Have a question about how the TVTropes wiki works? No one knows this community better than the people in it, so ask away! Ask the Tropers is the page you come to when you have a question burning in your brain and the support pages didn't help.
It's not for everything, though. For a list of all the resources for your questions, click here. You can also go to this Directory thread
for ongoing cleanup projects.
Bump? I'm not sure what the eight upvotes or whatever mean, if they're bumps or approval for the change or whatnot.
So... the works like "Batman (Rebirth)" are cascading with works like "Batman: Rebirth"?
I know we use years for film and author names for literature. I'm guessing using years would make sense.
Could you link to the pages you're suggesting to move? This could probably be a short-term project in the forums.
Also, I'm 90% sure that the upvotes are just people saying "I also think this is important."
Edited by WaterBlap Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they pretty
Yeah, I figured that's what the upvotse were, but I wasn't sure.
This probably would be a quick project, I just don't know which forum or whatever to put it in. I don't use them, so at a glance the comics one seems to be just a regular forum for talking about the comics, not for TV Tropes projects.
Anyway, it's basically ALL the Rebirth pages. Since it's causing problems with crosswicking and leading to problems with series that don't even have a Rebirth one-shot. Plus, there should just be consistency, both with the previous series (past comic pages have either used the year or the author's name (Batgirl (2011)) if their run spanned multiple series (Grant Morrison's Batman)). The pages and what they should be changed to (with brackets around the years) are:
Batgirl (Rebirth) -> Batgirl 2016
Batman (Rebirth) -> Batman (2016)
Batwoman (Rebirth) -> Batwoman 2017
Deathstroke (Rebirth) -> Deathstroke 2016
Detective Comics (Rebirth) -> Detective Comics 2016
Green Arrow (Rebirth) -> Green Arrow 2016
Justice League of America (Rebirth) -> Justice League Of America 2017
Nightwing (Rebirth) -> Nightwing 2016
Supergirl (Rebirth) -> Supergirl 2016
Superman (Rebirth) -> Superman 2016
Teen Titans (Rebirth) -> Teen Titans 2016
Titans (Rebirth) -> Titans 2016
Wonder Woman (Rebirth) -> Wonder Woman 2016
I just didn't want to make any sweeping changes without consulting people first.
Edited by FuzzyBarbarian
Short Term Projects for the thread, since once this is done, it'll be done.
Probably should go for years for differentiating, since people are more likely to remember that for comics then authors most of the time.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Sorry in advance for the wall of text.
So DC Rebirth is a line of comics, many of which have their own pages, such as Batman (Rebirth), Detective Comics (Rebirth), Supergirl (Rebirth), etc. The series are actually just called Batman, Detective Comics and Supergirl, but the Rebirth identifies it as that specific series, since there have been a few series called Batman and Supergirl. Usually (here and on comic sites), the year the series began is used to tell them apart, e.g. Batgirl (2000), Batgirl (2011), Supergirl (2011), but whatever.
But the problem is there actually are one-off comics called Batman: Rebirth and Supergirl: Rebirth — they actually started those series I mentioned. So it's not clear when Batman: Rebirth #1 refers to the one-shot or issue 1 of Batman (Rebirth). And since the Rebirth pages began, there have been numerous cases of people referring to Batman: Rebirth #4 and the like, which don't exist (hell, even keeping this naming scheme, it'd be Batman (Rebirth) #4). I even saw an entry about "Superwoman: Rebirth #1", when Superwoman didn't even get a Rebirth one-shot and is the first series to ever be called Superwoman. I can only assume the naming scheme between the various works is to blame. The only series seemingly exempt from these mistakes are Action Comics and Detective Comics which kept the numbering of the original series, since they're Long Runner|s.
Further, I want to create a page for The Flash's Rebirth series (started in 2016)... but it already had a series called The Flash: Rebirth (from 2009) that I also want to make a page for. So it'd have to be called The Flash (Rebirth) (2016) or something, unless there's a way to make The Flash: Rebirth and The Flash (Rebirth) two separate pages without it leading to more confusion. I guess you could separate them via folders on the same page, but that's a bit of a wonky solution and doesn't allow for very good Cross Wicking. Plus, unlike Old Man Logan, the 'The Flash: Rebirth and The Flash (2016)'' are not that similar.
The only justification I've seen for calling the series Supergirl (Rebirth) and the like is that they're unofficial nicknames. As someone who frequents a few comic sites, I have NEVER seen them used (I just searched Googled "Supergirl: Rebirth #2" with quotation marks and only got two pages of results). People generally just say Supergirl #4 and the context makes it clear that they're talking about he current series (the Rebirth one). As someone who created one of those pages (Justice League of America (Rebirth)), I was just following the lead of the other pages. Just quickly checking the first wave of series on DC Rebirth, it seems troper duranaparthur started the trend and everyone just followed suit.
So basically I'd just like to get some thoughts on changing the different Rebirth Comic Book pages to Batman 2016, Detective Comics 2016, Supergirl 2016, etc.? It'd be more accurate, be in line with the naming scheme of previous series, be less confusing, and allow for some pages to exist without being confusing or inconsistent with the naming scheme of other pages.
Sorry if this is possibly in the wrong place, but the discussion page for DC Rebirth is kinda dead. If there's a better place to put this where people will see it, please tell me and I'll put it there.
Edited by FuzzyBarbarian