Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics/Comics creators work group

Getting invovled
Hello, not sure where to post this. I'm wanting to get involved with this project but I am fairly new to wikipedia, I've been wanting for a while to make an index of comic artists and thought this would be the group to work on that with. I made my first article today Skottie Young but it still needs some work, let me know where I can help out. Drroett 03:20, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Clean up
There is a list of related articles requiring cleanup generated at WikiProject Comics/Comics creators work group/Cleanup listing. Any help in clearing the backlog would be appreciated. Hiding T 09:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

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Just an FYI to let everyone know that I've hit all the creators articles in the various World Comics categories, and I feel pretty confident I got all of them tagged with the comics project and biography project tags. Whew! :) -- hamu♥hamu ( TALK ) 04:42, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

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BLP issues
It looks like this may be a bone of contention with both the infobox and the articles, especially on 3 data points: Looking at WP:BLP, and the non-public figure section, 2 of those are real sketchy for us to include.
 * Date of birth
 * Place of birth
 * Nationality

Most of the people we are dealing with are definitely not public figures, so date and place of birth seem to be outside the information relevant for notability.

I'm thinking that the following may need to be done:
 * The place of birth and place of death fields be removed from the infobox or restricted to the most general of terms.
 * The date of birth and death be recoded to only show in the 'box if a "sourced" flag is present. Even then these may need to be paired down to just month and year. (I know, this screws the age calculation template.)
 * Nationality needs a serious look since it'll need sourcing to justify being there, in the 'box, in the article, and in the category sorting.
 * The last also applies to the "People from State/Province/Region/City" cats and Wiki projects.

As it stands we've got ~900 of the almost 1400 bio article that fall under BLP and editors that are very stringent on making sure BLP is enforced. We need to look at this.

- J Greb (talk) 10:54, 24 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Personally, I have less problems with birth date and place, if they can be verified. Having an incorrect birthday in your article is not a very serious problem (one date is not more negative than another, unless you have the age wrong by thirty years or so). Nationality can be contentious, so we should indeed be careful with that one. It is the other personal info (often outside the infobox), like names and ages of partner and children (wo are almost certainly not public figures), that cause me greater concern. I'm probably reading too much into this, but an article like Ben Templeton is calling the co-creator of his comic strip three times his "partner". Work partner? Life partner? Quite an important distinction, but not made clear in the article or the source given. This is the kind of stuff we need to be watching out for, more than the date of birth, in my opinion. Fram (talk) 11:26, 24 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I think we're okay on birth and death details if they're published in a secondary source. A lot of the Comics Journal interviews get into place of birth, not so much date of birth, so that might make those facts okay. I think for date of birth and death, if there is an obituary, then that's fine too. The nationality I think is perhaps too contentious and should perhaps be left out. The age calculation isn't too much of an issue, there's one you can use for just the year, which will give you a rough estimate of the age, I've used it recently at, um... R. C. Harvey, it's Birth year and age. But I'm no BLP expert. That said, BLP wouldn't apply to death dates, would it, by definition? Hiding T 11:28, 24 March 2009 (UTC)


 * The way the BLP material is worded it seems that the concern is the same with both sets of dates and places, it's just that BLP allows a "delete first, don't worry about BRD" mechanic. In either case, with a citeable source it should be good. The thing is getting that source.
 * As for nationality... If we're leaving nationality out, then we're going to be hard pressed to justify categorizing living people in anything but the general writer/artist/penciller/editor/etc cats.
 * - J Greb (talk) 22:46, 24 March 2009 (UTC)


 * What I was getting at regarding death dates was that if someone has a death date, they are dead, and therefore not living, and therefore Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons would no longer apply. Hope that clarifies, ;). Regarding nationality... yes, that's a tricky one.  Mind, it always has been.  I don't have an answer beyond getting a source. Hiding T 23:41, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

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Nationality and the infobox
I've been working through the articles checking the infoboxes and I've run into something I'd like the work group's input on. Is there a desire to make the text/link that shows up under "Nationality" in the infobox consistent?

Right now, using Americans as an examples, there seems to be 3 ways the information is entered:
 * Unlinked text - American
 * Linked to the country - American
 * Linked to a list - American

It is possible to standardize this through the infobox template, but it would be helpful to know which way we want to go. I'm thinking the "People of..." articles would be preferable with the "Nation" articles being used as a fallback.

This also raises issues with the following: (There may be others, but these seem to be the two obvious ones)
 * China/Hong Kong/Singapore/Taiwan
 * British/English/Northern Irish/Welsh/Scots

IIUC, there is a sore spot with categories and in article nomenclature with respects to China. Right now we've got the writer and artist cats breaking down into each of the 4 groups. With Hong Kong and Singapore, would it be a good idea to note "Chinese (Hong Kong)" and "... (Singapore)" in the nationality? And with Taiwan, would there be problems with using "Taiwanese" in the infobox?

As for the UK quintet... is there any type of guide line as to when to use English, Northern Irish, Welsh, or Scots instead of British? IIUC, "British" is the more general term, but it seems it is being used interchangeably with "English". And this one not only affects the "Nationality" field, but also which categories the articles wind up in.

- J Greb (talk) 19:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

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Request for comment on Biographies of living people
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Proposed partnership with Wikia site
I'm the main administrator for the Women in Comics Wikia site, which features articles about female creators, women's comics organizations (e.g. Friends of Lulu), and all-women anthologies (e.g. Girl Comics). We'd like to remain separate because of notability issues, but I think that cross-pollination between our wiki and this WikiProject would help us all out. We have articles about creators you don't, and Wikipedia articles often form the basis of ours, which we then expand. Also, we can put the female creators you want articles/expansion for on top priority, so that both projects can grow in tandem. What do you think? LadiesMakingComics (talk) 01:30, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Unofficial biographical dictionary
Because of the way it's written, volunteer editors writing about what they're interested in, Wikipedia's coverage of comics has an unavoidable bias towards the recent and the American. In an effort to get a bit more historical coverage of British comics, I've put together an Unofficial biographical dictionary of British comics in my user page, which takes the lead from proper biographical dictionaries by only including those no longer living.

I've included everyone I can find who has a known date of death, plus anyone with a known date of birth more than 100 years ago, and anyone without dates who worked in comics before 1930. There are a lot of redlinks, naturally, and I'm gradually compiling sources and writing articles for those who seem most important, most interesting and best sourced. Anyone like to give me a hand? --Nicknack009 (talk) 09:28, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

George Herriman FAC
I've nominated the George Herriman article for FAC, with the hope of having it appear as Today's Featured Article on 13 October 2013, which is the 100th anniversary of his signature work, Krazy Kat. Any attention, feedback, and support would be greatly appreciated. Curly Turkey (gobble) 16:35, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Changing an Article Title?
Hi! I am very new to editing Wikipedia, so I'm not sure if this is necessarily the right place to ask this, but I was updating the article on Dennis Hopeless, to reflect the fact that he is now credited in Marvel Comics as 'Dennis "Hopeless" Hallum'. He explains the reason for this change in a tweet from Jan. 22, 2019.

I was wondering what should be done in a situation such as this, where the name a person uses with the public changes. Should the title of the article be changed to reflect the name change? If so, what is the process for doing that to ensure the article is both accurate and also discoverable?

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