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openAnalysis question Print Comic
I found an Analysis page for Star Wars: Legacy that's written in first-person POV with Word Cruft and isn't indexed anywhere. I don't know enough about the analysis namespace to fix it, leave it, or cut it. What are the guidelines for an Analysis page?
Edited by lalalei2001open You Guys Made a Mistake Print Comic
Dr.Finitivius in the Sonic Archie Characters' Other Antagonists is listed as Affably Evil, yet the YMWV part where it lists the Complete Monster also has him as a CM. Co plete Monsters can't be Affably Evil
openCritical Research Failure Print Comic
Another from the YMMV page for Brian Michael Bendis. There are examples of Critical Research Failure, but they are all cases where the characterizations made by Bendis contradict previous characterizations of the characters he wrote. Is this a correct usage? I thought that Critical Research Failure was about egregious mistakes about real-world information (such as assuming that bats are bugs).
openName question Print Comic
Why is Howling Commandos not called Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos like it is on the page image and for the entire series barring the occasional use of just "Howling Commandos" for other teams? If it's a case of being too long, WesternAnimation.Sgt Savage And His Screaming Eagles is even longer and it fits.
Edited by lalalei2001openArchie Comics Print Comic
Okay, I just noticed an issue with the pages Franchise.Archie Comics and ComicBook.Archie Comics. Namely, that they have LOTS of redundant content, starting with the picture but including most of the decription and tropes.
Checking the history, the ComicBook/ page was until recently (October 25th) a redirect, before being expanded by editor Piku-chun with the edit reason "Splitting the Franchise page into Creator and Comic Book pages".
Now, that would be relatively warranted if the Franchise/ page had been trimmed in consequence, but that's not the case, resulting in lots of redundant content. Also note that the three pages (Franchise/, ComicBook/ and Creator/) are an index, which seems really superfluous. What corrective moves should be done?
openAn... Unusual Entry in the "Need Summary" List Print Comic
I've been going through the list of comic-book series where someone has requested a summary, and someone requested a page for "Housewives At Play". As far as I can tell, that is a straight-up porno comic. Now, I am aware that we do have a Porn with Plot page, but as far as I can tell, most of the plots of HAP revolve around pornographic adventures. Shall I just delete the title from the summary-request list?
openArchie Mega Man Print Comic
I'd added a YMMV.Mega Man entry about Vesper Woman being (accidentally) wasted as a character since she only appeared in the second-last issue of the Archie comic, but RebelFalcon deleted it since official word was that the comic was on hiatus and they waited to wait until the comic's fate was known. If it was back when it was announced I would've agreed, but a lot of factors since have made me think that, though there's been nothing official, the comic is canceled.
Dreamwave's Mega Man comic was canceled but said they were on hiatus, as was Archie's NiGHTS series, it's been 2 years and nothing on Archie Mega Man in any way, the collected Master Edition was canceled almost immediately after announcement but not delisted (and delayed to 2035), we never got Volume 9 of the trade paperback, and the Sonic comics, which sold a LOT more than Mega Man, WERE canceled due to Archie's struggling finances and putting more focus on their own properties. Since Mega Man's sales weren't great and only really boosted during the crossovers that would be another factor as well—if not for the first crossover the comic would have been officially canceled due to low sales.
Edited by lalalei2001openPower Pack -Badass Adorable Print Comic
I think this example is too general. Thoughts?
"Badass Adorable: All of the kids in the out-of-continuity stories, but Katie Power is this in pretty much any appearance."
If too general, I think it should be removed.
Edited by CandiopenEdit War on the YMMV Flash page. Print Comic
A user has started an Edit War by putting back examples I feel should be deleted because of the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment.
Edited by SeptimusHeapopen Is possible to make a page about the ''The Contest'' (Wonder Woman 1994 comic book)? Print Comic
it's Because I had this doubt for some time. Is it possible for me or another person to make a page about the 1994 Wonder Woman comic?
openhelp for an edit Print Comic
I want edit the red link in Comicbook Teen Titans Bronze Age (The Guardian folder). But which is the trope that has replaced Biblical Allusion?
open616 Print Comic
In several pages, when people talk about comics from Marvel Comics, there's a usual need to set apart the stuff from alternate universes from the "main", non-alternate, universe. And so, they use "Earth-616" to make reference to the main universe. There are 2 problems with that. First, it is a terminology that is not self-evident in the meaning, and only hardcore fans would understand. And second, it is only used by the fandom, the actual creators despise it and very rarely use it. So even a devoted fan of Marvel Comics, who reads all the comics but does not go around forums and online discussions, would find the term "Earth 616" a bit weird. Tom Brevoort, who despises the term, even used the Secret Wars crossover to give creators some last months to use it if they wanted, and then established the term "The Prime Earth". See here.
“I can tell you for sure that those of us actually working on the books virtually never use the term — and I kind of wince inside whenever I hear somebody use it. It just sounds so stupid to my ear, and so counter to the kind of mindset we try to foster in regard to the stories we create and the thinking we try to employ.” – Marvel Executive Editor, Tom Brevoort
“I never use it, I hate the term pure and simple and agree with Tom’s assessment of it. I can’t remember ever hearing it in the office and only really see it used online for the most part. I think the term really came into vogue when the Ultimate Universe came into prominence, but in my world, the language and distinctions are simple, there is the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe. Anything other than that reeks of all that DC Earth 1, Earth 2, Earth Prime stuff which I’ve never really taken to, but then again, I got into DC when they got rid of all that stuff so it was from and for a different era than my own.” – Marvel Chief Creative Officer, Joe Quesada
So, what if we remove the references to "Earth-616" and replace them with more natural terms?
openSuggestion for a Harley Quinn personal page Print Comic
Its very weird that one of main Dc character has not her personal page.
Why dont move all the info from Batman Rogue Gallery page to the comic book page? (just put all in a separate folder called "General Tropes"). Or instead create two page, one for the character and another for the comic book?.
openWanted Comic Print Comic
So guys, I went to browse the page for the Wanted comicbook and I noticed it got deleted for "miscapitalized namespace. The last time I visited it was around a year ago but the page was fine. Can anyone explain to me why it was deleted and what steps should I take to bring it back? Sorry if this question is stupid, I'm not that involved this community but I like the comic and wanted to find out what happened to it.
openPossible Complaining About Characters You Don't Like Print Comic
Over at Ironheart, it seems like Logic Meister has a grievance against the character in the YMMV and the main page with the Genuis Ditz entry and the Memetic Psychopath and Designated Hero section. He even sites two completely biased sources for the YMMV section and I and another editor previously edited down his Alternative Character Interpretation entry a while back to Base-Breaking Character. He also might be editing under the name Diegoshi.
openSelfDemonstrating.SuperboyPrime Print Comic
ComicBook.Superboy Prime redirects to SelfDemonstrating.Superboy Prime. First off, I'm not even sure if the character has a distinct enough voice to qualify for a SD page. Secondly, SD pages aren't supposed to be linked to, they're Just for Fun, correct? I feel like this should be cutlisted, or at least the redirect removed.
Edited by razorrozar7openUnapproved Massive Overhaul Print Comic
FuzzyBarbarian just turned the character pages for Batman: Rogues Gallery into an alphabetical list; the previous iteration divided them into Batman's main villains and the other rogues. From what I've found, they have no permission to do this, and asked before with no response.
In the comic book Top 10, is it ever explained *why* everybody has in Neopolis has super powers and a secret identity? I’d really like to know the reason.
Edited by Loopytires55