Talk:Main Page/featured-series

I take it that you're finding the broken-out files easier to edit? You noticed how the 'view' buttons above each element on the main page take you here? -Derik 00:59, 5 April 2009 (EDT)

Why does this say "0 days" until ROTF is out on DVD when it isn't released yet? - Starfield 14:27, 19 October 2009 (EDT)

Well, it's fewer than 12 hours until it's released. Probably rounding down to the nearest integer! --ItsWalky 14:45, 19 October 2009 (EDT)

There. Fixed it to show the hours.--Rosicrucian^Talk 15:05, 19 October 2009 (EDT)

Shuffle

As much as it pains me to finally take Animated off of Featured Series, perhaps we should shuffle this box to accomodate War for Cybertron somehow? Make it obvious that we're covering it?--Rosicrucian^Talk 13:15, 13 January 2010 (EST)

I sort of agree, but it would help if we knew where WfC fit. Do all the characters get their own pages or are they part of the G1 pages? Because as-is, we have just the one page. I do agree that we need to prominently link to it. Maybe replace the DVD link with it? --ItsWalky 13:31, 13 January 2010 (EST)

I would agree, but we're (supposedly) going to get a sizable handful of Animated toys before WFC comes out--and also all the differences and variants and weirdness the Japanese run will give us. Can we make the featured box a bit bigger--add another column beneath Animated, of exactly the same size, for WFC? It just seems wrong to replace an entire series with what is, for the immediate future, basically a one-page overview of press releases. --Thylacine 2000 13:36, 13 January 2010 (EST)

Perhaps there's merit in shrinking down our ROTF coverage in that box to make room? Remove the character list?--Rosicrucian^Talk 13:38, 13 January 2010 (EST)

Considering that War For Cybertron seems to be a major upcoming fiction event, while Animated is pretty much cancelled discontinued indefinitely at the moment, I agree with a heavy heart that replacing Animated for WFC would be a good idea if need be. If we ever get Animated continued in some way, or the Japanese make some major additions, we can consider putting it back, but a last gasp wave of toys and minor cultural changes isn't quite a big enough deal for highlighting purposes.

However, I do agree that we might as well ditch the Featured Characters part for now, until we have a new set of characters that need pimping. It's served its purpose. If that does give us enough room to keep all three after all, then go for it. --Jeysie 13:49, 13 January 2010 (EST)

Maybe a little messy, but without the character list we've got a lot of room.--Rosicrucian^Talk 14:09, 13 January 2010 (EST)

Maybe it's time to finally take the ROTF DVD field guide down? It has been out for nearly 6 months now. I would actually be in favor or putting a section pimping IDW's latest comic series —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 173.74.204.40 (talk • contribs){{#if:| {{{2}}}|}}.

I'd honestly be in favor of maybe taking down all of the ROTF and Animated features, to declutter a bit in anticipation of War For Cybertron's big release and the later-this-year Transformers: Prime.

What we could possibly replace them with instead is a simpler "Recent Fiction" section that contains just links to whatever's newest in everything that doesn't have a special feature. We could link to things like the latest ROTF, Animated, IDW, and TFCC releases. --Jeysie 15:53, 11 April 2010 (EDT)

Any chance we could leave Animated up until, I dunno, June 27th-ish? --76.233.87.50 16:14, 11 April 2010 (EDT)

This is more or less what I had mind. --Jeysie 16:19, 11 April 2010 (EDT)

Hmm. Anyone have any thoughts? Even if we don't clear out all of the recent stuff, the more I think about it, the more I kind of like at least adding on some way to highlight all of the recent fiction going on, not just the "big deal" stuff. --Jeysie 12:39, 12 April 2010 (EDT)

I really like that version, though to look good the layout would have to be symmetrical.... and as we've discussed, Animated is going to get like 3 more publications in the forseeable future. Once the last of the cel-with-wordbubbles comic collections comes out, I'm afraid it should be removed. By that point, I guess it would be replaced with Prime? --Thylacine 2000 13:49, 12 April 2010 (EDT)

Volume 1 implies there will be more to come. - Magnus Maximus 13:57, 12 April 2010 (EDT)

The symmetry shouldn't be a problem, I don't think... if we end up with only three (or some other odd number) of the smaller features, we can just center the singleton. We could also just do without the logos and have that section just a text-only list.

As for which features to keep, IMHO the criterion should be less "does this have new fiction coming out?" and more, "Is there a big deal enough thing still coming to warrant a full- on feature as opposed to just a link to whatever's new?"

