User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-25117610-20170221193933/@comment-26845762-20170315055859

I think image availability should also be a factor. Take The Doctor (Battlefield). He'll probably never get an infobox image, much less another image for the rest of the article. He's appeared in seven stories across several series; Target novelisations, BBC Short Trips, Big Finish Short Trips, Bernice Summerfield, and the Eighth Doctor Adventures. Having a slightly longer infobox improves the article by making it a bit less of a wall of text.

To me, moving the information from The Doctor (Battlefield) to a list would make it worse by giving priority to novels instead of listing the appearances in release order. By SOTO's suggestion, Tyrannosaurus rex should get a list of appearances. I just don't want appearance list overkill.