Talk:Origins (comic story)

"Woman"
Who is the woman in the fourth part of the story? Tecteun? Scott Eccles ☎  11:21, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I think that is what we are supposed to believe, but it isn't stated and so we can't include it on the page beyond the BTS section. I thought it an interesting inclusion that the Fugitive calls the person "Sir". DrWHOCorrieFan ☎  15:18, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Given the usage of a male honorfic, I reckon it may be best to hold off assuming the gender of this character. I would personally recommend the page for the character be something like Time Lord (Origins), which describes the character in a gender neutral manner, until we get more details on this character. 📯 📂 15:57, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I would suggest Division Leader as it wasn't specifically stated that they were a Time Lord and we know non-Time Lords can be part of Division, such as Karvanista and the Weeping Angels. DrWHOCorrieFan ☎  16:01, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Jody Houser confirmed to me on Instagram that it is Tecteun.Scott Eccles ☎  07:29, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

So in the future please include some sort of license with photos you upload. Admins here will delete them otherwise and then other users won't get to see what you're talking about. I've gone ahead and done it for you, though I'm not sure I chose the correct one - screenshots from social media uploaded on here is an area I don't know if we have a specific license for. As for the issue of the character in question, Houser's authorial intent isn't relevant here. If it isn't stated in the story (or, I guess, if the character isn't similar in appearance to the same character elsewhere, there's some weird precedent on this, see Talk:Antonio Amaral), it doesn't matter, the wiki cannot conflate them. The authorial intent is noted in the BTS section. I don't like this, but that's how the wiki does things. Najawin ☎  07:46, 20 September 2022 (UTC)


 * OK. Scott Eccles ☎  07:50, 20 September 2022 (UTC)


 * That policy doesn't seem very helpful. This comic had a license to use Tecteun and it has been clarified by the writer that the character is in fact Tecteun. We're helping no-one by not saying that on-wiki. It only serves to fulfill some, in this case, pointless and draconian policy. Our priority should be to be useful to our readers, not fulfilling annoying policies and precedents like this. Bongo50   ☎  15:20, 20 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I agree. Look at it this way, if we were writing a physical encyclopedia, what would we do? Acknowledge this character in the relevant page for Tecteun, or hide it away under the page "Division Leader"? Of course it'd be under Tecteun.


 * Now, I think generally the character should be treated as vaguely as the source material does, so apart from the page name, lead, and on the main Tecteun article, we should just refer to this character as the "Division Leader" and/or "Time Lord", but we should still acknowledge this character as Tecteun.


 * That being said, there is a case for keeping them separate, on the basis of how we treated the Curator when The Day of the Doctor was first broadcast, or, more recently, how we are treating the "agent" in Is anyone receiving these transmissions? who was intended to be Zoria, but not explicitly stated.


 * My heart leans to acknowledging this character as Tecteun, but under current policy and precedent, I'm not sure that's possible. 16:50, 20 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I mean, you can always add it to the list, I think it might be possible to carve out an exception for clear authorial intent when there's a license and the author has themselves noted said intent, but, uh, I doubt it's gonna work. Man with the rosette is sort of the archetypal example here. (More likely to be successful is that Houser uses the same appearance for Tecteun later on and calls her such, then we can identify her as such.) Najawin ☎  22:19, 20 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I've had a skim of Talk:Antonio Amaral and I'm not convinced that its precedent should apply here. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel that the issue there was whether or not Antonio should have creative control over the characters using his license. If the writer(s), someone who definitely had creative control over the stories and the characters within, had directly claimed that the characters were the same, it seems to me that the wiki would be more inclined to consider them the same. I also don't feel that the Man with the rosette should apply here as, to my knowledge, no story has had the license to him and the Master. In this case, however, I think that it is highly likely that Origins could have legally featured Tecteun and, in fact, it does, just in a way that expects the reader to draw the final connection, a connection that we have had direct confirmation of from the writer. Therefore, I think that an exception could be made exactly for this case. Bongo50   ☎  06:15, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
 * With the writer having confirmed who the character was supposed to be I don't see any logical reason why we wouldn't include that information on the pages. DrWHOCorrieFan ☎  06:23, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

That was not the issue, no Bongo. The issue I was referencing was whether we could identify two characters based on visual identification alone. Talk:Antonio Amaral touches on this issue, the precedent is messy here, there's a few pages that do it (like, maybe a handful), such as Bart Simpson, but it's not clear that anyone ever really agreed to this, even tacitly, so much as nobody ever really noticed this until I brought it up in the Amaral discussion. And, well, forums ded. There's a case to be made that it's an obvious extension of policy we already have - we don't care if we explicitly identify characters in televisual media to then group them on the same page. But it's never really been discussed. Man with the rosette is actually the obvious precedent though. The EDAs did have the license to the Master, after all, they were published by the BBC. They just didn't choose to use it. Exact same situation as the one we have here, in many regards, just different in that there's more textual evidence suggesting MwtR = Master than for Woman = Tecteun, and Lance Parkin said what Miles intended rather than Houser explicitly giving her intent. Very similar scenarios. User:DrWHOCorrieFan, it's literally the wiki policy that we can't. I don't like it, but that's how it is. Take it from users who've been through this before (Epsilon and I). Ain't happening. Najawin ☎  06:34, 21 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I'll add something to the list later then. I've been meaning to make some edits and updates to it for a while. Bongo50   ☎  07:21, 21 September 2022 (UTC)


 * I'll just warn you in advance that I don't expect any such thread to be successful. I'd support it. But I doubt it'd work. Najawin ☎  07:24, 21 September 2022 (UTC)


 * There's literally Catkind in the background of this comic, nobody acknowledges them as Catkind or even interacts with them but we've been able to successfully identify them as Catkind. It doesn't make sense that we can't ackowledge Tecteun as the Divison Leader even after the writer confirms that it is the case. DrWHOCorrieFan ☎  10:05, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm unsure why you keep insisting over and over that this doesn't make sense when I've said I disagree with the policy but simply stated that it's the way things are. Would you like me to ask an admin to confirm that my statement is correct? I've pointed to clear precedent, and there absolutely is more. (cf, the headache we had about the Monk/War Chief/Master before we got that whole thing sorted out, though that's a substantially more complicated issue) Najawin ☎  19:13, 21 September 2022 (UTC)