User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1296654-20190726133841/@comment-25472716-20200918223353

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1296654-20190726133841/@comment-25472716-20200918223353 I would say that et al. served as some confusion for me when I saw it on occasion on pages. Obviously a personal thing but I always presumed it to either mean the other instances of that story under other names or acting as cover-all for the episodes of a story within early Hartnell era.

It took me a bit of time reading through various pages that featured it over time to realise that it was being used in the way that it is. I will concede, like Laura above said, that making a decision either way would create some amount of work as both have been used variably throughout the Wiki.

I'm not fussed about pressing this matter too hard, but if asked for a viewpoint - I would argue etc. (and would be against "amongst other stories" - just seems awfully clunky to me...)

It's much more commonly in usage amongst casual conversation, and et al. aside from being baffling for those less familiar with the Wiki could perhaps cause a bit of confusion for academically-involved individuals reading the Wiki, who of course would know the terminology only in the context of people.