Board Thread:Moderators/@comment-61022-20160511151553/@comment-61022-20170324154308

Spencerz wrote: An incarnation of the admin team many moons ago had a discussion and agreed that the foreign titles (which mainly concerned the UK variants) should not be included in the normal volume numbering order, though that doesn't seem what Digi was asking.

I think I was around for that (although I wasn't part of the discussion), and yeah, the way I understood it was that we were going to differentiate between US and foreign publications, in that if there is a similarly named title (IE: Marvel Legends, Spider-Man, etc) that the foreign title would denote the country in parenthesis and have it's own independent volume system since it is always at odds with the North American comics.

However, by and large, most publications outside of North America are generally overlooked unless it is an original series that adds to Marvel continuity (like a lot of UK titles). Probably because they are usually reprints 99% of the time.

I'm typically at odds about books that are strictly reprints as they tend to muck up appearances lists since most users typically use the {{a| tag on them as well (which is maddening when you do research). Off topic a bit on that, it would be nice if there was a way to alter the comic book template so if you used the "ReprintOf" tag it would auto-populate the summary, credits, and appearances with the data found in the original comic, but not put anything in categories so we could clean up the "false positives" for reprint material. (But thinking outside of the box, we'd have to retool the ReprintOf function to include something that can zero in on a specific original story in the case where the reprint is of a story one of many in a single issue) But I digress...