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Ummmm... yeah. I see the rationale behind a lot of the changes, but it adds up to an unholy mess in a lot of ways.
Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Miniseries by Marvel Comics | ||||
Publication date | August 2002 – present | |||
Number of issues | ||||
Main character(s) |
Black Cat Spider-Man | |||
Creative team | ||||
Writer(s) | ||||
Artist(s) | ||||
Penciller(s) | ||||
Inker(s) | ||||
Colorist(s) | {{{colorists}}} | |||
Creator(s) |
Kevin Smith Terry Dodson | |||
Let's take a look at the box as it appeared on Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do under the redesign.
We have six lines in total, notwithstanding a couple spilling over. Of that:
(Crossposted with Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Comics/templates#Re:_Fritz.27s_redesign - SoM 23:04, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there a reason why Publisher is the mandatory while all the others are optional? I recently changed it, but SoM changed it back without giving any reason? -- Fritz S. ( Talk) 10:21, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Can someone fix it so the image is centered? -- DrBat 14:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Can we get a different color? - Peregrinefisher 18:29, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
"Colorists", "Inkers", "Letterers" - indeed, anything other than writer and artist - don't seem to be showing up on at least a couple of pages ( Preacher (comics) and L.A.W. (comics), for example). Anyone know why? Also, should there be an 'editor' category? ntnon ( talk) 02:02, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
There should be an editor field. Some comics are notable because of their editor and the editor can play a crucial role. I agree with the post above about it not being required but it should be included. I´ll go ahead and do it, if you want to change it back you can. -- George D. Watson (Dendodge). Talk Help 15:32, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
From what element does Supercbbox inherit its CSS properties? I'm wondering where it's specified that it should be float:right, and where it gets its background color and border properties. I can see by inspecting the Supercbbox table element that it inherits the .infobox class, but I'm pretty sure .infobox doesn't have a float:right specification. Wikisocko ( talk) 19:50, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Given that the "collected edition" section can get quite long, that most viewers of an article won't be looking for the specific ISBN of an TPB, and that most articles already have a "collected editions" section, I propose that the "collected editions" section of the template be collapsed as default.-- Darknus823 ( talk) 04:34, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Just a note to say it is worth adding a trailing space on the genres as they clump up at the moment, see e.g. Marvel Zombies. ( Emperor ( talk) 04:06, 26 July 2008 (UTC))
Any idea what I'm doing American Century (comics)? The "Vertigo titles" cat doesn't seem to be generating. Cheers. ( Emperor ( talk) 21:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC))
Good work on that - very useful.
Could I make a couple of suggestions for additions: Avatar Press and Elseworlds - they might not account for a large percentage of the comics out there but an awful lot of them are limited series (and with the Elseworlds the rest are one-shots) and account for quite a few of the current articles in the category (and more when all the Elseworlds titles are given an infobox). ( Emperor ( talk) 01:34, 5 August 2008 (UTC))
I can't seem to get the Historical field to work. See The 'Nam. ( Emperor ( talk) 16:30, 5 August 2008 (UTC))
Issues field doesn't seem to be working: Point Blank (comics). ( Emperor ( talk) 21:42, 20 August 2008 (UTC))
Is anthology a genre? I'd have thought it was closer to being a format. As you can see on Action Comics it is also putting out the wrong category, the right one is Category:Comics anthologies (as opposed to "anthology comics", although, as I say, it might not be something we want in the genre (might be better adding it in separately. It might be worth a monthly/weekly flag for format and then the latter can generate Category:Weekly comics. ( Emperor ( talk) 16:08, 30 July 2008 (UTC))
Many independent comics are published in a series of miniseries, and sometimes each miniseries has an individual wikipedia page (e.g. Serenity (comics) or Hellboy). For such instances, I believe followed by/preceded by fields would be useful and justified. I realize that these fields would not be able to be used in most cases, but even the TV series infobox has them and their use would be even rarer for TV series.-- Marcus Brute ( talk) 02:57, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if we could have Star Trek as one, adding it to genre SciFi and Category:Star Trek comics. When we resolve the situation with Star Wars I suppose we'll need one of those too. ( Emperor ( talk) 14:56, 8 March 2009 (UTC))
I spotted this [1] - the only solution to the categories appearing at the top of the page seems to be removing the genre sections from the infobox. Is this a general problem or specific to that page? ( Emperor ( talk) 15:35, 24 February 2009 (UTC))
multigenre
was throwing a coma in the 'box...Anthology
could have been added...sort
needs to be in the template, the genrecat sub-template needs the sort in place...altcat
needs to be there to have the article not sort into the overall parent "Comics publications" cat.Userfied articles will always be categorized in the main space categories, if they use the infobox (like User:Axl/List of Exalted comics). I'd propose that a new parameter "nocat" be introduced that supresses all categorization. Seems easy enough since everything below the transcluded {{ Infobox}} appears to only affect categorization. -- Amalthea 10:20, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
I am interested in adding a "Tie-ins" tag for the infobox for crossover series such as Final Crisis or Secret Invasion for issues and miniseries which tie-in to the main series. The tag would resemble the "Titles" tag in Infobox comic book story arc and be auto-collapsed by default.
