User talk:J Greb/Archive Mar 2009

Meta series infobox

Yeah that looks great. My only comments would be the examples:

Annihilation may still be best covered by the storyline box and a clearer example there would be Sin City, although they are all self-contained, unlike Annihilation: Conquest which does crossover into the ongoing Nova series but the two are so similar it might not be worth trying to differentiate between them (also War of Kings which is mainly stand alone series but does also crossover into an ongoing). That said perhaps it doesn't matte as the infobox is somewhere between a storyline and title box.

It might also be worth making the distinction between series published in anthologies (like Rogue Trooper, Judge Dredd and most 2000 AD articles - although the character/team infobox often covers them in some cases nothing much fits other than jamming in a comic book title which doesn't really fit, like Kingdom (comics) or The Red Seas or Stone Island (2000AD)) and those that have been published in a variety of formats as they moved companies (like V for Vendetta and Lost Girls - I remember I got in a disagreement with an editor over what the latter would be classed as because it started in an anthology and was eventually finished in a graphic novel - this is the only kind of infobox that can properly reflect the nature of the publication. Not sure why Alan Moore seems to do this but the same description goes for The Bojeffries Saga). With that in mind it might also be worth having another format field to cover when it has appeared as a story in an anthology (it can just be "anthology" if you like) - I'd try and avoid using "strip" as it can cause confusion with comic strip (the example I use is Judge Dredd which has appeared as a story in an anthology, as a comic book when they aimed for the US market and as a comic strip in the Daily Star). Might be worth also adding "graphic novel" too as looking at Sin City it appears to have also had at least one (as an aside I see there are individual articles for the "yarns" using {{SinCityComic}}, e.g. The Hard Goodbye, which seems like A Bad Idea. Looking them over the comic book title and graphic novel infoboxes will cover them not sure about the trade collecting the one-shots - once we get the meta-series infobox live I'll take a run at those articles).

Anyway nothing much (more musings) seems good and ready to go live (with the possible addiiton of a couple of other fields). (Emperor (talk) 20:38, 21 February 2009 (UTC))

The more I think about it, the more I agree that the "component event" minis (Annihilation, Annihilation: Conquest, War of the Kings, etc) are better served with the story arc 'box. The only rub is that the arc shares the title with one of the magazines. A minor thing, but still something someone is bound to focus on. (As a slight aside, I'm also wondering if we can expand and refine the infobox image guide lines. I really think it would be better for the arc 'box to only use covers as published.)

Sin City is probably a better paring with Locke & Key for the "series through minis" examples. And I had though that the "chapters", if they need separate articles, can use the titles 'box. Or the GN for the stand along GNs.

The strips are a slight hedge for me since I've got a rough, basic understanding about the British and European comics. I was looking at this as useful for the articles that give an overview of the strip, regardless of whether it jumped anthology series or publisher. It sounds like some of the ones you're pointing out would fit this. Judge Dread is one that I keep coming back to that wouldn't use this - The material splits well between the character article and story arc articles. And then there are cases like Tintin where the base article could use the meta 'box even though each of the stories are currently covered by the GN 'box.

I'm curious though... which fields are you thing need to be added?

- J Greb (talk) 21:56, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

On your points:

• That is a thought - most of the big "events" are a core eponymous limited series with tie-ins from standalone mini-series, some one-shots and crossovers into ongoing series. If anyone does object then they are welcome to use the new box (which does seem to be a combination of title and storyline boxes) but I wouldn't change them automatically, if only because it'll be quite a bit of work for marginal gain (although it'd be worth looking at new articles and seeing what would fit best).
• The extra format fields I'd add are "graphic novel" and either "story" or "anthology" to cover those meta series which also include graphic novels (I've seen a few) and where it is a series of stories in an anthology (I don't know of any that are also told in comic strips, the example I give for Judge Dredd can be considered as an "Other media" entry as they are sometimes existing stories reworked for the format or expanded or just rewritten). I am leaning towards "anthology" as it is less ambiguous - the description can be something like "for one story in an anthology"
• Sin City was certainly an example I had in mind when we first discusses this and is one that throws in a graphic novel - it is also pretty high profile and pretty clear-cut, which makes it a good example. When this template goes live I'll also look into updating the sub-articles and we can look into a TfD for the Sin City template.
• I am not sure if I understand the "individual" field - if I understand wouldn't this be covered by storyline or is this for some of the examples which have their own limited series but also crossover into ongoing series? If so perhaps "ongoing" might work. Or I've misunderstood.

