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The purpose of this manual is to have easy access to the important templates needed when making new pages as well as being a place to discuss the need for new templates and categories. Discussions and/or questions should be written on the Discussion page and what we decide will then be added to the main page.

Note: I will be adding to this page as time permits. Please comment on the Discussion page what you think should go into this manual.

Comic Indexing

When indexing a comic the following templates are used: Template:Comic and Template:Story1 (and Story2, Story3 etc. depending on the number of stories)

Template:Comic holds the main info about the comic such as Title, Volume, Issue No., Cover Date, Price as well as Cover information (link to cover image, cover credits and so on). See the template for more information on the various fields.

Template:Story1 holds all information regarding that particular story: Credits, Character appearances (including information like "first appearance", a short description, and "last" and "next" appearances of each character), Comments regarding the story and synopses.

Chronological listing of last/next appearances

When adding last/next appearances for a character please follow these "rules" for consistency:

  • All last/next appearances should be last/next chronological appearance in the character's timeline, which is not neccesarily the same as the publication order of the books.
  • Do not add last/next appearances for appearances in the issue directly preceding or following the issue in question.
  • For appearance in earlier or later issue of the same title use this format (with ? reprecenting the issue number):
     : '''Character''' (last in issue #?) [For appearance in an earlier issue of the same title]
     : '''Character''' (next in issue #?) [For appearance in a later issue]
     : '''Character''' (in between issue #? and #?) [For appearance in between two issues]
     : '''Character''' (last in flashback in issue #?) [For appearance in a flashback in an earlier issue]
     : '''Character''' (next in flashback in issue #?) [For appearance in a flashback in a later issue]
     : '''Character''' (in between flashback in issue #? and flashback in issue #?) [For appearance in between flashbacks]
     : '''Character''' (in between flashback in issue #? and issue #?) [For appearance in between flashback and later issue]
     : '''Character''' (in between issue #? and flashback in issue #?) [For appearance in between earlier issue and flashback]
     Note that in the last two cases "issue" is used in front of both issue numbers to make it very clear that both appearances are not of the same type.
  • Last/next appearances in other books should aside from the exeptions mentioned below use the same basic format as above with the addition of the title (and volume if more volumes exist) of the book like this:
     : '''Character''' (last in ''Title'' Vol. ? #?)
     : '''Character''' (next in ''Title'' Vol. ? #?)
     : '''Character''' (in between ''Title'' Vol. ? #? and #?) [For appearances in between two issues of another title]
     : '''Character''' (last in issue #?; next in ''Title'' Vol. ? #? and #?) [For appearances issue of current and another title]
     : '''Character''' (last in ''Title'' Vol. ? #?; next in issue #?)
  • For the very first chronological appearance of the character in a flashback (if this is not also the actual first appearance of the character) use:
     : '''Character''' (chronologically earliest appearance in flashback)
  • Flashbacks: In basic use the same rules as above exept add "flashback" to the mix, like this:
     : '''Character''' (in flashback following issue #?)
     : '''Character''' (in flashback preceding issue #?)
     : '''Character''' (in flashback in between issue #? and #?)
     : '''Character''' (in flashback in between flashback in issue #? and issue #?)
     : '''Character''' (in flashback in between flashback in issue #? and flashback in issue #?)
     : '''Character''' (in flashback in between flashback in ''Title'' Vol. ? #? and flashback in issue #?)