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I've recently seen a couple entries that are appended from being (comics) to being (DC Comics), such as Chameleon (DC Comics), which makes sense since he's a character in both DC and Marvel. Should the (comics) tag in general be made more specific? What about names that refer to multiple characters, yet separate articles under the same company? Such as Live Wire of the Legion of Super-Heroes who is totally unrelated to Live Wire of the Superman comics and cartoon series? -- Squashua 22:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Adapted from Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics)#Character article disambiguation
(Overview articles will likely have several instances of the {{ main}} template.)
I hope this clarifies, if not, please feel free to ask for further clarification : ) - jc37 16:14, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
FYI, see CFD here. A list of pastiches and parodies is already contained at Superman in popular culture, where entries can be explained and sourced. Postdlf 01:34, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
I don't think that Damon Matthews is important or notable enough to have his own article. Does anyone else agree? How do we know what is worth an article in this respect? -- Chris Griswold ( ☎ ☓) 07:45, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Someone just created the following: Category:Fictional characters based on insects.
In doing some work recently I noticed that a similar category, Category:Fictional bug-based characters, had been deleted. I found the specifics here Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 May 11#Category:Fictional bug-based characters.
In looking at it, the new category does not seem to me to be much better than the previous, if not a flat recreation of it.
Should this be submitted for CfD, Speedy Deletion, or renaming/splitting? — J Greb 14:29, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
A bot just added the Comics wikiprojects template to the talk page of this article, and it already has the Webcomic wikiproject template. Should I leave it as is? or remove one of them? And just to clarify, the comic is in fact a webcomic.-- Vercalos 19:41, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
( Talk:List of comic book speedsters)
Copying one of my comments from that page to explain:
"The final result was some jackass changing the article for the worse." - I presume that you mean me? I contest the validity of your edit summary that said the page move was done without discussion. I was attempting to revert a page move that have been done without discussion (a single comment that wasn't even on this talk page does not constitute a discussion). Being bold is fine, but when opposed, a discussion should follow. I also think you might consider your tone, and assume good faith. Right now, I realise that there are a few who wish to make this a "comics only" article, even though that's not what it was (see the earliest edit: [1]). The proper way to do that would be to leave this one as either List of speedsters in fiction or List of fictional speedsters, and create List of speedsters in comics, moving the relevent information to the new page, and placing a {{ main}} link on this one. The POV arguement should cease. I'll see about having the article reverted in order to clean up this page move mess. - jc37 00:01, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
I think you should be able to see from my response, my concerns. The full discussion is at the page link above, please feel free to comment there. Please also consider this a "requested move". (There are a few "new" redirects, such as: List of comixc book speedsters, that probably need to be fixed as well.) - jc37 21:50, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
FYI Speedster (comics) was created and there's an edit war going on there. Any help with fire extinguishers are welcome. -- Ipstenu ( talk| contribs) 19:49, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
I've been noticing on some of the article that there will be edits where the before and after for the paragraphs are identical. What type, or types, of edit causes this?
Thanks for bearing with the "new guy"... — J Greb 23:53, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't most of this article belong under Abe Jenkins. Beetle (comics) should be a disambiguation page with information and links to Abe Jenkins and Leila Davis.
The three teenagers currently wearing all of the past versions of the Beetle armour are a problem though. I don't think any of their full names have been revealeed yet, have they? Stephen Day 03:56, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
I just re-added the cleanup tag AGAIN to the article. I remember posting here before about it, but another post is needed. The article is almost all bulleted lists: which is clutter. Until the problem is solved, the tag should remain. If anyone can help me keep an eye on the article, that would be helpful. RobJ1981 07:03, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
A discussion developed on Talk:Planetary (comics) whether descriptions of characters as analogues of other characters should be cited. One editor noted that these are widely uncited on Wikipedia. I do not think that this is a good reason to leave anything uncited. Surely there is an article that mentions that the Four are analogues of the Fantastic Four, etc, etc. Wizard interns have filled many non-advertising pages with captions that explain analogues and references in works like Kingdom Come and Top 10; these can be used to cite such information in articles. -- Chris Griswold ( ☎ ☓) 19:51, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Are you going through burnout? Please leave a comment here and let us know. I certainly am, and I and a few others (particularly Hiding) would like to address these concerns. If you have any suggestions for how we might support each other and combat this so that we can continue to enjoy Wikipedia, please make those suggestions here as well.
One suggestion I have is breaking common, focused tasks down into specific committees. For instance, it would be good to have a group of editors specifically interested in working on the structure and ease-of-use of the WikiProject; we'd organize pages, add or update {{ comicsproj}} on talk pages, patrol for the notice board, etc.
