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Greetings,
Can't answer all questions on a phone, but How Indexing Works.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman1 + 2. A series that covers multiple mediums like this often has a Franchise
page, with tropes that apply to the entire series (show, comics, short stories), and links to subpages (the Animation page, the Comic page, etc.), where more specific tropes are put. Check out some of the pages in that link to see examples.
3. Comic books are formatted like any other work: a brief description of the comic and the initial plot, followed by tropes. No need to list a complete summary of the plot.
I'm not sure about episodes... I believe that falls under Recap pages
, and I don't generally read those.
4. Just find an image you think is a good one for the comic/episode, upload it using TvTropes Image Uploader
, and then paste the resulting link onto that comic/episode's page. So long as the image doesn't contain anything NSFW, you should be good.
5. See How Indexing Works
Thank you for 3, 4 and 5. As for the rest, these things itself are a part of a very large franchise themselves (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StarWarsExpandedUniverse)
, which is why I was confused in the first place. Sorry, should've specified that.
Would what these people have done be acceptable?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic
Again, I'm not very familiar with Recap pages, but from the looks of things, that does seem to be the right way to set up a Recap page.
The comic book can be listed in the Comics folder, the short stories in the "Other" folder. As for those that are ambiguously canon, you can perhaps just make a note of their "semi-canon" status in parenthesis next to their entry in the list.

Hi,
I've been working on a page for a 1980s animated series and I'm about to work on pages for episodes, comic books and characters and I have a couple of questions:
1. There are 14 comic books in a series, but there is one that was published last year, as in sixteen and a half years after those 14. How do I list it?
2. How do I list some ambiguously canon comic books and canon short stories?
3. What is an acceptable format for an episode or a comic book? Do I write some sort of a plot summary (3-5 rows or so) and then add the tropes or..?
4. Also, how about images for episodes and comic books?
5. How do I index all of the above pages?
Thank you in advance.