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I just visited Fantastic Four and immediately saw something very curious in the infobox: a caption reading "The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961). Cover art by Jack Kirby (penciller) and unconfirmed inker." with no image beside it. Checking the article history, I found that the problem is this edit from way back in October 2013, in which User: Werieth removed every single image from the article (except the main infobox image), citing WP: NFC, while failing to remove the caption for the cover of FF #1. Werieth is a long-standing and highly active Wikipedia editor, but I can't help but think his understanding of WP's non-free content policy is worse than rudimentary, in part because all of the images he removed from the article are either comic book covers or promotional posters, and in part because none of the images have been deleted (in fact, all but one still has a non-free media rationale for Fantastic Four!). Removing image inclusions from articles rather than going after the image itself seems like trying to remove a weed by plucking off its leaves one-by-one without touching its roots.
I've gone ahead and restored the image of FF #1 so that we won't have a caption describing nothing, but I've left the other images off since this is a high-traffic article we're talking about, so Werieth's edit must have met with at least some degree of approval from the wider community. I don't suppose someone can explain this to me, since my understanding was that covers and promotional material almost always fall under fair use?-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 13:57, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
I haven't gotten any input here in four days, so I'm going to be WP:BOLD and restore all the images which have non-free media rationales for the article. With luck, anyone who decides to revert me will provide some explanation here.-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 17:36, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
I've opened a community GA reassessment of Wanted. The article has had quite a fall from grace since its promotion in 2009, and I believe it needs to be demoted. Corvoe (speak to me) 15:53, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi all. I'm putting out a request for some help over at Forever Evil. This event has just ended, and I have been adding plots to this page since the beginning. Having just finished, I know they are extremely long and take up a lot of the page. I have gone through on a few occasions and cut a good amount of it, but I would still like to get it down more. So if anyone out there who has read the event, or just parts of it, I would greatly appreciate the help to cut each of the plots down some. It would be helpful to get a new set of eyes on the page to see if anyone else can find some extra detail that can be taken out. The next task I have for myself is to cut down the reviews section, because that is humongous right now. Thank you in advance to anyone who can help me out. - Favre1fan93 ( talk) 20:01, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Thamuz and Legion (Image Comics) are both nominated for deletion please give your thoughts. Dwanyewest ( talk) 00:52, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
I say no, but User:StarDustWind24 disagrees and does not have a RS to prove it. [1] 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 21:28, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
I've definitely seen him lift things that no ordinary human can lift. User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 18:21, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
silverbulletcomicbooks.com is referenced in 157 articles. [3] The links to reviews and news no longer work, it just a page advertising something, the type of thing you see tossed up whenever someone buys an expired domain. This is the relevant Wikiproject to mention this at. Fix it if you feel like it. Dream Focus 10:17, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
One user has changed the lead sections of several articles which originally said something like "Superhero name (real name) is a fictional character" to something like "Real name, also known as Superhero name, is a fictional character". Looking to see if anyone has any input on that. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 17:26, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Are the actors who might be cast in the role a violation of WP:CRYSTAL or should be listing them already? 2601:D:9400:448:8102:22D6:690C:4448 ( talk) 00:44, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Could someone please contribute to the debate regarding Thamuz and Legion (Image Comics) Dwanyewest ( talk) 13:29, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Spider-Man (set index) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spider-Man (set index) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Spidey104 ( talk) 13:02, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Calvin and Hobbes, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Interlude65 ( talk) 03:20, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
Does this count as a WP:RS? 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 19:42, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
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Template:ComicsCollab ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 04:01, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
A Request for Comment has been started at the above link to discuss removing the archive site Archive.is from the blacklist. Feel free to join the chorus. Darkwarriorblake / SEXY ACTION TALK PAGE! 19:39, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
I just added Teshkeel Comics to Template:Comic book publishers in North America. However, as I was going to add the navbox to the publisher's article, it occurred to me that maybe Teshkeel hadn't been added before because the navbox is supposed to cover only publishers based in North America, whereas Teshkeel is based in Kuwait. Previously I had always assumed the navbox covered articles on anyone who published comics in North America. Which interpretation of this navbox is the correct one?-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 13:45, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
I started a discussion regarding Toad's possible appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine at Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard#Trouble with IP user, for anyone who might have something to contribute to that discussion. 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 18:57, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Stoshmaster has added unsourced source credits to Happy Tears, Crak! & Sleeping Girl. I have reversed his additions of Mike Sekowsky to Happy Tears, written by Bob Haney and illustrated by Jack Abel to Crak! and Tony Abruzzo in Sleeping Girl. If anyone can find WP:RSs to use for WP:ICs to source this content in these article that would be helpful.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:08, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
I have started an FAC for Clark Kent (Smallville). Please feel free to stop by and comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Clark Kent (Smallville)/archive1. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 20:57, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
I have started a discussion on Talk:Youngblood (comics) about merging characters. Dwanyewest ( talk) 16:37, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
I have started a discussion on Talk:Cyberforce about merging characters. Dwanyewest ( talk) 16:38, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
The comic character infobox has a subcat that automatically sorts the character by publisher, e.g., DC Comics superheroes, etc. I noticed today that most of the Milestone characters had been re-listed as DC, so I edited the remaining characters (only three of them were left) to list as DC. But then I realized that the Wildstorm characters are still listed as Wildstorm, even though they (like Milestone) are now part of DC. This problem raises the question: When characters have been bought by other companies, should the infoboxes be updated to their current publisher, or should they stay with the original publisher? Thanks. Aristophanes68 (talk) 18:28, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
There is a question regarding H.G. Peter and the creation of Wonder Woman at Talk:Wonder Woman#H.G. Peter. All comments are welcome. Thank you.-- TriiipleThreat ( talk) 15:40, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
As I've been editing articles, I've noticed a lot of instances, particularly in the fictional character biographies, where Spider-Man is referred to as "the webslinger", Doctor Octopus as "Doc Ock", Batman as "the caped crusader", etc. Besides being horrendously unencyclopedic in tone, we can't expect the general readership to be familiar with all the cute nicknames these characters have. I'm almost certainly preaching to the choir here, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to throw out a little reminder to keep things Wikipedian.-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 15:13, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
I have proposed a considerable change to this article at Talk:Black Panther (comics). Any input is welcome.-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 18:03, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Kurzon has been making some pretty sizable chops to the lead sections of character articles, so I just wanted to bring this here for discussion. Examples include: [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21]. 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 12:00, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
[24] I just don't understand this desire by User:Kurzon to keep readers less informed. 2601:D:B480:ED2:A80E:1C3A:E6BB:7205 ( talk) 22:11, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
A rule of thumb is that it should give a brief summary from each major section. The problem is that the article itself is a mess—it needs to be balanced and tightened up considerably. For such a major character the lead is definitely way too short, but "a bit from each section" in this case would likely be summing up a lot of trivial detail. The best approach would be to fix up the body and then figure out what would be most appropriate for the lead, but that would be quite a bit of work.
I find a lot of the writing in superhero articles is just plain awful; sperg-fests written by geeks who have trouble relating to the layman. I'm tempted to burn everything to ashes and start anew. I am no ashamed if my edits ruffle feathers. Maybe this will give the community the kick it needs. Kurzon ( talk) 08:43, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
What about the other comic characters, such as Spider-man, Batman, and Superman? They have fictional character biographies as well. Since the Magneto page has this removed, what about the other superhero pages? I don't care one way or the other if the fictional biography is there or not, but out of respect for both sides of the argument, why not just place the fictional character biography as a separate article, in the same way we have "In other Media" or "Alternative versions of"? That way, the main article will be cleaned up and there will be another version of the article for people who want to know about the characters' history. As it stands, however, I do agree that the fictional character biography sections of these articles are excessive, and will continue to get even more excessive as more and more comics come out (making the article unnecessarily long). Kinfoll77 ( talk) 02:00, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Following a discussion on the WikiProject_Comics talk page, I came to agree with other editors that there are major problems with how superhero articles are written. Honestly, they're a bloody mess, a massive sperg-fest by comic geeks who do not coordinate their efforts or work hard to relate to the layman. There are other wikis on the Web that are more appropriate for this.
Most glaring are the biographies. They are excessively bloated. They are centered around the mainstream 616 Universe, giving no regard to the other books, movies, and television shows. This is not appropriate, given that the movies and TV shows have a wider audience than the comic books, and that the "mainstream" 616 universe goes through endless retcons and reboots. Additionally, this section was not written appropriately for an encyclopedia, which should always be written from the perspective of the real world. The Manual of Style says: "Articles about fiction, like all Wikipedia articles, should adhere to the real world as their primary frame of reference. The approach is to describe the subject matter from the perspective of the real world, in which the work of fiction and its publication are embedded."
I have rewritten the biography section of the Magneto (comics) article completely. Instead of a biography, it attempts to list the plot points and character traits about Magneto that have been consistent across all the stories he has appeared in. It gives equal weight to all the comic books, the movies, and TV shows. I think this should be a template for all superhero articles. Kurzon ( talk) 18:46, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello all! At The Wikipedia Library we are currently in talks with Proquest's Literature Online and Early English Books Online to get Wikipedians access to those databases/collections. They asked us for a bit of information about how Wikipedians might use the research materials, asking us to do a brief survey. It would be extremely helpful if users could fill out the following Google form: Proquest - Literature Online / Wikipedia Library user interest survey. Afterward, while waiting for us to finish talks on Literature Online, we would like to invite editors to apply for already established available partnerships, listed at our partners page. Thank you for all of your help! Sadads ( talk) 16:53, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Special:Contributions/109.146.217.66 has been going around editing articles about fictional characters, and removing all references to them being fictional, rewriting them to make it look like they are real people. See Scarlet Witch for example. I'm going to try to undo as much as I can, but please help me to make sure it is all cleaned up. 2601:D:B480:ED2:5C07:A115:562A:C0F0 ( talk) 16:53, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
Howard appears in a brief cameo in the film, and in an end-credits scene. Is a cameo role lead-worthy? [25] 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 00:51, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Wolverine (comics) was moved to Wolverine (character) after another requested move. Wait... again? I thought this was resolved already? 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 15:11, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Nancy Callahan, Kevin (Sin City), Ava Lord need alot of work as they have little or no sources. Dwanyewest ( talk) 03:13, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
I think some articles below that should be deleted, if you want to save or delete please give me your opinions. Dwanyewest ( talk) 20:06, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Talk:Wolverine (character)#Page move back discussion, again concerning whether the page in question should be named Wolverine (character) or Wolverine (comics). This has long been a contentious issue—the page has been moved back and forth several times, and has had several discussions at both Talk:Wolverine (character) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics). The outcome will likely have repercussions throughout WikiProject Comics, especially in light of the result of Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Comics#RfC: Proposed rewording for instructions for disambiguation.
