Tardis:Lists of appearances
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Lists of appearances are subpages associated with our in-universe page on an element (such as a character, location, or group, to name a few). These pages list media covered by the Wiki which feature that element. Such subpages should only be created if listing at least four appearances in total; otherwise, it suffices to list these appearances in the |appearances= field of the main page's infobox.
Only actual appearances, however minor, should be included: mere mentions do not suffice. It must be noted, however, that in prose, a single "mention" by the narrator of a story might suffice to count as an on-page "appearance", depending on circumstances.
As decided in a Forum thread, invalid, but covered sources ought to be included in lists of appearances without distinction. On the other hand, non-covered sources, even partially-licensed ones eligible to citation on a /Non-covered_sources, should not be listed. Unproduced or unreleased works should get their own table below the mainline one, as seen for example at Sabbath Dei/Appearances.
Our general house style of using sentence case to title pages and section heads does indeed apply to the various pages in category:lists of appearances. Consequently, the format for naming such pages will be:
Topic/Appearances
When linked in an infobox as the value of the variable {{{appearances}}}, it is pipe tricked thus, using the {{appears}} template:
[[Topic/Appearances|'''''see list''''']]
Lists of appearances should be formatted as sortable tables, with the default sorting being by medium, like this:
{|class="wikitable sortable"
! class="unsortable" | Title
! Medium
! Series
! Author
! data-sort-type="iso-date" | Release date
|-
|''[[Example Novel One (novel)|Example Novel One]]''
|rowspan=2|Novel
|''[[The Example Series Adventures (series)|The Example Series Adventures]]''
|{{sortname|John|Smith}}
|[[1 January (releases)|1 January]] [[1963 (releases)|1963]]
|-
|''[[Example Novel Two (novel)|Example Novel Two]]''
|''[[The New Example Series Chronicles (series)|The New Example Series Chronicles]]''
|{{sortname|John|Doe}}
|[[1 February (releases)|1 February]] [[1963 (releases)|1964]]
|-
|''[[Example Audio Play (audio story)|Example Audio Play]]''
|Audio story
|''[[Example Audio Series (series)|Example Audio Series]]''
|{{sortname|John|Smith}}
|[[4 March (releases)|4 March]] [[1963 (releases)|1963]]
|-
|''[[Example Comic Story (comic story)|Example Comic Story]]''
|[[Example Publication Magazine backup comic stories|''Example Publication Magazine'' backup comic stories]]
|Comic story
|{{sortname|John|Doe}}
|[[2 January (releases)|2 January]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]]
|}
Which produces this result:
| Title | Medium | Series | Author | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Example Novel One | Novel | The Example Series Adventures | John Smith | 1 January 1963 |
| Example Novel Two | The New Example Series Chronicles | John Doe | 1 February 1964 | |
| Example Audio Play | Audio story | Example Audio Series | John Smith | 4 March 1963 |
| Example Comic Story | Comic story | Example Publication Magazine backup comic stories | John Doe | 2 January 2023 |