Because otherwise, there's actually a number of series that have ongoing new fiction at this point, but it would get too cluttered to fully feature all of them, IMHO. Hence my new section idea. --Jeysie 14:04, 12 April 2010 (EDT)

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't mean it should stay as it is, but should we go with your idea (which I like, btw) it also shouldn't be removed completely any time soon (which is what Thylacine said) because between The Cool and The Adventure Continues, it seems there will still be stuff being released for the rest of the year at least. Save for cancellations, that is. - Magnus Maximus 14:16, 12 April 2010 (EDT)

I'll weigh in on Jeysie's side on this. Also, Magnus, I think you have misunderstood Jeysie's point. Even with The Cool and The Adventure continues, there simply isn't enough coming up to justify Animated remaining "featured" and it WOULD be removed (unless I misunderstood). --Khajidha 14:26, 12 April 2010 (EDT)

I think you did misunderstand. The distinction is being made between "featured" (big logo, links to all the sub-pages plus latest fiction) and just being "included" (small logo, link only to latest fiction). We currently have 3 "featured" series; WfC, RotF and Animated, and what Jeysie is suggesting (I think) is that we should cut that down to one so that the less prominent on-going fiction can still be "included". What I'm saying is that by all means Animated shouldn't be "featured", but it should still be "included". - Magnus Maximus 14:45, 12 April 2010 (EDT)

Ayep, that's basically what I meant. I think Animated should definitely be included somehow. Just, for me, a question of whether it's included staying as a "big feature" with all the section links, or as a "small feature" in my latest idea.

I'm actually not terribly fussed with whether we keep Animated as a "big feature" or not, since Sipher makes a lot of good points in favor of "big feature", but I do vote for ROTF going down to "small feature". --Jeysie 16:34, 12 April 2010 (EDT)

(Lord, one thing I hate about these long discussions is the indenting...) I wasn't really arguing for "big feature" re: Animated... honestly, that little graphic you made works for me as-is. WFC really is (for now) the biggest media point in the franchise, and once we have a firmer grip on where the holy hell it sits, we can devote the "big feature" space to it like we did for Animated and ROTF (or something similar, again, hinging on its placement) up until Prime rolls in. Animated I think is right now best-served as one of the four "small feature" sections, and I think the four you have now covers the spectrum of what's pretty damn well. Though I do wonder how we'll handle things like Alternity stories and minor pack-in fictions as they hit. A fifth text-only link centered under the others, as part of a "Miscellaneous" block? Do we want to keep four "regular" sources/franchises, or just have the newest fiction release -no matter what its source- take the top-left corner and push the others back (and off)? It feels kind of disingenuous to not have the newest fiction, even minor fictions, not represented on our mainpage. After all, we THRIVE on shining the light on the obscure. --M Sipher 17:02, 12 April 2010 (EDT)

It doesn't necessarily have to be only four logo features; those are simply all of the ongoing things I remembered off the top of my head, eheh. We can logo everything with new fiction, or we can split between logos and text, it's all the same to me.

If we do split things up, my vote would be, things with ongoing fiction that's being released on a fairly regular schedule get the logos, while anything more sporadically released (does Alternity fall under that?) gets text-only links. --Jeysie 17:15, 12 April 2010 (EDT)

I think I like that box. But DEFINITELY keep the logos. It really, really needs that visual flair. Our frontpage is fairly text-heavy as it is, so every little bit of visual shorthand where it makes sense is welcome. After all, we don't want to be Wikia, do we?

As for Animated being taken down... I vote NO. This is what Japan is getting for at least most of the year. that's... pretty big, really. There's every episode getting re-aired with cuts and changes and new footage, and more importantly there's the accompanying monthly manga, which appears to be all-new stuff. I think we'd be doing a disservice to not have what IS a current line -even if it is onthe opposite side of the globe- in the current-line box. Especially as Animated is so well-loved, and fans are hungry for any new material from it. --M Sipher 14:28, 12 April 2010 (EDT)

Starting over the indenting a bit for sanity's sake... here's a couple more tweak examples based on the suggestions. --Jeysie 20:42, 12 April 2010 (EDT)

I like the one on the left. The lines delineate the different franchises nicely. But now this is raising an issue with the box title... "Featured series" is a bit of a misnomer, isn't it? Since it's mostly now featuring "recent/current fiction". Perhaps "Recent releases"? --M Sipher 20:46, 12 April 2010 (EDT)

I'm cool with that rename. --Jeysie 21:15, 12 April 2010 (EDT)

I also like the one on the left, but I think I missed something. Why doesn't Alternity get a logo? Just because the releases are less frequent, or because it's "secondary" fiction (i.e. pack-in), or something else? - Magnus Maximus 06:30, 13 April 2010 (EDT)

The former. See my "It doesn't necessarily have to be only four logo features;" comment about five comments above for all my thoughts. --Jeysie 09:36, 13 April 2010 (EDT)

We need to keep page layout in mind. I think we need to make sure that we don't overload the "Recent Releases" box, which could easily push other boxes down. Remember that the "this day in history" and "coming up" boxes can be quite long. And once WFC and/or Prime gets going full-tilt as the primary fiction/franchise, we're going to want to expand that featured box a little as we had Animated and Revenge. As such... we might want to keep it to at most three rows of smaller banners with the most recent fiction as a text link under, or just the four in the example as "semi-permanents" with the other "lessers" getting the pure-text link below to conserve space. --M Sipher 12:36, 13 April 2010 (EDT)