There are also concerns regarding WP:CANVASSing for the discussion. Curly Turkey ⚞ ¡gobble!⚟ 02:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
An anonymous editor posted a merger discussion template on Diana Prince. The main discussion post is at Talk:Wonder Woman#Merge?, there's an older discussion on the Diana talk page as well. Aristophanes68 (talk) 02:10, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (comics)#Merge redundant guideline material. Input from members of this WikiProject would be helpful. Yaris678 ( talk) 12:07, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Do we require a valid reliable source to state that a superhero is Jewish? Mistery Spectre has added these categories to a few different character articles. He has added them to Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, [26] [27] but with no source to confirm this, and their being Jewish is not mentioned at any point in the article. With Iceman, he does provide a source, [28] but I raised a concern that this source ( [29]) is not at all authoritative and probably not reliable either, and suggested it would be better to find out what issue he was supposedly identified as Jewish. 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 20:40, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Do any stories mention the character specifically being Jewish? After all, these are fictional characters. They only exist in stories. They won't get Tay-Sachs disease unless a story says they do. Logic of the sort - if their parents are X they must also be X - doesn't apply to fictional characters, unless the story wants it to. Did you know Storm (Marvel Comics) has blue eyes, like all of her African tribe? -- GRuban ( talk) 20:47, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Now, how about the source on Iceman? Do we consider adherents.com a reliable source for this purpose, especially when we don't have a note about the actual comics issue this information supposedly comes from? 2601:D:B480:ED2:A47F:59E:6622:E23C ( talk) 06:19, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the above linked matter. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 ( talk) 17:36, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Ian Nottingham, Rapture (comics), Zera (comics) these are articles for deletion if you wanna delete for or against these articles be my guest. Dwanyewest ( talk) 01:24, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
The GCD has recently revamped their search engine. Most (if not all) of the templates and links that currently exist that link there will still work, however they could likely be made better. One that needs to be looked at is Template:Gcdb_imprint because Imprints have been deleted at the GCD. Mostly they have been replaced with Brands and Brand Groups. Character and Credit searches still have to be done as searches rather than pointing at a specific page, that's still in the future.
One new search is a Google-like search of (almost) everything. That's the main standard search now. So if you search for "Hulk" you will get all the appearances of any character called Hulk plus any series with the word hulk in them plus any synopsis where the word Hulk is used plus one publisher from Brazil because the notes on that publisher mention "Hulk". You can then (on the site or through the URL) narrow it down. The search is not as literal as it used to be too. "Wolverine Son Canada" will find the comic "Wolverine: Son of Canada" (where you used to have to include the colon and the "of" to make it work).
I'm not even sure how to find all the templates that link to the GCD. Bookcats ( talk) 10:19, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Is he a superhero, an antihero, or both? [30] 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 19:40, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Which picture is better for the Gorgon (Inhuman) article? This one or this one? 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 04:43, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
I have proposed that Cyberface and Overlord (comics) be merged into Vicious Circle (comics) anyone who wishes to discuss this for or against please discuss at Talk:Vicious Circle (comics). Dwanyewest ( talk) 16:37, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
I thought we had resolved this(?) a couple of months ago, but Kurzon has resumed gutting the lead sections of character articles to a bare minimum. [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] Was I wrong to think that the previous discussion led to a consensus that such changes are not necessarily for the better? 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 03:29, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
I am not aware of any descriptive work on the English language that indicates the usage of "he", "she", or "who" is in any way restricted to non-fictional figures, nor am I aware of any style guide that makes such a recommendation. Such a suggestion is certainly at odds with common usage, both formal and informal. If such an approach is to be adopted on Wikipedia, it will require a consensus from the greater community, which it currently doesn't have. If anyone thinks it's at all likely to gain such a consensus, then please propose it formally via the proper channels. Personally, I think it'll go nowhere but the Hall of Lame. Curly Turkey ⚞ ¡gobble!⚟ 13:29, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
I'm not part of this project, so I'm not clear on what exactly the lenience is given in regards to trivia, but this article appears to go off the deep end in non-notable cruft. I recently tried to clean up the extended list of powers, being that they were all redundant to the already-present statement of "all of them", but was immediately reverted -- in fact, a later editor eventually duplicated the list within the article proper.
I have no intention of becoming a regular editor of Wikipedia, and won't be making an effort to stay involved with this article, so I thought it would be a good idea to bring the issue to the notice of the WikiProject. 192.249.47.186 ( talk) 21:21, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej ( talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
I have proposed Marvel Tails be merged into Spider-Ham. If you have an opinion, for or against, please post it here. Thank you. Spidey 104 13:54, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
Some user TheIsland123 claiming to blocked my user page without user's grade. That suspected user 24.92.149.98 was edits with no proper referencing to notable, reliable source, ultimately unusable in this article Power Ring's story was no good with no comics source and again. There is another Owlman's story is not clarify, Anti-Monitor's story has no comics source, and this Ultraman's story is not proper with clarify. I'm asking to watch the user TheIsland123 and 24.92.149.98 its edits good and proper story.-- Bsuwogltfam ( talk) 06:50, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Was Beyonder to The Beyonder (Marvel comics) a good move? 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 14:34, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Would anyone be able to make a judicious trim to this plot dump added within the last week or so? [38] 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 12:02, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
The bloat continues. [40] 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 15:48, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
When discussing fictional characters in a real world context, is it acceptable to refer to them with gendered prounouns, such as he and she, or should they be referred to as objects?
Example:
Argento Surfer ( talk) 18:07, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
Well, I'm an uninvolved editor, but I'd like to make a couple of general, but related, observations. The first is that disagreements over spelling have historically led to some very messy & bitter flamefests, not only on Wikipedia but on other Internet fora (e.g. Usenet). I can only speculate that disagreements over grammar & spelling could end up just as messy & bitter. Which leads to my second point: we should only make a decision in matters of style when the threat of listing such a dispute at WP:LAME is insufficient prevent such disruptions. Until a very messy & bitter dispute emerged over changing the usage of BCE/CE to BC/AD (or was it the other way round?), WP:MOS was barely a personal essay consisting of a list of recommendations about how to write an article. IMHO, it was not a good thing when that was turned into a series of rules editors were expected to follow, thus providing one more source for conflict here. Unless there is an issue that cannot be solved with existing rules & procedures (of which we have a great deal), let's not create more. -- llywrch ( talk) 17:22, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Talk:Alien (creature in Alien franchise)#RfC: "Alien" or "Xenomorph"? that you may be interested in. 11:38, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
Can I get some eyes/hands over at List of films based on Dark Horse Comics properties? We've got a two editor situation, the other editor being an IP who repeatedly adds films that do not, in my judgment, match the purpose of the list (and who has thus far refused to engage in discussion of edits in any form.) It would be handy to have more than two editors on this, so that consensus can be reached. -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 04:31, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
I've created a new article on graphic novel Bucko.
Help or suggestions with additional secondary sources would be appreciated on the article's talk page, at Talk:Bucko.
Thank you,
— Cirt ( talk) 04:18, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
In the interest of getting as much input as possible, I thought I'd post notice here that I have proposed that List of X-Men enemy teams be merged. The discussion for this proposal is at Talk:List of X-Men enemies#Merge proposal.-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 17:04, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Myself and David A are currently having a dispute on how to title categories in the Marvel Cosmic template. Currently we are the only ones involved in the discussion, so having other opinions would be helpful. The discussion can be found here. -- Spidey 104 19:19, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
I'm sure this has come up before - maybe I even brought it up - but can anyone put an end to this edit war? Maybe we need a superhero FAQ or something? ;) 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 20:37, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
I don't see how it can be declared that he doesn't possess superhuman strength when the article is rife with cited examples of the character performing superhuman feats of strength, all of which are part of mainstream Marvel continuity.
I've nominated the article for Chester Brown's graphic novel I Never Liked You (1994) for Featured Article. Please take part in the review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/I Never Liked You/archive1. Thanks, Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 02:07, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
Apparently Don Thompson in the Comics Buyers Guide wrote a negative review (maybe more than one) of Chester Brown's Yummy Fur circa 1989–1990. Does anyone here have issues from around that time? I'd love to use it as a source. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 03:55, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
It is hard to understand what this user is saying, but it is pretty clear that he is trying to insult me and is not being very nice on this thread on my talk page. I previously encountered Mistery Spectre a few months ago edit warring over the Jewish identity of a few superheroes and started the now-archived discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics/Archive 48#Jewish superheroes, which, I thought, appeared to have resulted in a compromise.
Apparently there is still an issue regarding Iceman, based on edits like this. I thought it was pretty clear, based on the end of the previous "Jewish superheroes" thread, but I will bring it here for discussion rather than continue something unproductive on my talk page.
Can adherents.com be used as a reliable source to determine that Iceman is Jewish, or do we need a citation to an actual story in the comics? 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 15:00, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
It's not relevant. Unless you can find Wikipedia:Reliable sources writing about Iceman's religion making an actual difference, we shouldn't either. We can't write everything about a character just because a comic writer said as much in an offhand line. I would imagine we could find a line that says that the character votes for Republicans or Democrats, prefers Blondes or Brunettes or Redheads, prefers Chinese food or Mexican, has a favorite color of green or red or blue, drives a Ford or a Toyota ... none of this matters, it's not worth the space in the article that writing about it would take. Has there been a story where either his religion or his ethnic heritage is a major plot point? Has there been an article by someone writing about Iceman where they go in depth about his ethnicity or religion? If not, we shouldn't write about it. (Note that this doesn't mean trivia is always irrelevant - for example, that Superman prefers women with the initials LL has been mentioned multiple times in stories about him, so is worth a sentence in that article.) -- GRuban ( talk) 00:20, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
Template:DC Comics' shared universe films has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes ( talk) 18:02, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
Members of this project might be interested in Talk:Guardians of the Galaxy (film)#Requested moves. BOZ ( talk) 17:49, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
Is it time for a Featured Article Review (and possible delisting) of the Featured Article, Batman? Please join the discussion here. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 23:51, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
A team-up is not a partnership. Batman has teamed up with just about every DC hero. Zatanna is not and has not been his partner. I'm not going to re-revert someone who feels the revision comment should ask me, "Have you followed the comics at all?" Revision: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Zatanna&oldid=prev&diff=636716255 Outside input there would be greatly appreciated. Doczilla @SUPERHEROLOGIST 08:19, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
I think Karn (Marvel comics) should probably be merged somewhere, but I have no idea where. Help me out on this one. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 04:50, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Per this IP edit there is a claim that she can be called bisexual, but it is not clear from the content of the article that this is the case. 50.141.204.194 ( talk) 07:57, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Concerning infoboxes, I think it would be appropriate to add links for all sub-headers and not only 'Publisher,' 'First appearance,' and 'Created by.' For instance, link 'Alter ego' to its same-named article or category, 'Notable aliases' to pseudonym, and 'Abilities' to List of superhuman features and abilities in fiction. I bring this here rather than diving in myself because I am not certain how many templates are used within this project ( Template:Superherobox and Template:Infobox comics character being two of them.) Thoughts? — CobraWiki ( jabber | stuff ) 03:02, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
A globally banned Wikia troll calling himself "BeyonderGod" and various other Wikia handles, who has a fanatic obsession with the Beyonder character, and has used extreme levels of abuse and harrassment outside of Wikipedia in his agenda to market it everywhere, keeps coming to the Wikipedia article of his namesake to insert false contradicted claims that the character is absolutely omnipotent and can perform any feat without effort.
