Thread:Harasar/@comment-24800939-20190125163923/@comment-1487274-20190805124252

Nurdboy42 wrote: Harasar wrote: On the other hand, main cover of any comics is essentialy a reprint of textless cover with additional information like comics title, issue number, etc. And yet, both, main cover and textless cover, are categorized.

So, perhaps I should change template in a way that would fetch information for main cover (and reprinted cover) from the textless cover (if it exists) without categorization?

I think subjects on textless and virgin covers should still get categorized for a couple of reasons. The last two months aside, solicited covers are typically textless and get uploaded ahead of the full cover. Would the textless cover go without subjects for months before the full cover is uploaded and licensed?

And if you're looking through a character's image category, many images wouldn't be there, such as the cover currently used for Spider-Man's header.

I think a new field should be added to the image template that pulls subjects from cover A and adds them to cover B. Of course, that is assuming that's possible.

(I only bring this up because I've been creating pages for some True Believers comics, which reuse the covers of the comics they reprint, and copy/pasting subjects from one to another gets tedious after a while.) I proposed the opposite thing - treat textless cover - if it exist - as a "main version". It would have all information about the source, cover artist and subjects. The actual cover and/or any reprinted cover would fetch information from the textless version, but without categories.

If textless cover doesn't exist, then information would be on the page of actual cover.