Thread:Harasar/@comment-24800939-20190125163923/@comment-1487274-20190412115853

Harasar wrote: Copeinator123 wrote: Are you saying fetch information, as in anything or just specifically infobox information, because if thats the case we could also just remove it and have it as a manual input, I would also prefer a suppression of those categories. Is there a another small template you could create as ComicCreatorsGrab that would work that you could insert? Marvel Database:Test Reprint Template can automatically fill fields for writer and other stuff with information from the original. So, with addition of Template:AppearanceGrab and Template:StoryGrab, you just need to fill field ReprintOf1 with the name of original comics and all information would be automatically filled. However, where is a weird parameter in DPL query for writer and other stuff that I couldn't understand. And without understanding it, I couldn't modify it to suppress categorization.

So, for now, I'm trying to create my own template to do the same work AND suppress categorization. I've made a great progress and created template that can grab staff from the specified story and add them into reprint without categories. The results can be seen, for example, here - Marvel Comics 70th Anniversary Edition Vol 1 1. The first reprinted story is the first in original, second reprinted story is second in original, etc. Right now I've applied my new template only to the first two stories. The rest are filled the old way so you can see what they all fetch information from the original's 1st story instead of a specified story.

I can naturally apply my new template to the rest stories, but have an important question about reprints in general. Is there comics that have original story(-ies) and reprint(s) in the same issue? If there are, then it's probably would be better to integrate reprints functionality into main Comics Template. If no, then I can fully transform Marvel Database:Test Reprint Template into template for reprints only that would automatically fetch all relevant information from the original, i.e. I would be able to greatly reduce the size of the template by deleting all code for manually added information.