Without this tag, editors must choose between using the story arc infobox for the "Titles" tag (as SI does) or ignoring tie-ins in the infobox (as FC does). I don't find either situation ideal, and since both methods are employed regularly, there doesn't seem to be any standard under the current situation.
Please share your thoughts on this proposal.-- Marcus Brute ( talk) 02:15, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm reasonably technical (I can operate a toaster...) but the syntax for templates is beyond me! At V for Vendetta there's an issue with the "genre" section of this infobox: the genres start with a comma, e.g. ", Anarchist, Mystery, Post-apocalyptic, Superhero" instead of "Anarchist, Mystery, Post-apocalyptic, Superhero". I can't see how this is happening, but me and infobox syntax don't get along...!
An additional issue is that the SciFi genre isn't listed at all - I'm not too bothered about this because I don't think the subject fits into that category, but it would be good if someone could have a look at why that's happening too.
Cheers, This flag once was red propaganda deeds 10:40, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Fables (comics) has more than 10 collected editions, but with the template only up to 10 can be accommodated. How can this be solved? -- Angua ( talk) 14:41, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
For the sake of somewhat standardizing infobox appearances for works, and partly because it looks rather bad aesthetically, can we remove the blue backgrounds for the dividing headers, or at least allow an option to turn them off? -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk) 14:47, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Since many comics are published under am imprint, there should be a tag for imprints that is separate from the publisher tag.-- Marcus Brute ( talk) 00:39, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
in such a box, is it possible to change the size of an image??
for instance: please have a look at ("my")
Chelo’s Burden: when you click to get the image file, you can see it's smaller (i wanted fair-fair use, 145x188) than the one shown in the box + i tried to add |120px but it does not work --- thanks in advance
kernitou
talk
08:30, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
i got this answer on the village pump : If you read the documentation of the
infobox you will note that there is an imagesize
parameter. — User:TheDJ 12:07, 5 October 2009 (UTC) - thanks to her/him
kernitou
talk
15:01, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Occasionally I run across a title where the covers are done by one artist and are worthy of mention (and when they are well known for their covers work) like David McKean or Arthur Suydam's work in Marvel Zombies (series), and someone has added the covers artist to the artist field which should really be kept for internal art or things could get very confusing. I have moved these to a "covers" field just to tidy things up (and with an eye ot requesting it here - although I never did) and I ran across a "cover artist" field on The Dreaming (comics) and thought it worth throwing in this suggestion. ( Emperor ( talk) 17:44, 5 October 2009 (UTC))
There was a bit of a gap in the comics genres (as there was one for autobiographical graphic novels) and so I started Category:Autobiographical comics. I thought it worth flagging in case you wanted to include it in the infobox template. ( Emperor ( talk) 01:55, 18 October 2009 (UTC))
The genre tags currently employed as a part of this infobox are woefully inadequate to properly represent the myraid of literary genres that exist. Moreso, the tags are badly coded as using multigenre often leading to a comma at the beginning of the list and does not follow the Manual of Style ( Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(capital_letters)#Musical_and_literary_genres) in regards to captitalization. Therefore, the tags should be removed outright (leaving only the "|genre =" tag) or at the very least be recoded to fix the capitalization and comma errors.-- Marcus Brute ( talk) 00:01, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Please assist I noticed that the caption in the infobox to Action Comics 1 is malformed. Presently, it has the following code:
|caption=Cover of Action Comics No. 1 that hit the newsstands on June 30, 1938.
