DC Database talk:Staff Template

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Problems

This template includes a lot of nonexistent things in its articles, and the "Titles" section is confusing. The usage lists it as COMIC TITLES, but from the code I can tell it's supposed to be "CREATOR TITLES" i.e. Writer, Penciler, etc.. I tried to use it to mean "creator titles" on a page. I put down:

• Writer; Penciler; Cover Artist

What showed up on the page was:

• Writer, Penciler, Cover Artist, [[Category:s]], [[Category:s]]

It also categorized Frank Miller into the "S" category. I added the additional titles "Director" and "Screenwriter," which made the awkward categories go away, but as there's no "[[Category:Screenwriters]], the word "Screenwriter" didn't appear, and it still categorized the article into "[[Category:S]]."

Naturally, I didn't save any of these changes.

Also, the bottoms of creator pages contain full lists of links to empty categories now.
* [[Category:/Penciler]]
* [[Category:/Editor]]
* [[Category:/Colourist]], Etc.
Each of these categories are empty, and I have no idea why somebody made pages for them all, but every creator page links to an extensive list of them.

-Billy 18:02, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Would somebody change the autocat from Category:Copy Edit to something more specific, maybe Category:Staff Bio Needed? It would be a good thing to keep the Copy Edit category for articles that need editing of copy and relegate staff bios to something else. The Paradox 23:37, 7 October 2008 (UTC)