User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20150828141837/@comment-1432718-20191213230757

First, re-posting User:CzechOut's suggestion from above so no one has to scroll up to find it (everything indented is from his comment, and I've numbered his three suggestions for ease of referring to them):


 * Our category naming conventions are supposed to stop us from going down these rabbit holes. Multi-doctor stories is a vague concept. Probably the best thing we could do to aid reader understanding would be to:


 * remove the category
 * remove List of multi-Doctor stories
 * improve the quality of the page multi-Doctor story so that it demonstrates different things that could be considered a multi-Doctor story, try to find quotes from a valid reference work that demonstrate the confusion, but draw no real conclusion about what a multi-Doctor story is.
 * We definitely shouldn't be using categories or list pages as a way to "validate" a story as a multi-Doctor story.

Suggestions #1 and #3 will be implemented. Per the discussions above, this category blatantly violates Tardis:Category naming conventions.

However, suggestion #2 will not be implemented. This is to address User:OttselSpy25's concern that users will want to find this information. The article Multi-Doctor story defines the term, and should have a link to List of multi-Doctor stories.

As for the definition, we should use the simplest one: a multi-Doctor includes appearances by more than one Doctor. It doesn't matter if they don't interact. However, flashbacks and archive footage should not count, because in general we don't consider those appearances.

Any further questions/clarifications should be addressed on the talk page for Multi-Doctor story, since this thread needs to be closed.