User talk:Reboot

Just checking, re: main page protection

Just noticed you protected the main page (ta for sysopping me, BTW). One thing - the text in the individual "panels" is included from templates, so it's still freely editable. Did you mean this (since five out of six are placeholder notes) or did you mean to protect them too?

Sorry to bug you, but I had to check. - Reboot (SoM) talk page 12:05, 25 June 2006 (PDT)

• We should probably protect them as well. I'd prefer any templates to be protected. Unless you can think of a reason why they shouldn't be.

Just that the non-PostZH ones are nearly empty, and I don't know enough to fill them out. Maybe put a specific call to fill them out the same way I did the post-ZH one, and then they could be locked after that? - Reboot (SoM) talk page 12:21, 25 June 2006 (PDT)

• I'll try to come up with a quick filler. Should we open it up to the public in the Legion Wiki thread or see if anyone of the SF participants wants to do it? Not sure about letting the 'regular' public do it then locking it. - --Lightning Lad 12:39, 25 June 2006 (PDT)

Ummm.... HELP!

I tried to fix the dead links on the List of Pre-Crisis members by directing them to articles that already existed for Chemical King and Dawnstar, but I seem to have frigged it up, if you could take a look.

Also, could we use an alliance color for Science Police and an issue color for Superman v1 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Duke (talk • contribs) . Please sign on talk pages with - ~~~~

Just use supporting-character-green for Sci-Cops unless there's another colour to override it (e.g., Kinetix and Magno get hero-red). Characters' affiliations often change so much, that with there being no way to put two colours in, the colour's just a general indicator. Specifics are what the list's for.

And there already IS a issue colour for Superman v1. - Reboot (SoM) talk page 09:13, 27 August 2006 (PDT)

Lastly, I notice that the Kon-El Superboy series is being referred to as v3. Are we counting New Adventures of Superboy or Superboy:The Comic Book/Adventures of Superboy as v2? My thought is that the Kin-El series should be v2 as it is the second series to go by that name, but I'm happy to go along with whatever the wiki convention is. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Duke (talk • contribs) . Please sign on talk pages with - ~~~~

The v1/v3 of Superboy corresponds to how they are labelled in Overstreet. There have been three series that were titled simply Superboy. V2 was an adaptation of the Superboy television series in the early 90's. Issues of New Adventures of Superboy (of which #50 was the only Legion appearance) should be referred to by that full name. --Gopher 05:40, 27 August 2006 (PDT)

This reminds me why I hate roman numerals in character names... - what do the comics' indicia say, as opposed to Overstreet? - Reboot (SoM) talk page 09:13, 27 August 2006 (PDT)

Overstreet uses the titles from the indicia. The title of the three Superboy series is simply Superboy in the indicia. No version number, obviously, and from just the title, an uninformed reader would have no indication that they weren't all from the same series (other than major differences in content). Overstreet refers to them as Superboy (1st series), Superboy (2nd series), etc. The New Adventures of Superboy is the full name in the indicia (and Overstreet) and why it is refered to as such in conversations here. The v1/v3 convention is comonly used by fans to make the distinction faster to write, but nothing official, either from DC or any major publication that I am aware of uses this designation. You also sometimes see the distinction made with Superboy(1949), Superboy(1990), Superboy(1994) - many large comic retailers use this. Same reason we refer to the first self-titled Legion series that anyone really cares about as LSH v2. No one really pays much attention to the 4 issue reprint series from 1973, but it was the first series to have that name. --Gopher 09:44, 27 August 2006 (PDT)

I'll have to dig out my copies, but I'm pretty certain that what Overstreet is calling the second Superboy series was actually listed in its indicia as "Superboy: The Comic Book" and then, with issue #19, "Adventures of Superboy." Still, if the majority of people want to call that v2 and Kon's series v3, I'm cool wid dat. Duke 11:33, 27 August 2006 (PDT)