Anyway I've had a read through the documentation and other than the two suggested fields ("graphicnovel" and "anthology") and the one I don't quite understand ("individual") it seems pretty much good to go - we can use Sin City as an example perhaps, or Locke & Key, which is more off-the-beaten-track. (Emperor (talk) 20:50, 22 February 2009 (UTC))

Also another comic book template: {{Infobox SW Comics}} - the examples I've seen (from Dark Empire, which is a good candidate for the meta-series infobox, and beyond) would be better served with conventional infobox. (Emperor (talk) 20:50, 22 February 2009 (UTC))

graphicnovel seems a straight forward add on. And it took me a few to understand where you were coming from with anthology . That actually makes a fair amount of sense, even though it will take a little tweaking to the "Formats" label. It shouldn't change it to throw:

Original material for the series has been published as

a strip in the anthology comics magazines <foo>,

limited series, one shot comics, and

graphic novels.

And anthology would then wind up replacing ongoing.

individual is specific to the "themed" configuration. Essentially it's for things like "Face of Evil", situations where the publisher has promoted an event where the issues aren't linked by a story line, but by a theme.

The thing with the examples is that I like to have 2 examples of the particular situations, it seems more balanced that way. So I'd stick both Sin City and Locke & Key in.

I'd have to take another look at the Star Wars comics 'boxes. Originally, I'd intended to redirect both {{SinCityComic}} and {{Infobox SW Comics}} to {{Infobox comic book title}} (User:J Greb#Comics Project infobox "to do list"). Part of the hold up is that, at least with the SW one, there looked to be "added stuff" to deal with and I was waiting until I could update the comics title docs (cyclic thinking here...) and could see how to work the specialty bobs in.

Oh... on a related note... {{Infobox comics story arc}} has been tweaked a little to allow:

• Autocompleating "Year in comics" links in the 'box
• Genre lists in the 'box
• Auto adding genre cats
• Auto adding "Year in comics" cat if event = y is set... I've got to add that one into the docs since it looks like it should hit a lot of the things like "Crisis" or "Atlantis Attacks"
• A hidden maintenance cat for tracking the, mostly Buffy, single issue indexes.

- J Greb (talk) 21:27, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

OK I added it to Sin City as it seems to have plenty to test it on - it started in an anthology, appeared in a number of limited series, one-shots and one graphic novel. See what you think. If things seem to be fine I'll add a few more and take it from there.

The only thing I'd change at the moment is the text for anthology: "a story in the comics anthology <foo" - comics magazine is a term that has a lot of headaches as it means different things to different people in different countries. (Emperor (talk) 04:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC))

Looks good. - J Greb (talk) 04:25, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

OK great. I'll roll out some more tomorrow, Seven Soldiers seems an obvious one ,(I also recently noticed a lot of Franco-Belgian comics are without infoboxes so I'll throw in a couple and drop a note into the European work group) which should prove handy as examples.

I'll also have a crack at the Sin City articles and switch them to more standard infoboxes. (Emperor (talk) 05:37, 1 March 2009 (UTC))

OK I have scattered a few around and it is working nicely. Should individuals be showing up with some explanation? See: Faces of Evil. Other than that it seems to be working really well and is certainly helping cover areas we've not had an infobox for (as well as providing better fits for). I'll throw a few at the Franco-Belgian articles. (Emperor (talk) 20:34, 1 March 2009 (UTC))

<nod>

The issue with "Faces" is that it's a thematic set, not a story arc/series. Added the tag ant it's working.

I also added ongoing back in based on the JK4W. The material there is from ongoing series, not minis.

