Category talk:Comic Book

Purpose?

What is the purpose of this category? Is it only for issues of the SLG comic book, or is it also for in-universe information revealed in those issues?

If the former, I suggest that it be renamed (e.g. to "Category:SLG issues" or "Category:SLG Gargoyles issues" to differentiate from the up-coming Bad Guys series), that its explanatory paragraph be edited, and that it be made a subcat of "Category:Episodes".

If the latter, then it should be a subcat of "Category:Canon" and should also include articles like Tri Chung. Also, if it is the latter, then the mere existence of this category suggests that we are separating canonical information depending on the medium by which it was introduced, and I haven't seen evidence of that anywhere else on the wiki.

My personal opinion, considering the subpages currently contained, is that it should be the former, but before I start taking action I thought I should elicit some other opinions. -- Supermorff 07:41, 12 May 2007 (CDT)

I don't follow entirely, but I think the category is fine the way it is. I don't want to start separating canon characters and places by medium. Since the issues are already listed Gargoyles #1, Gargoyles #2, etc, we can easily include Bad Guys in this page as well, and just list them Bad Guys #1, etc. Vaevictis Asmadi 10:58, 13 May 2007 (CDT)

I'll try and rephrase the question. The introductory paragraph for this category states that it is for "issues or events" from the SLG comic book. What does the word "events" refer to? If, as I suspect, the category is really only for "issues" and not "events", then we need to edit the paragraph to make that clear. And I suggest that the category be renamed to more accurately represent its true purpose, e.g. by calling it "Category:SLG issues", or simply "Category:Comic book issues".

Is that clearer? (The Bad Guys comment in my first post was meant to be a throw-away remark, so sorry if that threw you off.) -- Supermorff 14:04, 13 May 2007 (CDT)

So.. it sounds like the "and events" is left over from an original intention to build this category exactly like the Marvel Comics category. In which case, I think that phrase should go. Calling it "SLG Comic Book" might be good. I think that it could simply be distinguished as The comic book, since it is canon and the Marvel comics are not.Vaevictis Asmadi 21:31, 13 May 2007 (CDT)

Yeah, that's what I guessed too. I've removed "and events" from the paragraph. In summary, the purpose of this category is to house issues of the SLG comic book. Good. Next... -- Supermorff 09:38, 14 May 2007 (CDT)

Suggested rename

Since, as above, the purpose of this category is only for issues of the SLG comic book, and in particular since it is not a general category in the style of Category:Marvel Comics, I suggest the category be renamed to include the word "issues" in its title. That is, it should be renamed from "Category:Comic book" to "Category:Comic book issues". I believe that a category's name should encapsulate its purpose, and I believe that this category's current name fails to do that.

To be more specific, we might also consider "Category:SLG issues" or "SLG comic book issues", but since this is the only canon comic (as Vaevictis Asmadi pointed out above) I don't think that's as necessary.

Is anyone opposed to this idea? Does anyone have a preference for a name change, or another suggestion I've overlooked? -- Supermorff 09:38, 14 May 2007 (CDT)