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That said most people who are adding mentions are adding mentions because a character is evoked by name only. The amount of times a character like Spider-Man or Thanos is given a mention tag when the character in question is mentioned off hand is staggering.

That's why I said it was a rare exception. But undefined still requires a tag next to it if the character does not physically appear, so it's an exception worth pointing out rather than assuming we just understood that. Your original post doesn't differentiate between Captain America (for the sake of argument) saying "Remember that time I fought the Red Skull?" and Cap spending an entire issue/episode/whatever fighting the Red Skull's henchmen and trying to foil the Red Skull's plans without the Red Skull ever physically appearing.

And - sure - you have an objection with the way the tag gets used. That's fine. I'm sure everyone has their own quibbles with the way things are done. We all know I certainly do. But you shouldn't have used your personal objection as the frame of reference for a highlighted policy thread without reaching some sort of consensus with the other mods about it first. Same thing for sorting "Other" appearances by type. It's frustrating to get these mixed messages from the mod team.