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eroock Since: Sep, 2012
#1: Nov 24th 2018 at 2:49:50 AM

Dick Tracy recaps the entire history of the work which takes up several screens. I wouldn't want to cut the content (which would be legit) but I wonder if there is some other way to fold away the content. Any ideas?

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eroock Since: Sep, 2012
#3: Nov 24th 2018 at 10:41:42 AM

I have never seen a recap page consisting of a wall of text.

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#4: Nov 24th 2018 at 11:07:28 AM

It used to be the province of the deprecated Synopsis namespace before that was merged with Recap, so that would seem to be the place.

eroock Since: Sep, 2012
#5: Nov 25th 2018 at 3:20:07 AM

Synopsis is still available on the subpage creation dropdown. Should I maybe use that one?

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#6: Nov 25th 2018 at 6:36:05 AM

No, we merged Synopsis and Recap a while ago, since they serve the same purpose.

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eroock Since: Sep, 2012
#7: Nov 26th 2018 at 8:11:41 AM

How do you enforce the merge if you still allow Synopsis pages to be created?

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#8: Nov 26th 2018 at 8:37:01 AM

That's an issue for the developers: we're waiting on the implementation of namespace blocking. We can cut them when we find them, though.

Edited by Fighteer on Nov 26th 2018 at 11:43:03 AM

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eroock Since: Sep, 2012
#9: Nov 27th 2018 at 3:14:25 AM

Recap.Dick Tracy

What should the page type be set to?

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KJMackley Since: Jan, 2001
#11: Nov 27th 2018 at 4:10:00 AM

Some of that material seems to be more of a history of the work, it's various story arcs, incarnations and creative teams, than strictly a recap of anything specific. There is an option of making a franchise page to divide that information more appropriately, but I guess it works if everyone is fine with the recap page.

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