- J Greb (talk) 20:39, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Ah yes good points. (Emperor (talk) 01:08, 2 March 2009 (UTC))

I've now run through the Sin City articles and added/changed the infoboxes so there is is nothing currently using {{SinCityComic}} so you can do whatever you had planned for its ultimate fate (the exception is The Hard Goodbye which has just been redirected to the list of yarns but I suspect will ultimately get unredirected, or perhaps it should be as it is important - it might just need in-universe and plot template tags) - I've also added some sections, leads and a few details (two were Eisner Award winners but you wouldn't have know that looking at them - I assume most have got other awards and nominations but someone else can dig through those) where I have them to hand, so they don't look quite so bad (some of the have been around for three or four years failing as articles on all sorts of fronts).

I've also scattered a few more metaseries infoboxes around (Marvel Zombies (series) and a couple of Franco-Belgian comic series) and it seems to be working fine. I'll it in a few places (like the talk page of the 2000 AD article and the European work-group) but do you also want to drop a note in at WT:CMC? It might not get used on tens of thousands of articles (like the comic book and comic character ones) but it I'm sure other people will find it useful as it does solve problems and provides a useful infobox in some some areas where none fitted at all. (Emperor (talk) 01:48, 3 March 2009 (UTC))

I've been taking a look... and it looks good (Marvel Zombies is a pain though... story arcs from the Ultimate FF...)

"The Hard Goodbye" may be best to un-redirect, tag, and point out on the Project talk page. At least that way it won't come back to a red linked infobox template (SinCityComic is deletable now since it isn't really linked to anything other than "in passing" mentions here).

And I agree, while the British and European work groups would be the heavy users, the general participants in the Project should be given a heads up.

- J Greb (talk) 02:06, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

I've had a dig around looking for Sin City awards and The Hard Goodbye has won 3 Eisners and got twice as many nominations so tomorrow I'll remove the redirect, change the infobox, add in the awards and tag the problems. (Emperor (talk) 03:58, 3 March 2009 (UTC))

I've redone The Hard Goodbye - the plot is scary but not a reason to remove the article itself. None of the Sin City articles are great (which is a pity as there must be some good sources out there) but its a start. (Emperor (talk) 15:14, 3 March 2009 (UTC))

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Prog

Indeed. "prog" is used instead of issue number but the end-of-year specials (what replaced the Annuals, although they are a different beast acting as a spring-board for the new stories starting in the New Year - a convenient jumping on point for new readers) are named after the upcoming year (like an annual) e.g. Prog 2000 (released in December 1999), etc. So it is continuous with the actual issues, for example from 1999-2000 you get #1173, Prog 2000 and then #1174. So The Red Seas "Idol of the Gods" had part one in Prog 2003 and part 2 in #1371 and so on.

And no I have no idea what they'll do in 400ish issues when they will publish prog 2000, when they published Prog 2000 a decade before. That said they dodged the Y2K problem of the name too ;)

I will keep an eye open and try and avoid confusion (I explicitly don't refer to the issues as progs, reserving that for the end-of-year specials where there is no wiggle room. (Emperor (talk) 23:21, 3 March 2009 (UTC))

War comics

At War is Hell (comics) I not only stumbled across {{Comics}} but also these: Category: World War I comics and Category: World War II comics. I'll go an make them children of Category: War comics (and now I think of it possibly Category: Historical comics? As they are real wars) but I thought I'd let you know in case you wanted to add them to the comic title infobox. Also if we are going to do this, do you think we should start "Category: Military science fiction comics" as a child of the science fiction and war comics cats and Category:Military science fiction? It should be easy enough to fill that one through tweaking the infobox (I'll also add Category:Warhammer 40,000 comics as a child of it). (Emperor (talk) 15:56, 28 February 2009 (UTC))

Looking at the WWI and WWII sub-cats...

• The WWI should move to Category:World War I fiction not the "media" it's currently under.
• Based on the (sparse) contents, I'd be tempted to rename them World War I in comics and World War II in comics since it looks like they are collecting more that just the titles.
• I agree they should be subs of War comics'. The Historical one looks good based on the cat's current contents.

I've already got {{Infobox Comic}} (Comics redirects there) on the "to do" list.

As for Category:Military science fiction comics... it's got it's pros and cons. It is as easy to code as the "Military science fiction" that shows up in the infoboxes. But it may run into a conflict with anthology books. The coding wouldn't differentiate between a series that ran only military sci-fi strips and one that ran strips where some were war and other were sci-fi.

