Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics

Non-breaking changes to Infobox comic book title

I made some non-breaking, backwards compatible changes to {{Infobox comic book title}}, which User:J Greb has now reverted twice. Could someone please take a look? CüRlyTüRkey^Talk_Contribs 02:16, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

He's also being uncivil, leaving messages like "You are doing a fine job as being disruptive" without explaining what has been disrupted. CüRlyTüRkey^Talk_Contribs 02:18, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

And this verges on forum shopping. You can use the templates talk page to discus the bold change that you want to make. Coming here to sell you case or paint yourself as the victem isn't appropriate.

Now, coming here to point out to the Project that a change to the template is under discussion and a possibly a short version of what the change entails would be.

- J Greb (talk) 02:42, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

I brought it here because you kept reverting my changes without making any attempt at explaining why, and being aggressively insulting in the bargain. You were demanding I use the talk page there after I had already started a new section on the changes, so you obviously were not using the talk page yourself to communicate, and I had no reason to believe you would. I saw you aggressively verging on an edit war with {{Infobox comics creator}} recently, which, coupled with your aggressiveness towards me, gave me the strong impression you just weren't open to communicating, or being civil. CüRlyTüRkey^Talk_Contribs 03:57, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Science fiction comics

Anyone care to weight in on the merger proposal between Science fiction comics and science fiction graphic novel? There are currently 3 users in favor (myself included) and no one against.--Cattus ^talk 22:52, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Both articles are short, and I'm not aware of any other "GENRE graphic novel" pages, and I can't see anything in the article making it clear why science fiction graphic novels are in and of themselves notable apart from science fiction comics. I'd say merge. CüRlyTüRkey^Talk_Contribs 23:27, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Edit warring on Jean Grey

There is edit warring going on over the character's name, and while there has been an attempt at discussion on the talk page, one side has not participated in the discussion. 99.126.204.164 (talk) 03:30, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

User:Forestlicious is preferring to discuss the issue in edit summaries rather than on the talk page. 99.126.204.164 (talk) 07:20, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

I apologize if this is an overly harsh thing to say (please let me know if it is), but User:Forestlicious is also one of those people that seems to border on worshipping Jean Grey with his "Jean is Phoenix and Phoenix is Jean and they're one and the same and burn with cosmic fire and can resurrect people at will" comments and their almost-religious fervor. Am I correct in thinking that kind of thing doesn't belong on Wikipedia? DeadpoolRP (talk) 15:21, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

He also just reverted to a version with vandalism on it, although I'm sure that's a mistake. 99.126.204.164 (talk) 08:29, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Is this Brian Boru?

Just wondering if this is him - seems familiar to me. 129.33.19.254 (talk) 00:27, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Or maybe this one? I don't know, but they way they have been edit warring, and blanking warnings off of their talk page seems particularly familiar. BOZ (talk) 04:38, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

I interacted with Brian Boru is awesome shortly before he was indef blocked, so I'm fairly familiar with his modus operandi. Just by glancing at the edit summaries it's very similar to Brian Boru is awesome. I'll open an SPI. - SudoGhost 04:49, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Here is the SPI, if anyone has anything to add. - SudoGhost 05:07, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes, 96.238.36.171 is definitely part of it, just did a bunch of edit warring. Will try to fix it. 129.33.19.254 (talk) 00:10, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Now there is a third IP involved, 24.38.181.81. I told him to discuss these changes with other users, which he agreed to do, but he just comes back from another IP and does the same thing. 129.33.19.254 (talk) 23:56, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Given the IP jumping, that they are static, and that they are under 3 different locations/ISPs in the same state. we've got 2 options really:

• Whack a puppet - yes, there is enough to say the three are the same disruptive editor or at least like-minded editors; or
• semi-protect each and every one of the pages and any new ones they move on to.

- J Greb (talk) 00:48, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Notability (web) criterion three

A discussion has been underway for a couple of weeks about criterion three of WP:WEB, "The content is distributed via a medium which is both respected and independent of the creators". The debate is about whether or not this criterion is necessary, and if the guideline is changed it could affect AfD discussions on webcomics, flash games, and other online content. Editors are warmly invited to take a look and leave their opinions. The discussion thread can be found here. — Mr. Stradivarius ^♫ 03:11, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Comics will have interest in putting on events related to women's roles in comics; as writers, characters, artists, publishers, etc. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 19:08, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikiquette: Moving inactive users' sandboxed pages into mainspace

I've been working on Canadian comics-related articles, and was hunting down information on Ted McCall to start a page with when I came across this page in Bookcats' sandbox. Starting a page myself would just be duplicating that user's own work, so I would have just left it at that, but it doesn't look like the user is very active---last user contribution was 27 December, and the last one before that was 26 October. The last edit to the sandboxed page was 18 June.

