Forum:Getting Rid of Character Table Numbers

This has been bothering me for a while. Can we please get rid of the little numbers next to characters in the tables of each chapter/episode? The way we use chapter notes has rendered them obsolete, and quite frankly I think they just look tacky. They're also vague and sometimes even grammatically incorrect. It's appearance, not apparition. Unless the character is a ghost, apparition has no business being there. Or a new member of what? Never specifies. Jean Bart doesn't have a number by his name when he joined the Heart Pirates. They serve no purpose now other than redundancy. Let's can this relic. 19:01, September 18, 2015 (UTC)

Discussion
Get rid of everything but first appearance. SeaTerror (talk) 19:07, September 18, 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, just remove them. They're used inconsistently anyway. 19:09, September 18, 2015 (UTC)

We just need to fix it up. I think people forgot to add them for first appearance on newer chapters but it's something that's always been around. SeaTerror (talk) 19:12, September 18, 2015 (UTC)

We make note of everything already in the previous section. I don't see why first appearance should be an exception. 19:13, September 18, 2015 (UTC)

I've only seen the previous section list really important characters like Whitebeard or Rayleigh. SeaTerror (talk) 19:18, September 18, 2015 (UTC)

Do what you think is the best of your judgement. I really never saw the point of these numbers.

Joekido (talk) 19:23, September 18, 2015 (UTC)

I say go for it. 15:40, September 19, 2015 (UTC)

We can have an asterisk or something for first appearance, but we don't need anything else. 05:12, September 20, 2015 (UTC)

We don't even need an asterisk. 05:24, September 20, 2015 (UTC)

Well, some mention of a first appearance. Or maybe in the trivia or something, if it can't be in the character tables. But I wouldn't be against leaving it out altogether either. 05:29, September 20, 2015 (UTC)

We usually do anyway. It's what we did with Barto and Cabbage. 05:31, September 20, 2015 (UTC)

We should be listing it for all characters then. We can't just pick and choose who goes into that section. SeaTerror (talk) 07:10, September 20, 2015 (UTC)

First Appearance is noted on character pages already, so it exists already in some form on the wiki. Let's get rid of this shit. 05:30, September 22, 2015 (UTC)

Majority says rid of all the numbers and asterisks. But some say they want a "first appearance". Why not just underline/change font color/bold/italics any first timers? 05:42, September 22, 2015 (UTC)

Remove all those signs seriously. 16:35, September 24, 2015 (UTC)

If we use colour coding instead of numbers to denote the first appearance or introduction of a character I'm all for it. Perhaps Yatanogarasu's idea merits some consideration too. MasterDeva (talk) 19:05, September 29, 2015 (UTC)

Colors would look weird with links. I like the idea of italicized for first appearance. 14:16, October 2, 2015 (UTC)