Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20190311013206/@comment-61022-20190316043552

Annabelle: No. I am saying that some of the items in the appearance section are less important than the synopsis. But the idea of moving the appearance section to go below the summary is not an outlandish idea either. If you look at other Wikis on Fandom (big ones like Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who etc) they are all moving toward an truncated appearance section (featured characters and antagonists only) or moving some or all of the appearance section to the bottom.

Cope: The whole point of having these pages is for people who don't have access to the original comic. We're not putting this info out there for people who are in the know. We're outting it out there for people who are not. Ergo (and, with all due respect to eveyone, I can't believe I need to keep emphasizing this) we need to display info in the order of importance to a general reader. A page can be as detailed as you want, but the most important stuff is what is important to the average person. Kind of like how most comics are written in a way that you understand what's going on in the first issue you read. The length and complexity of the appearance section is a strong example of how contributors have lost sight of this.

If you're new to comics and you're trying to read more about what happens in a given comic book (because you can't access the original comic) are you going to think reading about cows appearing in a story is more important than reading about what happens in a story? No you're not. But we're populating these pages like cow appearances are more important than a summary about what Iron Man did in a story. That's what it looks like to the average person.