Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics/Cleanup/Archive/WikiProject Cleanup

In the Beginning

Several times, Psyphics (talk · contribs) and I teamed up to make articles suitable for merging. The articles were immense, but working together, we cut right through them, copy editing, condensing, and finding sources. Not only did something that had been overwhelming become much easier, the collaborative effort proved to be fun.

In the first few months of editing with the WikiProject Comics, I was amazed by the deication of not just some of the users who had been around longer, but also some of the comparatively newer editors like me. I grew to prefer editing articles within the WikiProject Comics purview because of the sense of community, support, and comeraderie I felt. I didn't just have good faith in my fellow editors; I really believed in them and the work they were doing. In the past month or so, some of the editors I really respect have decreased their participation, often because of stress and an increasing feeling of futility about mainting article quality. I'm one of them.

I'm hoping this project will give editors a boost and make editing more engaging and fun again. We're in this together.

Each week (up for discussion) we'll pick one or more (up for discussion) articles to work on as a group. We each have our strengths: I like to condense plot summaries. Steve block (talk · contribs) has said he likes finding sources. I know Tenebrae (talk · contribs) and others have created articles about comics professionals, something I don't believe I have done. I am of course open to any ideas other editors may have about goals, procedures, and membership.

Among my goals for this project is a page for resource material for citations with information on in it ranging from comics magazines like The Comics Journal, Comicology, Back Issue, and Wizard to online news sites like Newsarama, Comic Book Resources, Ninth Art, and Sequential Tart. Of special note are columns "Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed" and "Lying in the Gutters", both at CBR.

I am excited to focus once more on working with each of you. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 02:38, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for setting this up Chris. I look forward to contributing and hope it helps to alleviate my cynicism and feelings of futility toward WP:CMC and fiction-related articles in general. --Newt _ΨΦ 19:54, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Though I tend to edit and clean up "all over", I tend to focus on lists, categories, grammar, and WP:OR. (I like to organise: )
Please feel free to drop off organizational requests on my requests talk page. - jc37 18:02, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Naming conventions (comics)

Proposal for a clearer standard. Current discussion at User talk:Jc37/Proposals/WP:Naming conventions (comics) - jc37 17:55, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]