Thread:Tupka217/@comment-24363851-20190303021759/@comment-1038387-20190310202923

You are a Grid fangirl. But you've got to think beyond Grid. We have categories because having manually curated lists is too labor intensive and space consuming. Even after just 8 years, Prime Earth Batman has over 1200 appearances - and there's no better way to list those than in a category. A list dividing even just his appearances into proper appearances and cameos is impractical. And then we would have to do the 50k-odd other character and team pages. The appearances will usually be tagged (cameo) or (flashback) on the issue, and that's sufficient.

Grid is just a fairly recent invention tied to the CSA. If there's no CSA, there's no need to use Grid.