Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20190311013206/@comment-61022-20190313020044

I suppose the whole point to bringing this up, and I've spoken to Jamie about this at length over the last little while, is that we're losing sight of what we're supposed to be: An encyclopedia.

When it comes to an encyclopedia, the most important information needs to go up top and the less important information goes lower on the priority. I mean that is the basis of every professional source of information we have.

Or to give it another perspective: When you read the news, the most important details go at the top and the least important info is down near the bottom.

When there is a summary, the summary takes more importance than a list of who is invoked or who appears in a photo. While you're all saying that the length of an appearance section doesn't impact but it does. It's a documented thing. Do a Google search on how quickly people lose interest in a webpage and it takes 10-30 second.

Using my newspaper analogy again: Having a long list of appearances that are all considered minor before the summary is like putting the summary "below the fold"?

If we're not putting the most important information first, people will lose interest and go someplace else.

So look at it from this perspective: A synonym for Minor is Trivial. Why are we putting trivial information at the top of the page?

So instead of adding yet another category for appearances. Perhaps, we should be taking all the minor appearances (For characters, locations, races and so-on) and put them in the Notes Section. We put Continuity Notes and Chronology Notes there.

It's still there. We're putting the most important information close to the top. The minor information gets listed, but it is put in a place that it's there if people are that interested to get to the bottom of the page.