User talk:Repowers

Continuity/Timeline/Etc.

For my own personal records:

MARVEL GENERATION ONE
Marvel Comics - publisher page. Short overview of the series, and links to:

Generation 1 (Marvel Comics) - Series overview page. Covers the US series and the UK series, and WHY THE HELL ISN'T THIS CALLED "THE TRANSFORMERS (comic)"??

Generation 2 (Marvel Comics) - Series overview page. Needs standard formatting.

...and the various miniseries, most of which need standard formatting.

Marvel_Comics_continuity - page about the continuity. Holy shit, literally NOTHING links to this page, and it doesn't link to the individual titles either. List of each series, but again, not linked.
http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Marvel_US_issues - your only hope of finding your way through the Marvel issues. Every issue links to this page.

DREAMWAVE GENERATION ONE
Dreamwave - publisher. Lists issues but is mostly about the company.
Dreamwave timeline
No continuity page at present.

IDW GENERATION ONE
IDW Publishing - publisher page. Intro to rebooted continuity and list of issues in chronological order. Really ought to be by date of publication.
IDW timeline
IDW continuity

DEVIL'S DUE
Devil's Due - publisher page. Short history, list of miniseries.
No timeline page at present.
G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity - Continuity overview page. Also lists the four miniseries.

G1 CARTOON
Generation 1 (cartoon)
Generation 1 cartoon timeline
Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)
Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)/src
No continuity page at present.

BEAST ERA CARTOONS
Beast Era - short overview page, links to main franchise pages.
Beast Wars (cartoon)
Beast Machines (cartoon)
Beast Era timeline - page doesn't exist yet.
No continuity page at present.

Testing Comics nav template for mini-series

The Transformers: Infiltration is the first in a line of miniseries by IDW Publishing set in a "re-boot" of the Generation 1 continuity, bringing the presence on Earth of the Autobots and Decepticons into the present day and placing the "robots in disguise" concept firmly in the forefront of its narrative. Infiltration is set in the same time period as The Transformers: Stormbringer and both are followed by The Transformers: Escalation.

...man, that doesn't really work, does it. What comes next -- Stormbringer? Escalation? One of the Spotlights?

IDW's timeline is epochal, with each successive era marked by it's G1 miniseries. There may be other events that take place between the minis-- even (in the case of Stormbringer) major events but the G1 minis are the 'core' of the brand. We need a markup that recognizes this. -Derik 11:08, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that makes sense... so long as they all also link back to a continuity page so the complete picture is available as well. -- Repowers 15:01, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Images

Hi, as the self-appointed pics guy (as I probably upload the most pics here), I'd suggest that you use Photoshop to edit out the backgrounds of the MTMTE scans you upload, so we're left with a nice, white background that matches the default colour of the wiki.

I'd also advise you to use copyright tags when uploading images such as:

{{hastak}} for Hasbro/Takara-owned images such as stock toy photos or screencaps.

{{comicinterior}} for comic page scans (which apply for the MTMTE series).

{{comiccover}} for comic covers.

{{fairuse}} for general pictures relating to Transformers but not exactly owned by Hasbro, or its a legal grey area. This can be used when you upload toy photos that you didn't take yourself.

A tip for recognising artists - Don Figueroa is VERY prolific in the MTMTE series, and you can tell which works are his by by their big hands with vents on the back of them, which are his trademark. Another trademark of his is cyclindrical piping on the edges of limbs, particularly the thighs. Also, most artists tended to be assigned all the art for a particular subgroup or team.

If in doubt, use {{artist?}} and it will be added to the category of art by undetermined artists.

Finally, I would advise caution in using so many pictures from a single source, as it would be hard to argue fair use. -FFN 19:12, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips. I may not have time to follow up on 'em all today but I will soon. Ish.

The toy photos, FYI, are all my own. Isn't there some "I hereby release into public domain blah blah blah" template for that sort of thing? -- Repowers 19:29, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't believe we do, at least to my knowledge. You can just say something like 'Photos by User:Repowers, released to the public domain.'

I've started adding tags to the pictures you've uploaded, but I'll leave the toy pics alone now. --FFN 19:39, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Slog

Can you scan a picture of Slog's MTMTE robot mode? I prefer to use some kind of uncluttered 'profile' pic if possible for the main article picture, and comic panels for the fiction section (since there isn't anything there in the Marvel section anyway). Assumign the scan of is good quality, I suggest using the magic wand tool in photoshop to cut out the background, leaving a nice, white crisp background behind the character.

I'm going to request the deletion of the beast mode picture because we can't fit it anywhere in the article, and we should only have one picture up at the start.

Formatting tip - when you don't want images to jut into other article sections or mess up the formatting, use {{-}} instead of a bunch of return key strokes :D --FFN 04:53, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

US/UK Navboxes

I'm bringing this up to you since you seem to be the main person integrating them. It seems unelegant, but at the same time the simplest solution. Could their simply be two navboxes on each (relevant) issue page? One for the US comic, and one for the UK?

It looks like the shared stories are summarized under their US issue numbers, using Deadly Obsession as a single example. It wouldn't be much to edit these pages to make their UK numberings a bit more prominent; a navbox would actually take care of that fine.

It would also require some minor edits to link seperate second-story-only pages to the stories which they share books with. Just something like "UK issue #254 also contained White Fire." I think that could be fit into the UK navbox, or worked in with the initial information block containing the reprint notice is.--Sntint 02:36, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

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