This should result in only the words "Action Comics" being italicized and with everything in the same font size, but the way it actually displays is as "Cover of Action Comics No. 1 that hit the newsstands on June 30, 1938." (The HTML: <span style=""><small>Cover of</small> Action Comics <i>No. 1 that hit the newsstands on June 30, 1938.</i></span></td>
Obviously, something is awry, apparently when you use the name of the comic in the caption itself? Can anyone figure out what's happening here? Thanks. —
Justin (koavf)❤
T☮
C☺
M☯
04:25, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
title
to not italicize #1 is affecting the caption. Add a single '
at the end of the title field and it should be fine. -
J Greb (
talk)
11:55, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
There's a bug as evidenced by Powers (comics). Also, can the genre tags be made so that the are not case sensitive?-- Marcus Brute ( talk) 07:50, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
What I meant by case sensitive is making "|superhero = y" work as well as "|Superhero = y"-- Marcus Brute ( talk) 23:27, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
According to the doc page, "This infobox has been designed to automatically place articles its added to into appropriate categories under Category:Comics publications." However, this practice is explicitly discouraged by Wikipedia:Categorization#Categorization using templates. As an example of the practical difficulties this causes, an editor recently added "subcat = Dark Horse" to a number of infoboxes. The problem is that Category:Dark Horse titles is actually a redirect to Category:Dark Horse Comics titles. But, because the categorization is done in the template, the bot that fixes redirected categories is unable to fix these links. I suggest that the categorization features be deleted or disabled. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 09:54, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Absolution (comics) and Chronicles of Wormwood both have odd empty/broken categories showing up at the top of the page. ( Emperor ( talk) 18:33, 6 May 2010 (UTC))
The relevant category for EC Comics is actually Category: EC Comics publications (made before everything was standardised), which creates problems, see e.g.: Weird Fantasy. So it can be worked around using altcat but it might be worth fixing (as it could cause confusion) - not sure what you want to do: rename the category or add a switch into the code here, ( Emperor ( talk) 15:46, 24 June 2010 (UTC))
I've gone and done something BOLD---I've added parameters that allow editors to set only one or multiple instances of members of the creative team, which will result in the labels displaying in singular or plural rather than always with the (s) at the end---for example, it will display as "editor" or "editors" rather than "editor(s)", which is ugly and takes up precious space on tight infoboxes. So far it allows for either singular or up to five instances of each. If necessary, it would be easy to add more to the template the way it is set up.
It maintains backwards compatibility with the old parameters, so, as far as I can tell, nothing is broken. If nobody can find any actual problems with the change, I propose that we deprecate the old parameters. CüRlyTüRkey Talk Contribs 01:29, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
I think we should include a "designer" parameter. Book designers have come to play a bigger an more important part in comics in the 21st century.
A designer is different from an editor. An editor's job often includes the job of book design, but, just as pencils and inks are often divided up in superhero comics, these days the editing job and the design job are often divvied up as well, with the editor making decisions such as what material to include and in what order, and the designer creating the package, creating the cover and page motifs.
The editors for The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse are David Gerstein and Gary Groth, and the designer is Jacob Covey. The designer for The Complete Pogo is Carolyn Kelly, and its editor is Kim Thompson. Walt & Skeezix and Crazy and Ignatz are edited by Jeet Heer and designed by Chris Ware. The Complete Peanuts is edited by Gary Groth and designed by Seth. The Completed Doug Wright is co-edited by Brad MacKay and Seth, and designed by Seth (he is given separate design and edit credits, with his design getting star billing). The Eisner Awards has a Best Publication Design category. Some of these designers are billed as stars themselves on the books they design, especially Seth and Chris Ware. CüRlyTüRkey Talk Contribs 05:30, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Most boxes are generating this: “”₳ (like Viz (comic) and The Beano) while 2000 AD (comics) is generating “”₳₳ss cheeks!lolk - which seems awfully like vandalism, I just can't see where it is coming from. ( Emperor ( talk) 00:51, 15 March 2012 (UTC))
Bug report: The genre combination is resulting in a comma before the genres. See, for example, Marquis (comics). – Jonesey95 ( talk) 17:04, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
I think these two older sections are related to the current problem i'm addressing (but that the earlier
#Problem with caption field is probably not) so i've moved them them together here with the new (sub-)section i'm about to start, immediately following them.
--
Jerzy•
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23:39, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Copied from WP:HD Mjroots ( talk) 09:40, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
In {{
Infobox comic book title}}, can someone with template chops please add an alternative so that italics for the title in the infobox can be opted out of—maybe something that functions like |italics=no
. The lack of this option is apparently causing much consternation at the FAC for
Eagle (comic). The infobox is not protected.--
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk)
22:32, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
This template should be removed: there is consensus to use it in binomial names and some mathematical symbols, but not books etc.: see the template documentation. — innotata 19:26, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I've come here to discuss the template page in the belief that a peculiarity of this particular template is the cause of the difficulties with the article
List of Angel comics.
