Board Thread:Policies/@comment-3361105-20140225175741

I'd say there's a fine line here, but here's my opinion:

A collected edition (or, colloquially, a trade paperback) collects several stories or full issues from one or several volumes under a unifying theme or storyline in a paperback or hardcover format. This would use the Collected Template.

A reprint would be a comic single-issue format reprint of one or several stories (especially in the case of golden age books). Rather than creating a reprint template, I think the comic template suffices.

However, I'm less inclined to be happy about comic pages for issues that reprint one issue in its entirety without making any changes whatsoever, in which case, a note on the original issue page would satisfy.

What I don't want is to be having hair-splitting discussions about whether the binding method dictates which is which.

The main impoetus for creating the Collected Template was to avoid having these comic pages that are just duplicating info from other pages we already have, and creating a wall of text - and listing appearances in collections/reprints is... problematic, categorically.

What do you think? 