Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-16461120-20170503215607/@comment-1895174-20170503232116

We don't already do this? Unfortunately, no, we don’t.

We're supposed to, though. If people aren't doing that, it's because they're not used to the new system. These are growing pains. The guideline itself could not be clearer. I'm sort of at a loss as to why someone would think they should treat a major appearance differently because it happens to be in a flashback.

The community consensus was to add  (Recap)  to differentiate between flashback with and without new content, so I’m suggesting how specifically that should be handled. If it’s used only for recap only, then it wouldn’t necessarily need to say only, but at present people are listing recap in addition to main story and flashback, so we need some consensus on how best to proceed.

And my suggestion is that we handle it the way we've always handled it. Even before an the introduction of an official "Minor Appearances" cateogry, we knew what we now consider "major" appearances superseded everything else. We don't need to completely overhaul the system. If so many editors aren't using the tag correctly, then the text of that tag should be changed to better reflect its intended use.