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If we bother dividing namespaces by country of origin, then it makes sense to... continue dividing them by country of origin even if they look like another country's work. Avatar: The Last Airbender isn't in anime. "Manga" is just Japanese comics.
Now, a case can be made that the division to split them at all is unnecessary and they could be merged, but since literally the only difference between Comic Books/ and Manga/ is country of origin then I cannot fathom an argument where an OEL Manga by a western writer should go in Manga/
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.^ I didn't make the argument that it was a manga, I only asked if a page for the work should be created in that namespace.
There is a precedence of non-manga works that have pages under the Manga namespace. Over a dozen titles on the OEL Manga page that were produced outside of Japan have pages in the "Manga" namespace (Amazing Agent Luna, Aoi House, Atomic King Daidogan, Bizenghast, Dogby Walks Alone, Dramacon, The Dreaming, Maximum Ride (granted, that one redirects to the Literature page for the franchise), My Celestial Family, X-Men: Misfits, Zuko's Story, etc...).
There are a limited number of namespaces for the infinite variety of media in the world, so sometimes we have to make compromises when a work straddles two or more genres/ formats/ mediums.
(On a side note: if English language works were mistakenly created in the Manga namespace, is there a forum or a cleanup thread they should be submitted to?)
It's been a while since the last time we argued this, hasn't it?
The namespace thread is over here
if you want to read 60 pages of people repeatedly making the exact same arguments.
60 Pages? Yikes, that's a well-heated debate. I'll just put it in Comic Books and then claim that both comic books and manga are almost not so different and that the Manga and Comic Book namespace need to be merged, and then call it a day.
Eh, good enough.

I'd like to create a page for the OEL Manga "Orange Crows", but I'm conflicted over what namespace to put it in; Manga or Comic Books. (Clicking around in the OEL Manga titles section shows that it covers works from both namespaces, which only deepens my confusion.)
On the "Manga" side: the work was generally marketed as a "manga" when the first volume was released in the late 2000's, it was originally published by Tokyopop in their standard 5 in. × 7.5 in. tankobon format, and it draws heavily on manga style.
On the "Comic Book" side: it was written by an American author, it reads from right-to-left, and I can't find evidence that it was ever released outside of the USA. (It appears the author self-published the second volume in a similar tankobon format outside of the Tokyopop imprint.)
I would lean towards putting the work in the Comic Books namespace, but I figured I would pose the question here for propriety's sake. Is there a consensus on these matters that doesn't appear on the OEL Manga page?
Edited by Leporidae