Duplicate volumes for new TMNT series

I created and uploaded the IDW TMNT ashcan issue (free at SDCC 2011) here:
http://www.comicvine.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-sdcc-ashcan/49-41518/
 
The volume name was later renamed from just TMNT (as the indicia says) to include 'ashcan' in the volume name. I don't know where that rename came from.
 
The TMNT #1 issue is now uploaded at:
http://www.comicvine.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/49-42285/
 
The ashcan and #1 issue are the same thing - the same content and pages. The ashcan is just a issue #1 preview, only has half the story/page count as the #1 in an unfinished condition. I think the two issues should be in the same volume since it's the same comic's content. The volume name in the indices are the same thing, same creators, same pages, etc.
 
Any chance we can merge these volumes into 1 volume for ease of use/searching? 
 
Thanks,

Ashcan basically means free trial. Using it in the volume name is actually AGAINST Comic Vine policy as yes, it doesn't match the indicia. If the ashcan has half the pages of the #1, then it's not the same comic and should remain separate. 
 
I actually recently added what would probably be considered an ashcan: The Dandy Special Edition. It compiled strips from recent issues of The Dandy (mostly the issue out that week, with others added to replace adverts and the next issue page - notably, the long running comic had a major revamp a few months earlier), and was given free with a newspaper. It has no indicia (normal for Britain, where "© publisher, year" is usually all they use) so the name came from the cover, which says Special Edition on it above the logo. It doesn't have an issue number, so if it had been put in the main Dandy volume, it would've ended up being an issue 0, which is the wrong place for it.

I'm not saying that the comic issues should be merged. I'm only saying the 2 comics (ashcan and #1) should be in the same volume, since both are the same volume in name, year, publisher, creators, characters, stories, etc.

I honestly see zero reason to merge the volumes.

I honestly see zero reason to merge the volumes.

The title for the ashcan was actually the indicia. Why would you doubt me?

Ashcan's are primarily promotional material and most of the time are given away free or sold only at conventions, lumping them into the regular volume that the general public has access to just doesn't seem like the thing to do and as jlone just proved it does indeed belong in its own volume, I probably should have checked the indicia myself since I also have the ashcan :P

I know what an ashcan issue is and it's historical/real purpose - before they became marketing tools. 
 
The indicia for #1 says "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 August 2011." The "SDCC Ashcan" words should be the issue number. It's the same format as the indica in the regular issue, just "SDCC Ashcan" is used instead of "#1" the rest of the format is the same.

The indicia for #1 says "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 August 2011." The "SDCC Ashcan" words should be the issue number. It's the same format as the indica in the regular issue, just "SDCC Ashcan" is used instead of "#1" the rest of the format is the same.

The guideline for adding new issues shows clearly that we go by the indicia, the only time we don't always follow it these days is if the title of a volume changes after only a couple of issues in which case we use the title that it was the longest, prime example being all the Ultimate Comics that actually had that as part of the indicia for the first issue or two and then dropped it in favor of the short form title.  Also it isn't about making things easy to find, it is about keeping things historically accurate as per the indicia

@Digifiend said:

Ashcan basically means free trial. Using it in the volume name is actually AGAINST Comic Vine policy as yes, it doesn't match the indicia. If the ashcan has half the pages of the #1, then it's not the same comic and should remain separate.

I actually recently added what would probably be considered an ashcan: The Dandy Special Edition. It compiled strips from recent issues of The Dandy (mostly the issue out that week, with others added to replace adverts and the next issue page - notably, the long running comic had a major revamp a few months earlier), and was given free with a newspaper. It has no indicia (normal for Britain, where "© publisher, year" is usually all they use) so the name came from the cover, which says Special Edition on it above the logo. It doesn't have an issue number, so if it had been put in the main Dandy volume, it would've ended up being an issue 0, which is the wrong place for it.

There are actual "ashcan" titles, Killer Instint Ashcan was titled just that, I think you are being a bit of a rules nazi and ignoring the spirit of how titles flux from one volume to the next, after all ashcan is also used with titling mini-comics that are a preview to an ongoing volume and in themselves a seperate story/volume, though CV has adopted some rules that piss off all but the jerkiest of users....