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Talk:Main Page/schedule

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Decepticommunist: /* What is the source for comic release dates? */

Ah! This evens up the layout nicely.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|<sup>Talk</sup>]] 22:27, 20 April 2009 (EDT)

:It will still vary day-by-day depending on how many entries we have for "This Day in History," but yes. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 22:42, 20 April 2009 (EDT)

::Siph, adding those line breaks results in notably un-semantic HTML. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 05:34, 2 May 2009 (EDT)
:::I have no idea what that means, other that "crams the items too close together making for ugly crushed text". --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 05:55, 2 May 2009 (EDT)
::::Meaning that, when you put in line breaks like that, you end up with each item being in its own separate list in the code instead of all of the items being in one list in the code.
::::Having said that, I agree that the default list item spacing is too small... but the cure to that is tweaking the Common.css, not adding in line breaks that mess up the code. (*makes a tweak in the meantime that adds the spacing in a slightly less hacky way*) --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 14:54, 2 May 2009 (EDT)
:::::I'm reluctant to mess witht he defauly list spacing wiki-wide lest it screw something else up. I'll save that (counter-intuitively) for a night when a ''lot'' of people are on. (So it somethign breaks, there's a greater chance someone will notice.)

==Updating the Schedule==
Just a note-- I feel like we shouldn't take things ''off'' the schedule until at least a day ''after'' they happen-- they make a handy link to "what's newest on the wiki." (Others may disagree I guess.)

It is gratifying to see that the schedule is being updated though! (Also useful-- I never used to be able to keep track when new issues were going to come out.) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 04:04, 3 May 2009 (EDT)

Necromancy time... I'm thinking we give a two-day "grace period" for news before it gets taken off. So, we don't remove May 26th's news item until the 28th, preferably evening-ish. I mean, if we're updating everything properly, it should be on "this day in history" already on the day, but a litlte "oh, that was exactly yesterday?" would be a good reminder. Sound good? --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 16:20, 27 May 2010 (EDT)
:I don't see the point, honestly. If things are properly ported to This Day, then the item is up all day to begin with, and anyone who cared probably already noted the date beforehand. The Current Releases section also helps.
:Otherwise I feel like it gets too complicated to keep track of what gets moved where when. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 16:40, 27 May 2010 (EDT)
::Current Release doesn't cover everything, like toys, which we're going to see a lot more of on the calendar in the future. Or premiers of Japanese versions of English-language episodes that aired a year or two ago. Or when TPBs of past material come out. Etc. And as for "anyone who cared", this isn't about only people "who cared". It's about presenting the info and making people notice, and then hey, they MIGHT care. that's part of what all this date hoo-hah (and the wiki itself) is FOR. A lot of things slip through the cracks in the shadow of bigger releases. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 16:55, 27 May 2010 (EDT)
:::And that same slipping through the cracks makes it likely that people will forget the new update schedule and it won't get done. Whereas remembering to move things from the schedule the day they come out is pretty easy to remember and thus more likely to get done.
:::Basically, I think the benefit is very small compared to adding on one more non-intuitive maintenance thing to try and remember. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:09, 27 May 2010 (EDT)
::::I agree with Jeysie, if only because I'm fairly sure your suggestion is what the official policy was supposed to be anyway, and it just got to hard to maintain. So it's basically already failed. - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] 18:06, 27 May 2010 (EDT)

== 12-18 ==
In addition to being out of chronological order, the 12-18 entry doesn't make sense since it's a Friday, and IDW wouldn't be releasing anything that day. I haven't seen the newsletter yet, so can't confirm the actual dates for those items. - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] 00:02, 2 December 2009 (EST)
:It was a typo I didn't pick up on making at the time. *sigh* Fixed. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 08:12, 2 December 2009 (EST)

== IDW for September ==
Where'd the info for IDW's September release dates come from? Denton Tipton updated the (usually) reliable list on his blog and a lot of it doesn't match what we've got here. What get priority? - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] 00:53, 12 August 2010 (EDT)

== Prime ==

Wait, so is Darkness Rising debuting on the 26th or the 29th? Because we've got it listed for both days now. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 15:04, 11 November 2010 (EST)
:Part 1 and 2 air 3-4pm on the 26th; they repeat 6:30pm on the 29th and 30th, continuing to Part 3, 4 and 5 at 6:30 on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of December. Simple. [[User:Alientraveller|Alientraveller]] 15:18, 11 November 2010 (EST)
::Why are we listing reruns? --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 15:29, 11 November 2010 (EST)
:::And why are reruns a "premiere"? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 15:48, 11 November 2010 (EST)

== Ongoing 14 ==

I'm taking by the lack of any discussion on forums, etc, that ongoing 14 has not, in fact, been released on December 1 as per Tipton's blog? I can't even find a five-page preview for it. Has anyone found a revised release date? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 19:18, 5 December 2010 (EST)
:Yeah, it turned up on various release lists for December 8th. - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] 23:42, 5 December 2010 (EST)

== In the US ==

Just wondering why we specify IDW release dates as being "in the US". Aren't the comics released outside the US on the same day? (they're at least on comixology which is available worldwide) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:49, 20 May 2013 (EDT)
:Yeah, my LCS in the UK certainly gets everything the same Wednesday as the US. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] 18:11, 20 May 2013 (EDT)
::Probably a holdover from a few years back, when comics were habitually released in the UK a day later than the US (nowadays, it can happen in the event of holidays not lining up, but it's no longer standard). - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 18:57, 20 May 2013 (EDT)

== MTMTE #21 ==

It seems to be on there twice. Which is the correct date? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 02:40, 15 September 2013 (EDT)
:Corrected. Date is currently unknown. --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 03:14, 15 September 2013 (EDT)

== MP Prowl and Metroplex ==

Looks like they were released today. Would it be fair to say the other Takara releases for the 28th were actually released on the 26th? --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 16:35, 26 September 2013 (EDT)

== What is the source for comic release dates? ==

The solicits do not give specific dates, only the month, and the dates listed on this page usually turn out to be wrong. Why is everything not simply (for example) "Dec ??" if an exact release date hasn't been announced? People on tumblr and /co/ spread this information and are inevitably disappointed. --[[User:Decepticommunist|Decepticommunist]] ([[User talk:Decepticommunist|talk]]) 09:59, 8 December 2014 (EST)

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