User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-121.45.54.78-20130925110520/@comment-28349479-20170607194231

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.

Then again, I also believe we should use prefixes on stories in lists of appearances and sort them by release order rather than by series, so what do I know ...