Board Thread:Policies/@comment-10473115-20150724144731

We had different opinions with Copeinator123 about location appearances on these pages. Because this affects so many pages, we decided to discuss it here to get more opinions for better coherency on the Database or to even draft a site-wide policy.

I think that everybody agrees that we don't need more nested locations than is helpful to a reader. We don't need it for categorizing reasons; we should diffuse appearance categories instead. So we need to decide what are general guidelines about what's helpful. There will still be many situations where location appearances should be listed differently.

In general, I think that locations shouldn't be nested more than is necessary. Real-world big cities, countries, U.S. states, or other well-known locations don't need any parent location. Parent location could still be used if there are more than one child locations and it improves readability. Also redundant locations between child and parent should be removed.

So instead of:
 * United States of America
 * New York State
 * New York City
 * Manhattan
 * Greenwich Village
 * Sanctum Sanctorum
 * Europe
 * France
 * Paris
 * Asia
 * India

I prefer this:
 * New York City
 * Sanctum Sanctorum
 * Paris
 * India 