Template talk:MarvelUKcover

A couple of points:

• Since Marvel UK issues often have more than one story (unlike the Marvel US issues), I'm not sure how accurate it is to only list one. Adding a second (or more) is trivial enough, but before I do... how far should we go with this? Only the story represented by the cover? All the original-to-the-UK stories in the issue (i.e., link a Marvel US story on its' first UK printing, but not beyond that unless it's an all-reprint issue)? All the TF material in the issue? Or all the material in the issue full-stop, just with the non-TF stories unlinked?
• Secondly, and perhaps more importantly (& the reason I never made this or {{MarvelUKinterior}})... is the copyright tag a fair summation of the situation? I know UK (or more precisely in this instance, England & Wales) copyright law is different from US law, but I don't know how different or how it affects the situation (also, the situation with Marvel UK itself - Panini bought Marvel UK, but I don't know exactly what they got beyond the staff and the licence to publish the titles Marvel UK had licences to).

- SanityOrMadness 19:59, 26 October 2009 (EDT)

I dunno. I figured "make it now, it can always be changed later". I don't think it needs all the extra art credits though, considering this one's just for covers, which are usually only done by one person. I only added colours, letters and inks knowing they'd go unused most of the time. - Magnus Maximus 20:15, 26 October 2009 (EDT)

I out-and-out didn't bother with them on {{MarvelUScover}} - where we had credits for the covers (which was rare, and usually dependent on legible signatures), I just did it as "Cover art by (penciller), (inker) and (colourist)". Thing is though that if you're going so far (in adding inks & colours variables so that you can automate the categories), you have to go the whole hog IMO. Certainly, you shouldn't have "cover art: X; inks: Y; colours: Z". The inker & colourist contribute to the art, so they either get included in the "cover art" credit or the penciller is listed as such (it's why there's a credit for "line-art", to cover the instance where one guy does the pencils and inks, and someone else did the colours) - SanityOrMadness 20:25, 26 October 2009 (EDT)