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Contents 1 History 2 Conversion to qif 3 Requested move 4 colorist

[edit] History

Created and added documentation: Hiding talk 21:56, 8 December 2005 (UTC) Converted to qif by Adrian and myself over the 14th and 15th December 2005. Examples finished, and reference added 16th December 2005. Hiding talk 20:48, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Conversion to qif

Hi! I've been so bold to try to convert to template:qif, which is faster and server friendlier (one less call level). I am doing that to several templates at the moment. While converting, I think I found two bugs: I inserted two times the char "|" (at the beginning of the respective lines, it's a bit hard to see in the diff). I think there was some nesting error. Hope I'm not wrong. Sorry for intervening your work. – Adrian | Talk 22:40, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Obviously there is now something broken as can be seen in the examples. As this is not used in articles, I'll leave it for now, maybe you can see better what's wrong. Please feel free to revert. But trust me: qif is better than if. Sorry for that half baked edit. – Adrian | Talk 22:49, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

This template should be at Template:Cite comic in conformance with all other citation templates of this sort. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 19:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

• Makes a degree of sense... and presumable the existing uses will still work after the move. Also, "comic book" would be inappropriate since this can also be used for web comics, strips, and so on. - J Greb 19:33, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Support Makes sense to me. Why would comics be different from all other media? -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 18:20, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

This article has been renamed from Template:Comic book reference to Template:Cite comic as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 18:25, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

• Ouch. There's actually a comic strip reference that should be used rather than this for strips and the like. One job on the long to do list was to merge those two and the other variant for single panel cartoons into one and house them in a single template at cite:comic. Hiding Talk 11:24, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

  Why's that an "ouch"? All that's left to do is the merge. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 18:54, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

  It's an ouch because it's a prod in the ribs to get on and do it. Hiding Talk 10:36, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

  Heh. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 18:11, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] colorist

Could someone add a colorist field? And a corresponding "multiple" colorist field like inkers and pencillers have?--Rockfang (talk) 20:31, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

• What articles are you looking to cite the colorists for? It might be easier to simply subst the template and then add that info. Would that help?
  • I'd rather it just be added to the template.--Rockfang (talk) 20:27, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
    • Feel free to do so. Hiding T 20:29, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
      • I would if I knew how. That's why I was asking if someone could do it.--Rockfang (talk) 20:34, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
        • The trouble is it's a hard slog to do it, and like I say, it would only be useful in very few articles and therefore it's easier to just subst the template and add the extra info. If you provided me with an article, I could show you how to do it. Hiding T 20:37, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
          • Thanks for the offer, but I know how to subst stuff. I've gotten the colorist field working at Template:X6 using User:Rockfang/Sandbox, but I can't get the Co colorist field to show. Any ideas?--Rockfang (talk) 00:15, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
            • I've solved that issue, but there are issues with that version of the template. It won't display the colorist field if the writer and artist are the same. Hiding T 13:28, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
            • Also, how many works have more than one colorist? Hiding T 13:40, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
              • Thanks for working on the template. I'm not sure of the number of multi-colorist comic books but one example is DC Comics' Secret Origins volume 2 #10.--Rockfang (talk) 16:56, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
                • Let's refine that a little — how many stories from an issue have multiple colorists. I believe that if we're are using the cite properly, we're citing the specific story from a comic that has multiple sotires like Secret Origins. - J Greb (talk) 22:44, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
• Ok. Forget I ever mentioned co-colorist. The point is, colorist should still be added to Cite comic. It was a valid job title used by at least DC Comics from at least 1985-1990. Would anyone have a problem with me adding it to this template?--Rockfang (talk) 00:56, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
  • If we add it we'll have to add letterer. And the template is a bit of a mess, with the punctuation all messed up. You've nudged me into accepting it needs to be done, so if you can hang on, I'll try and get it done. I've long had it on my to do list to merge this with the cartoon and comic strip citation templates, so if you can hang on I'll get to it. And I apologise for being so grumpy before. I'm somewhat frazzled at the minute doing increased hours at work. Hiding T 10:37, 29 April 2008 (UTC)