Clarification on Chapter Merging

[MaltyZesc]

I am preparing to import a Pixiv Manwha I've been scanlating to here. Since Section 2, Paragraph 2.1 of the Community Guidelines clearly states

Do not arbitrarily combine several chapters into a single release.

I have a question pertaining my situation.

The author tweets usually 3 strips in a singular "thread" on their socials (plus cover art), but each tweet is uploaded as its own chapter to Pixiv (whilst cover art is uploaded as regular image). My releases so far have always merged a singular thread into one release because

1. They each cover a whole narrative arc
2. Each Pixiv "Chapter" is only 2-4 pages in length
3. The cover images are absent in the Pixiv release

Is it legitimate for me to maintain these mergers here on Mangadex (even though it would deviate from Pixiv's numbering*), or would staff decide to use my body for unscheduled bird strike testing for that offense?

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*The Artist re-released Ch. 1-7 in longstrip format as "Ch. 8" so the numbering will always be off anyway

 

[Angry_Panda]

This is one of those 'least bad response' situations. Whatever you do, someone will end up complaining it's wrong and should have been done differently, particularly if this work ever gets collected to be published in print (and edited and renumbered as a result of that, most likely).

My suggestion (as a non-staff person who is trying to not cause bigger problems for anyone down the road) is to stick with whatever the numbering and breakout is on Pixiv for the main chapters, since that can easily be pointed at as an 'authoritative' source collected in a single place, rather than the social posts that are spread out over the history of the author's account. The covers could be added as #.1 chapters, and noted with 'Cover - Social' or something similar in their titles. The chapter 8 could be noted with 'Compilation of C1-7' or something similar in its title (and you might put an editorial note at the start of that one to explain why it's duplicating the prior material).

The two big things that will help avoid (some) griping from folks down the line are to be consistent - pick one 'authoritative' source and use that as your primary numbering - and to make it reasonably clear for someone else to understand where anything outside of that 'authoritative' source is coming from. If you can do that, it should let everyone else quickly figure out how you've organized the organization of the chapters, and if at some point down the road the whole work needs renumbered, it makes it easier for you or someone else to get started on that.

(Edit - 'organized the organization'? The hell was that? )