- J Greb (talk) 16:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

On your points:

• I agree
• Makes sense with the precedence of zombies and vampire sub-sections
• OK - from my knowledge of the field most do classify as "historical" (I can't currently think of anything that doesn't apply but if it got too fantastical it might not apply to this anyway because by its nature it would be historical).

Yes I noticed the military + science fiction issue. I suppose the solution might be to keep some things broad (like set 2000 AD (comics) to science fiction and possibly fantasy and then perhaps add others into the end (like war and horror but it also has action adventure, historical and Steampunk so it might be better to leave to broad and then tag the stories individually). As it is currently generating military sci-fi it might as well generate military sci-fi comics as a category. (Emperor (talk) 21:47, 28 February 2009 (UTC))

The "Historical" issue I'm seeing is coming from things like Category:Wuxia comics (Fantasy is a component of the genre), Albedo Anthropomorphics and Maus (critters standing in for people), and some of the manhwa titles (Fantasy again). Personally, as long as the period is used for flavor and the actual flow of historical events isn't changed, I've got no real problem with dropping a lot of things in there.

And 2000 AD was the one I was coming up short on. I wasn't sure if the "war" and "sci-fi" genres there were covering the same strips or not. I agree though, the magazine should be classified by the bulk of it's contents (sci-fi in this case IIUC) with the strips getting the specifics.

- J Greb (talk) 21:58, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Agreed.

If things get too far from the historical path with war comics then they become alternative history and start falling out of the historical category (as it would be a different war). Usually things are played pretty straight down the line. The main way folks mix it up is with a dash of Horror and that doesn't usually break it out of the historical mode (as it helps to ground the horror in reality). Obviously there might be exceptions but I can't think of any at the moment.

Yes. Something like sci-fi and action/adventure will cover most bases. (Emperor (talk) 01:24, 2 March 2009 (UTC))

Thanks for the military sci-fi cat - I'll let changes propagate and then check things through (and add some more). (Emperor (talk) 18:02, 5 March 2009 (UTC))

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Rorschach

Every other Watchmen character article has been changed to a revert to the Characters of Watchmen article; it isn't really fair Rorschach is the only one that gets to stay. HalfShadow 03:15, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Eh, even so, it still doesn't seem fair though. I have no interest in edit-warring about it or pushing the subject or anything, it just seemed weird to me that all the other characters were reverted to redirects but him. I posted my topic here before I saw the reply at 'his' page. HalfShadow 03:35, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deleted page

A page I made for the 2005 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament was speedily deleted because it apparently didn't have enough content. However, it had no less content than the pages for the tournaments from 2006 and 2007, and the content that the other tournaments contained could have been placed if I had been given the opportunity. Why was only this page deleted?

Also, I was away at the time the tag was placed and did not have time to contest the speedy deletion. KJS77 23:39, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I guess I was just asking for more of a personal opinion on why it might have happened than an exact reason. KJS77 23:50, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I'll work on adding more content to all of the pages as well as the one I created. KJS77 00:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

National comics infobox

Superb. I was only just pondering this and it is clearly going to be handy. Now where to start? (Emperor (talk) 22:32, 14 March 2009 (UTC))

Joe Orlando images

Thanks for returning the Watchmen illustration to its proper place. I do disagree mildly though on the resizing of both it and the MAD illustration - I'd tried to resize them fairly deliberately so that they were both appreciable and so that the placement of pictures and text didn't go all funny (technical term, that). Any strong objections/guidelines preventing me from re-enlargening them a bit...? ntnon (talk) 01:07, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Roughly?

Wikipedia:Image use policy#Displayed image size and Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Images

The upshot is that the spot images should only override the default (180px or a logged in user's override) in exceptional cases. Even then it becomes a question of if the spot is the lead image (the 300 max mentioned) or not.

Personally, I tend to think of the infobox images as the "Lead image" for the articles, and those should hold the "max" for an article. In most of the comics, that's 250. In the bios it's 225. I'd cap out most of the "complex/high detail needed" images for those at 225 and 200 respectively. For cases like Orlando, the ability for a reader to click on the image and get a larger version pretty much negates the need to over-size the spots.

