Forum:Comic campaign

Okay, so I noticed that Sonic News Network has articles for the Sonic the Hedgehog comics, miniseries, specials, etc. Admittedly most of the issues don't have articles yet, but I had an idea. My original intention with this website was to have an article for every one of the issues, and thus you could check out the articles while seeing them referenced in the other articles. At the time however I thought it would have been too much effort, so I didn't bother. Now that there are some more members on here, is there anyone who thinks we should create articles for every single Archieverse comic, and then go through all of the existing articles, one-by-one, and make sure to make the referenced issues link to those articles? It is a monumental task and certainly won't be easy, but I think it would be worth it. Anyone else interested? If there are enough people willing to work on this campaign, we'll go for it. If not, I may leave things as is for a while, but considering this is the Archie-Sonic wiki, I think we should go for it. - 00:59, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

I agree. I definitely would like to see the comics get their own articles, but do you plan on putting in a full review of the issues themselves along with a couple of scans to highlight certain points in the comic? And are you planning on all of the comics overall (KtE, all specials, Sonic Universe, etc.) getting their own article? Arbiter0416 15:39, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


 * The plan is to cover all of the Archieverse material, which includes Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Universe, Knuckles the Echidna, the Super Specials, one-off specials and the various miniseries. Sonic Select and Sonic Archives are just reprints so they're pretty much unnecessary, but we could do those as well. As for how the articles would look, I'm thinking there'd be a comic template with the cover of the issue, the date it was published, story titles, staff who worked on it, what issue comes before it and what issue comes after it, and for the main article part it would basically be a summary/review, and another heading for "key events that happened in this issue" (for example KtE #9 would have "Enerjak was defeated by Mammoth Mogul and had his powers stolen" or something to this effect). It's a massive effort and would take some serious work from numerous users, it'd have to be well co-ordinated and all of the comics' articles would have to follow the same layout. Also, then we have to go through the existing 530 or so articles and place the  around the issue numbers so it links to the issues, which is no small task either. So, who think we should do this? - Dimitri the Echidna 02:41, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

I do have an idea for this. The article pages themselves can be created on empty pages with the templates and headings already in place, and the users can add the info themselves if they have the issue. How long does it take to create a single article with the headings and template anyway? If it's not that much trouble, you can make 200 of them, and the users can fill in the rest as the issues come out or if they have the back issues of the older comics. Arbiter0416 03:14, 8 March 2009 (UTC)