Thread:The S/@comment-995426-20190329053345

These categories could be better organized than they currently are. As it stands, the scope of certain categories isn't clear, and there are also duplicate categories. Because this could potentially get very messy if I act unilaterally, I wanted to discuss comics category structure.

I'm thinking, for categories related to publisher: For specific series titles: The Rise of the TMNT comics seem to be tied in with the TV series by design, so that might not need a separate category...?
 * Category:Mirage (all right as it stands, avoiding "Studios", "Publishing", "Licensing", "Group", etc. which has shifted so much over time)
 * Category:Archie Comics (not Category:Archie comics, as "Archie Comics" is a title)
 * Category:Image Comics (not Category:Image comics, as "Image Comics" is a title)
 * Category:IDW Publishing (not Category:IDW issues)
 * Category:Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (all right as it stands)
 * Category:Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage)
 * Category:Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures
 * Category:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles present Mighty Mutanimals (for the first mini-series, the subsequent 9-issue main series, and the Megadeath mini-series, especially considering they had identical titles)
 * Category:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Image)
 * Category:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW)
 * Category:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Animated Adventures
 * Category:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Amazing Adventures

And, of course, simpler prefixes or parenthetical suffixes for related categories, like: etc.
 * Category:Mirage characters
 * Category:Archie locations
 * Category:Image characters
 * Category:IDW locations

Also, a uniform approach needs to be used for "stories" vs. "issues" vs. "comics." I suggest: Also, while in many cases "issue" and "comic" were published as the same thing (a published issue with one comic contained), different issues of, say, Tales of the TMNT, TMNT Universe, Animated Adventures or Amazing Adventures should, at least in some cases, have separate articles for the numbered issue and the different stories contained within. Sometimes a primary story can be directly associated with an issue, but this isn't always the case, especially with NAA and AA where short stories were typically the norm.
 * "Stories" can include any comic, episode or film.
 * "Issues" are a published title with binding, a front cover and a page count, such as individually published issues, trade paperbacks or special collections. For simplicity's sake, perhaps numbered printings of the same work (1st printing, 2nd printing, 3rd printing, etc.) can share the same article, even if they may contain different backup stories, pinups, etc.
 * "Comics" are individual comic stories, such as a main comic, a backup comic or other kind of short comic. They are not defined by their issue or binding, and reprinted and trade paperback versions of the same comic don't need a separate article, etc.

Before I decided to talk to you, I'd already made some edits to try to streamline the categories, but then I quickly remembered how much more complicated and semi-unplanned the issue is, and I don't want to proceed en masse in this area without your thoughts on the matter and more importantly your authorization. 