That being said, I can see an argument being made to pull them up to the 215-225 size, but not beyond.

- J Greb (talk) 02:26, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Dead Wrong (comics)

Hey, thanks for uploading that image - it was brilliant! I'm working on the article. -- A ^talk/_contribs 17:34, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

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Request

Hmm, I was unable to move The Invisible Man (1933 film) back to The Invisible Man (film). The editor who performed the move didn't give leave an explanation in the edit summary. Can you fix it? Please reply on your talk page, Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 23:27, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

J Greb, did you already look into this? Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 16:42, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

I can move it but first it might be worth flagging there are 4-5 foreign films whose names also translate as The Invisible Man and there is an upcoming The Invisible Man aimed for 2010.[1] However, this is by far the most notable film and the disambiguation page and film-adaptation section for the story cover all the notable ones, so I don't see a problem with moving this back and leaving the door open for a future move if need be. I notice the editor who moved this has got warnings for unwise moves and if there is a desire to move this then it can always be opened for debate. (Emperor (talk) 16:52, 21 March 2009 (UTC))

(ec)

Sorry... other things took precedent... and I see what you mean.

Emperor...

The upcoming film is a wee bit of crystal balling since the 2010 film doesn't, as of yet, have an article.

As for the non-English films... I only see the Japanese one, and it's listed under it's romanized title. There is a redirect, Invisible Man (1954 film), to it, but I don't think it's good practice to dab an article based on a redirect.

Also, the editor that made the move... ho-boy... take a look at their talk page, contribs, and logs. Not the best advocate for this having been a proper move.

- J Greb (talk) 17:00, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Double check

I updated the infobox at The Authority and it seems to be generating some "empty" characters towards the top and I suspect I've missed some vital field. Thanks in advance. (Emperor (talk) 02:50, 18 March 2009 (UTC))

hrm...

Well...

debuthead triggers the template to look for a second heading.

Commenting out title places the pagename into the series header.

Other than that, it looks good.

- J Greb (talk) 03:09, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Great thanks. Looks like I was a little overzealous.

So is there any reason you can see that I can't do the same switch at Justice League? (Emperor (talk) 03:34, 18 March 2009 (UTC))

No technical ones... but Justice League is like Teen Titans, and Avengers (comics) - high profile w/ touchy watchdogs. The 'box change, which for JL and TT would include removals of 2ndary 'boxes, on those may ruffle some feathers.

And with the JL and TT, the secondary image for the 'box should be used.

- J Greb (talk) 11:04, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Right then. I'll take a run at Justice League (it is the most obvious one and needs this). Or do you think we should update a few more lower profile ones so we can point to them as examples? For example Defenders (comics) has always been one that niggled me - the infoboxes have been reduced (there were so many they were stacking and out of alignment) and there are have been three Defenders titles and at least one New Defenders. (Emperor (talk) 14:42, 20 March 2009 (UTC))

Either route is just as good... though the "small fry" may be more appealing since it's less likely to attract "YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" reverts and would give a group of examples to point to. - J Greb (talk) 18:28, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

I just updated Justice League International and JLA (comic book) has been split off (crunching down the infoboxes also means we can switch the JLA image to the main article infobox) and I think most of the other Justice League spin-offs are properly infoxed, except for Justice League Elite, which needs the team/title box. I'll update it and then can't see any reason not to update the main one. We'll just have to play it by ear. (Emperor (talk) 01:35, 21 March 2009 (UTC))

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Infobox options

On your two points:

• Yes when I was sketching out the years in comics categories that was what I had in mind. However, at the back of my mind I wasn't closing the door on something like "2008 storyline debuts" - I was just unsure how much need there would be for them/ Looking over Category:2008 in comics it looks like there is enough there to sustain a category. I'd need to check through some more (and the articles as I ran through some of those 2008 ones to find they are wrongly categorised titles) but this could be an option for recent years. The numbers will only increase because, as articles are expanded important titles and storylines are split off to their own articles. Something to bear in mind anyway.

