Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics/Superman work group/Archive 1

Brando?
Will they have Marlon Brando in it again?-- Chili14 ( Talk 03:29, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Are you talking about Superman Returns? If so.. yes, he's in it, but please move your discussions to the Superman Returns talk page, or more appropriately, a Superman Returns message board. &mdash;EatMyShortz 19:37, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

John Schneider
should't their be a Picture of John Schneider i think their should since he made Jonathan Kent cool again — Preceding unsigned comment added by Supermike (talk • contribs) 10:06 July 13, 2006
 * Here is a picture of John Schneider for you: Image:Bo Duke.jpg. I hope that helps you. --Chris Griswold 06:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Help Wanted
Hi guys, this is the first WikiProject that I started. I really could use some help getting it organized and working on articles. --Mattwj2002 06:02, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Best way to get members is to invite them personally on their talk pages if they've shown an interest in Superman. Also to keep the project active. Wrad 06:10, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Subproject?
Shouldn't this be considered a subproject of WikiProject Comics? Arch O. La  Grigory Deepdelver  00:36, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Your probably right. Hopefully, we can get some more support. The reason I started this project is because there are so many different series, movies, and comic books I thought a Wikipedia Project was in order. Any help would be greatly appreciated. --Mattwj2002 03:30, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Project Directory
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 * Sorry if you tried to update it before, and the corrections were gone. I have now moved the new draft in the old directory pages, so the links should work better. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused you. B2T2 14:06, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Superman
Superman has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" from featured status. The instructions for the FAR process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Sandy (Talk) 22:02, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Taskforce
Would it be better to have this as a taskforce of WikiProject Comics, rather than a separate Project? Have a look at WP:MILHIST for how they have their taskforces set up to see what I mean. Hiding Talk 15:28, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Superman and the Mole Men
I've greatly expanded the plot on the Superman and the Mole Men page and separated it into a synopsis section and a Themes section. Scmods 05:39, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Superman Knockoffs of the Golden Age
I've found articles ralating to DC's lawsuits against Fawcett and Fox Features. There are also articles for the various fictional characters connected with the lawsuits. Would the general topic of Superman's early imitators be an appropriate topic for a Wikipedia article? I have seen list-style articles, but I am not a big fan of them. I picture something more along the lines of a timeline with commentary.

Episode Articles
Articles for episode should not be created. Please read WikiProject Television/Episodes and Television episodes for when they should be created. There was already a debate on Smallville episode articles previously, that is why the articles stopped after Season 2. The focus should be on improving the main page, and then the season pages, and then, if there is a lot of information, the episode article pages. Plots, trivia, quotes, featured music, this isn't what Wikipedia is about; it's an encyclopedia. Plots are there for context with the real world information, and trivia should be avoided. I'm already working on improving both the main page and the season pages (see User:Bignole/Smallville seasons), and from the way it looks with my source material, I'll be merging all those episode articles into the season articles. All except for maybe "Pilot" and "Tempest", as they are the only ones that actually have enough relevant information that might be able to support themselves as articles.  BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  16:28, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I see your point, but I think you're swinging the article a bit too far to the negative side. If someone can make an episode article with more than just plot and trivia, I'm not going to stop them. Basically, I think your first sentence, "Articles for episode should not be created" is way too harsh.  I would say, rather, "Articles for episodes should be created with care, keeping in mind the guidelines at..." Wrad 16:44, 16 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Let me rephrase. Articles about episodes should be done with apprehension. You must ask yourself: "Where is the rest of the information?" "Is there a summary page, like a List of Episodes or a Season page?" "Would the information best be served there?" "Is the information itself relevant to Wikipedia?" ... People generally create an article and leave it forever, never touching it again, thinking someone else will work it. We have to face the idea that most of the people that work on these types of articles are basically "specialty" editors. Go to the "List of Smallville episode" article, and click any one of the episodes in the first 2 season (because they go to an individual article, as opposed to the rest that go to their counterpart on the season pages). "Featured music"? That shouldn't be there. Wiki isn't a marketing team. It's a list of pop music that appeared in the episode. That type of information is best suited on the main page, because you could explain how the creators worked with these various artists for the show itself. "Quotes"? Not only is that a violation of copyrights, because we are basically listing word-for-word what characters are saying, but we have a Wikiquote for that type of stuff. We already know about trivia. The three things that should be avoided on individual episode articles are the three things that these articles have (not including a plot). Someone rushed these out the door on the grounds that "other shows have them". Well, because other people are doing it wrong doesn't mean we should perpetuate the cycle. I've seen good articles on episodes, but they are few and far between, and most people think that if you have one then you should do them all.   BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  16:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like pretty sound advice to me. I think the episode "Reckoning" from season five might also merit an episode. Wrad 16:59, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm sure it will. I'm using the Smallville Companions for information (that's why I said that I'll probably only have enough for the pilot and tempest, but I haven't widdled it all out yet). They haven't released Season 4 and 5 companions, so I won't know about those until later. I'd assume that they would have a lot for "Reckoning" considering the impact it had on the show.   BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  17:04, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh yeah, and I have that season 5 special DVD that has the making of for the episode "Reckoning".   BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  20:09, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Work Group.
Hi we were talking about yours and the Batman project here and well it got to proposing Workgroups for the Comics project, with one of them dealing with only DC comics (discussion here, Proposal: WikiProject Council/Proposals). If this group should become a reality, we were wondering whether you might consider perhaps merging with it, along with perhaps the WikiProject Batman. The fact of the substantial overlap of the two groups in things such as World's Finest Comics, Superman/Batman, and the like would we think be somewhat beneficial. Anyway, thanks for your attention.Phoenix741 00:15, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Pilot (Smallville)
Pilot (Smallville) is currently up for FA status. Please bring more opinions here.  BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  06:29, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Jason White (character)
This minor character from the film Superman Returns has its own article. I don't think it's necessary - the vast majority of the article is a reiteration of the plot of the film. The character plays a very small role in the film and clearly doesn't deserve a separate article. I redirected the article after suggesting a redirection on the talk page and a week of no objections being voiced. However, SonPraises undid the redirect claiming no consensus was formed. Please weigh in your opinions at Talk:Jason White (character) so we can settle this. Thanks. --Jtalledo (talk) 15:14, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Proposed merger with WikiProject Comics
For the purposes of centralized discussion, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics. Thank you. John Carter 14:55, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Criteria for tagging articles
I've recently been working on an informative speech for a speech class in which my topic is cultural impact of comics. I've been doing research here and there and mainly been using Wikipedia to just check a quick fact. As I scanned Wikipedia, I noticed some articles that could be tagged as Superman articles but aren't. For example, I noticed that Christoper Reeve and Brandon Routh are tagged, but not Gene Hackman or Kevin Spacey. Are we limiting it only to actors that portrayed Superman, or are we allowing for actors that played major characters? A follow-up question would be, what about voice actors? Tim Daly voiced Superman in Superman: TAS. Should he be tagged? Anakinjmt 03:20, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

