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== Requested move at [[Talk:Spider-Man: One More Day#Requested move 11 April 2025]] ==
[[File:Information.svg|30px|left]] There is a requested move discussion at [[Talk:Spider-Man: One More Day#Requested move 11 April 2025]] that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. [[User:Trailblazer101|Trailblazer101]] ([[User talk:Trailblazer101|talk]]) 16:56, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

== Minor tie-in comics ==

Usually, crossover events have small miniseries of a handful of issues about a given character, focused on the event. If not notable for a standalone article, should those redirect to the article about the character (or, if avalable, the article about the comic books of said character) or the article about the event? For example, [[Doctor Strange of Asgard]], should it redirect to [[Doctor Strange (comic book)]] or to [[One World Under Doom]]? [[User:Cambalachero|Cambalachero]] ([[User talk:Cambalachero|talk]]) 01:39, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

:Whichever covers it more in depth. I would reckon that DSofA would be a more major factor in the One World series with its fairly small number of issues than in the tale of a character that has appeared in hundreds of comics. -- [[User:NatGertler|Nat Gertler]] ([[User talk:NatGertler|talk]]) 02:23, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

== Requested move at [[Talk:Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation#Requested move 10 April 2025]] ==
[[File:Information.svg|30px|left]] There is a requested move discussion at [[Talk:Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation#Requested move 10 April 2025]] that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. '''<span style="font-family: 'Georgia';">[[User:Valorrr|<span style="text-shadow:2px 2px 2px #a6a6a6"><span style="color: #8c8c8c;">Valorrr</span></span>]] <span style="color: #000000"><sup>([[User talk:Valorrr|<span style="color: #000000"><span style="text-shadow:2px 2px 2px #8c8c8c">lets chat</span></span>]])</sup></span></span>''' 16:19, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

== Large scale copyright investigation ==

An IP editor added a large amount of copyrighted text to various comics releated articles so their edits to over 360 articles dating back to July 2011 are being reviewed. If you want to see the full scope or get involved in the cleanup, please see the details here: [[Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/62.28.10.10]]. So far it looks like just [[Krakoa]] has been [[Talk:Krakoa#Copyright problem|tagged]] as "{{xt|will likely be [[Wikipedia:PDEL|deleted after one week ''unless'' it can be verified to be free of infringement]]}}". [[User:Sariel Xilo|Sariel Xilo]] ([[User talk:Sariel Xilo|talk]]) 18:30, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

== Now capitalization ==

The article [[NOW Comics]] has [[MOS:ALLCAPS]] problems in its title and throughout the article. (If NOW is an acronym, I've never heard it and there is no such claim in the article.) I have a [[WP:COI]] with regard to Now as I did some projects for them, but if someone else wants to tackle it, there you go. -- [[User:NatGertler|Nat Gertler]] ([[User talk:NatGertler|talk]]) 23:58, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

== Requested move at [[Talk:U.S. Agent#Requested move 5 May 2025]] ==
[[File:Information.svg|30px|left]] There is a requested move discussion at [[Talk:U.S. Agent#Requested move 5 May 2025]] that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. [[User:Cyberdog958|<span style="color:navy;">''cyberdog''</span><span style="color:orange;">'''958'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:Cyberdog958|<span style="color:teal;">Talk</span>]]</sup> 05:22, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

== Discussion at [[:Talk:Sailor Moon#Recent LGBT-content changes|Talk:Sailor Moon §&nbsp;Recent LGBT-content changes]] ==
[[File:Symbol watching blue lashes high contrast.svg|25px|link=|alt=]]&nbsp;You are invited to join the discussion at [[:Talk:Sailor Moon#Recent LGBT-content changes|Talk:Sailor Moon §&nbsp;Recent LGBT-content changes]], which is within the scope of this WikiProject.  [[User:Sjones23|Lord Sjones23]] ([[User talk:Sjones23|talk]] - [[User:Sjones23/Wikipedia contributions|contributions]]) 01:19, 27 May 2025 (UTC)<!-- Template:WikiProject please see -->

== Discussion at [[:Talk:Christopher Reeve#Juilliard|Talk:Christopher Reeve §&nbsp;Juilliard]] ==
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== Creators of Big Hero 6? ==

Even though we have sources stating that the original team was created by [[Steven T. Seagle]] and [[Duncan Rouleau]] (the story they wrote which would have been the first appearance of the characters was not printed until after the miniseries by writer [[Scott Lobdell]] and artist Gus Vasquez), [[User:Agustinaldo]] has disregarded this information and without using any sources to back up the claim, changed this in several articles to Lobdell and Vasquez being the creators: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big_Hero_6_%28comics%29&diff=1294557376&oldid=1292953683] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven_T._Seagle&diff=prev&oldid=1294558210] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scott_Lobdell&diff=prev&oldid=1294558419] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GoGo_Tomago&diff=prev&oldid=1294560557] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Honey_Lemon&diff=prev&oldid=1294560599] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hiro_Takachiho&diff=prev&oldid=1294560670] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baymax&diff=prev&oldid=1294560731] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big_Hero_6_(film)&diff=prev&oldid=1294561518] What is the correct response to this situation? [[User:BOZ|BOZ]] ([[User talk:BOZ|talk]]) 12:58, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

