Board Thread:The Reference Desk/@comment-24354550-20131229194352/@comment-188432-20131230015507

I'm not a particular fan of numbering, because it always produces disagreement. We waste a lot of time on numbers like this when really we could be writing articles about truly helpful, meaningful things. There are so many meaty subjects that have not been yet tackled by this wiki that issues like this seem truly unimportant.

As far as I know there is no truly definitive source on story numbering, so I dunno the answer to your question.