Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20161213202224/@comment-10473115-20170213234518

Okay, sorry for my prolonged leave from the site but I just actually read this thread. I want to thank Nausiated for the effort to get more organized appearances sections. That was a well-thought opening post, just maybe too many things lumped into one conversation. I liked especially ideas about clarification of different appearance sections and removing "false" appearances. Most active debate was the use of parenthesis and I agree the side championed mostly by Adour that we shouldn't restrict it categorically. We have to think first about what benefits for the reader and all the other things come much behind that. So hovering a mouse (if you happen to have one) over a link isn't an option. When reading a comic article, reader is mostly interested about character's alias in that comic, not how it changes through the history of Marvel. Character pages are for that kind of information. We should keep everything on a page which has more potential to benefit than distract the reader.

Now to potentially more important part of my too long post. We already have a solution to false appearances and too long tags. Our templates A and Mentioned already work in a way that we can categorize to whichever category we want and still print different things to green tag. For example, our template 1st is just so if we want to categorize it /Mentions instead of /Appearances

Just drop square brackets and it should work. So we don't need all those different templates at all, we just have to decide about categorization and put whatever fits best on the green tag. I think that changing templates to allow this also with template Apn and possible new category should be quite easy but before so radical change, I would like to open a question about categorization levels again. I feel that three levels is excessive and would create a zillion very small new categories. Can we lump mentions and other minor appearances into a new properly named category?