Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20161213202224/@comment-3406131-20161230111406

Villains
"Antagonists" or "Featured antagonists" seems good to me.

I already replaced villains by antagonists in some issues, and for the Trojan War series, I replaced the header by something more relevant, when both sides can be considered protagonists or antagonists.

Flashbacks/Flashforwards
Pass on that one.

Appearances in Recaps
The recap in the begininning of the issues should be treated as not part of the issue (same way the written resume we sometimes have).

For the rest, I think a flashback is a flashback, even if it rehash old material.

Mentions:
Seems good to me, except when those mentioned are also central antagonists active in the storyline, and maybe for members mentioned of teams appearing (like we currently do).

Eliminating "False" Appearances:
The "photo", "statue", etc. kind of appearances bothers me. But for character like Gorsvil (Earth-616), they are currently their only appearances...

And mentions have their own category. It works well and should be kept that way.

The real problem being when do we choose if a mention is irrelevant. There's a risk of loss of material if it is too strict.

=> Yes. At least it will clear that stuff without leaving possible material away.
 * " The templates are coded so that all the template tags categorize these appearances differently. If it's a "true" appearance its sorted into Category:Character/Appearances, Category:Character/Photo etc."

=> No. I think separating clearly with templates will avoid people adding those templates anyway (but I might be wrong).
 * "In lieu of the necessary coding changes, I recommend that we immediately stop the practice of tagging characters like this:"

Long Tags/Removing Clutter in Appearances:
If we can avoid creating "g" template for each page, that would be better, but yes, to sum many templates ( for example), that's okay.

Clear Definitions for Appearance Section:
Yes ! Some guidelines can't hurt anyone.

Shortening Use of Parenthesis
I'm for keeping both codename (if relevant) and civil names, as both identities are relevant to the characters and stories (and I like the way it looks, despite the length of some lines).