Most or all infoboxes provide by default for "display titles" (the oversize, serif-face version of the page title appearing above the first line of the article text) that match the infobox header casing and roman/italic pattern, with the first character upper-cased (if it's a letter), and italics that end when an open-paren is reached. The "italic = no" parameter setting is designed for avoiding error messages (about multiple invocations, whether explicit or via templates, of the
magic word DISPLAYTITLE) which occur for the sake of:
Perhaps the template has been misused on this Angel list, so the fix for the article is a different infobox; i don't claim to know anything about what the template's range should be. I also am not prepared to defend the scope of the article or the title that reflects it: perhaps this is not a sufficiently unified topic, and covers two or more topics that should have nothing in common but being linked from the same list article or Dab page.
In any case, the article expects the template to let it impose the atypical title with a single word (one that isn't delimited by an open-parenthesis) italicized (a task that nearly all infoboxes provide via "italic = no", and the apparent absense of an "italic = no" option on this template means that a second invocation of the
magic word DISPLAYTITLE is required), in order to achieve that non-routine italicization.
--
Jerzy•
t
06:22, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
{{
infobox person}}
and {{
infobox settlement}}
do not. Those that do are mostly infoboxes for authored works - such as {{
infobox album}}
, {{
infobox book}}
, {{
Infobox comic book title}}
, {{
infobox film}}
. Most of these incorporate a parameter by which the inbuilt {{DISPLAYTITLE:}}
may be deactivated; unfortunately, the name of that parameter (and sometimes the trigger value) does vary. It's not always |italic=no
either - {{
infobox album}}
uses |Italic title=no
; {{
infobox book}}
and {{
infobox film}}
use |italic title=no
; and, since 01:32, 21 August 2014 (UTC), {{
Infobox comic book title}}
also uses |italic title=no
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
10:20, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
The way I read the template, it's supposed to work even if no "sort=" parameter is given. However, that seems to be broken; compare for example this page showing a broken category at the top, which I fixed by adding a "sort=" parameter. I find it problematic if omitting some obscure parameter leads to code fragments at the top of an article. Huon ( talk) 18:48, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
|sort={{PAGENAME}}
which is not the same as leaving it blank. I notice from your diff above that you didn't add the parameter - you added a value to a param that was already present. It's not feasible to omit the |sort=
parameter, because although the "broken" cat would not appear, the article won't be placed in
Category:Archie Comics titles. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
20:55, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
Using cat YEAR comics debuts is incorrect, because many of those cats don't exists. Timrollpickering is claiming that "comic debuts" redirects to the "comics debuts" cats, but take a look at Category:2001 comics debuts and Category:2008 comics debuts over Category:2001 comic debuts and Category:2008 comic debuts. They are redlinks, and cats don't work under normal redirect rules. An article in 2001 comic debut will not be put into 2001 comics debut, and seen by the examples, the correctly set up cats are the ones with "comic". - Favre1fan93 ( talk) 14:46, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
I proposed the merger of Category:1982 comic debuts into Category:1982 comics debuts at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 September 25 based on this version of the template. I think a single category discussion will be sufficient for confirming this. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 06:22, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
I have recently added error-tracking categories for invalid ISBNs to {{ Book list}}, {{ Graphic novel list}}, and {{ ISBNT}}, populating Category:Pages with ISBN errors. The code displays a red error message and adds a tracking category. It should make it easier for editors to find and fix these erroneous ISBNs, which were previously non-functional but showed no indication. For an example, see this revision of Fantastic Four.
Would the watchers of this page like me to add the same error-checking code this this template? – Jonesey95 ( talk) 15:24, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
Go for it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:45, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
There are now categories like Category:1978 comics endings, if that seems a good idea then, as we are autocatting Category:1978 comics debuts then I suppose we should also be generating that too. Just thought I'd flag it up for discussion. Emperor ( talk) 18:23, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
I've looked at the documentation at Template:Infobox comic book title/genre list, and clearly it's not something most non-programmers can fix. But at Chamber of Darkness and possibly other pages, the infobox contains:
Genre , dark fantasy
Can anyone adjust the template to get that comma out? And is "Dark fantasy" supposed to be capped maybe? -- Tenebrae ( talk) 22:03, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
Per the template description: "1shot This will also automatically sort the article into [Category:One-shot comic titles]", but this doesn't seem to be working for the category. 1shot=Y is populating a "1" for number of issues and "One-shot" for the format, as expected. I'm not sure if this matters now that that One-shot category has multiple subcats, but there appear to be some other dependencies that aren't clearly stated in the instructions. - 2pou ( talk) 21:11, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Infobox-image width is stuck @ 250px and property: ′image_size′ isn't effective. Any help? Thanks. --Gpkp u • t • c 14:01, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
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Ummmm... yeah. I see the rationale behind a lot of the changes, but it adds up to an unholy mess in a lot of ways.
Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Miniseries by Marvel Comics | ||||
Publication date | August 2002 – present | |||
Number of issues | ||||
Main character(s) |
Black Cat Spider-Man | |||
Creative team | ||||
Writer(s) | ||||
Artist(s) | ||||
Penciller(s) | ||||
Inker(s) | ||||
Colorist(s) | {{{colorists}}} | |||
Creator(s) |
Kevin Smith Terry Dodson | |||
Let's take a look at the box as it appeared on Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do under the redesign.
We have six lines in total, notwithstanding a couple spilling over. Of that:
(Crossposted with Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Comics/templates#Re:_Fritz.27s_redesign - SoM 23:04, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there a reason why Publisher is the mandatory while all the others are optional? I recently changed it, but SoM changed it back without giving any reason? -- Fritz S. ( Talk) 10:21, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Can someone fix it so the image is centered? -- DrBat 14:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Can we get a different color? - Peregrinefisher 18:29, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
"Colorists", "Inkers", "Letterers" - indeed, anything other than writer and artist - don't seem to be showing up on at least a couple of pages ( Preacher (comics) and L.A.W. (comics), for example). Anyone know why? Also, should there be an 'editor' category? ntnon ( talk) 02:02, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
There should be an editor field. Some comics are notable because of their editor and the editor can play a crucial role. I agree with the post above about it not being required but it should be included. I´ll go ahead and do it, if you want to change it back you can. -- George D. Watson (Dendodge). Talk Help 15:32, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
From what element does Supercbbox inherit its CSS properties? I'm wondering where it's specified that it should be float:right, and where it gets its background color and border properties. I can see by inspecting the Supercbbox table element that it inherits the .infobox class, but I'm pretty sure .infobox doesn't have a float:right specification. Wikisocko ( talk) 19:50, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Given that the "collected edition" section can get quite long, that most viewers of an article won't be looking for the specific ISBN of an TPB, and that most articles already have a "collected editions" section, I propose that the "collected editions" section of the template be collapsed as default.-- Darknus823 ( talk) 04:34, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Just a note to say it is worth adding a trailing space on the genres as they clump up at the moment, see e.g. Marvel Zombies. ( Emperor ( talk) 04:06, 26 July 2008 (UTC))
Any idea what I'm doing American Century (comics)? The "Vertigo titles" cat doesn't seem to be generating. Cheers. ( Emperor ( talk) 21:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC))
Good work on that - very useful.
Could I make a couple of suggestions for additions: Avatar Press and Elseworlds - they might not account for a large percentage of the comics out there but an awful lot of them are limited series (and with the Elseworlds the rest are one-shots) and account for quite a few of the current articles in the category (and more when all the Elseworlds titles are given an infobox). ( Emperor ( talk) 01:34, 5 August 2008 (UTC))
I can't seem to get the Historical field to work. See The 'Nam. ( Emperor ( talk) 16:30, 5 August 2008 (UTC))
Issues field doesn't seem to be working: Point Blank (comics). ( Emperor ( talk) 21:42, 20 August 2008 (UTC))
Is anthology a genre? I'd have thought it was closer to being a format. As you can see on Action Comics it is also putting out the wrong category, the right one is Category:Comics anthologies (as opposed to "anthology comics", although, as I say, it might not be something we want in the genre (might be better adding it in separately. It might be worth a monthly/weekly flag for format and then the latter can generate Category:Weekly comics. ( Emperor ( talk) 16:08, 30 July 2008 (UTC))
Many independent comics are published in a series of miniseries, and sometimes each miniseries has an individual wikipedia page (e.g. Serenity (comics) or Hellboy). For such instances, I believe followed by/preceded by fields would be useful and justified. I realize that these fields would not be able to be used in most cases, but even the TV series infobox has them and their use would be even rarer for TV series.-- Marcus Brute ( talk) 02:57, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
I was wondering if we could have Star Trek as one, adding it to genre SciFi and Category:Star Trek comics. When we resolve the situation with Star Wars I suppose we'll need one of those too. ( Emperor ( talk) 14:56, 8 March 2009 (UTC))
I spotted this [1] - the only solution to the categories appearing at the top of the page seems to be removing the genre sections from the infobox. Is this a general problem or specific to that page? ( Emperor ( talk) 15:35, 24 February 2009 (UTC))
multigenre
was throwing a coma in the 'box...Anthology
could have been added...sort
needs to be in the template, the genrecat sub-template needs the sort in place...altcat
needs to be there to have the article not sort into the overall parent "Comics publications" cat.Userfied articles will always be categorized in the main space categories, if they use the infobox (like User:Axl/List of Exalted comics). I'd propose that a new parameter "nocat" be introduced that supresses all categorization. Seems easy enough since everything below the transcluded {{ Infobox}} appears to only affect categorization. -- Amalthea 10:20, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
I am interested in adding a "Tie-ins" tag for the infobox for crossover series such as Final Crisis or Secret Invasion for issues and miniseries which tie-in to the main series. The tag would resemble the "Titles" tag in Infobox comic book story arc and be auto-collapsed by default.
