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Can you link to a copy of the cover, or Marvel's promo material? Might help us to look at some context.
Would volume number work?
According to Wikipedia, the current one is number 6.
Edited by Walkinshadows
I support volume number.
Cover and its page on the Marvel wiki: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Iron_Man_Vol_6_1
I figured the volume was an option, but that's something that this site really doesn't do, and really only the wikis do. Like, actual comics sites up to and including Comixology and Marvel themselves don't even do that anymore, it's kind of an old fashioned thing that makes things annoying to follow, e.g. whenever an annual happens or if something is renumbered with legacy numbering, which Marvel do like to do. If there's no other option it could work.
A clunky if more consistent and I guess "safe" (?) option would I guess be to make it:
- Iron Man 2020 — Disambiguation
- Iron Man 2020 (Graphic Novel) — For the 1994 GN if it ever gets a work page (which it might, because I've found work pages for obscurer things tbh)
- Iron Man 2020 (Event) - For the 2020 limited series and its tie-ins
- Iron Man 2020 (Ongoing) - For the current ongoing series that started in 2020
^ You can't say a work page is ongoing because one day it won't be.
Maybe disambiguate by their authors, if possible?
v Oh, you mean ongoing as in comic lingo. Gotcha.
Edited by mightymewtron I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Ongoing refers to the release format of the series which is used with comics, e.g. ongoing, limited, one-shot, graphic novel. A series being referred to as an ongoing doesn't mean it's currently ongoing.
I was told in the unreleased works thread that we aren't doing the author name thing anymore.
Edited by FuzzyBarbarian
^ By that, we meant that we don't do "Alice Smith's So-and-So". Disambiguating "So-and-So (Alice Smith)" is sometimes done with fan fiction and other works that share a name and can't always be disambiguated by other ways.
"Ongoing" is probably fine too?
By author means to put the title first, then the author's name. Comics and authors gets head-achy, since even if X is listed as the lead writer, Marvel executive Y is still in charge and an individual issue may have been mostly written by Z.
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Yeah, the author thing I've only seen used for last resorts or works already done that encompass multiple series, like Grant Morrison's Batman.
So the Graphic Novel/Event/Ongoing thing then?
Edited by FuzzyBarbarian
Where/How/Are the other volumes troped?
It seems like examples usually go on Iron Man. But that's also one of those pages that seems to double/triple as a character/franchise page.
Usually, we do the year thing, like with Uncanny X-Men, Uncanny X-Men (2011), Uncanny X-Men (2013), Uncanny X Men 2015 and Uncanny X-Men (2018) and just separate by series (or volumes, I guess), but he's been an exception for some reason.
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So, if there's no objection, I'm going to do the Graphic Novel/Event/Ongoing naming scheme for the Iron Man 2020 pages just because it's the cleanest and most consistent option.
(I also forgot to mention with the Volume use, another reason I think it fell out of favour is, well, collected editions, which use volumes like other mediums do, so I would definitely recommend against it)
Edited by FuzzyBarbarian
Maybe use "Series" instead of "Ongoing" ? i.e. Iron Man 2020 Series custom-titled as "Iron Man (2020 Series)".
Edited by Jhiday
The problem is "series" is any comic book that is released as, well, a series — miniseries OR ongoing. So using the word would require "Iron Man 2020 (Event Miniseries)" and "Iron Man 2020 (Ongoing Series)", because they're both series. The only one that isn't is the original Graphic Novel.
I think the "Ongoing" thing is something that people who'd visit the page would be able to discern the meaning of, tbh, especially if it just has a thing at the end of the lead section noting the reason for the name (and linking to the other work).
Edited by FuzzyBarbarian
Yeah, go with ongoing, especially since that's the most specific vocabulary to disambiguate by.
I want to make a page for the current Iron Man comic. The problem is, with current naming convention (I was recently told we're moving away from using the writer's name in the work name), the only thing to really name it is Iron Man 2020 because it started last year and isn't part of some publishing initiative or anything.
Except... there already is an Iron Man 2020. Two, in fact. The Iron Man 2020 page is used by a series that is legitimately called Iron Man 2020, which is itself reusing a name from a graphic novel also called Iron Man 2020.
What should I call the page for Iron Man Comic That Started In 2020? And should we make Iron Man 2020 a disambiguation page for both Iron Man Comic That Started in 2020 and Comic Called Iron Man 2020 From the Year 2020?
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