Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-16461120-20160202122649/@comment-3406131-20160202210920

Nausiated wrote: I absolutely hate mention tags. It's not overly useful. Also if it's coded wrong it messes with the appearance categories, with characters being credited to a story they do not appear in. That's precisely to prevent mentioned characters from appearing in appearances that mentions were given their own categories.

Nausiated wrote:
 * I think mentions should only be used in stories that take place in an alternate reality where a character is mentioned but never seen, but otherwise it's useless data.
 * I mean, could you imagine how much a logistical nightmare it would be if every time Spider-Man is mentioned in a story gets listed in the character appearances?
 * That would made exceptions where there is no use of it.
 * It isn't, it's listed in its own category.

Nausiated wrote: Whenever I edit a comic summary with mentions I remove them. 9 out of 10 times it's a passing mention that has nothing to do with the story. Also 9 out of those 10 times the person does a sloppy job actually filling out proper character appearances or filling out anything other than the most basic information. I find such half-assed additions like this infuriating at best. I don't know where you've removed those, but please stop, because for some useless data you removed, you may have been removing useful data as well.

I have in fact the exact opposite opinion, because of less often appearing characters: If a mention of Spider-Man is indeed something common and often useless, other characters aren't.

I, for instance, use the mentions as well as the appearances when I'm looking for some information on some event, period or rarely appearing characters while completing pages, I look at all appearances, but also at mentions who contains information as well. It is not always about the very story of the issue, but it remains an information on the mentioned subject.

For example, I recently completely completed Idunn (Earth-616) page, and while neither her or Gaïa appear in, they are mentioned with information on their status and path.

ADour wrote: A while ago the formatting was changed so when a character's presence in a appearances list is specified to be a mention, it autogenerates "Category:CHARACTER/Mentions" instead of "Category:CHARACTER/Appearances." Unless you're talking about some kind of bug that does cause mentions to be categorized as appearances (I haven't encountered any problem like this yet).

In my opinion, I'd rather have the addition of the to simply nullify any category autogeneration instead of generating the "XXXX/Mentions" category, which I don't see being of use. For the reason mentioned before, the category should be kept.