Forum:Two questions on DWBIT comics pages
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While looking for uses of the American spelling "installment" (instead of the UK spelling "instalment"), I discovered that nearly all of the pages on Doctor Who: Battles in Time comics had a section titled "Original print details" with this written below the section head:
- (Installment, publication with page count and closing captions)
And then it gave just that, in something of a shorthand style. I assumed that this was an instruction that used to be on the preloaded page format, and should have been deleted, so I got rid of the instruction. But then I realized that apart from the closing caption, all the information was (or should be) in the infobox. Do we really need to give this information twice, and in this format? Are closing captions useful or interesting information for anybody? Would anyone mind if I just deleted the section on all those articles? There's something similar on some, but not all, pages for Doctor Who Adventures comics as well. I think that the infobox should suffice for this.
Second, I also noticed on the DWBIT comics pages that most of them have this boilerplate text in the "References" section:
- The Battles in Time comic strip sought to reinforce the association of its Doctor with the one seen on screen with ‘props’ from the TV series: his blue/brown suit, sonic screwdriver, psychic paper and his intelligent glasses.
This seems fairly pointless to me. Surely this could be said of any adaptation, especially any comic adaptation. Furthermore, in some cases there are specific notes added to this pointing out which of these "props" did or did not appear in the story. Wouldn't it simply be better to note if the Doctor used one of these in a specific strip, and cut the boilerplate? I could remove it from the pages, but I don't actually have the Battles in Time issues, so I can't verify specific appearances. —Josiah Rowe talk to me 03:39, June 30, 2012 (UTC)
