Board Thread:Policies/@comment-18172179-20170103063927/@comment-3361105-20170110200036

FeRDNYC wrote: True Things™

I was going to suggest earlier, a method for deriving an "accurate" list of appearances in chronological order (by publication date, specifically) by using a cloudbased shared spreadsheet system, but I reneged when I remembered that it's not just ONE character that would need to be tracked, it's every character, and every comic.

Then I realized - in a bit of a "duh" moment - that compiling a list of every appearance by every character in every comic by release date is essentially what the wiki is already doing. It's just incomplete, and as FeRDNYC rightly points out, every incomplete page that gets completed and introduces new data requires that every APN link in a chain of links be changed unless it's the first or last in that chain. That is a very fatal flaw.