Forum:CT Archive/Naming policy: Comic book collected editions

In the comic book industry, TPB and HC are the standard respective abbreviations for trade paperback and hardcover collected editions (see Glossary of Comic Book Terms). Dark Horse used these abbreviations, as does Marvel. And so too do the industry retail giants (quick examples: Previews World, Midtown Comics, and TFAW).

This has been our longstanding basis for using the "TPB" abbreviation to disambiguate in parentheses for article naming. Quick examples from Legends and Canon: Star Wars: Rebel Heist (TPB) and Star Wars: Thrawn (TPB). However, for some reason we've treated hardcovers differently, as editors who have created these articles have opted not to use the "HC" abbreviation and couldn't even stay consistent on capitalization: Heir to the Empire (Hardcover), Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (hardcover), and Star Wars: Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Captain Phasma (hardcover).

So, I am proposing we standardize how to title these types of articles when they need to use the parenthetical for disambiguation. This proposal will add the following to Naming policy under the new subsection "Disambiguation," which will precede "Number sign":

To disambiguate comic book collected editions, use "(TPB)" for trade paperbacks and "(HC)" for hardcovers.

This codifies our use of "TPB" and standardizes how hardcover articles disambiguate by using the "HC" abbreviation, which matches the industry standard and also stays consistent with our use of TPB &mdash; it doesn't make much sense to abbreviate for one but not the other. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 18:49, November 7, 2018 (UTC)

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 * 1) Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 18:49, November 7, 2018 (UTC)