Forum:CT Archive/Number sign in comic issue titles

Greetings, Wookieepedians. We are faced with the issue of how we might potentially handle the inclusion of the number sign (#) in titles for individual comic issues. To give a very summarized rundown, many Star Wars comics, primarily those published by Dark Horse, include the number sign in their literal titles. For example, take the newest Star Wars series. Dark Horse consistently names these issues "Star Wars #1", "Star Wars #2", etc. The literal name of issue seven in this series is, for example, simply "Star Wars #7". See here for a quick example of how many other Dark Horse Star Wars titles include the number sign.

Now, it's important to point out that due to Wikia article-naming restrictions, we are technically unable to include the # sign in article titles. Try moving an article to any name with # in the title, and you'll get a big red error message. We are, however, able to nonetheless present the page itself with the number sign if we so choose. Please see my work on Star Wars 1: In the Shadow of Yavin, Part One, which I've formatted as an example to demonstrate on this forum. We can then format the name as such in Appearances lists. Please see the Dominus sector article as an example of how titles appear with and without the number sign included.

So I believe this begs the question: Do we want to include the # sign for comic issues in articles as such? Up until this point, we have largely, if not completely, omitted the number sign from comic issue names (mostly, I figure, on account of Wikia's aforementioned naming restrictions). I am creating this forum first to open it up for discussion, and then ultimately I hope to conclude with a final vote that will ideally achieve a standardized way of handling this.

To hopefully try and guide the initial discussion, at face value I believe we are left with a few options. We can either:
 * a) Include the # sign for comic issues so designated by Dark Horse (from the comic itself and/or the DH website) and omit it for those that do not include it
 * b) Omit entirely for all instances for the sake of uniformity
 * c) We are also left with the instances in which a comic issue is provided with competing titles. Perhaps the issue itself does not include the # sign, whereas the Dark Horse website does. I believe these examples exist, but I cannot think of any off the top of my head. Feel free to note any examples below.

As a final note, I understand that the naming of comics (and other things, like novels and sourcebooks, etc.) can sometimes be very divisive and open up different avenues of debate, such as whether to include "Star Wars" in every title and whatever else there may be. Please reserve this forum simply for the discussion of number signs. If need be, we can tackle other issues in future forums as they come up. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 00:36, July 21, 2013 (UTC)