Forum:Making pages for individual VHS/DVD/ect. releases

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This one should be pretty straightforward; I think there should be pages for each individual home video release of Doctor Who media.

The way we cover it now is in the form of lists, or relegated to the bottoms of story articles. But I think they should get pages in the same vain as those that we do for graphic novel compilations.

Simple. I… can't think of anymore reason than that. WaltK ☎

Discussion

Umm... Why? The lists, for me, appear to suffice. What new information would be presented in these articles that could not easily be found elsewhere? Aquanafrahudy 📢 18:13, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Easy:

• 1) To include coverage on things like bonus features and other miscellaneous info that the lists currently don't.
• 2) To declutter those story pages just a little bit.
• 3) For consistency. As I pointed out, doing this would be no different from covering the individual graphic novel releases we get for comic stories.

WaltK ☎ 18:20, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Okay then, I support this proposal. Aquanafrahudy 📢 18:39, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

I do think one major failing of our website is that our story of DVD releases isn't clear enough. But in some cases would it not make more sense to have a subpage? Like, The Five Doctors (TV story)/Home video or something. Then we'd have full subsections about each release and the material included, galleries, etc. I don't see the point in having pages like The Five Doctors (1985 VHS), The Five Doctors (1990 VHS), The Five Doctors (1999 DVD), The Five Doctors (2008 DVD) etc.

One thing I do think is that special collections (like... The Collection) should have their own pages. There is no reason that The Collection Season 12 shouldn't exist, we should treat these as the same as magazines or books. OS25🤙☎️ 19:04, 9 June 2023 (UTC)