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I learned that comics that do not fall within a series are given the name of the publisher as the series name, with the addition of publication type (HC, SC) and country code. However, I increasingly see that the series is completed differently, which leads to series that ultimately only contain 1 strip. Example: Kindred Is this change correct or are these changes incorrect?
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someone maybe?
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I'm sorry no one has responded to your excellent question. I don't have the answer for you either, but I'll respond anyway, because the series name field is used very inconsistently within LastDodo anyway. I also regularly see the opposite of what you describe: a comic that is clearly part of a series, but is then given the meaningless term '[Publisher] editions' as the series name, resulting in a mixed bag of comics from all kinds of series under that name. ends up. My question to you in return is: couldn't you simply consider a comic that appears as a one-off edition as a series of one? Sometimes it turns out a year later that a sequel will be released, so you don't always know in advance whether something is a one-off. That way we would at least have a consistent way of naming, instead of a rule that says 'if this then that, else...'. I realize that this would require an adjustment to the official completion instructions, but I now see (just like you) that it is not always properly applied (and monitored).
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October 30, 2023 17:48
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What exactly is unclear about Article 16 of the Comics Handbook?
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gedo tomdejong14 Collectioneur
I have checked #9959817 and #8979707 and made improvements and adjustments here and there.
I think it's correct now. And as Collectioneur says, (almost) everything is clearly stated in the Comics manual.
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MandersH Collectioneur I also didn't dispute that the Comics Handbook provides pretty good instruction. My point was that the interpretation of those instructions is very inconsistent. Take this (fictional) series as an example: https://www.lastdodo.nl/nl/areas/16923-vrijbuiter-houden . This contains a number of one-off expenses that, in accordance with the manual, you can indeed put into a 'Freebooter expenses' category. But there are also all kinds of real series hidden in this mixed bag, such as Tom & Jerry numbers 1 to 29. And yes, I know, you can sort by 'Hero' within the collection bin. but that does not always work cleanly. Sometimes there are also stories of the same character in other series and you always get them included. That's fine if you're actually searching for 'Hero' (and you want to look across all series), but not if you just want to see the numbers of a specific series listed. I really can't figure out from the manual why this would be the intention. It is also applied very inconsistently, because otherwise all comics could be placed under '[Publisher] publications' and fortunately that is not the case. For example, the 126 Superman Classics ( https://www.lastdodo.nl/nl/areas/18116-superman-classics ) are neatly grouped together and not under 'Classics editions'. Why is this different, for example, with publications from the Vrijbuiter?
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Superman Classics has a Comic / Classic type.
With comics and classics the series name works slightly differently.
This can also be read in the comics manual under 16.4
LastDodo occasionally deviates from the Overstreet Price Guide.

And yes, there are still plenty of errors in the Comics Catalogue.
There is still plenty to improve and adjust in the Comics Catalog.
But administrators are only human. I can't spend all my free time on improvements.
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MandersH Collectioneur You take it as criticism, but that's not the intention at all. Rather, it is an offer to help. I am also an administrator, just like you. But almost every time I want to make an improvement in this area, it is rejected by a super administrator :-(

So again, no criticism, but both 'arguments' you list are really wrong.

First of all, more than half of the items in the fictional series of Vrijbuiter publications are ALSO characterized as Comics in LD. E.g. https://www.lastdodo.nl/nl/items/55848-wickie-1 and there are 138 in that 'series'. In that respect, no difference whatsoever with the Superman Classics that I mentioned as a counterexample.

You also refer to section 16.4, but that is specifically about American comics, given the reference to the Overstreet guide. I don't think there is anything in the manual that says that 'comics' from the Vrijbuiter should be treated differently than, for example, Superman Classics. I am very willing to do the work for that.
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You also refer to section 16.4, but that is specifically about American comics, given the reference to the Overstreet guide.

16.4 is about Comics and not specifically just about American comics. The fact that the OPG is mentioned there is to indicate how such a series name works.
I don't know the items from Wickie etc., so I can't judge whether they are Comics/Classics or Albums.
What reason was given for rejecting Comics/Classics series being given a series name other than "Freebooter Editions"?
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sorry it wasn't meant as criticism. I am often told that I am very direct.
Any help is welcome.

