Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20190311013206/@comment-61022-20190320105453

Edkaufman wrote: Can I repropose the idea of having minor appearances put into their own section? It‘s not only the generic races, it‘s also all the invocations, generic first-name, one-panel only characters that are making the appearances lists cluttered up. I understand the completists approach, but as has been pointed out several times: readability needs to be a priority. Annabelle wrote: They already have their own section: "Other Characters." It's a catchall for everything that's not featured nor supporting.

And furthermore, how would adding additional, more specialized subsections, do anything other than make the appearance lists demonstrably longer, which seems to be the chief complaint of some?

This is why I'm suggesting a lot the stuff that is currently going into "other characters" be moved down to the bottom of the page (In the notes section), I would say the thing about generic animal species (if they absolutely needed).

Like I said earlier in the thread, these categories can be added by scrolling to the bottom of the page and manually adding them to the category page. These categories are added, sorted, but they're not making appearances bottom heavy.

Alternatively, if we absolutely need to have a running list, I would recommend moving these appearances down to the Notes section, like Continuity/Chronology notes. It could go something like this:

===Minor Appearances=== The following characters/races/locations/items/vehicles make minor appearances in this story: Mentions: *   *    *    Photos: *   **    **    **    **    Races and Species: *   *    *    Locations: *   **    ***

The Headings used above would vary depending on what the needs of issue are. So if there are a lot of Mentions, or Photo appearances someone could manually add those categories. We have a place to put obvious appearances like Human, or the planet Earth, or Earth-616 without creating a massive tree of "implied" location appearances.