Talk:Feature Comics Vol 1 51

Just say NO to indexing the filler.
Shadzane: I, a humble noob and minion, am not bold enough to undo your change here, but here's why somebody should:

1/ The humorous one-pagers have no plots to synopsize, no villains to index, no vehicles or items or locations to archive, and very very VERY little that distinguishes one month's gag from the next. They've got no individuality, no personality, no interesting anything. (That's not to mention how badly they suck, on their own merits, which alas is probably not a defendable consideration in making this kind of decision.) It's called "filler" for a reason. The one-line NOTEs at the bottom of the page provide the creator credits; what more is really needed?

2/ That they wasted er occupied a lot of pages in Feature Comics, before the action/adventure/detective stips started up, doesn't seem like much of an argument FOR indexing them all. In fact it works the other way. It adds clutter. The TOCs on these anthology titles are already mostly over one screenful in length. Adding line after line after line of "Lala Palooza" and "Joe Palooka" just gets in the way of finding the good stuff, so it's a disservice to the reader.

3/ It sets a horrible precedent. Once we start doing it in Feature Comics, then there's no logic for not doing it to ALL of these titles. You and I and BartlebyCS, plus whoever else inexplicably takes an interest in wiki-ing these g.a. comics, are unlikely, in our lifetimes, to ever even finish writing up all of the actual superhero features in the DC and Fawcett and Quality comics of that era. Adding the one-page gags just makes the task ever more hopeless.

4/ DC doesn't own those characters, and never did. If it's okay to index these features, then it would be okay to index Fawcett's Captain Midnight comics, which has been forbidden. I hope that the rule that prevents our wiki-ing Captain Midnight will also prevent our wiki-ing Lala fricking Palooza.

5/ Here's a thought experiment: When you started adding "Clip Chance at Cliffside" to the TOCs for Smash Comics, there was a rationale, of some sort, for why you thought that was a good idea. If you articulate those reasons and examine them, do those reasons apply to this proposed change? Stoop Davy Dave (talk) 11:40, July 14, 2015 (UTC)