Board Thread:Policies/@comment-24800939-20170310183635/@comment-1713281-20170314201158

So, on the topic of duplicating appearance categories: Way back when, appearance category pages on the site generated a chronological table of said appearances, along with our current alphabetical list of article links. In line with that, the Reprint templates we had would create a new appearance category on the comic article, and would then automatically append a greentext (Reprint) tag in that appearance table. At some point, that greentext function stopped working correctly, and eventually that table itself was phased out of the appearance category.

I don't know if it's a simple fix to remove the category creation from the existing templates, or perhaps from those DC template, but that may be a good option instead of only the appearances, or only the synopsis, or just building a new template from scratch.