New articles attached to project
I've tagged the following articles to be attached to the project. I plan on soon rating them, but if someone wants to take the time and do it now, that'd be cool too.


 * Atom Man vs. Superman
 * Kirk Alyn
 * The Adventures of Superman (radio)

Anakinjmt 03:50, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Creators
I'd like to create an article or list of comics creators besides Siegel and Shuster who are important to the publication history of Superman. This would include people such as Cary Bates, Curt Swan, Murphy Anderson, Wayne Boring, Mort Weisinger, Julius Schwartz, John Byrne, Dan Jurgens, Mark Waid, Geoff Johns, etc.

I would also like to include these creators as being within the scope of WikiProject Superman. Any objections?

Mookie89 (talk) 23:37, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Makes sense. Batman has a similar article. Go for it. Anakinjmt (talk) 23:43, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Origin of Superman
I have done quite a bit of work improving the Origin of Superman article, adding details and citations. I still have to tackle modern age revisions and adaptations. I wanted to get feedback on what I have done so far. In a few weeks, I am hoping that it will be feature article worthy. Mookie89 (talk) 02:16, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Superboy (Kal-El)
I basically rewrote the Superboy (Kal-El) article, keeping some of what was already present, but mostly adding new material. The article now has three main parts: (1) a detailed publishing history covering 1944-1992; (2) a section on writers, artists, and editors; and (3) a fictional biography (circa 1985). I did what I had in mind (more or less) when I added Superboy (Kal-El) to the list of pages needing improvement in September. Any feedback is appreciated. Spiderboy12 (talk) 07:41, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Centralized TV Episode Discussion
Over the past months, TV episodes have been redirected by (to name a couple) TTN, Eusebeus and others. No centralized discussion has taken place, so I'm asking everyone who has been involved in this issue to voice their opinions here in this centralized spot, be they pro or anti. Discussion is here. This issue is affecting the Smallville articles and most have been deleted. --User: (talk) 01:13, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Kryptonite in Smallville
There's an expired prod notice on this article. Yet, I notice that your project has a tag on the article and there's no consensus on the talk page on previous discussions about the utility of the article. I'm therefore reluctant to delete it, so will remove the prod and I suggest one of you AfDs it. --Dweller (talk) 12:59, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Superman in popular culture
This article is in a poor state. It is basically a giant list of uncited original research. I've gone through a deleted large chunks of the page without references. For instance, someone claimed the character Son Goku from the Dragon Ball series was based on Superman. This is completely untrue. Son Goku was based on the fictional Chinese character Sun Wukong from the novel Journey to the West. Other examples include the mention of unrelated comic books just because they refer to their characters as "supermen". The word Superman (Nietzsche) has been in use well before superman to describe powerful men, such as Doc Savage.

