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Focus of the article - Series or character?

My understanding is that Ghost Rider 2099 - the character - doesn't warrant an article of his own, based on the project guidelines. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Comics/editorial_guidelines for the full blurb on this (it's the same philosophy that's being applied to Ultimate characters etc). However, Ghost Rider 2099 - the 25 issue ongoing series - does justify its own article. See Ultimate Spider-Man for an example of something similar. --Mrph 08:12, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cover image

I've used the Mark Buckingham cover to #2, as I wanted an image from the original creative team. Out of the possible choices, this one wasn't just a headshot and was (from my point of view) the best one that also included the bike - #3 does also have the bike, but is an action shot with a slightly skewed view of the character's head. Are we generally happy with this, or are there suggested alternatives? --Mrph 20:52, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

The character article is basically just a copy and paste of information from the original article. I thought about just going ahead and merging them without a discussion, but I thought having a discussion for future reference would help keep the article (and other articles with similar pointless divisions) from being created again. Spidey104 13:40, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support merger. All information related to the comic and characters should stay in this article unless the article becomes too large (~100kb, not an issue at present). NB: For future reference, I have no prejudice against future recreation of a separate biography if, and only if, the article either becomes too large or the information is used by several articles and a single biography would be more efficient than repeating the information (unlikely to be an issue for this comic unless Marvel revives the character or setting). - AdamBMorgan (talk) 16:00, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support merger per above. --Crazy runner (talk) 05:39, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

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Rated as a stub, based on my own efforts so far, as this needs a lot more work. Things to consider...

Creator information - Len Kaminski wrote all of it, but there were a number of artists
Supporting cast and enemies. Out of the enemies, I think only one or two (at most) justify their own articles.
The references and cyberpunk-speak style of it all deserves a mention
...as does the plot and the various shifts and changes it went through. Preferably viewed in the context of the larger 2099 setting & it's success/publication history.

--Mrph 00:15, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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