I'd consider renaming it "Current Releases" because that's, uh, what it is. It's whatever dropped most recently. -hx 11:49, 13 April 2010 (EDT)

Indeed. --M Sipher 12:36, 13 April 2010 (EDT)

Hrm. If we do rename this, should we move it, or create a new template? --Jeysie 13:51, 14 April 2010 (EDT)

Upcoming releases

We have upcoming Transformers: Sector 7 and IDW's Prime graphic novel. With the former leading into TF3, I guess we should replace the Revenge of the Fallen section and put the Sector 7 releases there. We may have to swap out the War for Cybertron banner with a TF:Prime one for the latter? --abates 17:32, 23 September 2010 (EDT)

Chaos/Police Action

Right now IDW's ongoing series has two different stories in alternating issues, should we treat them as two distinct stories or just leave Heart of Darkness #4 up until the new series starts? - Cattleprod 20:38, 7 September 2011 (EDT)

Rescue Bots

So... I guess it's time to swap out Animated for Rescue Bots? --abates 15:47, 18 December 2011 (EST)

DOTM should probably be removed as well.

Well, here's how I'm thinking it should lay out...

• Prime to the very top.
• IDW and Rescue Bots to the top double-row
• TFCC and uh... DOTM to the bottom double-row. Is Classified part of the movie universe? Should we consolidate those?
• Animated moves to the text at the bottom.

Thoughts? --M Sipher 19:44, 18 December 2011 (EST)

That sounds reasonable to me. - RolonBolon 19:50, 18 December 2011 (EST)

Done. But the navigation side bar still needs messing with. (We still have WfC up there, for instance.) —Interrobang 20:09, 18 December 2011 (EST)

We should probably have Rescue Bots instead of WFC. Do we still need Dark of the Moon, and is it too early for Fall of Cybertron? --abates 20:22, 18 December 2011 (EST)

I think DOTM should be replaced with Live-action film series, especially when Hasbro pulls out the "Movie Trilogy" line. —Interrobang 20:29, 18 December 2011 (EST)

DOTM

It's been there for almost a year already, so is it really needed anymore? -- spyder 12:32, 18 June 2012 (EDT)

Old stuff

When should some of the old stuff here be removed? Predacons Rising in particular was five months ago... Mimi (talk) 13:48, 13 March 2014 (EDT)

Yeah that and "Fury from the Deep" (since there have been two or three issues no one's added since then) should probably be removed. --abates (talk) 15:16, 13 March 2014 (EDT)

Transformers vs GI Joe

Can we put Issue 0 back and have more than one issue of the TF vs GI Joe comic up here, like we have the last two episodes of Rescue Bots and three TF:Legends events? That empty space is bugging me. --KilMichaelMcC (talk) 08:31, 2 August 2014 (EDT)

Transformers Rising

Since TF R is also an episodic event based game, can a section be added for that game as well?

Punishment

Remember, it comes out in print for the first time in a month or so... - SanityOrMadness (talk) 20:13, 14 December 2014 (EST)

Well, when it does we can always put it back up. --abates (talk) 21:11, 14 December 2014 (EST)

Robots in Disguise US screenings

Once Cartoon Network play Trust Exercises, should we switch the listing on the main page to highlight the current episode in the US? It seems like having the current US episode fairly prominent would be a good idea to me. --abates (talk) 06:30, 29 March 2015 (EDT)

Anyone? --abates (talk) 05:39, 4 April 2015 (EDT)

Cybertron's Most Wanted

Where should I add the link to the botcon '15 comic for the TFCC box? Above "Another Light"? Replacing out "Collections"? --Heatsync (talk) 08:11, 25 June 2015 (EDT)

Probably Head Games, since it's the oldest release. --abates (talk) 16:37, 25 June 2015 (EDT)

Getting a little out of hand

11 entries in the TFCC section? 6 in GI Joe vs TF, a single comic title? Something needs to be done to tighten this up, because it's starting to look ridiculous. --KilMichaelMcC (talk) 16:20, 14 May 2016 (EDT)

Machinima Combiner Wars

Do we need to put the recent release of Machinima's Combiner Wars episode one on here, somehow? I don't know what the guidelines are for stuff like this. Stealthyboy (talk) 12:33, 5 August 2016 (EDT)

Win if You Dare

Where are we putting it? It's not set in the IDW-verse or the Movieverse. Cr85747 (talk) 05:12, 12 September 2018 (EDT)

EarthSpark/Cyberworld

Should EarthSpark be replaced with Cyberworld since it's now the current series and EarthSpark has ended? Hilfam (talk) 18:49, 12 July 2025 (EDT)

Nick Roche has actually said he did work on a couple of EarthSpark specials, so we don't know that it's over. But yes, Cyberworld should be included. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 19:01, 12 July 2025 (EDT)