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*The physical characteristics of the members of that range. What are their dimensions? What materials were they made out of? If printed, how many pages did they typically contain? If audio or video, what was their general runtime and format? | *The physical characteristics of the members of that range. What are their dimensions? What materials were they made out of? If printed, how many pages did they typically contain? If audio or video, what was their general runtime and format? | ||
*Intended age range of the product's consumers. | *Intended age range of the product's consumers. | ||
*Relation to other ranges. How does the range under discussion compare to others? Is it a "young person's version", as with [[Quick Reads]] versus the [[New Series Adventures]]? Is it for more mature audiences, as with the [[Virgin New | *Relation to other ranges. How does the range under discussion compare to others? Is it a "young person's version", as with [[Quick Reads]] versus the [[New Series Adventures]]? Is it for more mature audiences, as with the [[Virgin New Adventures]] versus the [[Target novelisation]]s? | ||
*Country of origin. While most ''Doctor Who'' products have been historically British, this is no longer the case. It would be important to the any of the [[IDW Publishing]] comic ranges to note their American origin, for instance. | *Country of origin. While most ''Doctor Who'' products have been historically British, this is no longer the case. It would be important to the any of the [[IDW Publishing]] comic ranges to note their American origin, for instance. | ||
*Any evidence of the relative commercial success of the range. | *Any evidence of the relative commercial success of the range. | ||
*If about the company that makes the range, as opposed to the range itself, some details about the company might be important. How [[Polystyle]]s got and lost the license for ''Doctor Who'' comics will be important to ensuring that that article is not a stub. Likewise, in the same way that an article about a product range will need to include examples of the individual members of that range, a company article should incorporate details about the various ranges that it produced. The [[Polystyle]] article, for instance, should mention ''[[TV Comic]]'', ''[[TV Action]]'' and the various holiday issues and annual of those publications. Company articles should endeavor to also mention competitors, to give a sense of the marketplace in which they operated. The [[Polystyle]] article should include some mention of [[City Magazines]] and [[Marvel Comics UK]], for example. | |||
*If about a product that has incidental relation to ''Doctor Who'' some details about the broader nature of the product might be required. For instance some context about what the ''[[Radio Times]]' is would be pertinent to explaining the ''RT''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s importance to ''Doctor Who''. | |||
*Graphics. Articles about merchandise should strive to include pictures of the company/range logo. They should also try to include pictorial representations of the product. However, they need not include a picture of ''every'' product in that range. Such full catalogues are usually spun off into a [[:category:Galleries|separate "Gallery of" article]]. | |||
Note that an article doesn't have to answer ''all'' these questions to avoid being classed as a stub. But a proper article will attempt to give a sort of context for the range that a stub lacks. | Note that an article doesn't have to answer ''all'' these questions to avoid being classed as a stub. But a proper article will attempt to give a sort of context for the range that a stub lacks. | ||
