Forum:SH Archive/Appearances template clarification

Can someone please clarify this from the OOU Layout guide:

"10. Appearances uses and is only necessary for articles on individual works, such as a single novel or comic. It should not be used for articles on collections of multiple works, such as a book trilogy or a comic book story arc. For novels with a Dramatis Personae, the Dramatis Personae is listed at the beginning of this section's "Characters" sub-section."

I noticed that Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith which is essentially a disambiguation page had its appearances tag removed which is fine, however Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith (TPB) then had its appearances section removed. As an owner of predominantly TPBs this policy makes it impossible for me to populate/verify appearances sections if they continue to be removed from TPB pages.

TPBs/collected works' appearances are not necessarily 100% representative of the individual issues as corrections are often made and occasionally elements which were exclusive to the individual issues such as opening crawls/supplemental material are not actually included in the final TPB. In the case of a new foreword/opening crawl written especially for a TPB/collection, it may make mention of/refer to objects/places/things etc. that were not originally presented in the individual issues. I understand that appearance sections for the Omnibus collections are unnecessary & unwieldy due to the varying subject matter contained within but surely we could keep the appearances for single story-arc TPBs. Bo Shuda (talk) 23:40, December 3, 2013 (UTC)