Board Thread:Policies/@comment-867021-20130305115037/@comment-6721631-20140501031520

Similarly, when it comes to 'apn', I've been ignoring flashbacks, mentions, and bts. My tracking of 'apn' has been purely of the full appearance. What I was referring to were comics that tell an overlapping story without using flashbacks, Uncanny Origins Vol 1 for example. For simplicity I have been leaving them out of the 'apn' tracking (and considered a future project, when I get around to reading them, of filling the notes section to references of which scene takes place during which other comic)

If I understand you correctly, you are suggesting that we stick with the mentality of only following the full appearance, but use it universally, and replace practically every use of 'a' on the site. I could potentially see that working (possibly splitting up the tracking by year, like you started, to spread it out amongst the volunteers), but only if the community agrees. If we don't have one solid policy, then we'll have different users making different parts of the site look completely different, and then everyone is confused when trying to track a character.