Thus far he has used the following guises here at Wikipedia to distort the article with misinformation: /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/BeyonderGod /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/OmniverseGod /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/27.147.223.6
As I am getting tired of repeatedly cleaning up from his vandalism, I would greatly appreciate some help and advise. Thanks. David A ( talk) 18:14, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
To clarify a bit, I have encountered this editor "BeyonderGod" previously in the Wikia community, where he got himself permanently globally blocked after 3 months of constant relentless completely unreasonable trolling, edit-warring, harrassment, long extremely vulgar homophobic slur insult tirades, sockpuppetry (HagoromoOtsutsuki, OfficialRikudouSennin, likely others), widespread lying plagiarism of a previously created community (the Outskirts Battle Dome), etcetera, and he has a massive fixation for both the character Beyonder and the term Omniverse, and almost consistently calls himself an almighty God who lives in heaven in his various handles. Most of his more severe stuff, including a written guide in how to successfully troll people, was deleted by Wikia staff, but here is an example of his usual fare towards my other handle name: http://definithing.com/100284/antvasima/ To me, it is fairly obvious that all of these handles seem to be the same person, but he hasn't yet performed his usual infamous behaviour here, beyond the misinformation-mongering, creating nonsense articles or writing minor threats. David A ( talk) 18:39, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
In an effort to provide more elaborate information about the background to this:
"BeyonderGod"/"HagoromoOtsutsuki"/"OfficialRikudouSennin"/likely otherswas first banned from several wikis that he has participated on for systematic multi-wiki trolling vandalism, harrassment, and continuously insulting unreasonability.
He was permanently globally blocked by wikia staff for several months of the above across several wikis, as well as plagiarising the original Outskirts Battle Dome wiki name and widespread systematic lying about his ownership across several communities (his wiki was deleted when the real owners complained), long disgusting homophobic slur texts inserted as insults on other people's user pages, singlehandedly edit-warring to extremes with entire wikia communities, and a written guide in how to successfully troll people, and another about the people who get emotionally hurt and/or exhausted from his absolutely relentless neverending trolling, whom he consistently call "butthurt", naming me by name.
In addition, he has already created various power listing wikis, and they continuously kept a very lacklustre quality with lots of apparently deliberate inaccurate information strictly to troll fans of different franchises.
After his global block, he has continued to spam several communities, including ComicVine, Spacebattles, Killermovies, and even Deviantart. Constantly spamming about the Beyonder and systematically slamming other franchises to cause hurt feelings for their fans over a few thousands of separate posts.
List of his trolling and harrassment on the Powerlisting wiki alone, back in mid-September, with lots more to follow in the 3 months since: http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Antvasima#List_of_BeyonderGod.27s_trolling
He admits to doing lots of trolling vandalism to "get rid of competition": http://factpile.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:BeyonderGod/Admin_ship
His usual trolling homophobic slur insults, and comments about me being a "butthurt" systematic victim of his trolling (due to my severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is extremely taxing for me in the long run): http://definithing.com/antvasima/ https://imgflip.com/i/dio9g
Here he ignores the global Wikia ban with several of his school network's auto-generated ip addresses to systematically troll and harrass me again: http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/152.26.230.108 http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/172.56.5.190 http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/152.26.228.91 http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/152.26.228.85 http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/172.56.4.140 http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/176.50.191.153 http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/152.26.230.115 http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/152.26.230.114
He has also created various nonsense-pages on Wikipedia, which were deleted.
Given all of the above, I would greatly appreciate if some members of the Anime and Manga Wikipedia community could please attempt to mediate on this page, as I am very mentally exhausted from having to constantly deal with him for over 5 months, and do not wish for this to drag on for another half a year or more.
To put a stop to this, in an attempt to compromise, I have attempted to accommodate him on the Beyonder article by letting his last edit stand with simply attempting to fix the grammatical structure.
However, there is a conflict remaining on thw following anime-related talk page. I would greatly appreciate if somebody fair-minded, reasonable, and objective could step in and find a final solutoon to the problem, perhaps preferably an administrator. Since he objects to the term "omnipotent", perhaps it could simply be removed from being used in the article, and let the rest stand? /info/en/?search=Talk:List_of_Tenchi_Muyo!_characters
Thank you very much for any help to resolve this matter. David A ( talk) 09:59, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
I know its a faniste but it seems to have legit interviews with DC comic book writers [44] so can it be used as a source? Dwanyewest ( talk) 04:18, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Just FYI, Category:Villains with own comic book title was created a few months ago. 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 14:55, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
I have boldly removed [45] "Bad girl art" and "Good girl art" as comics genres.
The articles, Bad girl art and Good girl art, have a lot of OR and/or synth. I think if these are to be restored as "genres," there needs to be more sources discussing them as genres.
-- Lightbreather ( talk) 20:09, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
This is an neutral notice for interested editors re: Murray Boltinoff. Should the article include cited mentions of Boltinoff having a faulty memory? I do not dispute the citations themselves or their reliability. I wonder about the necessity of mentioning the problem itself. Poor memory is a common occurrence. Is it of encyclopedic note? Would we make note of someone being bald or wearing glasses? It seems rather close to WP:NOTSCANDAL and WP:NOTGOSSIP. Please comment at Talk:Murray Boltinoff. Mtminchi08 ( talk) 21:36, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Talk of commenting on whether or not it should be Hal Jordan or Green Lantern in the infobox 24.38.188.96 ( talk) 16:24, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Silent Hill (comics) has a reception section where Atop The Fourth Wall is cited as a reference. I haven't spent a lot of time with the comics section of Wikipedia, but I'm guessing he wouldn't be considered a valid review source. It also says that it's been "widely panned", but provides no evidence except for two reviews, and it's also written in a way that mentions the reviews but looks like POV. I would have gotten rid of it, but I thought I'd check here first. I'm mainly curious about the Atop the Fourth Wall as a source thing. SonOfPlisskin ( talk) 18:43, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
The previous sections were inappropriate, and I apologise. Again, as per Wikipedia praxis, I would like to request help with outside conflict resolution from the related Wikiproject on the following Talk page, as discussion did not reach a solution. My apologies for being a bother, but help to find a consensus would be very appreciated: /info/en/?search=Talk:Beyonder David A ( talk) 08:06, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Initially, the Lady Liberators were a single-issue joke in The Avengers. Basically, the Enchantress pretends to be a female liberator, and creates a team of female superheroes with mind-manipulation stuff (all so that Roy Thomas could voice his rejection of feminism, saying through Goliath that "You birds finally learned your lesson about that women's lib bull!"). If it had been just that, probably it wouldn't deserve an article; but the team was recreated some years ago at the Hulk comic book (this time, as an actual superhero team, even if without their own comic book).
However, I have noticed that the members of that initial team (Medusa, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, and Wasp) all mention the Lady Liberators in their "Team affiliations" entry of the superhero infobox. I have no problem with listing it for the members of the current team since its recreation, but should we list it for the characters who have only been part of it during that joke issue? Cambalachero ( talk) 17:05, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
The article for the Columbia Comics character The Face is extremely short and underdeveloped and there is so much information missing from the article, the character's publication history and fictional character biography are severely underdeveloped and more information should be added to them. Also it does not have enough citations that show the article's notability, if anyone is able to work on these issues (I have contributed to some portions of the article) we can bring this article up top its full potential.-- Paleface Jack ( talk) 18:43, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Maybe it's just me, but does anyone ever notice that the personality of most comics characters is at best weakly discussed in most articles? Granted, with some of the older characters, who have been through multiple writers and variations, there might not be that much by way of consistent character to discuss, but it also seems to at least me anyway that just describing what characters in various stories do without providing the sometimes personality-based rationales for their actions makes it harder to follow and understand the character history in at least some cases. Maybe the standard "powers and abilities" section could be expanded a little to cover any particularly notable and unique personality characteristics of the characters? John Carter ( talk) 19:40, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
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Seems there's some confusion about what this character's first appearance is. One part of the article Pitt (comics) says it's Youngblood #4; another says Pitt #1; still another, Spawn #1. And before I edited it, the article also cited an issue of Gen 13 as Pitt's first appearance. I don't know enough about Pitt to say which of these is his true first appearance (except that the issue of Gen 13 is clearly wrong, since it was published years after Pitt got his own series), so can someone edit this article to make it consistent on the matter?-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 18:47, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Can someone help me out with a dead Newsarama link? This citation in the Jupiter's Legacy article is dead, and I can't find a replacement to support the material in question, which is important. I tried using the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine, and although I think I used it correctly, I couldn't find an archived link. Anyone? Nightscream ( talk) 14:10, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
Just a heads up that a user is going through several Marvel comics pages and removing third party sources from the intros. They usually involve removing appearances of the subjects in third party lists of "Best" characters, etc. (such as IGN, Wizard (magazine), and Comic Book Resources) with the argument being that a "geek journalist's opinion" is either "not relevant" or "not insightful". I've reached out on the talk page for one of the recent changes ( Cyclops (comics)) to see if the issue of WP:Notability and WP:INUNIVERSE can be reached with this editor, but I've also been informed that this is a reoccurring issue on other pages such as Galactus, Charles Xavier, and Magneto (comics). Keep your eyes peeled if you see similar edits and try to reach out to the editor. If it continues to be a problem, or edit warring begins again, we may need to escalate it appropriately. Luminum ( talk) 04:56, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
There is a bit of a controversy over recent repetitive deletions of references at the Galactus article. I would appreciate if other, more experienced editors could visit the Talk page to contribute with their take on the problem. Thank you. David A ( talk) 06:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Special:LinkSearch/http://comics.ign.com/top-100-villains/ shows a lot of links which have died. http://www.ign.com/top/comic-book-villains/ links to the same dead pages so I don't know whether it's temporary or permanent, but it appears from https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://comics.ign.com/top-100-villains/1.html that the links may have been dead for a long time. The pages can currently be found at http://www.ign.com/top/comic-book-villains/X.html where X is a number, e.g. http://www.ign.com/top/comic-book-villains/1.html. Maybe it's suited for Wikipedia:Bot requests but I don't work on comics or bots and just wanted to inform you. Many other url's at http://comics.ign.com are redirecting to a replacement page at http://www.ign.com, but not the top 100 villains. PrimeHunter ( talk) 01:30, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
There is an RFC at WT:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Capitalization of universe that the members of this project need to be aware of. The RFC itself is really related to astronomy articles... and according to this sub-thread the proposed change not intended to impact comics article like Marvel Universe or DC Universe.
