Talk:Comic Book Archive file

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Contents 1 Readers 2 Creation? 3 How about PDF? 4 Reader spam 5 Note from article page 6 Tags in e comics

[edit] Readers

Shouldn't there be a common list of readers in all relevant articles (cbr, cbz, cdisplay). Also shouldn't they all be sorted alphabetically? Seems to me some people are putting personal preferences here...

There was a list of readers (as external links, included below) on the CDisplay page. I tried to move it here but a bot reverted it since I just made this account. In any case, this is the proper place if anywhere. TheManxome (talk) 06:32, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

< list removed >

I'm removing this. Wikipedia is not a host for a collection of software links. If said programs are notable enough for their own articles, we have list articles and categories they could be added to. if not, they don't really qualify for inclusion. Chris Cunningham (talk) 09:49, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I've added a link to an external comparison of comic viewers at ZCultFM (a popular comic forum). It's a Wiki, so if someone feels a viewer is missing or the information is outdated, he can sign up and edit it. Roskakori (talk) 17:27, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Creation?

You have links to readers, but how does one create CBR or CBZ files?--RedKnight 21:55, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Simply have a collection of images and ZIP or RAR them into a file, but make the file extension CBZ instead of ZIP or CBR instead of RAR. Many file compression utilities will allow this. - 66.93.144.171 11:00, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How about PDF?

Should we mention PDF as comic book archive file? I think marvel officially released their old spiderman comics as PDF, some websites do PDF comics (for instance STEL science comics and City of Heroes), and a couple of viewers support it (at least FFView and Jomic). Roskakori 17:27, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

No, because a pdf isn't a "Comic Book Archive" file any more than a printed comic book is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.184.241.144 (talk) 04:33, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reader spam

This counts as an indiscriminate collection of links, mostly to external sources. Such things serve as nothing more than advertising pits on Wikipedia. Away they go again. Chris Cunningham 15:32, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

WP has ENTIRE PAGES, like List of file archivers that are exactly the sort of thing you removed from this page. Are you going to request that those sorts of pages be removed? 208.66.211.217 01:40, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Note the word "list" in the title. And list articles get deleted as being spam or non-notable collections of arbitrary data all the time. Chris Cunningham 10:34, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

The fact that deleting such obviously useful information is an all too common practice on Wikipedia doesn't mean it's not a form of vandalism. I'd guess substantially more than half the people looking up a file type are looking for readers for their system. Hga 07:44, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Is there a Wikipedian corollary of Godwin's Law which deals with random comparisons of editorial disputes to vandalism? Chris Cunningham 17:15, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't know, this is the first time I've even seen it used for anything other than classic white line vandalism. But that's why I said it's a form of it, not classic vandalism as the term is used.

But I'm game: what word do you suggest I use for deletion of useful material most readers of an entry want to know? Hga 10:52, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

"Content dispute", though feel free to use "vandalism" for any edits you disagree with (like most everyone on Wikipedia does). For now though, let's see if you can come up with any more substantive reasons than "they're useful" and "other people treat Wikipedia like Download.com so we should too"; we might even come up with some consensus to put some back in. But an arbitrary collection of external links to readers is not fit for an encyclopedia. Chris Cunningham 12:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Might I suggest that we include a list of CBR viewer names for educational purposes without including external links. That way it won't be advertising and those who ARE interested can just google the names. Chronus Valtiel 18:33, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

How about creating a list of comic readers? Comic readers are NOT the same as image viewers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Solano2k (talk • contribs) 14:04, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Note from article page

This was added by User:142.177.232.8:

Feel free to verify with google, but Pierre and I are still the only people producing comics specifically designed for .cbr format.

—Jim Shelley

Chris Cunningham 08:38, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tags in e comics

Hello, is there a way to put tags in e comics files ? --Itomi Bhaa (talk) 10:42, 6 February 2008 (UTC)