OK, why are all the Big Finish character tropes for the Doctor and Master been moved to the show character pages? I thought EU tropes were separate!
Um, why have all the EU Doctor character tropes been merged with the main page? I thought they were supposed to be separate?
Should One-Shot Characters Be Listed on the Characters Page?
They often have very few tropes to list, but they clutter up the pages. It'd probably be better to keep there tropes on the Recap pages.
Exceptions could be made for characters from plot-heavy specials like the Moment, but I think characters like Rusty the Dalek are best kept off the general page.
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That sounds like it could be a good idea and would make it easier for anyone looking for them as well as help with the clutter!
Should there be a specific section for the Doctor's family? A few have appeared like his wife River, daughter Jenny and granddaughter Susan, so it might be convenient, but is that enough to perhaps warrant a section?
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Probably not, since they all of most of them fit under the Companion section anyway.
should we more consistenly mention across all support cast characters which doctors they have met?
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That could be helpful for people who don't know what years what Doctor was active.
In light of Sir John Hurt's passing, is it possible to move the War Doctor tropes into their own page between the classic Doctors and 9/10?
Woah, does Clara really need a massive trope page all to herself? And is there a reason why there's no entry for Brigadier? I feel like if we're going to give Clara her own page, he also has enough content to warrant one. However, he's not even mentioned under the classic series companions page.
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Hm, I didn't think to look there for some reason. It seems odd to me, but I can understand.
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I think we should add a one shot characters list, which will include Sally Sparrow and Larry Nightingale. Thoughts?
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One Shots that are substantial for the episode, like Sally Sparrow, then I agree.
I see this page has index tags, but it is not showing up as an index on the pages it includes.
Can someone make it show up as an index?
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Done.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Okay, who decided to merge the New Series Doctors into a single page? I thought the idea was that it shouldn't be done because the word-count would be too high. I'm not saying they couldn't be merged, because it obviously can be done now, but I'd like to know just who decided to do it without talking it over with anyone else first. A change that major should always be discussed and talked over instead of someone just deciding to do it anyway and damn the consequences.
Also, shouldn't War be listed between Eleven and Twelve instead of before any of the other New Series Doctors? He may have chronologically come before Nine, but he wasn't introduced until after Eleven, and so after Eleven is where he should show up on the page.
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Given the page would start bugging out in another 50,000 characters, I have reverted the pages and left an edit note to come here to discuss it.
If you want to redo the namespaces and move war to before 9 and 10, we can do that, but let's just agree to it.
I would suggest making a Characters.Doctor Who Revival Series Doctors War To Eleven and Characters.Doctor Who Revival Series Doctors Twelve To Present. Thus we wouldn't have to worry about Twelve's continuing to grow on a regular basis entry destroying the entire page (we'd only have 350,000 characters between War to 11), and would be able to grow the new page with as many new doctors as possible going forward.
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Why do we separate the Doctors into Classic, RTD era, and Moffat era? There aren't that many of them and each Doctor's tropes are collapsed by default; it makes a lot more sense to just put them all in a single article. At the very least, I propose merging the RTD Doctors and Moffat Doctors page into a single modern Doctors page.
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It used to be that the two pages were classic and modern Doctors page. However, pages can only handle up to 500,000 characters at a time, and the modern Doctors page exceeded that limit.
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I know there was a whole movement to replace the chibi icons with actual images of the characters, but is anyone still doing so? We seem to have a strange mix of half chibi, half not. I know that some people disliked the chibi icons, but leaving the pages halfway converted looks far worse than it ever did before.
Maybe I'm just having trouble finding it, but is the 10th Doctor duplicate on the character list any where? Seems like he should be under other supporting cast.
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Re: Gallifrey. The other character pages in the Doctor Whoniverse all seem to have images from http://redscharlach.livejournal.com/tag/icons
. All the characters bar the last 4 seem to be on there; anyone know how/ the rules for putting them on the page? Cheers.
CPJC221
Where Is Jenny? I Figured That The Doctor's Daughter Would Be Listed As A Character.
Ms
Is anyone else seeing parallels between Alice from The One Who Waited, published in 2005, and Amy?
Sarah Jane Adventures > "I'm not past my sell-by date yet"
Harsher in Hindsight much...
I see the 8DAs and this page have the icons but not the main EU page. I don't know how to add them, but someone should.
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Didn't at the time I posted. Evidently someone has done a lot of work in the last few days. :D (They've also seperated all the EU pages. Nice work!)
That was me, but the main expanded universe page still had that icon before, otherwise I couldn't have separated it.
It's super effective.
- Plot Induced Stupidity: Despite her normal level of competence, during the 9th Doctor's run she had the unfortunate tendency to almost cause the end of the world just as often as the Monster of the Week.
So...once? Technically twice if you count Dalek.
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Could someone with the season 2 box set please confirm Mickey Smith's quote using the subtitles? When the episode aired, I heard the line as "man in the van", not "man in Havana", and I do think the former makes more sense, but I don't want to just blunder in and change it in case I'm wrong.
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It's "man in Havana", meaning, roughly, "useful contact on 'the inside' who can do stuff for us that we can't be seen to do". The reference is to the Graham Greene novel _Our Man In Havana_.
Okay, cool, thanks. (I'd thought "man in the van" because he also mentioned being "technical support", which made me think of the guys in vans in spy movies who provide support to the agents doing the fieldwork).
DigiFlame
Showing what years a character was on the show for is nice, but perhaps it would be better to say which Doctor each Companion traveled with and vice versa?
Also, where are those awesome chibi icons from? They're so cool!
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I think it'd be a better idea to reword the individual character descriptions to identify their respective Doctors.
The icons are by the awesome Redscharlach, http://www.redscharlach.co.uk/ . She also does other shows; definitely check her stuff out. I thought I'd credited her when I put them up, but either I did it wrong or it's not showing up or something. I'll linkify them this evening.
The Character listing for Rusty the Dalek has disappeared. Is it being moved to a new category from it's original position under "Other Supporting Cast"?