Special Projects

Database Cleanup

• Re-write synopsis with solicitation/Previews text (search words "solicitation" or "preview")

• Series with no issues
  • By country: Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA
  • By language: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

• Current Genres Report Genres have been mapped to the official ones, with the exception of occult.
  

• Indexed comics with missing cover price

• Missing PubDates

• Missing KeyDates

• Problem series that need to be worked on (this is an old list that used to be for Editors only)

• Artist credits separated by comma

• Delete or replace the title "nessuno" (meaning "none" in Italian)

• Type "filler": Lots of stuff in this type that needs to get sorted out (blank pages, credits, tables of contents etc.)

• Indicia/Colophon Publisher year inconsistencies, with issues published outside the period from begin to end dates.

• Issues With Multiple Covers that need to be moved to Variant Issues.

• Stories With Type "Backcovers": Lots of stuff in this type that needs to get sorted out (blank pages, credits, tables of contents etc.).

• Series Country doesn't match Publisher Country

• Extra spaces in the following fields: Issue notes, Cover notes, Synopsis, Reprint notes, Synopsis, Sequence notes - can be found by using advanced search

• Issues with a page count of 1 for the issue

• Issue numbers written as roman numerals

• Merge series

• Move format info to format fields

Art checklists

• Hugo Pratt checklist

• Jack Kirby checklist

• Joe Sinnott checklist

New indexes and skeletons to add

• British 2000 AD homepage 1
• British 2000 AD homepage 2
• British Star Wars reprints
• French comics
• German comics from publisher BSV
• German (and Dutch) Western comics
• Finnish Comics
• Swedish Star Wars
• USA Comic Book +
• USA Unindexed issues at Digital Comic Museum
• USA Government Comics
• USA Educational Comics
• USA Comics with Problems

There are many sites with databases of comics from all over the world - if you are interested in adding books from specific countries, languages or publishers, the links found in Useful indexer links will come handy.