Yet, from my experience, sooner or later some well intended (but over zealous) editor is going to misunderstand that intent... and will try to "conform" all the comics articles to a lower case "universe" (because "that's what the MOS says"). I am leaving this note so that editors who work on comics will know what the intent actually is/was... and can link to the relevant discussion when the inevitable happens. Blueboar ( talk) 22:36, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Is this a reliable source for confirming this role? 2601:D:B480:ED2:B1FE:426A:B8FA:EA58 ( talk) 04:43, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
It's going down on Talk:Deathstroke. Zythe ( talk) 09:56, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Correctingsection0062 appears to be replacing a reliable source with a questionable one, and claims that "Sources are not accessible and they are antiquated." diff. Thoughts? 2601:D:B482:DD00:C03E:CA5:CC3:7768 ( talk) 03:47, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, since there's nowhere to discuss this but in here I would like to address some of my points that was given. First of all, I would like to state why I deleted the previous link. The link was an offline source which is fine, but it had absolutely nothing to the point given. Secondly, I would now address the whole situation. If you go to Black Cat's talk page there was this user named "Mike Castle" who saw this mistake and discussed it. Me being a long time comic fan I looked at the erroneous mistake which stated that Black Cat was a thief, cat burglar, and had an on-off relationshipship with Batman prior to Catwoman doing the same. This is wrong and that's why I came to fix this. I know that Frank Miller changed the character a bit, but Catwoman was still a thief, cat burgular, and had an on-off relationshipship with Batman prior to Black Cat's existence and Miller's alterations. But the wikipedia article states the opposite which I want to correct. I added two valuable sources that really contributed to the reality. All the aspects that Black Cat has in the comics, Catwoman had first except for the black cat suit which I pointed out on my reverted page. I don't wanna commence an altercation but I honestly thought people knew about this. In the end the fact here is that Catwoman was a thief, a cat burgular, and had an on-off relationship with Batman before Black Cat had these aspects and that's why Marv Wolfman was asked about it. In that case the last line of that paragraph contradicts the mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Correctingsection0062 ( talk • contribs) 18:34, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Oh and by the way you should take a look at these old comic images within this article. [1] Those images not only show that she was a thief but that she also had that on-off relationship with Batman. Also, those comic images were way before Black Cat made her first apperance. That link is another valuable source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Correctingsection0062 ( talk • contribs) 18:53, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
The changes made were simply not correct and your sources clearly show the original Catwoman was a pickpocket in a dress. Unlike Black Cat and Spider-man, who actually were involved romantically, Catwoman was rebuffed romantically. The modern version of Selina Kyle in skintight black, climbing from buildings with cables, a gymnast of olympic degree, and romantically involved with Batman, did not remotely come to comics until the 80s, almost 10 years after the Black Cat appeared. THIS IS A FACT. Please show any images predating the Black Cat's appearance that show Catwoman wearing a skintight, low cut BLACK outfit, scaling buildings and ACTUALLY dating Batman please before you add erroneous information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.97.244.53 ( talk) 21:10, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
You have no facts here, simply a fan's opinion. Make it simple- show a picture of Catwoman the year Black Cat came out. Show a picture of her now. The character design of Black Cat proceeded Catwoman by 9 years. THIS IS A FACT. Simply liking Catwoman does not erase this. Nowhere in the comics until Frank Miller's Year One, was Catwoman presented in a skin tight black catsuit, showing significant cleavage, scaling buildings and in a relationship with Batman. Yes, she pined for Batman but again, Black Cat was actually in a relationship with Spider-man. Please escalate this if you want. Catwoman was a supervillian who drove a "CatCar". She had trained circus lions and tigers. She wore a dress and took part in pick pockets and bang robberies. — Preceding
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Just wanted to bring this to everyone's attention of a user who's been editing several Marvel movie pages with his own fan fiction and made up characters. his ID is 24.228.215.91 and he's basicly made up his own superheros and listed himself in the credits. Metropod ( talk) 07:05, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
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Wanted to get some opinions from everyone on what should be done with this info. The brand (imprint, marketing, whatever you want to call it) is ending in June, but the continuity established in Sep 2011 is still continuing (somewhat in some titles). I've already created a mock up of listing the publications, much like the current List of The New 52 publications, here but should we continue adding info to The New 52? Should a new article be created, or maybe just add info at DC Universe? Thanks for the opinions. - Favre1fan93 ( talk) 21:13, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
There is conflict at Quicksilver (comics) with an IP user insisting on adding "Toys and games" to the "In other media" section. Besides the fact that toys do not fit the definition of media: "Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information," the material is unreferenced. This all smacks of WP:INDISCRIMINATE as well. There is no way we can list every toy or game that has ever been manufactured for these characters. Thank you for input.-- TriiipleThreat ( talk) 17:54, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
TriiipleThreat, you are correct in that toys and video games would not be considered media. They are considered merchandise. As with other comic book character articles, we can say that "Superhero X has appeared in Comic Book Company Y-related media and merchandise." The addition of toys, video games, and all the other numerous merchandise in which the character has made appearances is too cumbersome for the reader. JosephSpiral ( talk) 00:26, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Another user keeps making very badly spelled edits to his favorite character page. However, I have had problems with him here and outside Wikipedia for over 6 months by now, so I don't have the energy to deal with him anymore. It just isn't worth it. David A ( talk) 15:14, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
I have a very minor proposal at Captain America's talk page. It's been a while since I first posted, I haven't gotten a response and it is a small thing. I suppose I am trying to draw attention to it. Respond there if you are going to. DangerousJXD ( talk) 23:20, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
There is currently a debate about which image should be used for the character box for the Spider-Man article. Please post your opinions on the talk page so this can be resolved. If there is a Wikipedia policy regulating this stuff that would be very helpful. Thank you! Spidey 104 20:11, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Does anyone have a copy of The Comics Journal #203? I'd like to see if there's anything in Bob Levin's article in that issue "Rice, Beans and Justin Greens" that would be worth working into the Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary article. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 03:32, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
I've nominated the article for the Canadian artist Laurence Hyde's wordless novel, Southern Cross (wordless novel), as a Featured Article Candidate. Please contribute to the review here. Thanks! Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 12:03, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
There seems to be a lot of original research in the Fictional mass murderers category. For example, for comics characters alone, we have Galactus, Jean Grey, and dozens of others (I can make a list if you need). What criteria are we using to determine which characters belong in that category? 50.141.204.194 ( talk) 18:41, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Stone (Marvel Comics)#Recent split of content. A WP:Permalink for the matter is here. Flyer22 ( talk) 07:53, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Artist Francis Tsai passed away yesterday. 65.126.152.254 ( talk) 15:10, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
The "Fictional character biography" section in the Professor X article is extremely lengthy and overly detailed. This section alone is longer than the rest of the page combined. It would be helpful if someone can take the time and edit it to make it concise. I want to thank, ahead of time, whoever can complete this task. JosephSpiral ( talk) 03:56, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I wrote the article Tarpe Mills on french wikipedia. I don't understand why his name is spelled Tarpé on en:WP. On Lambiek and the book Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas by M. Keith Booker it's written Tarpe. Someone could explain this choice ? Thank you, -- Olivier tanguy ( talk) 22:23, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Jhenderson777 and I recently created a new article: List of Spider-Man storylines. It needs to be reviewed by someone who is not the creator and extra eyes on it to see if there are mistakes we missed would be good too. Thank you for your help! Spidey 104 13:17, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
For years, as far as I know, we have been using "Superhero X is a fictional character" in the lead sections of character articles. I am not sure why, but JosephSpiral has been removing the word "character" from a bunch of articles. Do we want to make sure the lead clearly says "fictional character", or not? 2601:D:B480:ED2:2D34:DE1D:A688:317A ( talk) 22:30, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
As Curly Turkey pointed out, "Superhero X is a fictional superhero" means the same thing. "Superhero" is a noun, and therefore, a noun such as "character" should not follow it. One or the other should be used, and using "superhero" is more specific and sounds better. Thanks for bringing this point up, 2601:D:B480:ED2:2D34:DE1D:A688:317A ( talk). JosephSpiral ( talk) 23:59, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
The words "superhero" or "supervillain" should be used after the word "fictional" when it is about a superhero or supervillain. Hence, "Captain America is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics." However, when it is not for a superhero or supervillain, then "character" works fine. This is for characters such as Aunt May and Alfred Pennyworth. The word "antihero" can also be used if the character is a defined antihero, such as Deadpool. When using the words "fictional" or "character," neither should be linked, as this is overlinking. See articles on Shakespearean characters, as they do not link those words. Keep in mind that Wikipedia articles are dynamic and always changing. If a character was once a supervillain but is now a superhero, it should say that they are a superhero. Furthermore, this format of "(X) is a fictional (A, B, C, etc.) appearing in American comic books published by (Y Comics)" can be used not only for characters, but also comic book teams, locations, weapons, corporations, etc. JosephSpiral ( talk) 00:57, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
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I just visited Fantastic Four and immediately saw something very curious in the infobox: a caption reading "The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961). Cover art by Jack Kirby (penciller) and unconfirmed inker." with no image beside it. Checking the article history, I found that the problem is this edit from way back in October 2013, in which User: Werieth removed every single image from the article (except the main infobox image), citing WP: NFC, while failing to remove the caption for the cover of FF #1. Werieth is a long-standing and highly active Wikipedia editor, but I can't help but think his understanding of WP's non-free content policy is worse than rudimentary, in part because all of the images he removed from the article are either comic book covers or promotional posters, and in part because none of the images have been deleted (in fact, all but one still has a non-free media rationale for Fantastic Four!). Removing image inclusions from articles rather than going after the image itself seems like trying to remove a weed by plucking off its leaves one-by-one without touching its roots.