Without this tag, editors must choose between using the story arc infobox for the "Titles" tag (as SI does) or ignoring tie-ins in the infobox (as FC does). I don't find either situation ideal, and since both methods are employed regularly, there doesn't seem to be any standard under the current situation.
Please share your thoughts on this proposal.-- Marcus Brute ( talk) 02:15, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm reasonably technical (I can operate a toaster...) but the syntax for templates is beyond me! At V for Vendetta there's an issue with the "genre" section of this infobox: the genres start with a comma, e.g. ", Anarchist, Mystery, Post-apocalyptic, Superhero" instead of "Anarchist, Mystery, Post-apocalyptic, Superhero". I can't see how this is happening, but me and infobox syntax don't get along...!
An additional issue is that the SciFi genre isn't listed at all - I'm not too bothered about this because I don't think the subject fits into that category, but it would be good if someone could have a look at why that's happening too.
Cheers, This flag once was red propaganda deeds 10:40, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Fables (comics) has more than 10 collected editions, but with the template only up to 10 can be accommodated. How can this be solved? -- Angua ( talk) 14:41, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
For the sake of somewhat standardizing infobox appearances for works, and partly because it looks rather bad aesthetically, can we remove the blue backgrounds for the dividing headers, or at least allow an option to turn them off? -- Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk) 14:47, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Since many comics are published under am imprint, there should be a tag for imprints that is separate from the publisher tag.-- Marcus Brute ( talk) 00:39, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
in such a box, is it possible to change the size of an image??
for instance: please have a look at ("my")
Chelo’s Burden: when you click to get the image file, you can see it's smaller (i wanted fair-fair use, 145x188) than the one shown in the box + i tried to add |120px but it does not work --- thanks in advance
kernitou
talk
08:30, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
i got this answer on the village pump : If you read the documentation of the
infobox you will note that there is an imagesize
parameter. — User:TheDJ 12:07, 5 October 2009 (UTC) - thanks to her/him
kernitou
talk
15:01, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Occasionally I run across a title where the covers are done by one artist and are worthy of mention (and when they are well known for their covers work) like David McKean or Arthur Suydam's work in Marvel Zombies (series), and someone has added the covers artist to the artist field which should really be kept for internal art or things could get very confusing. I have moved these to a "covers" field just to tidy things up (and with an eye ot requesting it here - although I never did) and I ran across a "cover artist" field on The Dreaming (comics) and thought it worth throwing in this suggestion. ( Emperor ( talk) 17:44, 5 October 2009 (UTC))
There was a bit of a gap in the comics genres (as there was one for autobiographical graphic novels) and so I started Category:Autobiographical comics. I thought it worth flagging in case you wanted to include it in the infobox template. ( Emperor ( talk) 01:55, 18 October 2009 (UTC))
The genre tags currently employed as a part of this infobox are woefully inadequate to properly represent the myraid of literary genres that exist. Moreso, the tags are badly coded as using multigenre often leading to a comma at the beginning of the list and does not follow the Manual of Style ( Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(capital_letters)#Musical_and_literary_genres) in regards to captitalization. Therefore, the tags should be removed outright (leaving only the "|genre =" tag) or at the very least be recoded to fix the capitalization and comma errors.-- Marcus Brute ( talk) 00:01, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Please assist I noticed that the caption in the infobox to Action Comics 1 is malformed. Presently, it has the following code:
|caption=Cover of Action Comics No. 1 that hit the newsstands on June 30, 1938.
