Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-16461120-20170221234010/@comment-4548390-20170418012414

Nausiated wrote: I'm going to have to say that we're really splitting hairs on this one. My position on this is that technically, we're identifying the same instance: something is being referenced that doesn't actually appear in the story in one shape or another.

Personally, I find this as useful as identifying everytime a generic costume appears. But if people still think it is necessary to categorize this, then perhaps instead of being identified as a minor appearance, it should be in a Mentions category. A catch-all that covers anytime someone is mentioned, named, invoked or whatever. (Something I've been saying for a while now) But they were never categorized as minor appearances, they were always categorized as mentions. That's what we've been doing from the start.

The thing here is that some users feel that this type of mention shouldn't be categorized at all because they are seen as useless, while others don't see any problem categorizing them, prompting them to try and find a way to continue categorizing those without "bloating" the mentions category with them (I'm calling them "false mentions" now because this situation makes me remember the "false appearances" from some time ago).