Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-366087-20160325111005/@comment-366087-20160325124125

Characters I'd have to re-discover.

As for proposals, well, the Rules state a villain needs to be set by their settings, and User blog:Inferno Pendragon/The Purge Begins states:
 * "From this moment on the Villains Wiki will not be accepting anti-heroes or flawed protagonists on the side of "good", no matter your personal feelings on them.. we will be dealing with characters explicitly stated and/or designed by the creators of said media to be the "bad guys" (aka true villains)."

So the basics are there. I think the community just needs to be re-trained as to what that means.

I would word it along the lines of:
 * A Villain is established by their creators by both setting and story—not by audience or fan interpretation. No "picking and choosing" incidents and moments to "build a case" for a character being a villain. A character must be outed by and in the story, even if only to the audience, with fellow characters unaware.


 * It should be either in their canon or a official venue. Which can include interviews, preferably linkable and or enough information someone can go out and purchase on their own, such as for "sourcebooks". Canon trumps official and interviews, which trumps sourcebooks. In other words, "I heard/read/saw…" is not enough, there must be a means for independent verification.