:"Would have been" doesn't work. If the characters debuted in "Sunfire and Big Hero 6" #1, then the creators are the writer and penciller of "Sunfire and Big Hero 6 #1". That's how it's always been regarding comic characters in this wiki.
:Examples of this are Ghost Rider (Gary Friedrich and Mike Ploog), Venom (Todd McFarlane and David Michelinie) and Doctor Strange (Stan Lee and Steve Ditko). "Sources" and vague ideas about who came up with the character first aren't factored, we go by the first established writer/penciller duo as noted in the credits for the comics. [[User:Agustinaldo|Agustinaldo]] ([[User talk:Agustinaldo|talk]]) 13:09, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

I reverted edits back to crediting Roleau and Seagle, but I still don't agree with crediting them. We don't credit Jim Shooter and/or Mike Zeck with Venom, even though they "might have" created him, and we give credit to Stan Lee for creating Doctor Strange even though Ditko "might have" been Strange's sole creator. Actual credits in the comics overrule any "might have"s.
--[[User:Agustinaldo|Agustinaldo]] ([[User talk:Agustinaldo|talk]]) 13:30, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

:If I'm wrong, hopefully other respondents can clarify this. Thank you for the self-reverts in the meantime. [[User:BOZ|BOZ]] ([[User talk:BOZ|talk]]) 13:32, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
:We created John Romita for co-creating Wolverine in the infobox, even though Herb Trimpe drew his first appearances. If the book has a ''created by'' credit, then that's a credit to the creators, but we shouldn't assign creators based on assumption. -- [[User:NatGertler|Nat Gertler]] ([[User talk:NatGertler|talk]]) 13:45, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Back when Romita died, I was vehemently against the "eulogy edits" that named him as the creator of Wolverine, because I do believe Herb Trimpe deserves the credit and not Romita. Just like this time, lack of consensus meant I relented and I let Romita be credited for Wolverine.

When I mean by "the credits", I mean the credits on the comic when the character first debuted, not vague "created by" credits in other comics/other media. The fact is that Sunfire and Big Hero #1 is their debut, not any other "but really written first" comic.

--[[User:Agustinaldo|Agustinaldo]] ([[User talk:Agustinaldo|talk]]) 14:06, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
:What do third party sources say? Characters aren't always created by the people who wrote/drew their first published appearance. Kirby is the creator of Silver Surfer because Stan Lee publicly said the character wasn't in his story synopsis. Tom DeFalco created Darkhawk but never wrote the series. - Tim  <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/170.85.6.119|170.85.6.119]] ([[User talk:170.85.6.119#top|talk]]) 20:10, 10 June 2025 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

::We go by what secondary sources say, period. While creators may ''usually'' be those who wrote/drew a character's first appearance, we know that this is not always the case, since there are cases of creators who have a hand in the creation of the character that did not write or draw their first apparance (as with [[John Romita Sr.]] and [[Wolverine (character)|Wolverine]]), or whose first rendition of the character was delayed to the point when the charcter's depiction by another artist was published first (as with [[Jim Lee]]'s creation of [[Gambit (comics)|Gambit]], whose intended first appearance in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #266 ended up being published ''after'' [[Arthur Adams (comics)|Arthur Adams]]' depiction of the character in ''Uncanny X-Men Annual'' #14). Wikipedia policy is clear on this, and if the other editor does not have sources, or any other policy-based argument for their edit, then the pasage in the article should remain as it had been. [[User:Nightscream|Nightscream]] ([[User talk:Nightscream|talk]]) 20:14, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
:You seemingly want to redefine the word “creator” to mean something besides the person who created something. If we want to say who wrote and drew the first appearance to see print, it should be another term. [[User:NatGertler|Nat Gertler]] ([[User talk:NatGertler|talk]]) 10:21, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

== [[:File:Iron Man (circa 2018).png]] listed for discussion ==

[[File:Information icon4.svg|link=|25px|alt=Information icon]] There is currently a discussion at [[Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2025 June 16]] regarding proposed deletion of the file.&nbsp;The thread is [[Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2025 June 16#File:Iron Man (circa 2018).png|File:Iron Man (circa 2018).png]].&nbsp;The discussion is about the topic [[:Iron Man]].<!--Template:Discussion notice--> <span style="font-family:Courier;">&mdash; [[User:Trailblazer101|''Trailblazer''<sup><u>'''101'''</u></sup>🔥]]<sup> ([[User talk:Trailblazer101#top|discuss]] · [[Special:Contributions/Trailblazer101|contribs]])</sup></span> 02:42, 16 June 2025 (UTC)