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It can be adjusted to my liking.

You can adjust them, but it is a lot of work because you have to adjust the series name one by one.
For example, a normal Wickie comic can be used as a series name: Wickie [1975-1976] [NLD]
and with the Wickie Collector's Band for example: Wickie Collector's Band [1975-1977] [NLD]
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I would call the series of Wicky comics "The Crazy Teevee Strip".
At least then they can finally be found under that subtitle.
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16.4 is about Comics and not specifically just about American comics. The fact that the OPG is mentioned there is to indicate how such a series name works.
It is then confusing that the first sentence is: "For comics we use the common series name according to the Overstreet Price Guide." The Overstreet guide is of course only about American comics and does not contain a guideline as described in the LastDodo manual. Overstreet's simple rule is that you must use the series name in the 'indicia', nothing else. This rule applies not only to strips in 'comic' format, but also to graphic novels (comic albums) and digests (pockets).

Dutch comics in comic format are less consistent with giving a series name in the indicia, so Overstreet's rule cannot be adopted 1-on-1 for Dutch comics anyway. That doesn't matter to my point. It doesn't really matter to me which series name you use, as long as that series name is a unique indication for a consecutive series of related comics. I would be happy to discuss with Boekenmagazijn what the Wickie comics from Vrijbuiter are called. , but the first thing that mattered is that the 52 songs from that series can be found as one set.

What reason was given for rejecting Comics/Classics series being given a series name other than "Freebooter Editions"?

Usually no reason was given at all, but the change was simply reversed. I then contacted Arco several times (may he rest in peace), but he always gave examples in the corner of Lucky Luke or Suske and Wiske or he only referred to the manual.
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You can adjust them, but it is a lot of work because you have to adjust the series name one by one.
For example, a normal Wickie comic can be used as a series name: Wickie [1975-1976] [NLD]
and with the Wickie Collector's Band for example: Wickie Collector's Band [1975-1977] [NLD]
I am quite willing to invest time in that. The naming convention (from the manual) that you indicate is indeed already widely used and I think it's fine. Sometimes it can be useful to include a 'subheading' for the distinction, as Boekenmagazijn suggests. As far as I'm concerned, what you see on the cover is leading, because that's usually what people search for. I might do a series first and see how that turns out. I'm sure no one will complain about the fact that they are no longer listed under 'Freebooter publications', because if you want to search by publisher, there is already an excellent filter option for that.
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Take the excellent suggestion of Boekenmagazijn, that subtitle is indeed on every part of that series. Since I can't immediately see if there are any other books with that subtitle, I would make it: "Wickie: The crazy Teevee Strip".
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Go for Collectioneur's suggestion. Then it becomes
Wickie: The crazy Teevee Strip [1975-1976] [NLD]
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The first 12 Tom and Jerry abums appeared under the series name Tom and Jerry strip abum , with the subtitle "New fantastic adventures of the well-known TV heroes". The subtitle was then changed to "New adventures of the TV heroes" and numbered 13 to 29, but the series name was omitted.

PS The Wickie series likes the name variation "doldwaze" (the spelling was not very consistent).
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The album series has been created: "Wickie: The crazy Teevee Strip [1975-1976".
The name variation with "doldwaze" is also included.
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Collectioneur Boekenmagazijn MandersH
I have converted a number of the Vrijbuiter publications into their own series. I have followed the naming convention that had already emerged from the above discussion. I noticed that Collectioneur had not put [NLD] after the series name. That may also be 'overkill', because Dutch comics are more or less the 'default' within LastDodo. I did add a closing ] after the release period. It's nice that it was already thought out that for Wickie it should be possible to search for both 'crazy' and 'crazy'. My question is where do you indicate such a name variation?
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Never mind, I've already seen it... you fill that in under the management options. I honestly did not know that one's own attributes (in database terms) can be entered for, among other things, the series names. I also added the name variation with 'doldwaze' to the series name to which I added the closing ]. Tomorrow I will continue transferring the Wickie numbers.
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