Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20161213202224/@comment-16461120-20170213211338

Nausiated wrote: As kind of an aside about appearances, something that slipped my mind during the initial discussion, and correct me if this isn't something we're already doing but: Reprints.

Since part of this discussion was trying to eliminate the "false" appearances to make research easier, I think that we should stop listing appearances for stories that are reprints. I think by virtue of the fact that we are marking them as reprints of such-and-such a story someone can click on that link and find out all about that story there. I find that a lot the current summaries of reprints have full appearance lists and that just adds more "false positives" which makes research a little more tricky.

Thoughts? I'd support either removing the appearance sections from reprinted stories entirely or leaving the appearance section but removing the templates which subsequently autogenerate categories from the appearances.

An example of that last option would be...

*

...changed to...

* Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

...so that it appears exactly the same, but doesn't actually generate categories anymore.