Graphic Novel talk:How Do You Stop an Exploding Man?, Part 1

New graphic novel checklist

Episode article: _X_ Graphic Novel screencap (450x350) _X_ Blurbs _X_ Summary _X_ Easter Egg ___ Quotes _X_ Trivia Update/add other articles: _X_ GN redirects _X_ Check that links from previous GN work _X_ Update Portal:Issues Update Main Page: N/A Template:aotw (if needed) _X_ Index

Update Character pages _X_ Update Portal:Graphic Novel Characters as appropriate _X_ Ted Sprague (do we want this on his character page?) _X_ Hana Gitelman Add new character pages as needed: ___ Gun dealer no (need to add) ___ (list needed characters here) Add references to appropriate recurring themes: _X_ (list themes referenced here) Add examples of demonstrated Powers: _X_ EDT _X_ Induced radioactivity

Events/Items/Things/References _X_ The mark _X_ AWI's needle _X_ Update Portals as needed Locations _X_ (list locations to update here) _X_ (list new locations here) _X_ Update Portal:Graphic Novel Locations Places _X_ (list places to update here) _X_ (list new places here) _X_ Update Portal:Graphic Novel Places Update templates as needed _X_ Template: GN _X_ Template: GNcharacternav

Title of GN

Is the title of the GN supposed to have a question mark in it? - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 06:42, 23 January 2007 (EST)

• I thought we'd avoid the whole "special characters in article titles" fiasco. Although MediaWiki seems to allow it, question marks can be a particular pain for some browsers since they're used to feed parameters to server-side scripts.--Hardvice (talk) 06:52, 23 January 2007 (EST)
  • Good info. Would it be a problem to make a redirect from ? title to the article itself? (I mostly use the redirect when citing.) - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 07:04, 23 January 2007 (EST)
    • Well, it may-or-may-not work 100% of the time, like Gray and Sons vs. Gray & Sons.--Hardvice (talk) 07:15, 23 January 2007 (EST)
    • Although, come to think, we have Are you a hero? and Are you on the list?, and they both seem to work ... maybe we should just move it.--Hardvice (talk) 07:18, 23 January 2007 (EST)

Easter Egg

I couldn't find any easter egg in this issue. Every spot I clicked was just the Versa ad. Strangely, I think I've had that happen before and had the easter egg come up fine later. So maybe that's going to happen again here. Did you guys find one? --E rowe 10:24, 23 January 2007 (EST)

• Also, I haven't seen anything about the easter eggs on our GN articles. Shouldn't something be added to each GN page referencing them?--E rowe 10:27, 23 January 2007 (EST)
  • Check the side bars for each GN - there's a link to each one there. - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 11:48, 23 January 2007 (EST)
    • I'm not sure the Easter Egg subheading on all the graphic novel articles is needed. The links to the eggs can be found in the info boxes. If there's a GN that doesn't seem to have an egg, I think that can be put into the notes or trivia. Don't get me wrong, I think the info about the eggs is important, but I think it would make the pages a bit cleaner if there weren't a new subheading for info that's pretty much already on the page. ... But in the end, if others disagree, that's fine, and we can keep them. Thoughts? - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 01:20, 26 January 2007 (EST)
      • I added them so if someone wants to know how to find them (like me before I went through every page in different views), they can. And also because every once in a while an Easter Egg subheading is made with the link. Having the info in notes or trivia would work. -Level 01:55, 26 January 2007 (EST)
• From the source code it looks like there's supposed to be another easter egg for the Petrelli for Congress ad, which they already used in an old GN. Not sure why I can't bring it up though. --E rowe 10:31, 23 January 2007 (EST)
• When I followed the source code I received the egg from the last graphic novel. http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/downloads/hana4_ee.jpg. It is the Golden Globes picture.

I added a Trivia note that the Easter Egg shows a scene from .07%. AlanK 00:27, 25 April 2007 (EDT)

Formatting

Anybody have any ideas as to why HDYSAEM? 1 & 2 have extra whitespace at the top and the other GNs don't? The infobox and blurb are set up exactly the same. It doesn't seem to be due to the extralong title. What are we missing?--Hardvice (talk) 23:19, 3 February 2007 (EST)

• Never mind. It was the blank Easter Egg. I've adjusted the template to stop it from producing extra space if easteregg is blank.--Hardvice (talk) 23:23, 3 February 2007 (EST)