This should result in only the words "Action Comics" being italicized and with everything in the same font size, but the way it actually displays is as "Cover of Action Comics No. 1 that hit the newsstands on June 30, 1938." (The HTML: <span style=""><small>Cover of</small> Action Comics <i>No. 1 that hit the newsstands on June 30, 1938.</i></span></td>
Obviously, something is awry, apparently when you use the name of the comic in the caption itself? Can anyone figure out what's happening here? Thanks. —
Justin (koavf)❤
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title
to not italicize #1 is affecting the caption. Add a single '
at the end of the title field and it should be fine. -
J Greb (
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11:55, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
There's a bug as evidenced by Powers (comics). Also, can the genre tags be made so that the are not case sensitive?-- Marcus Brute ( talk) 07:50, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
What I meant by case sensitive is making "|superhero = y" work as well as "|Superhero = y"-- Marcus Brute ( talk) 23:27, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
According to the doc page, "This infobox has been designed to automatically place articles its added to into appropriate categories under Category:Comics publications." However, this practice is explicitly discouraged by Wikipedia:Categorization#Categorization using templates. As an example of the practical difficulties this causes, an editor recently added "subcat = Dark Horse" to a number of infoboxes. The problem is that Category:Dark Horse titles is actually a redirect to Category:Dark Horse Comics titles. But, because the categorization is done in the template, the bot that fixes redirected categories is unable to fix these links. I suggest that the categorization features be deleted or disabled. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 09:54, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Absolution (comics) and Chronicles of Wormwood both have odd empty/broken categories showing up at the top of the page. ( Emperor ( talk) 18:33, 6 May 2010 (UTC))
The relevant category for EC Comics is actually Category: EC Comics publications (made before everything was standardised), which creates problems, see e.g.: Weird Fantasy. So it can be worked around using altcat but it might be worth fixing (as it could cause confusion) - not sure what you want to do: rename the category or add a switch into the code here, ( Emperor ( talk) 15:46, 24 June 2010 (UTC))
I've gone and done something BOLD---I've added parameters that allow editors to set only one or multiple instances of members of the creative team, which will result in the labels displaying in singular or plural rather than always with the (s) at the end---for example, it will display as "editor" or "editors" rather than "editor(s)", which is ugly and takes up precious space on tight infoboxes. So far it allows for either singular or up to five instances of each. If necessary, it would be easy to add more to the template the way it is set up.
It maintains backwards compatibility with the old parameters, so, as far as I can tell, nothing is broken. If nobody can find any actual problems with the change, I propose that we deprecate the old parameters. CüRlyTüRkey Talk Contribs 01:29, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
I think we should include a "designer" parameter. Book designers have come to play a bigger an more important part in comics in the 21st century.
A designer is different from an editor. An editor's job often includes the job of book design, but, just as pencils and inks are often divided up in superhero comics, these days the editing job and the design job are often divvied up as well, with the editor making decisions such as what material to include and in what order, and the designer creating the package, creating the cover and page motifs.
The editors for The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse are David Gerstein and Gary Groth, and the designer is Jacob Covey. The designer for The Complete Pogo is Carolyn Kelly, and its editor is Kim Thompson. Walt & Skeezix and Crazy and Ignatz are edited by Jeet Heer and designed by Chris Ware. The Complete Peanuts is edited by Gary Groth and designed by Seth. The Completed Doug Wright is co-edited by Brad MacKay and Seth, and designed by Seth (he is given separate design and edit credits, with his design getting star billing). The Eisner Awards has a Best Publication Design category. Some of these designers are billed as stars themselves on the books they design, especially Seth and Chris Ware. CüRlyTüRkey Talk Contribs 05:30, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Most boxes are generating this: “”₳ (like Viz (comic) and The Beano) while 2000 AD (comics) is generating “”₳₳ss cheeks!lolk - which seems awfully like vandalism, I just can't see where it is coming from. ( Emperor ( talk) 00:51, 15 March 2012 (UTC))
Bug report: The genre combination is resulting in a comma before the genres. See, for example, Marquis (comics). – Jonesey95 ( talk) 17:04, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
I think these two older sections are related to the current problem i'm addressing (but that the earlier
#Problem with caption field is probably not) so i've moved them them together here with the new (sub-)section i'm about to start, immediately following them.
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Copied from WP:HD Mjroots ( talk) 09:40, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
In {{
Infobox comic book title}}, can someone with template chops please add an alternative so that italics for the title in the infobox can be opted out of—maybe something that functions like |italics=no
. The lack of this option is apparently causing much consternation at the FAC for
Eagle (comic). The infobox is not protected.--
Fuhghettaboutit (
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22:32, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
This template should be removed: there is consensus to use it in binomial names and some mathematical symbols, but not books etc.: see the template documentation. — innotata 19:26, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I've come here to discuss the template page in the belief that a peculiarity of this particular template is the cause of the difficulties with the article
List of Angel comics.