• I think it might be best to set up something where you can enter "genre=Buffy" which displays something like "Action/Adventure, Horror" as genres but spits out "Buffy comics" as the category and then make sure that cat is under the relevant genres. I was thinking the same about the Warhammer 40k comics as they are all military sci-fi and so adding them to the Warhammer 40k comics cat and military sci-fi is largely redundant. This will only apply to a few franchise based on other media but there are also the comics franchises, like Superman, Batman, X-Men where it makes sense to have something like Category:Superman titles under {{:Category:Superhero comics]] and not categorise the article (ditto Sin City and crime comics). I can only think of a about a dozen (or two) such franchises so it shouldn't be an issue making a list - I could get the main ones together pretty quickly.

Hope that helps - if anything else occurs to me I'll drop it in. (Emperor (talk) 18:49, 21 March 2009 (UTC))

Good stuff. It strikes me that a lot of the other (non-superhero) franchises wouldn't have many story arc articles (for example Warhammer 40k articles are on the titles, as are most of the Trek ones I can think of) - the main ones that need this tend to create excessive numbers of articles like Buffy and Star Wars. However, the general principles are applicable to the comic book titles where this will have broader applications.

Do we have any examples I can look at off this at work? (Emperor (talk) 19:25, 22 March 2009 (UTC))

That's very neat and clever - I was thinking we'd need to add something like "Buffy" to the genre field but you are picking this up through the cat/subcat which makes things simpler and easier. Nice work. As they'll now be generating the "years in comics" category automatically, if we want a "year storyline debuts" then we can make those changes automagically. So looking good. (Emperor (talk) 15:34, 23 March 2009 (UTC))

LBJ?

Can LBJ (James Russoti) be added to "your" Punisher template? (JoeLoeb (talk) 03:10, 23 March 2009 (UTC))

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Re: European series using the Metaseries 'box...

On your points:

• I wasn't really sure what the reprints field was for.
• Both examples run into a problem with categorisation. For example Devlin Waugh is set in the Judge Dredd universe (although stays pretty separate with a crossover or two) but is also a 2000 AD title but to get the latter it automatically gives you 2000 AD characters - the fix is to have a category for stories set in the Judge Dredd worls, I will be sorting this out (as there are a couple of dozen) but thought I might as well update the infobox in the timebeing while I was thinking of it. Equally with Buck Danny, there is only Category:Dupuis so making the metaseries a character based one generates non-existent categories. I am also unsure if the Dupuis category is the best one, as Spirou (magazine) is a comics anthology it might be better to have a Spirou category and child categories for characters and stories but then it might count as Dupuis collect the stories into albums. Basically I suspect there needs to be a wider category structure for Franco-Belgian comics but I don't feel I know enough about the area to get properly stuck in (I'm not sure how much call there is for specific) but figured I should throw in the infobox and let other people sort out this somewhere down the line. Sooooooooo it is a bit of a preliminary thing - I can sort out the Judge Dredd issue and will tweak Devlin Waugh when I do (but I need to update the infoboxes of other articles first), Buck Danny will have to be sorted out by someone else.

Hope that helps. (Emperor (talk) 22:30, 26 March 2009 (UTC))

Yes they might be useful - although it isn't something I can contribute to there is a lot of cross-translation between Dutch and French language comics (and it might be Europe-wide distribution deals mean they get heavily translate (like Storm (Don Lawrence)). (Emperor (talk) 22:36, 26 March 2009 (UTC))

Yes "charcat" could be a solution. As I say I will be dealing with Devlin Waugh, as there is a category needed there it is just I'm not ready to kick the category off (it is easier to switch the updated infoboxes than introduce the cat and update the infoboxes at the same time). (Emperor (talk) 23:48, 26 March 2009 (UTC))

No it just gives us flexibility because there are examples of there not being X characters/titles cats - this might highlight an issue that should be addressed (as I'll be doing in my own way) but either way it stops there being accidental red links created. (Emperor (talk) 01:27, 27 March 2009 (UTC))

Re: Flash: Rebirth

The image is already available on MidTown Comics' website. I didn't want to include the watermark. I see no harm in being able to post the full cover with the trade dress. Just because I don't have to doesn't mean I can't. And no, I don't get the books a week early. --CmdrClow (talk) 04:50, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

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