Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-16461120-20160202122649/@comment-16461120-20160202210034

Both "Mentioned" and "Named" are no longer coded as "Appearances", though I agree that the "Category:CHARACTER/Mentions" isn't terribly helpful and the removal of the autogeneration would likely do nothing to detract from the site.

Mainly I'm interested in the discussion to have a specific policy reason for whether the writer having mentioned something really matters if it's internal or external dialogue, but if we removed the category-type, then the semantics of how they were mentioned becomes far less important.

I do believe retaining the links themselves has value though, 'cause it allows the user to more easily see how a mentioned article is associated with the story.