Talk:List of illustrators

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Creation

New project! --Hunter61 11:18, 4 March 2012 (EST)

No offense but what is the matter that this wiki seems to have so many pages on trivial things? These things are poorly if at all maintained even without "new projects" pushing others onto the backburner. Wouldn't it be better to focus on something than do others or keep work pages? Just impressions I'm getting. Anyway this page is awful to look at even with my amendments. It would be good to have a clean sortable table, sortable by surname, expansion of first appearance, etc. --Kraken Chowder 101 (talk) 04:24, 2 October 2012 (EDT)

This symbol ("† ") is intended, at least in theory, to a) indicate something specific about the artists it is marked by and b) make artists who share that specific trait easily searchable in the article (i.e.: via ctrl/cmd+F). Seeing how it appears next to Christopher Rush's name, I assume it's meant to denote artists of particularly noteworthy cards, or at least artists of significant notoriety in the community. It would be nice to actually give what the symbol is used to denote somewhere within the article, as is customary with asterisks and asterisk-like markings. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Crossark (talkcontribs).

I would think that this character is not used as dagger as you assume but as a cross, since Rush passed away 2016. - Yandere Sliver 09:32, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Article length

This may not be a problem right now, but this is already the longest page on the wiki. This is list, rather than a standard article, so concerns about readability of prose don't apply. If nothing else, though, some technical limits might eventually apply. If the article ever gets placed into this automated maintenance category, we'll want to take action. Since this is mostly just a gigantic table, the most meaningful changes would be to split the list somehow. That might mean cutting the alphabet in half (or maybe several splits by last initial), splitting out deceased and inactive artists, taking 10% off the list by sidelining the Mystery Booster doodle artists, or something else I'm not thinking of off the top of my head. Corveroth (talk) 06:17, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

We've previously split the list of tokens alphabetically. Artists would make sense to do the same. I would agree with the last name initial as ling as artists using mononyms aren'tan issue. -- RivalRowan (talk) 08:38, 29 April 2025 (UTC)