Actually, I'll have to plead ignorance on the indicia for what we are calling Superboy v2. I don't own any copies since there is no Legion relationship. My info came from Mgrabois/Omnicom a few weeks ago, when I was calling the Kon-El series v2 in error. I have come not to doubt Mr. Anal Retentive Legion List himself when it comes to nit-picky issue details. I'm good with whatever we agree on, although if we dont get it right, there will be someone in the future who calls us on the issue. --Gopher 14:15, 27 August 2006 (PDT)

I don't own any copies of it either, but both Overstreet and the [Grand Comics Database] list three series titled "Superboy", but the GCD always refers to the series as "Superboy (1949)" rather than v1 since the indicia didn't say v1. The second series probably didn't say "v2" either.

Besides, there's the one issue of that Superboy series in which he met his reality's version of the Legion (or an analog of them) which I figured would be picked up here one of these years. -- Omnicom 17:34, 27 August 2006 (PDT)

Solicit covers labeled as final

Just wanted to run a strategy by you - if you think its problematic, I will discontinue doing it. I had specifically uploaded two copies of a solicit cover image, one labelled as the solicit, one as the final. My plan was to simply re-upload with the true final when it was available (I'm only applying this strategy to issues that have not yet been released), and then all the places that currently display the solicit image in place of the final would simply update with no revisions necessary to the individual pages. Admittedly, I should have mentioned this in the text for the incorrect image.

Anyway, I still think its a useful method. Since it only applies to issues which have not yet been released, the confusion factor is minimal. If you feel we should avoid this practice, I can switch to changing the pages individually as the final images become available. -- Gopher 11:46, 12 October 2006 (PDT)

Alert! User adding non-Legion external links to our Wiki

Please note that the user User:Flynmonkeysattac has added hidden casino-related links to the bottom of the Disambiguation table page, and then marked the edit as minor. I have left them intact for your reference. I assume that we can ban this user? --Gopher 19:48, 20 October 2006 (PDT)

You've been busy...

Like the move to make all of the individual series pages LPH/Series/XXX. Makes a lot of sense. I was kind of thinking in the same direction for the index pages, and was wondering what you thought of a series of pages for individual characters, such as LPH/Index/Saturn Girl, in which we could list all appearances across eras. Maybe more appropriate to name pages LPH/Index/Imra Ardeen? Overkill? Alternately, we could list the same information on the disambiguation pages, which might make a more useful page anyway.

On an entirely different note, I noticed that you started changing the format for LPH issue "entries" over to that used on the 1994-2004 page. I know this is the format you prefer, and I've been avoiding it in the pages I have been working on. I find it very difficult to look at, to the point that I get a headache if I stare at it for too long. There's something visually confusing about the story title being more prominent than the issue title. Having the issue title in bold is more like a dictionary entry, with the bold text providing a very simple way for the eye to scan the page for an entry. Do what you like, but if that's the path we're going down, I'm going to have to focus on other areas of the Wiki. I hope you'll reconsider, because I use those pages constantly, and I would hate to give up that tool.

One final note - I made all of the individual page links for L.E.G.I.O.N issues with the periods omitted, simply because its a pain in the ass to type it out that way all the time. ( [[LEGION 89 1|''L.E.G.I.O.N. '89 #1]] rather than [[L.E.G.I.O.N. 89 1|''L.E.G.I.O.N. '89 #1]] ). Would you prefer those page names have the periods included? In general, I've tried to reduce punctuation in page names if possible.

-- Gopher 18:52, 9 November 2006 (PST)

Timmverse renaming

OK, I renamed and edited everything that I could to globally change "Timmverse" to "DCAU". There are still several pages that I can't change, though, I think because I have renames and redirects or something. Use this search to see what I'm left with. [1]

I have one Talk, two Categories, 18 Articles, and 3 Templates, everything else is text within a comment somewhere.

I'm sure someone can help finish this off. -- Omnicom 22:02, 20 March 2007 (PDT)