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With all respect, your reasoning for this merge contains several glaring factual inaccuracies, and the decision hence comes off nonsensical to anyone with actual familiarity with the fandoms in question. There is no "wider Marvel Ultimates". You seem to be treating "Marvel Ultimates" (a specific individual series within the wider Ultimate Universe) as synonymous with the whole of the Ultimate Universe. This is not correct.
To be clear: the wider fandom in this case is the Marvel Ultimate Universe. The nominated characters belong to two separate subfandoms: Marvel Ultimates (this is the Ultimate Universe version of the Avengers) and Ultimate Spider-Man. You cannot merge Ultimate Spider-Man into Marvel Ultimates, because it is not a subfandom of that series. They are separate parallel comics that take place in the same universe. It's the equivalent of merging Spider-Man into Avengers and calling the resulting blend of characters from two separate series "Avengers".
Given that the mods seem to be very unfamiliar with the setup of the Ultimate Universe, I'm confused about the reasoning by which it was determined that characters nominated under Ultimate Spider-Man "did not appear in that series". Ultimate Spider-Man has been relaunched more than once under slightly differing titles with a frequently shifting cast list. It's doubtful that cursory research would give you an accurate list of every character ever to appear for a stint of issues in that title - I certainly can't find one. Did you go by the list of the main characters given on Wikipedia? It's extremely incomplete, as you would expect for a brief overview of a comic series that's run for almost 200 issues by now.
I really feel that your decision to combine these two fandoms is based on incomplete information and a flawed understanding of how the two separate canons relate to each other, and will make no sense to anyone familiar with one or the other who might have been willing to offer them if they were listed correctly.
To be clear: the wider fandom in this case is the Marvel Ultimate Universe. The nominated characters belong to two separate subfandoms: Marvel Ultimates (this is the Ultimate Universe version of the Avengers) and Ultimate Spider-Man. You cannot merge Ultimate Spider-Man into Marvel Ultimates, because it is not a subfandom of that series. They are separate parallel comics that take place in the same universe. It's the equivalent of merging Spider-Man into Avengers and calling the resulting blend of characters from two separate series "Avengers".
Given that the mods seem to be very unfamiliar with the setup of the Ultimate Universe, I'm confused about the reasoning by which it was determined that characters nominated under Ultimate Spider-Man "did not appear in that series". Ultimate Spider-Man has been relaunched more than once under slightly differing titles with a frequently shifting cast list. It's doubtful that cursory research would give you an accurate list of every character ever to appear for a stint of issues in that title - I certainly can't find one. Did you go by the list of the main characters given on Wikipedia? It's extremely incomplete, as you would expect for a brief overview of a comic series that's run for almost 200 issues by now.
I really feel that your decision to combine these two fandoms is based on incomplete information and a flawed understanding of how the two separate canons relate to each other, and will make no sense to anyone familiar with one or the other who might have been willing to offer them if they were listed correctly.
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