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==Featured Characters==
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Shouldn't the lists be in order of appearance, rather than alphabetical? I know there's the numbers there, but it feels kind of odd to have the numbers bouncing around like that so much. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 23:11, 12 January 2008 (UTC)<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>
Shouldn't the lists be in order of appearance, rather than alphabetical? I know there's the numbers there, but it feels kind of odd to have the numbers bouncing around like that so much. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 23:11, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 
:The numbers are there because you can have autobots and decepticons intermingled.
:While there's some advantage (more info communicated) by putting the list in order of appearance ''within faction'', I think it ''reduce'' the usefulness of the list for stories with many appearances.  (Like the Beast Wars comics.  It's easier to check if a character appeared among that mass if they're in alphabetical order.)
:So there's some merit to what Siph says, but I think the negatives outweigh the benefits. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 23:27, 12 January 2008 (UTC)<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

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Shouldn't the lists be in order of appearance, rather than alphabetical? I know there's the numbers there, but it feels kind of odd to have the numbers bouncing around like that so much. --M Sipher 23:11, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

The numbers are there because you can have autobots and decepticons intermingled.
While there's some advantage (more info communicated) by putting the list in order of appearance within faction, I think it reduce the usefulness of the list for stories with many appearances. (Like the Beast Wars comics. It's easier to check if a character appeared among that mass if they're in alphabetical order.)
So there's some merit to what Siph says, but I think the negatives outweigh the benefits. -Derik 23:27, 12 January 2008 (UTC)