Most or all infoboxes provide by default for "display titles" (the oversize, serif-face version of the page title appearing above the first line of the article text) that match the infobox header casing and roman/italic pattern, with the first character upper-cased (if it's a letter), and italics that end when an open-paren is reached. The "italic = no" parameter setting is designed for avoiding error messages (about multiple invocations, whether explicit or via templates, of the
magic word DISPLAYTITLE) which occur for the sake of:
Perhaps the template has been misused on this Angel list, so the fix for the article is a different infobox; i don't claim to know anything about what the template's range should be. I also am not prepared to defend the scope of the article or the title that reflects it: perhaps this is not a sufficiently unified topic, and covers two or more topics that should have nothing in common but being linked from the same list article or Dab page.
In any case, the article expects the template to let it impose the atypical title with a single word (one that isn't delimited by an open-parenthesis) italicized (a task that nearly all infoboxes provide via "italic = no", and the apparent absense of an "italic = no" option on this template means that a second invocation of the
magic word DISPLAYTITLE is required), in order to achieve that non-routine italicization.
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Jerzy•
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06:22, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
{{
infobox person}}
and {{
infobox settlement}}
do not. Those that do are mostly infoboxes for authored works - such as {{
infobox album}}
, {{
infobox book}}
, {{
Infobox comic book title}}
, {{
infobox film}}
. Most of these incorporate a parameter by which the inbuilt {{DISPLAYTITLE:}}
may be deactivated; unfortunately, the name of that parameter (and sometimes the trigger value) does vary. It's not always |italic=no
either - {{
infobox album}}
uses |Italic title=no
; {{
infobox book}}
and {{
infobox film}}
use |italic title=no
; and, since 01:32, 21 August 2014 (UTC), {{
Infobox comic book title}}
also uses |italic title=no
. --
Redrose64 (
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10:20, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
The way I read the template, it's supposed to work even if no "sort=" parameter is given. However, that seems to be broken; compare for example this page showing a broken category at the top, which I fixed by adding a "sort=" parameter. I find it problematic if omitting some obscure parameter leads to code fragments at the top of an article. Huon ( talk) 18:48, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
|sort={{PAGENAME}}
which is not the same as leaving it blank. I notice from your diff above that you didn't add the parameter - you added a value to a param that was already present. It's not feasible to omit the |sort=
parameter, because although the "broken" cat would not appear, the article won't be placed in
Category:Archie Comics titles. --
Redrose64 (
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20:55, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
Using cat YEAR comics debuts is incorrect, because many of those cats don't exists. Timrollpickering is claiming that "comic debuts" redirects to the "comics debuts" cats, but take a look at Category:2001 comics debuts and Category:2008 comics debuts over Category:2001 comic debuts and Category:2008 comic debuts. They are redlinks, and cats don't work under normal redirect rules. An article in 2001 comic debut will not be put into 2001 comics debut, and seen by the examples, the correctly set up cats are the ones with "comic". - Favre1fan93 ( talk) 14:46, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
I proposed the merger of Category:1982 comic debuts into Category:1982 comics debuts at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 September 25 based on this version of the template. I think a single category discussion will be sufficient for confirming this. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 06:22, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
I have recently added error-tracking categories for invalid ISBNs to {{ Book list}}, {{ Graphic novel list}}, and {{ ISBNT}}, populating Category:Pages with ISBN errors. The code displays a red error message and adds a tracking category. It should make it easier for editors to find and fix these erroneous ISBNs, which were previously non-functional but showed no indication. For an example, see this revision of Fantastic Four.
Would the watchers of this page like me to add the same error-checking code this this template? – Jonesey95 ( talk) 15:24, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
Go for it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:45, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
There are now categories like Category:1978 comics endings, if that seems a good idea then, as we are autocatting Category:1978 comics debuts then I suppose we should also be generating that too. Just thought I'd flag it up for discussion. Emperor ( talk) 18:23, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
I've looked at the documentation at Template:Infobox comic book title/genre list, and clearly it's not something most non-programmers can fix. But at Chamber of Darkness and possibly other pages, the infobox contains:
Genre , dark fantasy
Can anyone adjust the template to get that comma out? And is "Dark fantasy" supposed to be capped maybe? -- Tenebrae ( talk) 22:03, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
Per the template description: "1shot This will also automatically sort the article into [Category:One-shot comic titles]", but this doesn't seem to be working for the category. 1shot=Y is populating a "1" for number of issues and "One-shot" for the format, as expected. I'm not sure if this matters now that that One-shot category has multiple subcats, but there appear to be some other dependencies that aren't clearly stated in the instructions. - 2pou ( talk) 21:11, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Infobox-image width is stuck @ 250px and property: ′image_size′ isn't effective. Any help? Thanks. --Gpkp u • t • c 14:01, 18 December 2019 (UTC)