Someone from this project needs to go through and do some more pruning. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 21:44, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


 * In addition, the long list of Superman's appearances in various tv shows is uncited. Each entry mentions very specific info like who played what character and who directed or animated the show. Linking to the article about each individual show is not the same as the required source that says he appeared in said shows.--Ghostexorcist (talk) 21:49, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

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WikiProject Media franchises
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Joan Alexander
Probably the most Lois of all Lois Lanes, by the numbers is getting pretty old. she is 90 and super rich. Her wikipedia biography is still lacking. I prettied it up tonight with an info box and some citations, which carried over to the 60s animated show from filmation but she was also the voice in the  Fleischer/Paramount theatricals that cost a dollar these days. I hope the invincible readers are reading between my lines here. Wikipedia is probably going to be the place where people go to look up Joan Alexander when her name shows up in the news for some reason. Did I say she was rich too? Her late husband, practically owned VW in the eastern US.


 * '''short story long, I added her to the project.

I am too involved with my low budget action exploitation picture project that isn't even a wp, or I'd be doing more. Joan was born in the same town as me.


 * @)===\==/=K3vin (talk) 2008-10-10

As I speed read this project, I see no mention of the Radio program. 1600 Epeisodes, seems like a huge oversite to me. Perhaps I am misunderstanding the purpose of prject superman. As a collector of Golden Age Radio, perhaps I am a bit biased. ---K3vin (talk)


 * That's probably because we didn't think about putting it up because we really didn't know about it. Yes, 1600 episode is a lot, but it's also one of the less significant media portrayals of the character in the history. The films and television series are more prominent, and thus stick in people's minds more when they are creating WikiProjects. Luckly, you came along and added it.   BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  12:27, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * The radio show was by no means insignificant. On the contrary, it was very popular, as Superman always has been, and also introduced some iconic elements of the character. I think Kryptonite was a radio invention, and the famous "It's a bird, it's a plane..." intro and "Up, up and away!" came from radio. The Fleischer cartoons were essentially a visual extension of the radio program, with the same major voices (Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck) as well as the same theme music and Beck's "It's a bird..." intro. 1,600 episodes sounds like a lot, but as I recall it was a daily show, basically an action-adventure soap opera, or perhaps a better term would be a radio serial. If there's a shortage of info here it's probably because the visual media have been extensive and basically overwhelmed the radio - not just for Superman, but in general. Where radio is well-covered it's where a given program didn't exist elsewhere. People have forgotten what it was like before TV. The popular media consisted of newspapers, comic books, radio, and movies - and Superman figured prominently in all of them. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 12:36, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I didn't mean less significant in the idea that it didn't mean I much. What I said was that it is less significant media portrayal when it comes to what the public (and editors apparantly) think about when they think of Superman. I say "Superman", and 90% of the time people are think of maybe 1 out of 3 names (George Reeves, Christopher Reeve, or Tom Welling). If I say name something that Superman has appeared in, 90% of the time they're going to say "films". That's because the popularity lies there. That doesn't mean the TV shows and the radio programs were not important in the history, just that they don't stick out in people's minds. You have taken this conversation to a different direction, as I was merely trying to explain why "Joan Alexander" wasn't on the WikiProject originally (because no one remembered that radio program that well).   BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  12:40, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * That was not necessarily my intent. Your point would be that wikipedia's coverage of the radio stuff on Superman is insufficient due to what I might call unintentional bias on the part of the writers (and I plead guilty as well). But I'm sure that there are plenty of sources out there. Some of the radio programs are or have been available on records and CD's. There are books that cover it to some extent. It just needs a bit more fleshing out. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 12:44, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey, I'm guilty as well. I started the radio programme article, but I haven't been able to spend any time on it.  Others have put some stuff in, but it probably needs to be expanded a bit more. DonQuixote (talk) 12:48, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Yet they pay us well for our work on these projects. :) Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 12:50, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * (edit conflict) The radio programme is listed in the Superman in Other Media template. It's probably an oversight that it's not listed in the Superman related articles template.  Same thing for the broadway show. Incidentally, they both have the Project Superman banner on their respective talk pages. DonQuixote (talk) 12:46, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * If Joan is largely forgotten, if she didn't do much film or TV work, that would in no small part explain her relative lack of coverage. Bud Collyer is probably better known, to my generation anyway, for To Tell the Truth than for his work as the voice of Superman in radio and cartoons. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 12:49, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I started this thread. I am willing to be the Superman (SM) project's radio guy.  I have the otr radio encyclopedia on order, as well as access to almost every radio epiode available.  Wikipedia's own article is pretty interesting on the show.  I have long noticed wikipedia tends to be a xer phenom.  and obviously Radio serials are something that fall way below public conciousness.  But as WP says itself, its encyclopedic, not a reflection of popular culture.  That people only know about TV and Movies, is a shortcoming of their knowledge, and if they want to learn more about SM, where do they go.  these days it seems to be WP first.  I am in the process of fleshing out Joan Alexander to at least take it out of stub status.  I just believe there should be more SM related support for her.  Beacause when it is her time, her page is going to explode, which will be a direct link to the project for readers that did not know about the radio show, etc.  I think our collective goal is to share, learn, and document the cultural phenom that is Superman.  Not to put it into a marketing perspective, but as close as this project could be.  Take a peek at this {"Radio's 'Lois Lane,' now 90, accuses money adviser of losing and stealing millions") and get an idea of how future coverage of her will be.  This is just an article about  a lawsuit.  Part of the challenge is, she largly retired from show business in the 60s.  and she is still alive.  WP:BLP is a slippery business.  Does anyone have the copy of the superman book ? Online, we can only get snippets from google book search, and it takes practice with boolean word searchs to get good snippets, then saving the image files and piecing together a ransom note style narrative, or buy the book, or go to a library.     (disclosure:  I fixed my typos above, they were driving me crazy)