I've gone ahead and restored the image of FF #1 so that we won't have a caption describing nothing, but I've left the other images off since this is a high-traffic article we're talking about, so Werieth's edit must have met with at least some degree of approval from the wider community. I don't suppose someone can explain this to me, since my understanding was that covers and promotional material almost always fall under fair use?-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 13:57, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
I haven't gotten any input here in four days, so I'm going to be WP:BOLD and restore all the images which have non-free media rationales for the article. With luck, anyone who decides to revert me will provide some explanation here.-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 17:36, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
I've opened a community GA reassessment of Wanted. The article has had quite a fall from grace since its promotion in 2009, and I believe it needs to be demoted. Corvoe (speak to me) 15:53, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi all. I'm putting out a request for some help over at Forever Evil. This event has just ended, and I have been adding plots to this page since the beginning. Having just finished, I know they are extremely long and take up a lot of the page. I have gone through on a few occasions and cut a good amount of it, but I would still like to get it down more. So if anyone out there who has read the event, or just parts of it, I would greatly appreciate the help to cut each of the plots down some. It would be helpful to get a new set of eyes on the page to see if anyone else can find some extra detail that can be taken out. The next task I have for myself is to cut down the reviews section, because that is humongous right now. Thank you in advance to anyone who can help me out. - Favre1fan93 ( talk) 20:01, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Thamuz and Legion (Image Comics) are both nominated for deletion please give your thoughts. Dwanyewest ( talk) 00:52, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
I say no, but User:StarDustWind24 disagrees and does not have a RS to prove it. [1] 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 21:28, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
I've definitely seen him lift things that no ordinary human can lift. User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 18:21, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
silverbulletcomicbooks.com is referenced in 157 articles. [3] The links to reviews and news no longer work, it just a page advertising something, the type of thing you see tossed up whenever someone buys an expired domain. This is the relevant Wikiproject to mention this at. Fix it if you feel like it. Dream Focus 10:17, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
One user has changed the lead sections of several articles which originally said something like "Superhero name (real name) is a fictional character" to something like "Real name, also known as Superhero name, is a fictional character". Looking to see if anyone has any input on that. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 17:26, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Are the actors who might be cast in the role a violation of WP:CRYSTAL or should be listing them already? 2601:D:9400:448:8102:22D6:690C:4448 ( talk) 00:44, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
Could someone please contribute to the debate regarding Thamuz and Legion (Image Comics) Dwanyewest ( talk) 13:29, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Spider-Man (set index) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spider-Man (set index) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Spidey104 ( talk) 13:02, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Calvin and Hobbes, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Interlude65 ( talk) 03:20, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
Does this count as a WP:RS? 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 19:42, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
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Template:ComicsCollab ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 04:01, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
A Request for Comment has been started at the above link to discuss removing the archive site Archive.is from the blacklist. Feel free to join the chorus. Darkwarriorblake / SEXY ACTION TALK PAGE! 19:39, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
I just added Teshkeel Comics to Template:Comic book publishers in North America. However, as I was going to add the navbox to the publisher's article, it occurred to me that maybe Teshkeel hadn't been added before because the navbox is supposed to cover only publishers based in North America, whereas Teshkeel is based in Kuwait. Previously I had always assumed the navbox covered articles on anyone who published comics in North America. Which interpretation of this navbox is the correct one?-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 13:45, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
I started a discussion regarding Toad's possible appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine at Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard#Trouble with IP user, for anyone who might have something to contribute to that discussion. 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 18:57, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Stoshmaster has added unsourced source credits to Happy Tears, Crak! & Sleeping Girl. I have reversed his additions of Mike Sekowsky to Happy Tears, written by Bob Haney and illustrated by Jack Abel to Crak! and Tony Abruzzo in Sleeping Girl. If anyone can find WP:RSs to use for WP:ICs to source this content in these article that would be helpful.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:08, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
I have started an FAC for Clark Kent (Smallville). Please feel free to stop by and comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Clark Kent (Smallville)/archive1. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 20:57, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
I have started a discussion on Talk:Youngblood (comics) about merging characters. Dwanyewest ( talk) 16:37, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
I have started a discussion on Talk:Cyberforce about merging characters. Dwanyewest ( talk) 16:38, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
The comic character infobox has a subcat that automatically sorts the character by publisher, e.g., DC Comics superheroes, etc. I noticed today that most of the Milestone characters had been re-listed as DC, so I edited the remaining characters (only three of them were left) to list as DC. But then I realized that the Wildstorm characters are still listed as Wildstorm, even though they (like Milestone) are now part of DC. This problem raises the question: When characters have been bought by other companies, should the infoboxes be updated to their current publisher, or should they stay with the original publisher? Thanks. Aristophanes68 (talk) 18:28, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
There is a question regarding H.G. Peter and the creation of Wonder Woman at Talk:Wonder Woman#H.G. Peter. All comments are welcome. Thank you.-- TriiipleThreat ( talk) 15:40, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
As I've been editing articles, I've noticed a lot of instances, particularly in the fictional character biographies, where Spider-Man is referred to as "the webslinger", Doctor Octopus as "Doc Ock", Batman as "the caped crusader", etc. Besides being horrendously unencyclopedic in tone, we can't expect the general readership to be familiar with all the cute nicknames these characters have. I'm almost certainly preaching to the choir here, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to throw out a little reminder to keep things Wikipedian.-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 15:13, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
I have proposed a considerable change to this article at Talk:Black Panther (comics). Any input is welcome.-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 18:03, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
Kurzon has been making some pretty sizable chops to the lead sections of character articles, so I just wanted to bring this here for discussion. Examples include: [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21]. 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 12:00, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
[24] I just don't understand this desire by User:Kurzon to keep readers less informed. 2601:D:B480:ED2:A80E:1C3A:E6BB:7205 ( talk) 22:11, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
A rule of thumb is that it should give a brief summary from each major section. The problem is that the article itself is a mess—it needs to be balanced and tightened up considerably. For such a major character the lead is definitely way too short, but "a bit from each section" in this case would likely be summing up a lot of trivial detail. The best approach would be to fix up the body and then figure out what would be most appropriate for the lead, but that would be quite a bit of work.
I find a lot of the writing in superhero articles is just plain awful; sperg-fests written by geeks who have trouble relating to the layman. I'm tempted to burn everything to ashes and start anew. I am no ashamed if my edits ruffle feathers. Maybe this will give the community the kick it needs. Kurzon ( talk) 08:43, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
What about the other comic characters, such as Spider-man, Batman, and Superman? They have fictional character biographies as well. Since the Magneto page has this removed, what about the other superhero pages? I don't care one way or the other if the fictional biography is there or not, but out of respect for both sides of the argument, why not just place the fictional character biography as a separate article, in the same way we have "In other Media" or "Alternative versions of"? That way, the main article will be cleaned up and there will be another version of the article for people who want to know about the characters' history. As it stands, however, I do agree that the fictional character biography sections of these articles are excessive, and will continue to get even more excessive as more and more comics come out (making the article unnecessarily long). Kinfoll77 ( talk) 02:00, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Following a discussion on the WikiProject_Comics talk page, I came to agree with other editors that there are major problems with how superhero articles are written. Honestly, they're a bloody mess, a massive sperg-fest by comic geeks who do not coordinate their efforts or work hard to relate to the layman. There are other wikis on the Web that are more appropriate for this.
Most glaring are the biographies. They are excessively bloated. They are centered around the mainstream 616 Universe, giving no regard to the other books, movies, and television shows. This is not appropriate, given that the movies and TV shows have a wider audience than the comic books, and that the "mainstream" 616 universe goes through endless retcons and reboots. Additionally, this section was not written appropriately for an encyclopedia, which should always be written from the perspective of the real world. The Manual of Style says: "Articles about fiction, like all Wikipedia articles, should adhere to the real world as their primary frame of reference. The approach is to describe the subject matter from the perspective of the real world, in which the work of fiction and its publication are embedded."
I have rewritten the biography section of the Magneto (comics) article completely. Instead of a biography, it attempts to list the plot points and character traits about Magneto that have been consistent across all the stories he has appeared in. It gives equal weight to all the comic books, the movies, and TV shows. I think this should be a template for all superhero articles. Kurzon ( talk) 18:46, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello all! At The Wikipedia Library we are currently in talks with Proquest's Literature Online and Early English Books Online to get Wikipedians access to those databases/collections. They asked us for a bit of information about how Wikipedians might use the research materials, asking us to do a brief survey. It would be extremely helpful if users could fill out the following Google form: Proquest - Literature Online / Wikipedia Library user interest survey. Afterward, while waiting for us to finish talks on Literature Online, we would like to invite editors to apply for already established available partnerships, listed at our partners page. Thank you for all of your help! Sadads ( talk) 16:53, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Special:Contributions/109.146.217.66 has been going around editing articles about fictional characters, and removing all references to them being fictional, rewriting them to make it look like they are real people. See Scarlet Witch for example. I'm going to try to undo as much as I can, but please help me to make sure it is all cleaned up. 2601:D:B480:ED2:5C07:A115:562A:C0F0 ( talk) 16:53, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
Howard appears in a brief cameo in the film, and in an end-credits scene. Is a cameo role lead-worthy? [25] 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 00:51, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Wolverine (comics) was moved to Wolverine (character) after another requested move. Wait... again? I thought this was resolved already? 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 15:11, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Nancy Callahan, Kevin (Sin City), Ava Lord need alot of work as they have little or no sources. Dwanyewest ( talk) 03:13, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
I think some articles below that should be deleted, if you want to save or delete please give me your opinions. Dwanyewest ( talk) 20:06, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Talk:Wolverine (character)#Page move back discussion, again concerning whether the page in question should be named Wolverine (character) or Wolverine (comics). This has long been a contentious issue—the page has been moved back and forth several times, and has had several discussions at both Talk:Wolverine (character) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics). The outcome will likely have repercussions throughout WikiProject Comics, especially in light of the result of Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Comics#RfC: Proposed rewording for instructions for disambiguation.
