Talk:The Transformers (Marvel comic)

How do you create columns in Wikipedia? If we start linking issues, having them all appear just in one long column, it will look pretty sloppy....--G.B. Blackrock 04:34, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

You could put them into a table, but that's a very clumsy system, and somebody'd have to update the page every time someone creates a new page for an issue. A better solution would be to just include a link at the end to a category for Marvel UK issues. It's an extra click for the reader, but that seems like a better alternative than a page that needs to be constantly updated.

There's also the possibility of using a template for that, but I don't think it'll be feasible. Regardless, I'm going to look into that. --Suki Brits 05:15, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

A better solution would be to just include a link at the end to a category for Marvel UK issues. Actually, this was what I was envisioning for this page, ultimately, but the "single column" problem would remain....--G.B. Blackrock 05:48, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

What I meant was, do away with the list altogether, and simply include a link such as Category:Marvel UK issues. But now I see what the problem is: it wouldn't include issues that were in both the UK and US. Here's a proposed solution, which we could use in addition to linking to that category. This obviously isn't the prettiest of examples, but it should give you an idea of what it could look like.

The numbers will simply wrap around when they get high enough. The links could then be piped to the actually issue title; everything filled in would be given a blue link. It could also be used as a template for each issue that appeared in Marvel UK.

What do you think? --Suki Brits 06:21, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I've just added in issues 132-136, but unfortunately, the site I'm getting my titles from doesn't list the titles for those issues. I'm also simply directing all the Headmasters issues to the Headmasters series page, but this may need to be changed later. Also, 138 is listed as being both Ladies Night and Love and Steel. I've given it two entries on the list, but someone should confirm that this is even right to begin with, and if it's not, fix it accordingly. --Suki Brits 03:28, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

145 is also missing. --Suki Brits 03:29, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Try http://tfarchive.com/comics/marvel/index.php?s=uk_131_140 for some of the titles you're looking for.--G.B. Blackrock 03:43, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Should there be some coverage of the back-up strip that usually made up about 2/5 of each comic? The ones I remember offhand are: Machine Man, Robotix, Rocket Raccoon, Spitfire and the Troubleshooters, Inhumanoids, Iron Man, Iron Man 2020, Hercules, Visionaries, and of course GI Joe / Action Force. Action Force was sufficiently important to warrant joint billing on the front cover for a while. Implementing this might mean separating the UK comic entries from the US stories to which they correspond. This may also facilitate coverage of other UK-comic-only features, such as comic covers, Transformers A-Z entries, Lew Stringer cartoons, letter answerers, and so on.

I hope to be able to contribute substantively to this subject in a couple of weeks when I have access to my comic collection.--Tribimat 13:51, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I wonder if, especially for UK comics, we should change the links so that each UK issue links to a separate "issue" page, with the separate stories being linked as they currently are (all current comic pages are organized by story title). Besides the "back-up" features you mention, later UK TF comics often have TWO TF stories running concurrently, and the current system does not account for this well. But I'm not the best person to suggest an alternative. My expertise is in the US comic, which tended to have just one story per issue, and little else. The US comic even tended to break up story arcs into individual titles for each issue more often than not....

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