Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1895174-20130128004155/@comment-100066-20130129162142

Sorry for being slow to respond to this. Here’s what I know, but Nathan will be the one to confirm all this.

and – Your explanation is exactly correct. 1stChron can get changed a lot with many retcons, but it is still an interesting piece of data.

– Appearance of Death. We had maaaany discussions about this on the old forums. Basically, because we never really know if a character dies, ALL deaths should be tagged with the tag. That is a philosophical point which has been debated a great deal, but that is the purpose behind the tag. You’ll notice that character pages use the language “Appearance of Death” in the profile. – I didn’t even know about this one. Just use.

– Makes the words green. It is the catch-all for anything else so we don’t have to make a template for it.

undefined – Behind the Scenes. This is infrequently used and is intended for off panel appearances of characters. For instance, Apocalypse’s first appearance is in X-Factor #5, which is a appearance, but should probably be a undefined. X-Factor #6 gives him the appearance.

– Really should be if we want to be consistent.

– This one can be killed (ha!). As far as I know, it doesn’t add any auto-categorizing features and works just fine. If it helped by adding the “Killed by Wolverine” i.e. categorization, that would be helpful, but it doesn’t.

and – I think these can both go, or just  can leave if we want to keep one. Since it also fails to auto-categorize, I think there is less need for it.

– Another great point. We can definitely get this changed.

-Adds pages to the “Category:Non-substituted_Move” category. This tag should be deprecated and replaced with . – Adds pages to the “Category:Undated_Move” category. This tag should be deprecated and replaced with . – Adds pages to the “Category:Undecided_Move” category and tags it with a date of submission. This is the best template to use.

I definitely agree that there are many redundant ones here. Let’s clean them out!