 * Also incidentally, this is an example of a cross-over distraction for me. I am a vintage tv and vintage radio buff.  I tend to look up actors and actresses from these shows, and see what they got.  Alexander is so charming on The Name's the Same each weeknight on GSN.  As a result of that I cited (or is it bibliographed?) a lot of the host of that show too, Robert Q. Lewis.  I am a pretty capable fact checker.  I have 15 years experience from my days as a reasearch assistant for an "Absent Minded Professor".  My shortcoings amount to knowing  what is interesting tot he public at large and when to stop.    To me everything is interestng and interconnected. A side affect of my medicated ADD state, is hyoerfocus.  Imagine, the octopus dishwasher on The Flintstones.   The WP  Radio article and was fascinated by what the show added to the Bible of SM lore.  same thing happened at The Shadow.  My OTR bias again.  cheers folks.  :-)   K3vin (talk)

History of Superman
I don't do WikiProject Comics so I'd be hopeless at writing it but I thought I should point out that History of Superman is rather out of date, seemingly last updated in the midst of the Last Son and Camelot Falls arcs. I think these pages, like Fictional history of Spider-Man are very useful and would like to see one for Batman too, maybe this could be a good way of hinting towards Batfans. Tony2Times (talk) 15:53, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

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There have been a peer review request for Characters of Smallville at Peer review/Characters of Smallville/archive1. Please join and share your thoughts.  BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  17:19, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

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If you are interested in moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation page", contact me, User talk:Ikip
 * Moving unreferenced blp articles to a special "incubation pages"

If you are interested in watchlisting all of the unreferenced articles once you install Cleanup_listings, contact me, User talk:Ikip
 * Watchlisting all unreferenced articles

Ikip 02:23, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Source worthy of inclusion somewhere
Hi i dont know where to put this but looks good  Superman’s debut comic sells for $1 million: Sale breaks record of $317,000 for the comic that originally cost 10 cents

Tom Welling
I just wanted to say I am new to Wikipedia, but I am helping to improve the Tom Welling article and if you would like we can add it to this project. If not I am also looking for helpful peer reviews on the Tom Welling page. Thank you. Trod17 (talk) 18:46, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Suggest Merge
Awhile back I and others offered to bring this project under the scope of WikiProject Comics. Since that WikiProject seems to have broadened its focus to include "in other media".

Since this project appears to now be largely inactive, would there be any concerns from those who are still around if this was transformed into a workgroup of the comics project? It is my hope that by doing so, it may spark some life into this collaborative effort. - jc37 20:15, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Except for article tagging, the move and merge is done as far as I can tell. - jc37 22:46, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Distinguish Patterns
In "Lois and Clark" Superman had an ability to distinguish patterns, such as reading several different letters just from looking on the wooden table that they were written on. Why was this ability removed?


 * I am not sure it ever was "removed". It was, apparently, added to that show. In the case you mention, it seems to me that it might be counted as being a combination of microscopic vision on the wooden table and photographic memory, both of which abilities the character already has. That being the case, I tend to think that it may have been just an easy description used by the show to describe other abilities. However, if the ability was never included in the canonical abilities as per the original comic books, I tend to think that it was not so much "removed", because it never had been in the comic, but just that they overlooked the variation created for the TV series. There tend to be a lot of changes from series to TV, and that may have been the case here. John Carter (talk) 00:58, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Superman articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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