Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-16461120-20170310003740/@comment-61022-20170311003947

The Chronology Notes section is a means of better explaining circumstances where there are multiple points of continuity for one particular character. Not the elimination of APN tags but creating a work-around for the fact that you can only add two comics per appearance entry.

People had issue with creating a specific section for flashbacks in the appearance category as they thought having the same name more than once wasn't a good idea.

The Chronology Notes section basically uses a "Appears in Flashback" tag link (Which was never created, I've been using a Green Tag work around since we agreed upon it) to bring the the reader to the bottom of the page to the Chronology Notes section (also supposed to be added to the template, but never was)

It, however, was not intended eliminate apn tags. Just a way to work around their limitations.

That said, the APN tags are important. Because people want to know how the chronology works.

Frankly, if people had listened to me to begin with (you know, the guy who has been reading comic books for over 30 years) this current mess with tagging could have been avoided with a simple solution:

(1) All other tags other than A or APN should have been sorted as minor appearances.

(2) Any instances where the other tag type (Flashback, Flash Only, whatever) is actually a major appearance (meaning: a chronology point) then a person would just add the tag at the end. IE:  or   instead of  or.

A solution which would have been MUCH Easier than creating all sorts of different new tags and having to have endless debate over what is and is not considered a relevant major appearance.

Honestly, the solution that has been created here is a damn mess. Instead of coming up with a practical solution, it seems people are more interested in splitting hairs over every bit of minutia they can think of.