I like the pics, Gregg. Thanks for fixing the articles and the tip regarding the text.

Nice job, Gregg.

Just a few general ideas since I'm at work right now...

Please put the "Comics" and "Digests" categories in the "Titles" category so they can be sub-categories of titles (makes navigation easier).

Stories will need to be separate from issues since stories can be in multiple issues and we won't always know which issue a story first appeared in.

I'm not sure how exactly we're going to do things now that we've killed the custom namespaces (I was originally going to have all titles in the Titles namespace, etc.), but I think for stories and issues, something like this will work:

Issues:
Create an "Issues" sub-page off of the main title page (.../Title_Name/Issues). Using the dynamic pages extension (once we start using templates, which I will explain tomorrow when I have more time), we could then pull in all issues from that particular title on that page, listing release date, price, etc. Then, we do sub-sub pages - .../Title_Name/Issues/{issue_number} - this makes the structure a lot clearer and easier to find (I'll need to play with things to make sure we can set custom page titles for sub-pages - I don't want Betty and Veronica #8 to be titled "Betty and Veronica/Issues/8").

Stories - This would require the installation of another extension, but basically this would be a search form that would interact with the dynamic pages extension - users could plug in a year, writer, etc. and find all stories matching that criteria. The individual story pages would be branched off of this - .../Stories/Name.

I'm not sure why it's screwing up articles with apostrophes in the title. Those seem to work fine on Wikipedia, so I'll have to look into that one more.

For now you can link "Reggie" and such to character names. If we want to do the titles later, we can either change those pages or just do something like "Reggie_(title)" instead. Your choice

For titles like Jughead, Archie's Pal Jughead, etc., we can simply have a main page indicating that there were two series published with that name and linking to each one ("Jughead (1965 Series)", etc.).

For trade paperbacks that share the same name as a comic series, we can do "Title (TPB)" to distinguish them from the series of the same name.

Archie Giant Series is a tough one, but I think we can handle that with redirection pages. The main articles can go under Archie_Giant_Series/Issues/x and we can simply redirect from the title page:

World_of_Jughead/Issues/9 would redirect to Archie_Giant_Series/Issues/9
Archies_Christmas_Stocking/Issues/6 would redirect to Archie_Giant_Series/Issues/6

At some point we'll need to decide when the actual "end" of the Archie Giant Series title was, since they eventually just published several regular titles in that "series", but we can deal with that later.

Now, as I promised, on to the templates

There are several templates available for your use:

Issuebox - used on the pages about specific issues of a title. The "title", "issuenumber" and "date" parameters are required. All others are optional. If you specify an image, it will need to be the name of an image uploaded through the "Upload File" page.

Titlebox - used on the pages about a specific title. Title is required. Format should be something like "digest", "double digest", etc. We can discuss the possibilities for this later on.

Creator - used on pages about artists, writers, etc. Currently their name and birthdate are required, but I need to change that (since you won't always know when they were born).

Templates are easy to use - just copy the code in the box on the template page and fill in the blanks. If you don't have information for a particular parameter, just leave it blank and it won't be used. These should be placed at the beginning of the article (or near the beginning anyway).

More updates...

I installed two new extensions:

CategoryTree - this will allow us to have the fun little "[+]" and "[-]" symbols next to sub-categories on category pages.

Page Functions - This fun extension will allow us to change page titles - so instead of "Betty_and_Veronica/Issues/2", we can do "Betty and Veronica #2".

In addition, the "Stub Manager" extension which is required for the Page Functions extension installed several other extensions. See http://wiki.archiefans.com/Special:Version for a complete list of extensions that are installed (note that I don't know what some of these extensions do yet).

I think of BnV -- the current one-- as volume 1 'cause there wasn't a title like that before. The previous incarnation was Archie's Girls, BnV.

More specifically I was thinking of Cheryl (who's had 4 series under the name "Cheryl Blossom"), Josie and the Pussycats (2 volumes), Sabrina the Teenaged witch (2 volumes if I recall), Archie's Pal Jughead (2 volumes) and Jughead (2 volumes). There was also 2 volumes of BnV Annual digest, but the 2nd volume came after the first had changed its name to BnV Digest.

I look at Archie Giant Series as one long series with revolving features...kind of like the Silver Age Brave and the Bold, or Marvel Premiere or Marvel Spotlight of the '70s. The numbering is odd, but I think with some redirecting --as you said Oldiesmann-- we can get people where they want to go...

Gregg

taking a wiki break tomorrow, then plan on working on some more of the Bantam books. I did add images to all the graphic novels out there. I think I'll import My GCD index for archie's Christmas stories classics, then start working onthe two hard covers.

Having fun with all this, though...

Gregg

i like those pictures gregg...and i hope i'll be adding to it soon since its christmas break and i might be going to LCBS today.....just need to find out all the codes and stuff