Thread:DrJohnnyDiablo/@comment-7455-20190417020946/@comment-3361105-20190417024756

Seancdaug wrote: That's... a terrible solution, frankly. If we're being frank from the start of things, then I should tell you in all candour that it's the only solution you're going to get. Likewise, the tone of your response makes me inclined to give a less diplomatic response than I might otherwise have given.

Seancdaug wrote: it's a huge chunk of information that seems to violate the more to-the-point nature of the notes section. That's accurate. And the majority of that information is readily available on the one-shot's issue page. e.g. publication dates, creatives, and featured characters. That information is not needed. It would also have been readily available in the infobox on a volume page.

Seancdaug wrote: For another, it's atrocious from a information discovery perspective. Okay, your flare for the dramatic is noted. Please try to keep a lid on it. Your clear bias is in thinking that the information that people will be looking for is not "who is in this book, what is it about, and who worked on it?" - all of which is (or would otherwise be) readily available on the issue page. In short, you're being more precious about your contribution than it deserves.

Seancdaug wrote: And yet, with this solution, we're burying the lede all the way down at the bottom of the page. Again, this assumes that the lead is either a) information already available on the page, or b) an admittedly interesting piece of trivia about paper allotments in the second world war, which would be best placed in the trivia or notes section of the issue page.

We can safely (and rightly) pare down your publication history to the following: The product of World War II paper restrictions, this book was a collaboration with All-American Publications: All-American provided the properties and wrote the content, while Wise & Company printed it using their surplus paper allotment.

Which, as I said, is an interesting piece of trivia, but hardly a lead to be buried. The Notes section is its rightful place.