Another suggestion I have is awarding barnstars on the project talk page. We continue to gain new editors who make great contributionas, and I would like for them to be recognized for the work they are doing.
I am very interested in what other users have to say on this. This message brought to you courtesy of Ritalin™. -- Chris Griswold ( ☎ ☓) 20:25, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
The following discussion is taken from Chris Griswold's talk page and posted for the benefit of all in the project to add their $.02 or more. -- Psyphics Ψ Φ 23:21, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
After seeing the new Spider-Man SHB, I've decided I like the inclusion of the cover art as opposed to the promo for the cover in SHB articles. Thanks for changing it. -- Psyphics Ψ Φ 20:54, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Promo art is usually used first because it's of a better quality, and it falls under the promocomic template. That Spider-Man cover has its art obscured, and it's faded as well. -- DrBat 23:08, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
What was the consensus about creating character articles with the "(Earth-Two)" extension?
The reason I'm asking is Batman (Earth-Two) was just created today... — J Greb 01:34, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I could see an argument for an Earth-two article if the character differs greatly from the better-known character, but Earth-2 Batman and Earth-1 Batman are almost indistinguishable from each other, except for a few 1970's era appearances. I vote that the contents of the article be condensed to a paragraph or two and added to the main Batman article.-- Drvanthorp 17:21, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Articles about comics series are not about only the current issues. I just removed the listing of the current cast in X-Men (vol. 2) and replaced it with a link to the List of X-Men teams article because all of the characters are listed. What do we do, however, with the credits information? When a series gets beyond a certain number of issues, this becomes either useless or overwhelming. -- Chris Griswold ( ☎ ☓) 07:17, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Is this list in any way useful and meaningful, or can it be safely deleted (Prodded)? Fram 14:24, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed that on several of my pages the same person, namely 201.239.238.20, has been putting bogus names in. I caught it on 5 of my pages and corrected it, asking whoever to source stuff such as this, if it is factual. Can anything be done to stop this? Tullyman 19:25, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I know we've discussed lists of works before around here, so I figure I'll mention that Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works) is looking for comment. Hiding Talk 22:50, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Article seems to have been stolen. See talk page. -- Raijinili 06:09, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 15 | ← | Archive 20 | Archive 21 | Archive 22 | Archive 23 | Archive 24 | Archive 25 |
I've recently seen a couple entries that are appended from being (comics) to being (DC Comics), such as Chameleon (DC Comics), which makes sense since he's a character in both DC and Marvel. Should the (comics) tag in general be made more specific? What about names that refer to multiple characters, yet separate articles under the same company? Such as Live Wire of the Legion of Super-Heroes who is totally unrelated to Live Wire of the Superman comics and cartoon series? -- Squashua 22:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Adapted from Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics)#Character article disambiguation
(Overview articles will likely have several instances of the {{ main}} template.)
I hope this clarifies, if not, please feel free to ask for further clarification : ) - jc37 16:14, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
FYI, see CFD here. A list of pastiches and parodies is already contained at Superman in popular culture, where entries can be explained and sourced. Postdlf 01:34, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
I don't think that Damon Matthews is important or notable enough to have his own article. Does anyone else agree? How do we know what is worth an article in this respect? -- Chris Griswold ( ☎ ☓) 07:45, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Someone just created the following: Category:Fictional characters based on insects.
In doing some work recently I noticed that a similar category, Category:Fictional bug-based characters, had been deleted. I found the specifics here Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 May 11#Category:Fictional bug-based characters.
In looking at it, the new category does not seem to me to be much better than the previous, if not a flat recreation of it.
Should this be submitted for CfD, Speedy Deletion, or renaming/splitting? — J Greb 14:29, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
A bot just added the Comics wikiprojects template to the talk page of this article, and it already has the Webcomic wikiproject template. Should I leave it as is? or remove one of them? And just to clarify, the comic is in fact a webcomic.-- Vercalos 19:41, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
( Talk:List of comic book speedsters)
Copying one of my comments from that page to explain:
"The final result was some jackass changing the article for the worse." - I presume that you mean me? I contest the validity of your edit summary that said the page move was done without discussion. I was attempting to revert a page move that have been done without discussion (a single comment that wasn't even on this talk page does not constitute a discussion). Being bold is fine, but when opposed, a discussion should follow. I also think you might consider your tone, and assume good faith. Right now, I realise that there are a few who wish to make this a "comics only" article, even though that's not what it was (see the earliest edit: [1]). The proper way to do that would be to leave this one as either List of speedsters in fiction or List of fictional speedsters, and create List of speedsters in comics, moving the relevent information to the new page, and placing a {{ main}} link on this one. The POV arguement should cease. I'll see about having the article reverted in order to clean up this page move mess. - jc37 00:01, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
I think you should be able to see from my response, my concerns. The full discussion is at the page link above, please feel free to comment there. Please also consider this a "requested move". (There are a few "new" redirects, such as: List of comixc book speedsters, that probably need to be fixed as well.) - jc37 21:50, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
FYI Speedster (comics) was created and there's an edit war going on there. Any help with fire extinguishers are welcome. -- Ipstenu ( talk| contribs) 19:49, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
I've been noticing on some of the article that there will be edits where the before and after for the paragraphs are identical. What type, or types, of edit causes this?
