Help:Verifying appearances

These are general guidelines for how to move articles from Category:Articles needing appearance verification to Category:Articles with verified appearances.

This is not formalized, but an idea for what to check in order of importance:
 * 1) Correcting MediaWiki errors affecting how the page is rendered
 * 2) Making sure no information was deleted from the infobox in its transformation process
 * 3) Readability: fixing typos, editing text that doesn't make sense, adding clarifications
 * 4) Fact-checking: going to every episode page for characters with lots of appearances probably isn't worth it, but there are minor ways to check:
 * 5) * In the character page diff of the bot's edit, does the content roughly match up with what was there previously?
 * 6) * Does this information generally match with what you know about the character?
 * 7) * Does the former "Count" field match with the bot's episode count?
 * 8) * Sometimes, the bot puts a comment under the appearances header suggesting episodes that might have been left out, and it's worth checking those.
 * Category:Guest player characters that the DM played via Scrying, Sending, etc need appearance object 2x-checked (example)
 * 1) Explorer's Guide to Wildemount might've been deleted in "Other" (wasn't tracking as a source for appearances), as well as any other source books

These guidelines can be deleted when no more articles need verification.