Forum:SH:Appearances Sections Need to be Cut Down!

Many pages have a section entitled "Appearances" which lists everything that's appeared in the work, including Characters, Creatures, Droids, Events, Locations, etc. But the problem is that they're becoming far too unwieldy and are taking up too much space! Consider the page Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. If I were to print out that article a FULL TEN PAGES would consist of the list of appearances-- almost a third of the article! And in some articles it's even bigger. In stubs like Star Wars Legacy: Ghosts, a full 90% of the article consists of this big useless list of appearances.

Which brings me to my second problem with them: I don't think they're useful enough to merit gobbling up an article. While I think it's important to note some things (e.g. that KOTOR was the first time Revan appeared), I don't think it's really useful to have a big list saying that the game contained or mentioned the Arkanian, Aqualish, Baragwin, Bith, Bothan), Cathar, Dimean, Duros, Echani, Gamorrean, Gran, Human, Hutt, Iridorian, Ithorian, Jawa, Karakan, Maktite, Massassi, Mon Calamari, Nikto, Paaerduag, Quarren, Rakata, Rodian, Selkath, Trandoshan, Tusken, Raider, Twi'lek, Verpine, Wookiee, Yoda's species, and Zabrak.

Seriously, I can't be the only person who just skims over all that stuff. I bet you did just now.

That's why lists of appearances are useless and need to be either cut completely or severely limited. As is, they take too much space in an article and have little to no value. I propose either completely eliminating them from all articles or setting down some guidelines as to what appearances are acceptable to keep (first appearances, perhaps). -Thunderforge 06:03, 21 June 2009 (UTC)