Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20161213202224/@comment-4651179-20161218002402

At no point I said inconsistency is a positive thing, I don't know how did you reach that conclusion. I stated it's inevitable, not good.

Additionally, I don't see how are my comments on typing a redundancy. I'm simply adressing a point you brought up.

Regarding the option of hovering, I think it's of no good to force the reader to hover over a link when they can simply have the information displayed instantly there. Hovering takes up unnecessary time, not to mention it is much more tedious in mobile devices. In a phone you'd need to tap the link, hold and and wait for a pop-up to appear. And it'd be particularly tedious to do that for more than one character.

The consistency on the way characters are listed can be controlled, considering we the handful of editors that update the apearances lists with each new comics all work on a similar way, and the overhaul of past issues ensures some old habits and inacuraccies can be corrected. And while it can be controlled, it will be present in some other way. Not every single character is affected by inconsistencies on the way they are listed, while stripping fundamental information on the character and forcing the reader to click or hover on a link will affect many more.

" #|Spider-Man  " does take up less space than " #|Spider-Man (Peter Parker)   " but I personally don't see it as a substantial difference, specially considering we're overhauling the green tags so they have less words, and it's not that many times that the use of a numerous green tags is needed.