There are also concerns regarding WP:CANVASSing for the discussion. Curly Turkey ⚞ ¡gobble!⚟ 02:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
An anonymous editor posted a merger discussion template on Diana Prince. The main discussion post is at Talk:Wonder Woman#Merge?, there's an older discussion on the Diana talk page as well. Aristophanes68 (talk) 02:10, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (comics)#Merge redundant guideline material. Input from members of this WikiProject would be helpful. Yaris678 ( talk) 12:07, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Do we require a valid reliable source to state that a superhero is Jewish? Mistery Spectre has added these categories to a few different character articles. He has added them to Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, [26] [27] but with no source to confirm this, and their being Jewish is not mentioned at any point in the article. With Iceman, he does provide a source, [28] but I raised a concern that this source ( [29]) is not at all authoritative and probably not reliable either, and suggested it would be better to find out what issue he was supposedly identified as Jewish. 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 20:40, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Do any stories mention the character specifically being Jewish? After all, these are fictional characters. They only exist in stories. They won't get Tay-Sachs disease unless a story says they do. Logic of the sort - if their parents are X they must also be X - doesn't apply to fictional characters, unless the story wants it to. Did you know Storm (Marvel Comics) has blue eyes, like all of her African tribe? -- GRuban ( talk) 20:47, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Now, how about the source on Iceman? Do we consider adherents.com a reliable source for this purpose, especially when we don't have a note about the actual comics issue this information supposedly comes from? 2601:D:B480:ED2:A47F:59E:6622:E23C ( talk) 06:19, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the above linked matter. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 ( talk) 17:36, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Ian Nottingham, Rapture (comics), Zera (comics) these are articles for deletion if you wanna delete for or against these articles be my guest. Dwanyewest ( talk) 01:24, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
The GCD has recently revamped their search engine. Most (if not all) of the templates and links that currently exist that link there will still work, however they could likely be made better. One that needs to be looked at is Template:Gcdb_imprint because Imprints have been deleted at the GCD. Mostly they have been replaced with Brands and Brand Groups. Character and Credit searches still have to be done as searches rather than pointing at a specific page, that's still in the future.
One new search is a Google-like search of (almost) everything. That's the main standard search now. So if you search for "Hulk" you will get all the appearances of any character called Hulk plus any series with the word hulk in them plus any synopsis where the word Hulk is used plus one publisher from Brazil because the notes on that publisher mention "Hulk". You can then (on the site or through the URL) narrow it down. The search is not as literal as it used to be too. "Wolverine Son Canada" will find the comic "Wolverine: Son of Canada" (where you used to have to include the colon and the "of" to make it work).
I'm not even sure how to find all the templates that link to the GCD. Bookcats ( talk) 10:19, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Is he a superhero, an antihero, or both? [30] 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 19:40, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Which picture is better for the Gorgon (Inhuman) article? This one or this one? 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 04:43, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
I have proposed that Cyberface and Overlord (comics) be merged into Vicious Circle (comics) anyone who wishes to discuss this for or against please discuss at Talk:Vicious Circle (comics). Dwanyewest ( talk) 16:37, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
I thought we had resolved this(?) a couple of months ago, but Kurzon has resumed gutting the lead sections of character articles to a bare minimum. [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] Was I wrong to think that the previous discussion led to a consensus that such changes are not necessarily for the better? 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 03:29, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
I am not aware of any descriptive work on the English language that indicates the usage of "he", "she", or "who" is in any way restricted to non-fictional figures, nor am I aware of any style guide that makes such a recommendation. Such a suggestion is certainly at odds with common usage, both formal and informal. If such an approach is to be adopted on Wikipedia, it will require a consensus from the greater community, which it currently doesn't have. If anyone thinks it's at all likely to gain such a consensus, then please propose it formally via the proper channels. Personally, I think it'll go nowhere but the Hall of Lame. Curly Turkey ⚞ ¡gobble!⚟ 13:29, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
I'm not part of this project, so I'm not clear on what exactly the lenience is given in regards to trivia, but this article appears to go off the deep end in non-notable cruft. I recently tried to clean up the extended list of powers, being that they were all redundant to the already-present statement of "all of them", but was immediately reverted -- in fact, a later editor eventually duplicated the list within the article proper.
I have no intention of becoming a regular editor of Wikipedia, and won't be making an effort to stay involved with this article, so I thought it would be a good idea to bring the issue to the notice of the WikiProject. 192.249.47.186 ( talk) 21:21, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej ( talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
I have proposed Marvel Tails be merged into Spider-Ham. If you have an opinion, for or against, please post it here. Thank you. Spidey 104 13:54, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
Some user TheIsland123 claiming to blocked my user page without user's grade. That suspected user 24.92.149.98 was edits with no proper referencing to notable, reliable source, ultimately unusable in this article Power Ring's story was no good with no comics source and again. There is another Owlman's story is not clarify, Anti-Monitor's story has no comics source, and this Ultraman's story is not proper with clarify. I'm asking to watch the user TheIsland123 and 24.92.149.98 its edits good and proper story.-- Bsuwogltfam ( talk) 06:50, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Was Beyonder to The Beyonder (Marvel comics) a good move? 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 14:34, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Would anyone be able to make a judicious trim to this plot dump added within the last week or so? [38] 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 12:02, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
The bloat continues. [40] 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 15:48, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
When discussing fictional characters in a real world context, is it acceptable to refer to them with gendered prounouns, such as he and she, or should they be referred to as objects?
Example:
Argento Surfer ( talk) 18:07, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
Well, I'm an uninvolved editor, but I'd like to make a couple of general, but related, observations. The first is that disagreements over spelling have historically led to some very messy & bitter flamefests, not only on Wikipedia but on other Internet fora (e.g. Usenet). I can only speculate that disagreements over grammar & spelling could end up just as messy & bitter. Which leads to my second point: we should only make a decision in matters of style when the threat of listing such a dispute at WP:LAME is insufficient prevent such disruptions. Until a very messy & bitter dispute emerged over changing the usage of BCE/CE to BC/AD (or was it the other way round?), WP:MOS was barely a personal essay consisting of a list of recommendations about how to write an article. IMHO, it was not a good thing when that was turned into a series of rules editors were expected to follow, thus providing one more source for conflict here. Unless there is an issue that cannot be solved with existing rules & procedures (of which we have a great deal), let's not create more. -- llywrch ( talk) 17:22, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Talk:Alien (creature in Alien franchise)#RfC: "Alien" or "Xenomorph"? that you may be interested in. 11:38, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
Can I get some eyes/hands over at List of films based on Dark Horse Comics properties? We've got a two editor situation, the other editor being an IP who repeatedly adds films that do not, in my judgment, match the purpose of the list (and who has thus far refused to engage in discussion of edits in any form.) It would be handy to have more than two editors on this, so that consensus can be reached. -- Nat Gertler ( talk) 04:31, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
I've created a new article on graphic novel Bucko.
Help or suggestions with additional secondary sources would be appreciated on the article's talk page, at Talk:Bucko.
Thank you,
— Cirt ( talk) 04:18, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
In the interest of getting as much input as possible, I thought I'd post notice here that I have proposed that List of X-Men enemy teams be merged. The discussion for this proposal is at Talk:List of X-Men enemies#Merge proposal.-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 17:04, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Myself and David A are currently having a dispute on how to title categories in the Marvel Cosmic template. Currently we are the only ones involved in the discussion, so having other opinions would be helpful. The discussion can be found here. -- Spidey 104 19:19, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
I'm sure this has come up before - maybe I even brought it up - but can anyone put an end to this edit war? Maybe we need a superhero FAQ or something? ;) 68.57.233.34 ( talk) 20:37, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
I don't see how it can be declared that he doesn't possess superhuman strength when the article is rife with cited examples of the character performing superhuman feats of strength, all of which are part of mainstream Marvel continuity.
I've nominated the article for Chester Brown's graphic novel I Never Liked You (1994) for Featured Article. Please take part in the review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/I Never Liked You/archive1. Thanks, Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 02:07, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
Apparently Don Thompson in the Comics Buyers Guide wrote a negative review (maybe more than one) of Chester Brown's Yummy Fur circa 1989–1990. Does anyone here have issues from around that time? I'd love to use it as a source. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 03:55, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
It is hard to understand what this user is saying, but it is pretty clear that he is trying to insult me and is not being very nice on this thread on my talk page. I previously encountered Mistery Spectre a few months ago edit warring over the Jewish identity of a few superheroes and started the now-archived discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics/Archive 48#Jewish superheroes, which, I thought, appeared to have resulted in a compromise.
Apparently there is still an issue regarding Iceman, based on edits like this. I thought it was pretty clear, based on the end of the previous "Jewish superheroes" thread, but I will bring it here for discussion rather than continue something unproductive on my talk page.
Can adherents.com be used as a reliable source to determine that Iceman is Jewish, or do we need a citation to an actual story in the comics? 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 15:00, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
It's not relevant. Unless you can find Wikipedia:Reliable sources writing about Iceman's religion making an actual difference, we shouldn't either. We can't write everything about a character just because a comic writer said as much in an offhand line. I would imagine we could find a line that says that the character votes for Republicans or Democrats, prefers Blondes or Brunettes or Redheads, prefers Chinese food or Mexican, has a favorite color of green or red or blue, drives a Ford or a Toyota ... none of this matters, it's not worth the space in the article that writing about it would take. Has there been a story where either his religion or his ethnic heritage is a major plot point? Has there been an article by someone writing about Iceman where they go in depth about his ethnicity or religion? If not, we shouldn't write about it. (Note that this doesn't mean trivia is always irrelevant - for example, that Superman prefers women with the initials LL has been mentioned multiple times in stories about him, so is worth a sentence in that article.) -- GRuban ( talk) 00:20, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
Template:DC Comics' shared universe films has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes ( talk) 18:02, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
Members of this project might be interested in Talk:Guardians of the Galaxy (film)#Requested moves. BOZ ( talk) 17:49, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
Is it time for a Featured Article Review (and possible delisting) of the Featured Article, Batman? Please join the discussion here. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 23:51, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
A team-up is not a partnership. Batman has teamed up with just about every DC hero. Zatanna is not and has not been his partner. I'm not going to re-revert someone who feels the revision comment should ask me, "Have you followed the comics at all?" Revision: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Zatanna&oldid=prev&diff=636716255 Outside input there would be greatly appreciated. Doczilla @SUPERHEROLOGIST 08:19, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
I think Karn (Marvel comics) should probably be merged somewhere, but I have no idea where. Help me out on this one. Oiyarbepsy ( talk) 04:50, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Per this IP edit there is a claim that she can be called bisexual, but it is not clear from the content of the article that this is the case. 50.141.204.194 ( talk) 07:57, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Concerning infoboxes, I think it would be appropriate to add links for all sub-headers and not only 'Publisher,' 'First appearance,' and 'Created by.' For instance, link 'Alter ego' to its same-named article or category, 'Notable aliases' to pseudonym, and 'Abilities' to List of superhuman features and abilities in fiction. I bring this here rather than diving in myself because I am not certain how many templates are used within this project ( Template:Superherobox and Template:Infobox comics character being two of them.) Thoughts? — CobraWiki ( jabber | stuff ) 03:02, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
A globally banned Wikia troll calling himself "BeyonderGod" and various other Wikia handles, who has a fanatic obsession with the Beyonder character, and has used extreme levels of abuse and harrassment outside of Wikipedia in his agenda to market it everywhere, keeps coming to the Wikipedia article of his namesake to insert false contradicted claims that the character is absolutely omnipotent and can perform any feat without effort.
