Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20190311013206

Big example: Ziggy Pig-Silly Seal Comics Vol 2 1

Why is this suddenly a thing we're doing? It seems to me that it putting things like Parrots, Bears, and Horses (etc) in this category is kind of pointless. It's like adding things like chairs, mirrors, and couches to items. It's excessive. I don't think there is a need for it.

All of these link to a category page. Those who are adding them are using the tag, (example, it's linking to ) which is kind of pointless in and of itself because a Category page doesn't have an appearance list.

The whole intent of the Races/Species section was to list races and species that are unique, not to give a laundry list of real-world animals that appear in a comic book. I mean, honestly, are we going to add Birds to an issue summary because one is seen in the background? I think adding this stuff is overkill.

This is kind of an extension to what I was talking about in my Antagonist posting. We really need to have a lot more specific definitions of what qualifies for these appearance entries.

I think we really, really need to stop and ask ourselves why anyone ever thought this information is important and why it needs to be added to the appearance section of comic summaries. This is kind of like the issue we were having with people going overkill with adding categories on character pages.

I'm all for categories and having detailed listings for things, but this is incredibly excessive for information is incredibly trivial. People come on here to learn more about Spider-Man, not learn how many comics feature goats. 