Board Thread:Policies/@comment-867021-20121204173530/@comment-4651179-20130123205147

I have a suggestion concerning the naming of covers.

I think it would be better to change the official way variant covers must be named as the way established is becoming unused.

Instead of "Title Vol 1 1 Variant.jpg", most of use use "Title Vol 1 1 Artist Variant.jpg" when there's a variant cover to archive. So that should be the new "official" way to do it, not only because is more used, but also it helps better to know who created it.

Also, we should add a new distinctive to the covers. We all know Marvel has some "variant initiatives" when some movie or even comes out. Two of them, the most recent ones, are the "Baby Variants" by Skottie Young and (debuting in April because of certain movie) "Many Armors of Iron Man".

In this case, when a variant cover is part of a variant covers initiative, the distinctive should be of the initiative's name rather than the artist. So "Secret Avengers Vol 2 1 Young Variant.jpg" should be "Secret Avengers Vol 2 1 Baby Variant.jpg", "Iron Man Vol 5 8 Dodson Variant.jpg" be "Iron Man Vol 5 8 Many Armors of Iron Man Variant.jpg", and "Avengers Vol 5 3 Acuña Variant.jpg" be "Avengers Vol 5 3 50 years of Avengers Variant.jpg". Every example shown is named the second way shown.

Also, instead of adding the whole name of the artist, just add the surname: "All-New X-Men Vol 1 1 Rivera Variant.jpg" instead of "All-New X-Men Vol 1 1 Paolo Rivera Variant.jpg" so it's shorter.