User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-121.45.54.78-20130925110520/@comment-38288735-20191120113502

If I understand policy correctly, implied appearances would fall under speculation, which is not allowed on this wiki, and I don't think there's enough continuity between separate parts of the Whoniverse to rely on Borisashton's method.

I don't think parentheses should be used, but I agree that acting like this isn't the forum where that policy can be changed is acting in bad faith.

However, I believe there's a strong technical reason why we can't treat the lists differently from the infoboxes. I admit that I haven't found the specific policy on how many appearances are required before we switch to a list, but it appears to be more than two. If a character only makes one "real" appearance and one flashback (two in total), then a policy that uses parentheticals would have us using them in the infoboxes. Based on that, it makes sense for us to not have separate rules for the infoboxes and for the lists. I believe this is what Shambala meant when they said that the lists are just "extensions of infoboxes".

EDIT: I wish to apologize. It was rude of me to accuse bad faith rather than just a bad argument.