User talk:Malestrom

Page layouts[edit]

We do not create entire sections for single sentence topics. You may think that it is "easier to navigate", but the reality is that it is an unprofessional layout. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and is written from a professional standpoint. We don't just break things down into multiple subsections when all that resides in that section is 1 or 2 sentences. That alone says that the topic itself is not notable enough to warrant separate identification. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 03:07, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is already a TCM comics page, which breaks it down. It is linked in the comic book section. The franchise page merely summarizes the comics, the comic page does all of the detailing and it uses a publisher breakdown. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 03:29, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That falls into one of the things that Wikipedia is not. In this case, Wiki is not a guide. We're not here to just list every comic book title. Like I said, the franchise page merely summarizes, it isn't there to have every title listed, otherwise there is no point to having the comic book page because it would then be redundant. Even if you're talking about a bulleted list on the comic page, that would still be just a simple guide and inappropriate. If there is no real prose about the comic then it probably isn't that notable. It appears that the comic page is listing the comic and a brief description of it. That should be fine. The franchise page does not need to duplicate that page. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 04:02, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Take a cue from Friday the 13th (franchise), which has the comics listed, but not in bulleted format. It reads more like an encyclopedia, and less like IMDB. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 05:27, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't use bulleted lists of subheaders, and it's been peer reviewed by multiple editors, copy edited multiple times, and assessed as a "Good Article". Like I said from the beginning, if you're just wanting to add the different comics, then just add them the way everything else is listed already. That means prose content, because that is the way an encyclopedia should be written. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 05:40, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not a page that's actually been reviewed as "Good Article". As a matter of fact, it failed its assessment. Here is another article that is assessed as "Good Article", it's Halloween (franchise). The comic section is set up the same way. Being separated into individual sections does not necessarily mean that that is a better way of presenting information, or even "easier" to navigate. What that actually does is drag the table of contents out to an obscene length and make the page look unprofessional and overly detailed. Bullet lists just make the page look lazy. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 06:09, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I know what looks good to me and you know what looks good to you. I also know that I have taken 2 horror franchise articles and cleaned them up to a status that most editors appreciate and have replicated in other articles. I find bulleted lists to be unsightly and lazy editing, and 100 section headers just looks unprofessional like you don't know how to organize a page. That's my opinion, and that's how I edit horror franchise articles. There's a reason that the James Bond page looks like crap when you're trying to read it. Good information in a poorly laid out page does not make a good article (whether by assessment or not). That's the last I'll say on it. As I stated, adding more information is fine. Bulleted lists or a dozen different section headers for each different comic book is something I do not think is fine. You're more than welcome to start a discussion on the article talk page about it. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 06:54, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Take it to the talk page please. It is well past my bedtime. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 07:25, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]