Herocopia:Community portal

Introductions to General Policies

This page is the meeting ground for Herocopia.com topics that are more global in scope. A place to ask generic questions, raise concerns, discuss design and content issues.

A couple of slight difference for the veteran contributors to be aware of please.

1. Don't delete a policy item (like this one) when it has aged or answers have been provided. Instead, we will be archiving them to the bottom of this page.
2. Take advantage and use the "special page: Recent changes" to see where people are commenting on specific characters, topics or whatever. Don't promote a local issue to this Help Talk Page unless you feel strongly that it is global in scope. Even then, think twice about just how strongly you feel about that global nature of your topic.

For now this is just a holding ground of sorts. But it will be the place to talk about policies, overall presentation, template changes...

More to come for this section as we move along.

--Infobroker (talk) 18:08, 8 July 2013 (PDT)

To Do List (miscellaneous stuff)

• Documentation pages for the character templates. (done --Infobroker (talk) 07:10, 27 August 2013 (PDT))

• A collected page for Street Names - rather than them scattered, unless it is a really special street, with something really special happening there.

• There are still lots of pages to dredge from the Wayback Machine website. (hint hint)

• There are lots Dark Age incidental characters that still need adding. Good excuse to go back and re-read the story arc in its entirety. My only problem, I get interrupted when I find a fun incidental, like the Universals and I want to post an entry for them here on Herocopia.

• Need a 'bot for correcting punctuation for appearance lists. Had one in the past, but I think I had a hard drive crash on the computer where that was stored and running.

Time Demarcations

For now, let's use a demarcation point of the start of the current Astro Cities(2013) series as a line between current and past activities and the start of the very first Astro City comic (Aug1995) as the dividing point for early and middle periods of past activities. We can discuss and adjust... --Infobroker (talk) 07:00, 27 August 2013 (PDT)

Issue Title Templates

• The templates for formatting Astro City Comics titles need to be rebuilt. I want the names to match what is in the indentia. The abbreviations can be whatever we like. Then we need to incorporate them into the appearance lists and elsewhere. For the most part let's use 'bots here.

For now, just use something that you are comfortable with. Making it look like what we have been cut-n-pasting from the old pages would be helpful to the 'bots.

Once I have the templates working I will append something here and on the Help page. --Infobroker (talk) 07:10, 27 August 2013 (PDT)

update: --Infobroker (talk) 12:03, 4 September 2013 (PDT)

• templates and the issue pages. We need to talk about content for the individual issues and best means for referencing them when authoring articles. I have a scheme here, but it is a bit difficult to explain. Plan to discuss with Fenyx4 a table for indicating how the cross-referencing for this works.