Thus far he has used the following guises here at Wikipedia to distort the article with misinformation: /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/BeyonderGod /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/OmniverseGod /info/en/?search=Special:Contributions/27.147.223.6
As I am getting tired of repeatedly cleaning up from his vandalism, I would greatly appreciate some help and advise. Thanks. David A ( talk) 18:14, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
To clarify a bit, I have encountered this editor "BeyonderGod" previously in the Wikia community, where he got himself permanently globally blocked after 3 months of constant relentless completely unreasonable trolling, edit-warring, harrassment, long extremely vulgar homophobic slur insult tirades, sockpuppetry (HagoromoOtsutsuki, OfficialRikudouSennin, likely others), widespread lying plagiarism of a previously created community (the Outskirts Battle Dome), etcetera, and he has a massive fixation for both the character Beyonder and the term Omniverse, and almost consistently calls himself an almighty God who lives in heaven in his various handles. Most of his more severe stuff, including a written guide in how to successfully troll people, was deleted by Wikia staff, but here is an example of his usual fare towards my other handle name: http://definithing.com/100284/antvasima/ To me, it is fairly obvious that all of these handles seem to be the same person, but he hasn't yet performed his usual infamous behaviour here, beyond the misinformation-mongering, creating nonsense articles or writing minor threats. David A ( talk) 18:39, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
In an effort to provide more elaborate information about the background to this:
"BeyonderGod"/"HagoromoOtsutsuki"/"OfficialRikudouSennin"/likely otherswas first banned from several wikis that he has participated on for systematic multi-wiki trolling vandalism, harrassment, and continuously insulting unreasonability.
He was permanently globally blocked by wikia staff for several months of the above across several wikis, as well as plagiarising the original Outskirts Battle Dome wiki name and widespread systematic lying about his ownership across several communities (his wiki was deleted when the real owners complained), long disgusting homophobic slur texts inserted as insults on other people's user pages, singlehandedly edit-warring to extremes with entire wikia communities, and a written guide in how to successfully troll people, and another about the people who get emotionally hurt and/or exhausted from his absolutely relentless neverending trolling, whom he consistently call "butthurt", naming me by name.
In addition, he has already created various power listing wikis, and they continuously kept a very lacklustre quality with lots of apparently deliberate inaccurate information strictly to troll fans of different franchises.
After his global block, he has continued to spam several communities, including ComicVine, Spacebattles, Killermovies, and even Deviantart. Constantly spamming about the Beyonder and systematically slamming other franchises to cause hurt feelings for their fans over a few thousands of separate posts.
List of his trolling and harrassment on the Powerlisting wiki alone, back in mid-September, with lots more to follow in the 3 months since: http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Antvasima#List_of_BeyonderGod.27s_trolling
He admits to doing lots of trolling vandalism to "get rid of competition": http://factpile.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:BeyonderGod/Admin_ship
His usual trolling homophobic slur insults, and comments about me being a "butthurt" systematic victim of his trolling (due to my severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is extremely taxing for me in the long run): http://definithing.com/antvasima/ https://imgflip.com/i/dio9g
Here he ignores the global Wikia ban with several of his school network's auto-generated ip addresses to systematically troll and harrass me again: http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/152.26.230.108 http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/172.56.5.190 http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/152.26.228.91 http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/152.26.228.85 http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/172.56.4.140 http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/176.50.191.153 http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/152.26.230.115 http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/152.26.230.114
He has also created various nonsense-pages on Wikipedia, which were deleted.
Given all of the above, I would greatly appreciate if some members of the Anime and Manga Wikipedia community could please attempt to mediate on this page, as I am very mentally exhausted from having to constantly deal with him for over 5 months, and do not wish for this to drag on for another half a year or more.
To put a stop to this, in an attempt to compromise, I have attempted to accommodate him on the Beyonder article by letting his last edit stand with simply attempting to fix the grammatical structure.
However, there is a conflict remaining on thw following anime-related talk page. I would greatly appreciate if somebody fair-minded, reasonable, and objective could step in and find a final solutoon to the problem, perhaps preferably an administrator. Since he objects to the term "omnipotent", perhaps it could simply be removed from being used in the article, and let the rest stand? /info/en/?search=Talk:List_of_Tenchi_Muyo!_characters
Thank you very much for any help to resolve this matter. David A ( talk) 09:59, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
I know its a faniste but it seems to have legit interviews with DC comic book writers [44] so can it be used as a source? Dwanyewest ( talk) 04:18, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Just FYI, Category:Villains with own comic book title was created a few months ago. 129.33.19.254 ( talk) 14:55, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
I have boldly removed [45] "Bad girl art" and "Good girl art" as comics genres.
The articles, Bad girl art and Good girl art, have a lot of OR and/or synth. I think if these are to be restored as "genres," there needs to be more sources discussing them as genres.
-- Lightbreather ( talk) 20:09, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
This is an neutral notice for interested editors re: Murray Boltinoff. Should the article include cited mentions of Boltinoff having a faulty memory? I do not dispute the citations themselves or their reliability. I wonder about the necessity of mentioning the problem itself. Poor memory is a common occurrence. Is it of encyclopedic note? Would we make note of someone being bald or wearing glasses? It seems rather close to WP:NOTSCANDAL and WP:NOTGOSSIP. Please comment at Talk:Murray Boltinoff. Mtminchi08 ( talk) 21:36, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Talk of commenting on whether or not it should be Hal Jordan or Green Lantern in the infobox 24.38.188.96 ( talk) 16:24, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Silent Hill (comics) has a reception section where Atop The Fourth Wall is cited as a reference. I haven't spent a lot of time with the comics section of Wikipedia, but I'm guessing he wouldn't be considered a valid review source. It also says that it's been "widely panned", but provides no evidence except for two reviews, and it's also written in a way that mentions the reviews but looks like POV. I would have gotten rid of it, but I thought I'd check here first. I'm mainly curious about the Atop the Fourth Wall as a source thing. SonOfPlisskin ( talk) 18:43, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
The previous sections were inappropriate, and I apologise. Again, as per Wikipedia praxis, I would like to request help with outside conflict resolution from the related Wikiproject on the following Talk page, as discussion did not reach a solution. My apologies for being a bother, but help to find a consensus would be very appreciated: /info/en/?search=Talk:Beyonder David A ( talk) 08:06, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Initially, the Lady Liberators were a single-issue joke in The Avengers. Basically, the Enchantress pretends to be a female liberator, and creates a team of female superheroes with mind-manipulation stuff (all so that Roy Thomas could voice his rejection of feminism, saying through Goliath that "You birds finally learned your lesson about that women's lib bull!"). If it had been just that, probably it wouldn't deserve an article; but the team was recreated some years ago at the Hulk comic book (this time, as an actual superhero team, even if without their own comic book).
However, I have noticed that the members of that initial team (Medusa, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, and Wasp) all mention the Lady Liberators in their "Team affiliations" entry of the superhero infobox. I have no problem with listing it for the members of the current team since its recreation, but should we list it for the characters who have only been part of it during that joke issue? Cambalachero ( talk) 17:05, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
The article for the Columbia Comics character The Face is extremely short and underdeveloped and there is so much information missing from the article, the character's publication history and fictional character biography are severely underdeveloped and more information should be added to them. Also it does not have enough citations that show the article's notability, if anyone is able to work on these issues (I have contributed to some portions of the article) we can bring this article up top its full potential.-- Paleface Jack ( talk) 18:43, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Maybe it's just me, but does anyone ever notice that the personality of most comics characters is at best weakly discussed in most articles? Granted, with some of the older characters, who have been through multiple writers and variations, there might not be that much by way of consistent character to discuss, but it also seems to at least me anyway that just describing what characters in various stories do without providing the sometimes personality-based rationales for their actions makes it harder to follow and understand the character history in at least some cases. Maybe the standard "powers and abilities" section could be expanded a little to cover any particularly notable and unique personality characteristics of the characters? John Carter ( talk) 19:40, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Seems there's some confusion about what this character's first appearance is. One part of the article Pitt (comics) says it's Youngblood #4; another says Pitt #1; still another, Spawn #1. And before I edited it, the article also cited an issue of Gen 13 as Pitt's first appearance. I don't know enough about Pitt to say which of these is his true first appearance (except that the issue of Gen 13 is clearly wrong, since it was published years after Pitt got his own series), so can someone edit this article to make it consistent on the matter?-- NukeofEarl ( talk) 18:47, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Can someone help me out with a dead Newsarama link? This citation in the Jupiter's Legacy article is dead, and I can't find a replacement to support the material in question, which is important. I tried using the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine, and although I think I used it correctly, I couldn't find an archived link. Anyone? Nightscream ( talk) 14:10, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
Just a heads up that a user is going through several Marvel comics pages and removing third party sources from the intros. They usually involve removing appearances of the subjects in third party lists of "Best" characters, etc. (such as IGN, Wizard (magazine), and Comic Book Resources) with the argument being that a "geek journalist's opinion" is either "not relevant" or "not insightful". I've reached out on the talk page for one of the recent changes ( Cyclops (comics)) to see if the issue of WP:Notability and WP:INUNIVERSE can be reached with this editor, but I've also been informed that this is a reoccurring issue on other pages such as Galactus, Charles Xavier, and Magneto (comics). Keep your eyes peeled if you see similar edits and try to reach out to the editor. If it continues to be a problem, or edit warring begins again, we may need to escalate it appropriately. Luminum ( talk) 04:56, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
There is a bit of a controversy over recent repetitive deletions of references at the Galactus article. I would appreciate if other, more experienced editors could visit the Talk page to contribute with their take on the problem. Thank you. David A ( talk) 06:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Special:LinkSearch/http://comics.ign.com/top-100-villains/ shows a lot of links which have died. http://www.ign.com/top/comic-book-villains/ links to the same dead pages so I don't know whether it's temporary or permanent, but it appears from https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://comics.ign.com/top-100-villains/1.html that the links may have been dead for a long time. The pages can currently be found at http://www.ign.com/top/comic-book-villains/X.html where X is a number, e.g. http://www.ign.com/top/comic-book-villains/1.html. Maybe it's suited for Wikipedia:Bot requests but I don't work on comics or bots and just wanted to inform you. Many other url's at http://comics.ign.com are redirecting to a replacement page at http://www.ign.com, but not the top 100 villains. PrimeHunter ( talk) 01:30, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
There is an RFC at WT:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Capitalization of universe that the members of this project need to be aware of. The RFC itself is really related to astronomy articles... and according to this sub-thread the proposed change not intended to impact comics article like Marvel Universe or DC Universe.