Thanks for bearing with the "new guy"... — J Greb 23:53, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't most of this article belong under Abe Jenkins. Beetle (comics) should be a disambiguation page with information and links to Abe Jenkins and Leila Davis.
The three teenagers currently wearing all of the past versions of the Beetle armour are a problem though. I don't think any of their full names have been revealeed yet, have they? Stephen Day 03:56, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
I just re-added the cleanup tag AGAIN to the article. I remember posting here before about it, but another post is needed. The article is almost all bulleted lists: which is clutter. Until the problem is solved, the tag should remain. If anyone can help me keep an eye on the article, that would be helpful. RobJ1981 07:03, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
A discussion developed on Talk:Planetary (comics) whether descriptions of characters as analogues of other characters should be cited. One editor noted that these are widely uncited on Wikipedia. I do not think that this is a good reason to leave anything uncited. Surely there is an article that mentions that the Four are analogues of the Fantastic Four, etc, etc. Wizard interns have filled many non-advertising pages with captions that explain analogues and references in works like Kingdom Come and Top 10; these can be used to cite such information in articles. -- Chris Griswold ( ☎ ☓) 19:51, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Are you going through burnout? Please leave a comment here and let us know. I certainly am, and I and a few others (particularly Hiding) would like to address these concerns. If you have any suggestions for how we might support each other and combat this so that we can continue to enjoy Wikipedia, please make those suggestions here as well.
One suggestion I have is breaking common, focused tasks down into specific committees. For instance, it would be good to have a group of editors specifically interested in working on the structure and ease-of-use of the WikiProject; we'd organize pages, add or update {{ comicsproj}} on talk pages, patrol for the notice board, etc.
Another suggestion I have is awarding barnstars on the project talk page. We continue to gain new editors who make great contributionas, and I would like for them to be recognized for the work they are doing.
I am very interested in what other users have to say on this. This message brought to you courtesy of Ritalin™. -- Chris Griswold ( ☎ ☓) 20:25, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
The following discussion is taken from Chris Griswold's talk page and posted for the benefit of all in the project to add their $.02 or more. -- Psyphics Ψ Φ 23:21, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
After seeing the new Spider-Man SHB, I've decided I like the inclusion of the cover art as opposed to the promo for the cover in SHB articles. Thanks for changing it. -- Psyphics Ψ Φ 20:54, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Promo art is usually used first because it's of a better quality, and it falls under the promocomic template. That Spider-Man cover has its art obscured, and it's faded as well. -- DrBat 23:08, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
What was the consensus about creating character articles with the "(Earth-Two)" extension?
The reason I'm asking is Batman (Earth-Two) was just created today... — J Greb 01:34, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I could see an argument for an Earth-two article if the character differs greatly from the better-known character, but Earth-2 Batman and Earth-1 Batman are almost indistinguishable from each other, except for a few 1970's era appearances. I vote that the contents of the article be condensed to a paragraph or two and added to the main Batman article.-- Drvanthorp 17:21, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Articles about comics series are not about only the current issues. I just removed the listing of the current cast in X-Men (vol. 2) and replaced it with a link to the List of X-Men teams article because all of the characters are listed. What do we do, however, with the credits information? When a series gets beyond a certain number of issues, this becomes either useless or overwhelming. -- Chris Griswold ( ☎ ☓) 07:17, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Is this list in any way useful and meaningful, or can it be safely deleted (Prodded)? Fram 14:24, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed that on several of my pages the same person, namely 201.239.238.20, has been putting bogus names in. I caught it on 5 of my pages and corrected it, asking whoever to source stuff such as this, if it is factual. Can anything be done to stop this? Tullyman 19:25, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I know we've discussed lists of works before around here, so I figure I'll mention that Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works) is looking for comment. Hiding Talk 22:50, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Article seems to have been stolen. See talk page. -- Raijinili 06:09, 9 November 2006 (UTC)