Board Thread:Policies/@comment-18172179-20170103063927/@comment-3361105-20170114014310

FeRDNYC wrote: If we did have a fully-populated, then the rest of the work of collecting APNs should be fairly straightforward, but right now I'm not seeing a way to do what's needed without it. I can easily add that categorization to Template:Apn, but I wanted to get some input on (a) whether that's actually necessary, and/or (b) whether it would really work. (If the pages all have to be visited afterwards, there's kind of no point.)

All of this could be done with a bot. Should it be done with a bot? No. Probably not. It's unclear what use a list of places the template was called on would be. It would fail to distinguish between characters on a page. It would fail to give any indication of which character had appeared next. And if it could do that, it would just be re-duplicating information that had already been duplicated from dcuguide.

Honestly, if you have any coding skill whatsoever, you should focus your attention instead on helping us fix the myriad of broken code in our Lua templates, because the guy from Wikia abandoned us with them full of bugs that nobody seems to know how to fix.