Yet, from my experience, sooner or later some well intended (but over zealous) editor is going to misunderstand that intent... and will try to "conform" all the comics articles to a lower case "universe" (because "that's what the MOS says"). I am leaving this note so that editors who work on comics will know what the intent actually is/was... and can link to the relevant discussion when the inevitable happens. Blueboar ( talk) 22:36, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Is this a reliable source for confirming this role? 2601:D:B480:ED2:B1FE:426A:B8FA:EA58 ( talk) 04:43, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
It's going down on Talk:Deathstroke. Zythe ( talk) 09:56, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Correctingsection0062 appears to be replacing a reliable source with a questionable one, and claims that "Sources are not accessible and they are antiquated." diff. Thoughts? 2601:D:B482:DD00:C03E:CA5:CC3:7768 ( talk) 03:47, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, since there's nowhere to discuss this but in here I would like to address some of my points that was given. First of all, I would like to state why I deleted the previous link. The link was an offline source which is fine, but it had absolutely nothing to the point given. Secondly, I would now address the whole situation. If you go to Black Cat's talk page there was this user named "Mike Castle" who saw this mistake and discussed it. Me being a long time comic fan I looked at the erroneous mistake which stated that Black Cat was a thief, cat burglar, and had an on-off relationshipship with Batman prior to Catwoman doing the same. This is wrong and that's why I came to fix this. I know that Frank Miller changed the character a bit, but Catwoman was still a thief, cat burgular, and had an on-off relationshipship with Batman prior to Black Cat's existence and Miller's alterations. But the wikipedia article states the opposite which I want to correct. I added two valuable sources that really contributed to the reality. All the aspects that Black Cat has in the comics, Catwoman had first except for the black cat suit which I pointed out on my reverted page. I don't wanna commence an altercation but I honestly thought people knew about this. In the end the fact here is that Catwoman was a thief, a cat burgular, and had an on-off relationship with Batman before Black Cat had these aspects and that's why Marv Wolfman was asked about it. In that case the last line of that paragraph contradicts the mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Correctingsection0062 ( talk • contribs) 18:34, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Oh and by the way you should take a look at these old comic images within this article. [1] Those images not only show that she was a thief but that she also had that on-off relationship with Batman. Also, those comic images were way before Black Cat made her first apperance. That link is another valuable source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Correctingsection0062 ( talk • contribs) 18:53, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
The changes made were simply not correct and your sources clearly show the original Catwoman was a pickpocket in a dress. Unlike Black Cat and Spider-man, who actually were involved romantically, Catwoman was rebuffed romantically. The modern version of Selina Kyle in skintight black, climbing from buildings with cables, a gymnast of olympic degree, and romantically involved with Batman, did not remotely come to comics until the 80s, almost 10 years after the Black Cat appeared. THIS IS A FACT. Please show any images predating the Black Cat's appearance that show Catwoman wearing a skintight, low cut BLACK outfit, scaling buildings and ACTUALLY dating Batman please before you add erroneous information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.97.244.53 ( talk) 21:10, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
You have no facts here, simply a fan's opinion. Make it simple- show a picture of Catwoman the year Black Cat came out. Show a picture of her now. The character design of Black Cat proceeded Catwoman by 9 years. THIS IS A FACT. Simply liking Catwoman does not erase this. Nowhere in the comics until Frank Miller's Year One, was Catwoman presented in a skin tight black catsuit, showing significant cleavage, scaling buildings and in a relationship with Batman. Yes, she pined for Batman but again, Black Cat was actually in a relationship with Spider-man. Please escalate this if you want. Catwoman was a supervillian who drove a "CatCar". She had trained circus lions and tigers. She wore a dress and took part in pick pockets and bang robberies. — Preceding
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Just wanted to bring this to everyone's attention of a user who's been editing several Marvel movie pages with his own fan fiction and made up characters. his ID is 24.228.215.91 and he's basicly made up his own superheros and listed himself in the credits. Metropod ( talk) 07:05, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
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Wanted to get some opinions from everyone on what should be done with this info. The brand (imprint, marketing, whatever you want to call it) is ending in June, but the continuity established in Sep 2011 is still continuing (somewhat in some titles). I've already created a mock up of listing the publications, much like the current List of The New 52 publications, here but should we continue adding info to The New 52? Should a new article be created, or maybe just add info at DC Universe? Thanks for the opinions. - Favre1fan93 ( talk) 21:13, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
There is conflict at Quicksilver (comics) with an IP user insisting on adding "Toys and games" to the "In other media" section. Besides the fact that toys do not fit the definition of media: "Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information," the material is unreferenced. This all smacks of WP:INDISCRIMINATE as well. There is no way we can list every toy or game that has ever been manufactured for these characters. Thank you for input.-- TriiipleThreat ( talk) 17:54, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
TriiipleThreat, you are correct in that toys and video games would not be considered media. They are considered merchandise. As with other comic book character articles, we can say that "Superhero X has appeared in Comic Book Company Y-related media and merchandise." The addition of toys, video games, and all the other numerous merchandise in which the character has made appearances is too cumbersome for the reader. JosephSpiral ( talk) 00:26, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Another user keeps making very badly spelled edits to his favorite character page. However, I have had problems with him here and outside Wikipedia for over 6 months by now, so I don't have the energy to deal with him anymore. It just isn't worth it. David A ( talk) 15:14, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
I have a very minor proposal at Captain America's talk page. It's been a while since I first posted, I haven't gotten a response and it is a small thing. I suppose I am trying to draw attention to it. Respond there if you are going to. DangerousJXD ( talk) 23:20, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
There is currently a debate about which image should be used for the character box for the Spider-Man article. Please post your opinions on the talk page so this can be resolved. If there is a Wikipedia policy regulating this stuff that would be very helpful. Thank you! Spidey 104 20:11, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Does anyone have a copy of The Comics Journal #203? I'd like to see if there's anything in Bob Levin's article in that issue "Rice, Beans and Justin Greens" that would be worth working into the Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary article. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 03:32, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
I've nominated the article for the Canadian artist Laurence Hyde's wordless novel, Southern Cross (wordless novel), as a Featured Article Candidate. Please contribute to the review here. Thanks! Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 12:03, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
There seems to be a lot of original research in the Fictional mass murderers category. For example, for comics characters alone, we have Galactus, Jean Grey, and dozens of others (I can make a list if you need). What criteria are we using to determine which characters belong in that category? 50.141.204.194 ( talk) 18:41, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Stone (Marvel Comics)#Recent split of content. A WP:Permalink for the matter is here. Flyer22 ( talk) 07:53, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Artist Francis Tsai passed away yesterday. 65.126.152.254 ( talk) 15:10, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
The "Fictional character biography" section in the Professor X article is extremely lengthy and overly detailed. This section alone is longer than the rest of the page combined. It would be helpful if someone can take the time and edit it to make it concise. I want to thank, ahead of time, whoever can complete this task. JosephSpiral ( talk) 03:56, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I wrote the article Tarpe Mills on french wikipedia. I don't understand why his name is spelled Tarpé on en:WP. On Lambiek and the book Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas by M. Keith Booker it's written Tarpe. Someone could explain this choice ? Thank you, -- Olivier tanguy ( talk) 22:23, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
Jhenderson777 and I recently created a new article: List of Spider-Man storylines. It needs to be reviewed by someone who is not the creator and extra eyes on it to see if there are mistakes we missed would be good too. Thank you for your help! Spidey 104 13:17, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
For years, as far as I know, we have been using "Superhero X is a fictional character" in the lead sections of character articles. I am not sure why, but JosephSpiral has been removing the word "character" from a bunch of articles. Do we want to make sure the lead clearly says "fictional character", or not? 2601:D:B480:ED2:2D34:DE1D:A688:317A ( talk) 22:30, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
As Curly Turkey pointed out, "Superhero X is a fictional superhero" means the same thing. "Superhero" is a noun, and therefore, a noun such as "character" should not follow it. One or the other should be used, and using "superhero" is more specific and sounds better. Thanks for bringing this point up, 2601:D:B480:ED2:2D34:DE1D:A688:317A ( talk). JosephSpiral ( talk) 23:59, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
The words "superhero" or "supervillain" should be used after the word "fictional" when it is about a superhero or supervillain. Hence, "Captain America is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics." However, when it is not for a superhero or supervillain, then "character" works fine. This is for characters such as Aunt May and Alfred Pennyworth. The word "antihero" can also be used if the character is a defined antihero, such as Deadpool. When using the words "fictional" or "character," neither should be linked, as this is overlinking. See articles on Shakespearean characters, as they do not link those words. Keep in mind that Wikipedia articles are dynamic and always changing. If a character was once a supervillain but is now a superhero, it should say that they are a superhero. Furthermore, this format of "(X) is a fictional (A, B, C, etc.) appearing in American comic books published by (Y Comics)" can be used not only for characters, but also comic book teams, locations, weapons, corporations, etc. JosephSpiral ( talk) 00:57, 28 April 2015 (UTC)