Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-16461120-20170221234010/@comment-4548390-20170314024745

Okay, now it's time for me to try and say something.

I'll start by saying you people are really dramatic. You should be in the MCU or something like that, I guess. My advice to you is relax. Relax and drink a refreshing glass of orange juice if you can, it's good.

Now let's talk about the things that really matter:

Since these mentions are expressions rather than mentions, I think they shouldn't be listed at all.

However, we could add God (Yahweh) instead just for the sake of listing, if that's what the majority of us want. That other option that was also proposed by Annabell is good too if we decide to follow this path. Don't see why make this such a big deal.

Either way is fine to me.

Now, why create the Mentions category if you don't want to categorize mentions? Just trying to understand it.

I get that not all mentions are important, but why do the important ones have to suffer for the "crimes" of the unimportant ones? That's pretty overkilling, don't you think? It's like wanting to exterminate all the insects across the globe just because you don't like (or hate) cockroaches for whatever reasons.

There are some characters (independently if they are new ones or alternate versions of the characters we know) who never appeared in a story but that were mentioned, like Idealus the Fictional Man (we don't have a page for him here for some reason). Given time, some of them may even appear for the first time somewhere, like the Beyonders. But in the meantime, we still can create pages for them with the information provided by these mentions. In this case, the Mentions would be their equivalent to Appearances too, so I don't see the reason why we should stop categorizing mentions just because the (seemingly) majority of them are "useless". It's as if all the major appearances of a certain character have something really worthy to be added to their article when not all of them have.

There's also the characters who don't appear that much. Vital information about these characters can be found in mentions and it's worth categorizing them. Beyond that, there are also minor to vital information about long-running characters that can be placed in the History Section or in the Notes/Trivia Section of their pages, respectively. Believe it or not, there are people out there who like to know more about the characters they love, minor things that just few people know. They aren't all useless at all.

Hope I helped with something here, and hope we find a solution for this soon.