Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1317169-20130429150943/@comment-188432-20130509233930

Well, the other thought is that we could just say that the list of appearances is just a list of appearances in things the wiki considers to be a valid source. That's a simpler solution.

In other words, I'd prefer Mini-mitch's original suggestion of totally eliminating the from the list by stating in the lead that these ar "appearances in valid sources" rather than trying to hang on to these highly miscellaneous appearances with some variation of the  language at the bottom of the page. I think that fewer people would actually reach that message than the lead, and therefore they might interject appearances above the message, simply because they never got to it.

If instead we say in the lead, through the use of a standardised template, that the lists may only contain stories considered to be valid sources, it'll be clearer to everyone what we're trying to have, and will have a much better shot at a standardised approach.