Board Thread:Policies/@comment-32540247-20200216120319/@comment-32540247-20200222150842

For the record, I'm now working on the page in my Sandbox to not flood the Batman vol 1 history with a ton of small gradual edits (anymore).

Also I have settled on a consistent style:

First, any era of the book that is not an anthology, and has at least two consecutive issues written by the same writer is considered a run. Otherwise, navigation will point to correct era - like Silver Age or Bronze Age, or something title-specific - like New Look for Batman vol 1.

Runs are defined by a writer who works on two consecutive issues in a row. If the run contains only a single storyline, then name of the storyline will be included - like Strange Apparitions or Year One.

Runs are only interrupted by minimum two issue stint by a different writer - so, another run. Single issue change of writer is described as "single issue written by" to the side of the book title in the list, like in:


 * - one issue written by Steve Englehart

Every time a run starts, artist at the beginning of it is described to the side as "artist is". Every time since then the artist changes, even for one issue, this is described as "artist changes to". For example:

Len Wein run

 * - artist is John Calnan
 * - artist changes to Irv Norvick
 * - artist changes to Irv Norvick
 * - artist changes to Irv Norvick

I hope this reduces subjectivity, since it's just a way of formatting writer and artist data into the volume pages.

The reasoning behind this is that in general, in Modern and Bronze ages writers tend to have longer and more consistent runs on books than artists, who often change even for one issue due to scheduling issues.

In addition, I write down major events that drastically impact the title's history, like first appearances of major characters (or legacy characters), or major deaths. I know that's a bit subjective, but the goal is to make volume pages useful for tracking history of the character/book.


 * - first appearance of Ra's Al Ghul

I can easily remove them if that's too subjective, but I believe that pages should be first useful to people who are or want to be readers of DC Comics, and objective second - especially that recently comic industry is going through some pretty rapid growth, and I see many of my friends slowly getting converted into new readers.

DC wiki is a great resource for people who are looking to get into comics, and that is my entire purpose with this project, to make it even more useful.

However again, if that's too subjective, I can get rid of the first appearances, and leave just writer and artist data.