Board Thread:Policies/@comment-220364-20140118212334

Just wondering on this...

I know that "Mentioned" characters - those that get tagged with Mentioned - don't have A used in the appearance list. The rationale being that the character does not actually appear in the story.

Shouldn't the same be true for "Behind the scenes" (BTS) listings as well? Either the character is, best case, just being mentioned or is assumed to have had a hand in things based on a preceding or following story.

Also, are we assuming that if only a visual of the character is given,   should be used? This would be a lot of the uses of Illusion, Hologram, Picture, Statue, and TV. And almost all of the uses of Picture.

I realize that Phone would be an appearance even though the character isn't shown and, at least to some, Only sould almost automatically preclude a link for the character much less an appearance. 