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Ideas
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Add a distinction between single comic books and trade paperbacks
People are already using PriceCharting to list compilation books like TPBs and omnibus editions under the comic books section, and they do have value. Doing so would also make it easier to declutter the listings for comics because there would be less false positives from TPB and omnibus listings on the single books since the collections would tag the listing instead.
Customer support service by UserEcho
For many of these we add "Paperback" or "Hardcover" etc to the title. Do you think we should have a "Type" drop down that includes "Issues", "Paperback", "Hardcover", etc? or some other way to differentiate them?
A type dropdown would help certainly, especially for differentiating between softcover and hardcover editions, but there are still many cases (such as item 2415708, indexed as "Motherland #9" but actually seems to refer to Y: The Last Man Vol. 9: Motherland) that I have encountered where a specific collection's subtitle is treated as if the title, which I assume is a good-faith effort to accurately list the item being limited by the existing toolset. If an item type dropdown could help guide users towards more accurately listing the item, that would be sufficient, with the possibility that for collections the pound sign used to denote issue number is replaced with something more fitting, such as "Vol. #". The addition of an optional field for subtitles (which not all collections have) might also be useful in preventing situations like the above.
My main hope is that more robust tools would allow good-faith contributions such as these to be more accurate and helpful, while also encouraging users to populate the database by making it more straightforward.