the Huntsman and so on) listed as Deceased, with a sidenote for those who have counterpart pages, possibly in the Trivia section, stating that “Due to events occourred in Storybrooke (see counterpart page), [Name] died there and was not returned to the Enchanted Forest with the undoing of the curse”.

• Storybrooke / Neverland / Wonderland characters / characters with only one page: their current status.

Of course, this would be open to ecceptions, such as:

• Neal / Baelfire, the endles source of issues, listed as dead in both entries. Because he always needs a special treatment due to its unique status.

• August, another unique case, which I would keep the way it is now.

• Status Currently Unknown: characters we can reasonably presume died of old age (Jiminy's parents, Morraine, the spinsters) but whose ultimate fate was never shown. This would also include both entries for Maleficient, as there is no way we can tell what happened to her after the undoing of the Curse, and possibly Walsh: personally, I assumed he died falling off the building in New York, as there was no magic there so I don't think Zelena could summon him back to Storybrooke and save him, but that was never made clear within the show so we can solve the problem with the Currently Unknown status.

We still have to see what happens with the season finale, which might change things again, but in the meantime we can discuss the idea: what do you think? :3 