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October 04, 2008 23:10

The album series list contains 4 different advertising releases with 1 item each (The Zwitsal has two, but I think that's a duplicate). Is it an idea to merge these series into "Advertising expenses"?

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October 04, 2008 23:14

Makes it clearer, yes.
I've also done something like "One-off releases" for one shots that cannot be included in any series. And for Plagiarism expenses. For both, see the series / hero Agent 327.
At De Generaal I saw the series "10 years of De General" and "15 years of De General". Can also be within one series: "Anniversary Issues".
In my opinion, these kinds of combis make the list of album series per series just a little more clear.

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The only point is that if you do that with multiple series, you get an album series “commercial releases” that contains all kinds of different kinds of comics that have nothing to do with each other, except that they are commercials. On the other hand, the question is again who will search for “advertising expenditure”; it is more important that the album series per series / hero are clear. If someone is specifically looking for the Donald Duck ad release of the GGD , they do enter GGD in the search field…
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October 04, 2008 23:50

Oops, there is a very active Advertising Strip Club in Belgium. So be careful what you say deblouw. On Catawiki there is also a Type of “Advertising Release” which is managed by Kamiel, member of the Advertising Strip Club.
Album series in itself is not intended to bundle comics of the same kind. That is precisely what the field “Type” is (if you click on Types on the homepage, you will see which are available).
Maybe I should add the types of “Plagiarism” and “Parody” to that.

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October 05, 2008 00:03

Are there clubs made of that? I didn't know that :-)
hmm, hmm. I get your point. The problem is that it becomes such a messy, long list of all those album series with 1 commercial issue in it.

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October 05, 2008 00:18

Album series is not a required field. Perhaps it is also an idea to only fill in the album series if there really is a series and leave it empty for a separate release. Then we could automatically make the albums with an empty album series available jointly via a fixed link “One-time releases” in the left column. Apart from that, albums where album series has not been entered or simply occur if you have everything from a series in your selection (as happens by default, sorted by year).

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October 05, 2008 00:19

Be an active member of “De reclamestripclub” yourself! So the interest in seeing advertising spend here is definitely there!
Maybe it is an idea to bring some order to the album series by working with a system of series and sub series? Sort of like you can work with folders in Windows Explorer.
Applied to Duck's ad releases here (and there are many more than 4 of them), that would give, for example, the following:
+ Advertising expenses
= & gt; if you then click on the "+", this will open up to:
- Advertising expenses | - Zwitsal | - GGD | - Network Notaries | - Kruidvat | - ...
I don't know if that is technically feasible, but that would make the album series a lot clearer.
Once in place this can also be used for other series, such as for the red knight (my management area):
+ Regular series
becomes:
- Regular series | - Uncoloured series (1st edition) | - Uncolored series (reprints) | - Colored series (1st edition) | - Colored series (reprints)
That seems to me to be the best solution anyway, but as said before: is it also technically feasible?

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That's a good idea from Experiment626 indeed. That way we don't have to have a separate series / hero for Donald Duck weekly and Donald Duck Extra. Then it just becomes:
Donald Duck
- Main series Donald Duck
- 50 series
- etc
- Advertising publications | - Zwitsal | - GGD | - Network Notaries | - Kruidvat
- Donald Duck weekly | - Year 1952 | - Year 1953 | - Year 1954 | - Year 1955 | - Etcetera
I think it would be nice if Donald Duck weekly and Donald Duck are simply placed between the Donald Duck album series. As far as I am concerned, with a click through to the sub-series: with a + - fold-out system it is also possible, but it may not become clearer because you then get a very long list,

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By working with main series and sub series there would also be more clarity everywhere, because this would also solve the current problems with curiosities, SC / HC and foreign languages in one go :-)
example:
+ Other language editions
+ Bundles
+ Curiosa
+ Luxes
+ Advertising editions
+ Regular series
+ ...
And once expanded:
- Other language editions | - German | - English | - Greek | - ...
- Bundelingen | - Lekturama | - ...
- Curiosities | - figurines | - ex-libri | - pins | - puzzles | - ...
- Luxes | - ...
- Advertising expenses | - Zwitsal | - GGD | - Network Notaries | - Kruidvat | - ...
- Regular series | - Dargaud SC | - Oberon SC | - Oberon HC | - ...
So you can unfold each main series individually by clicking on it or not.

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October 05, 2008 23:12

It seems good to continue this discussion within the “Agreements about adding data” forum where a specific topic on this topic has been created.

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October 08, 2008 22:34

For the sake of uniformity, I converted a number of "promo issues" at Donald Duck weekly into "advertising issues".

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