Template talk:Infobox comics meta series

Remove comma from startmo/endmo

Dates depicted as month/year are usually displayed without a comma (i.e. March 2009, not March, 2009). Therefore the commas should be removed from the Publication Date.--Marcus Brute (talk) 01:06, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

And month day, year situations? Something that's going to be common with the strips from British and European anthology mags.

It's an easier hedge at this point to leave the comma and not add a 3rd field.

- J Greb (talk) 01:32, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

{{Italic title}}

The template {{Italic title}} should be removed from this template as the naming conventions and therefore the general consensus don't allow the use besides on articles about species.—Totie (talk) 18:27, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Looking at the convention - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)#Italics and formatting - it seems that the point is 1) it should be used only in special cases and 2) at the time of the writing, the only common "special case" is with taxonomy.

I can see the reason for it with taxonomy being two fold - it is how the scientific names of living things are presented in print and it follow normal writing styled for using non-English words in prose (the terms being Latin, Greek, or faux-Latin). However, that isn't the only "special case".

Titles of prose works, other than short stories, articles, or chapters of longer works, are routinely italicized in printed text. And yes, I've seen the material at Template talk:Italic title.

The up shot is:

• Naming conventions isn't draconian on the matter
• Up to a point it appears that it is/was left to the various wikiprojects to say "We'll use it" or not. It is interesting to note that not all project that may have had an interest were looked at or approached. As is only Lit, ToL (a slam dunk), Math, and foreign phrases (is that a project) are noted. That is odd since TV, Film, Music, Magazines, Comics, Anime & Manga, Video Games, etc, also have, or can have, reason to use an italicized article title.
• To be fair, when it came up at Comics, it was treated as a "non" issue - Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics/Archive 40#italictitle. The biggest thing being how it should be added to articles, not if.

Now, relating to this template, we can kick it back to the Comics project for an "up or down" on if articles focused solely or primarily on comic strip series, comic series, comic book series, webcomic series, and graphic novels are indeed one of the "special cases" where the article title can be italicized.

- J Greb (talk) 20:15, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, some projects were approached about implementing this and in a show of hands it was only ToL that came out in support of using this. As J Greb says, we asked around at the Comics Project (as it was already being used on some articles) and the general feeling was to give it a spin but only as long as it could be done through the infoboxes so we could turn it off if required. As it seems down to the individual projects I don't see the changes as being unreasonable - the problem seems to be that the naming conventions need up-dating to reflect the view of the project. (Emperor (talk) 16:22, 12 November 2009 (UTC))

Do we need to update the naming convention? Let me know. Hiding T 20:45, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Ideally, it shouldn't affect it unless the overall NCC is where the "only taxonomy terms" is enshrined. Right now the section of the NCC tech limits refers to "special cases" where taxonomy is essentially always a "special case". - J Greb (talk) 23:09, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

So do we need to mention that comics is a special case too, or are we not there yet? Hiding T 16:19, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Category problem

Somewhere along the line, pages with this template started getting added to [[category:Titles]]. Problem is, that category is for titles as they apply to humans: 'commissar', 'skipper', 'gauleiter', 'miss', etc. I have no idea how this is to be fixed; anyone know? DS (talk) 14:57, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Examples: Sonic Disruptors, This Man... This Monster!, et al. DS (talk) 14:59, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

I've attempted to fix this by adding an #if to Template:Comics infobox sec/formcat. If I've broken anything important, you know where to complain! --Aqwis (talk) 15:23, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Character field causing problems

It is making an odd red link at the top of the page, as in Big Dave. (Emperor (talk) 05:21, 22 November 2011 (UTC))

Urbanus (comics)

Urbanus (comics) uses this template with the fields Humor and startyr, which unfortunately cause the error that [[Category:1982 comics debuts|]][[Category:Humor comics|]] appears at the top of the article. The template needs fixing. In the meantime I've removed both fields from the article by commenting them out. The article still remains in those two categories Jodosma (talk) 14:07, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Filling in the sort field will fix the categories appearing at the top of the article. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:27, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Frietjes, can you do anything with this template to fix the problem reported here and recently here. MB 03:18, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

MB should be fixed now, but would be better if there were a way to use the page "DEFAULTSORT" when no sort key is provided. I may work on that later, but the code complexity is high, so I am worried about adding another level of parser functions. Frietjes (talk) 13:11, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Genre categories

The template seems to generate categories in the form "[multigenre] comics". This no longer works correctly for parameters WW1 and WW2, as the categories were renamed from e.g. Category:World War II comics to Category:Comics set during World War II.

To empty the old category, I had to remove WW2=yes from the infobox. [1] [2]

I think Template:Comics infobox sec/genre expands the parameter, but I can't see how to make it generate the new category name starting with "Comics set during". – Fayenatic London 22:11, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

"Adaptation" parameter bug

It seems something happened to the parameter "Adaptation". For some reason, it doesn't work properly, adding PAGENAME ]] in an article's body. See examples below:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill_(comics)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xena:_Warrior_Princess_(comics)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War_(comics)

It would be appreciated if someone could fix this issue.--Russian Rocky (talk) 17:51, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Year range formatting

This template creates year range formatting that is non-compliant with MOS:YEARRANGE. A simple year-year range uses an unspaced endash. This template creates a spaced endash. Schwede66 19:35, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Template is sorting comics into a category for honorific titles

The documentation says "Note: subcat and altcat are mutually exclusive. If both are left empty, the article will be placed into Category:Comics publications by default." This is not happening. What is actually happening, though, is that comic book articles are being placed into category:titles, alongside articles like Lord Mayor, Duke of the Franks and Class Secretary ...oh and I've just seen another post about this further up the page, from ten years ago. I wonder whether this might be to do with Template:Comics infobox sec/pubcat? user:Aqwis made a change to /formcat, which has the raw text "titles" in it as part of composing a string for the category (hence if nothing else gets added to the string, we end up with just the category "titles"). That seemed to fix it for the pages in the previous post. But /pubcat does the same thing, and has not been fixed. I made a change (copying what Aqwis did to /formcat in 2010), and that got rid of some comics pages from category:titles, for example The New Adventures of Hitler is no longer in that category, but others remain, such as Aliens vs. Predator (comics) and Batgirl.

• OK, I believe I've fixed it now. (There were two instances of the line of code with "titles" in it, and I had only changed one of them.)  Card Zero  (talk) 11:28, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Error

Why does the '([[in comics|]])' link appear in the infobox in the Franka article? 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 13:50, 28 December 2022 (UTC)