User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-121.45.54.78-20130925110520/@comment-28349479-20200220131746

I know that nobody even paused to consider this idea, but I stand by it: NateBumber wrote: Here's a radical idea: Just like how the infobox has a "First seen in" box and a "Appearances" box, for the first appearance and further appearances, there should be a "References" box to complement the "First mentioned in" box. It's undoubtedly useful to catalog stories where a character or their image appears in a painting, or in a flashback, but not in actual character roles that would otherwise quality for inclusion on the "List of appearances"; if we used "List of references" or "List of mentions" pages going forward, that would really help fix this issue, as far as I see it. Responding to the most recent comments, it is undoubtedly useful for the sake of the wiki to note that the Daleks were shown in The War Games and that Rose Tyler was shown in Midnight. Or that photographs of Susan and River Song were shown in The Pilot. Implementing a "List of references" system would probably be really annoying, but I think it's hard to deny that it would be the best way to resolve this ambiguity once and for all.