Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-84037-20161228193955/@comment-1153722-20170104160109

Roger Murtaugh wrote: I managed to get the appearances collapsible for the Assassin's Creed III appearances. I'm not sure how to make it start as collapsed, but I did use the Video game requirements template to get it working.

I wasn't under the impression you were going to add Appearances sections to video game pages, let alone list more than characters. I can't say I'm really all that keen on this idea. I was under the impression you were merely going to do it for character pages. I'd also prefer this be done in sandboxes for now until a complete consensus is reached and this thread can be closed and I've given the go-ahead.

Sol Pacificus wrote: Hm I'm not sure if my question is still being understood.

I'm not saying whether References should be removed or should remain, or the status of Appearances and Sources.

I'm specifically addressing the previous scenario where if and only if an article only has one source, that source is listed in References the same way we would now list an Appearance/Source. However, if there were more than one source, the References would function as it actually should: as a list of citations.

Because of this previous policy, when we had an article with a single source, our stance was to not have a list of citations, but rather have that singular source simply listed under References (as we now would do with Appearances/Sources).

My question is, given that we now have Appearances/Sources, in the specific scenario where an article only has one source, should the References not have a list of citations instead of just listing that one source under References? Because if we did the latter, it would look redundant to readers because under Appearances, it would list Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles then under References, it would also list Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles. I'm proposing instead that while the Appearances list that single source, the References rather than just listing that single source as well, should be a list of citations as is the case with References section in any article with more than one source.

I'm not opposed to this. Makes more sense than having two similar sections.