Board Thread:Policies/@comment-18172179-20170103063927/@comment-3361105-20170103193845

Monkeyjack wrote: To remove all the apn's would take a LONG time because there are over (like sforhope said) 10,000 pages that have apn's on them ... but if you just make sure they are right, then you would not have to edit every page, you would only have to check them, saving hours of repeating the same process over and over again.

As SforHope noted, the plan is to redirect the apn template to A, which means that all of those 10,000+ uses will become uses of A instead, resolving the issue in one edit, as Kyle pointed out above.

I don't suppose you realize this, but asking us to "check them" is essentially asking 1-5 people to read every DC Comic published to date, cross reference every character's appearance, and make notes.

This would be years of work. See also: we're already doing that (one page at a time, over 11 years, now).

If DC ever closes up shop (unlikely), and we have the opportunity to say "THE WIKI IS COMPLETE. EVERY DC COMIC EVER IS COMPLETELY DOCUMENTED!" - then we would have all the data we'd need to just check. Given that this wiki is always a work-in-progress, and the fact that all of the work is shared between 10-20 people on a regular basis, an accurate chronology of character appearances is not do-able unless every appearance of every character is accurately recorded on the wiki already. italics.