I left a message for the user about it, but haven't gotten a response. I was wondering how terrible it would be to just move the page into mainspace. I've got different sources than the ones Bookcats used, so I think I could probably expand the page somewhat, as well. CüRlyTüRkey^Talk_Contribs 23:40, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Go for it, I say; just leave a message on the user's talk page. Article drafts in userspace are, after all, valid only if they are intended for eventual transfer to mainspace, and there's no sense in duplicating all that effort. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 23:42, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:Fictional characters who can size changeing

Category:Fictional characters who can size changeing, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 23:44, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Green Goblin - huge mess

Hello,

someone made a huge mess of the Green Goblin and related articles. I fixed that one, but I don't have time at the moment to fix them all. Could someone please help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.99.0.100 (talk) 00:20, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Already cleaned up. Thanks. - J Greb (talk) 00:37, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Hah, cool. 66.99.0.100 (talk) 01:00, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Someone's using multiple IP addresses to vandalize Maus

Someone's using multiple IP addresses to vandalize Maus. You can see it's the same person, because they keep adding "I dont know wether or not if the book is fiction or nonfiction but from the look of it I guess its Non fiction" to random places in the text. CüRlyTüRkey^Talk_Contribs 21:55, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Ask for the page to be protected. Kurt Parker (talk) 21:02, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

And I wouldn't say "multiple" since some og the IPs look to have been trying to clean up another IP's mess. - J Greb (talk) 22:23, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Two addresses making the exact same vandalistic "contribution", I think, counts as "multiple". CüRlyTüRkey^Talk_Contribs 23:28, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Newspaper Comic Collections Format

Lists of collections on cartoons' pages do not have any consistent format. We need to figure out what format works the best and fix the lists to be consistent.

Examples:

Dilbert (List)

Get Fuzzy (Tables)

Sherman's Lagoon (List)

RolandRock (talk) 00:19, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

I think "best practice" recommendations would be helpful in the guidelines, but as long as the lists/tables are readable and self-consistent within the individual articles, I don't see it as being an issue. CüRlyTüRkey^Talk_Contribs 06:13, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Fictional couples

I have created this Project proposal that must cover fictional couples of any fixed medium, print or electronic, such as soap opera couples, Relationship of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, and Sam and Diane. I wonder if you can join in the linked title rather than here. --George Ho (talk) 06:37, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Infobox edit wars

There is currently a couple of edit wars going on in Anya Corazon and Julia Carpenter about what name should go in their infobox. Both articles have the character's real name for their article name since they have both used two different aliases as superheroes so naming the article one of the specific aliases does not make sense, but they both have their currently used alias as the name in the infobox. I thought this is how it was typically, but an IP address (who is possibly the blocked user Brian Boru is awesome returning to continue is disruptive edits) has started an edit war over this. So should the infobox use the article's name or the character's currently used alias? Hopefully there is an MOS about this, but if not I vote for the article's name. Kurt Parker (talk) 21:02, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Looks like User:Brian Boru is awesome is IP hopping again. - SudoGhost 21:07, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Well, the naming conventions state: "When confronted with a difficult or complex naming issue, please check for community consensus at the WikiProject talk page". So if the consensus is that the Infobox field for character_name should always equal the article name, then it should be stated in the naming conventions. That way, any editor who feels differently can be referred to a concrete reason, as to why their edit is being reverted. Fortdj33 (talk) 21:45, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

The naming conventions page you referred to is for naming the article. So far no one has contested the article names, just the name shown in the infobox. Can we get a consensus here on what should go there. I already stated my opinion; what do other people think? Kurt Parker (talk) 14:22, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

To be honest? I'm more inclined to go with the article title first unless a very good, case by case, argument is made for something else. Most cases of characters with multiple codenames should have the infobox image captioned with "Character as ID from..."

- J Greb (talk) 22:42, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

I went to check page histories to compare these edits to User:Forestlicious (to see if we have a wider socking problem), and found this surprising diff [1]. So do we have 2 sockpuppeteers edit warring with each other? - jc37 16:14, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

If it weren't for the fact that Forestlicious is auto confirmed, I'd seriously consider semi-ing that article as limiting the disruption would outweigh the inconvenience to IPs editing in good faith. - J Greb (talk) 22:41, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Nod, I did that already, once the SPA sock of Forestlicious appeared, supporting him. - jc37 00:11, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Edit warring at List of comics publishing companies

After being asked repeatedly to join the discussion over List of comics publishing companies, MikeWazowski has continued unilaterally to delete en masse large numbers of items from the least, despite the fact that at least two other editors have stated that they should be kept. After leaving a message (message deleted, here's what was there) on his talk page to cease edit warring, instead of either responding or joining in the discussion, he slapped me with an Edit War warning on my talk page. He still has not joined in the discussion or responded to any of my messages. Could a third party please step in and help us solve this? CüRlyTüRkey^Talk_Contribs 04:14, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

He must have seen me bring it up here, because he has now deleted any evidence of our discussion. CüRlyTüRkey^Talk_Contribs 04:34, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Template: Marvel Comics films

Right now there is a discussion going on at Template talk:Marvel Comics films#Animated films regarding the current content and scope of the nabbox. Wider input would be helpful.

- J Greb (talk) 00:48, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Help referencing List of comics publishing companies

Could anyone help out getting citations for the companies listed on the List of comics publishing companies? I thought it would just be a matter of copy & pasting from the individual articles, but it turns out most of the articles themselves are poorly referenced. Mostly just looking for refs for country, date of foundation, and (if applicable) date the company went under. CüRlyTüRkey^Talk_Contribs 05:09, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

I have some old comics-related magazines I picked up to reference other stuff. I'll see if any of them have that info. Cloveapple (talk) 06:24, 12 February 2012 (UTC)