Template talk:Green Lantern RR

Overhaul justification and concerns
The existing template was a bit... weird, frankly. For one thing, it wasn't really organized in any obvious way. It wasn't chronological or alphabetical, and I don't think you could even argue it was even sorted by significance. Sure, putting the plain old "Green Lantern" volumes at the top makes sense... but, then, why was listed beneath backup feature comics like  and ? And there were just a number of odd omissions: why was and  listed, but not ? Why but not ? Why any of the above but not or ? Why include both volumes of Emerald Dawn, but no other limited series like ?

I figured the template needed a bit of an overhaul, but I could see two possible ways of doing it. The first would be to trim it down and only include obvious "flagship" titles. That would eliminate some obvious entries, like the backup/anthology features in The Flash and Action Comics Weekly. But I was concerned that it's not always such an easy call. If you had to pick out a "flagship" Green Lantern book for the New 52, the obvious choice would be ... but do we really want to cut out and ? And, once you get into the Rebirth years, I'm not even sure you can identify either or  as the "main" GL book.

For that reason, I decided to go as all-inclusive as I could. Include as the original "home" of the character. Include all of the series I could identify as ever being published by DC. Split out the ongoings from the limited series, and arrange everything chronologically by publication. But I'm not wedded to this approach, by any means. I think the old template was a bit of a mess, but if anyone feels strongly that my revision is too verbose or confusing or whatever, feel free to tweak or completely overhaul as you see fit. Not that anyone needs my permission to do that, of course. &mdash;Seancdaug (talk) 19:01, April 11, 2019 (UTC)