Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-25375217-20170205022236/@comment-25926288-20170205031008

I love the precision and accuracy. Yes, every Dark Curse is the Dark Curse, even if the curse seems to be used for futile reasons and now just a realm jumping device.

For simplest reasons, we count the "Third or whichever" curse as no notable event for the wiki. Each history section is broken by the transformation of "cursed bodies" due to the split nature of the wiki character pages.

Example: Snow and Mary Margaret. This is a page that was made in season 1 (roughly). They are essentially only still active because the division of information did past EF stuff one one and current Storybrooke stuff on the other. When the Curse was reversed, Snow was no longer Mary Margaret with the pixie cut and had a teaching job, but the Princess/ Queen of her kingdom as before.

Similarly, magical effected beings are similar. Rumplestilskin whether cursed or not, is whenever we see the golden-brown laughing imp. Mr. Gold is the cold, calculated non-scaly man that stays as is even when he crosses realms. Zelena is a green, crazy witch. While she never lost memories (until season 5), the cursed essentially gave her a new "form" or acted as "the curse that ended all curses".

For simplicity, we only count "non-cursed form" entity and "dark-curse form" entity. It balances out both pages more, rather than have heavy weighted pages.

(Note: The Script and Hulu, or whatever, clearly notes when it's Snow or Mary Margaret, so it assumes acts as though they are different "entities". So, we may see "Mr. Gold says" even though he's been Rumplestilskin mentally since early season 1.)

Why don't we do it with every Dark Curse? Well, because none have been complex enough to warrant some new division. So, all DC are DC, but not all are identity creating curses. DC 1 dumped all the characters in cursed form, as did DC 2. But Hook's curse just acted as a glorified taxi because all the characters that travaled to FTL where already in the cursed forms and it didn't established a "cursed location".

Otherwise, the Dark Curse 3 reached less people overall. By even the technicalities laid out, Archie Hopper (example) would have know during Curse 3 section because why all accounts he wasn't affected by it, neither has like 99% of the town. It appears as though only roughly 20 characters were affected and there was no identity/cursed form making in this dark curse.

So, to recap,

DC1: Established Storybrooke, established the SB identity, established the SB "cursed" body form.

DC2: Established Storybrooke, established the SB identity, established the SB "cursed" body form.

DC3: none of the above

In comparison,  the AU (which was more validity page/ infobox establishing need) actually created a false world, with false personalities, and a sort-of new body form. But the AU is sketchy already and there's a lot of unknown. The WR is similar, but better established as identities, even if they are technically not the same being as the Cursed/ Non-cursed.

So, to finish off, I'll give in example of the "3rd cursed" people and why they do not have a cursed defining identity. Guinevere and Arthur. Absolutely nothing changed, but a loss of 75% of the memories from the Camelot Quest. This is another factor which I haven't discussed.

All DC events we include as history sections have complete wipes of memories, even if we add memory wiping as some criteria. We actually care little about the memory wiping, but rather cursed identity/ body form part. Even if we included "memory loss" as a critierion, the Dream Catcher addition only wiped 75% of the Quest for the ten people of the SB gang, and like 5% of that for the Camelotians/Merida. It's not that significant. That has even less weight to it that having Belle have three pages, one for Cursed Belle, Lacey, and FTL Belle, who actually went through like 3 complete memory phases (however, Lacey is more like the extension to Cursed Belle which Regina simply delayed into later).

So, in easy terms, DC1/DC2 established Storybrooke and those SB identities until the curse is reversed (not broken). DC3 is a mini-curse within DC2 effectual era that acts like a glorified taxi. It's how Jasmine doesn't get some duality. She simply took a taxi that detoured without any "amnesia" road bumps.

TL;DR: ''A Dark Curse is a Dark Curse, but dual pages or dual infoboxes are for established identity/form Dark Curses, not for vague memory gaps. Plus, it would not be best to have it as a historical event when it happens to and effects a small ratio of the characters.''