User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20170121220436/@comment-24894325-20170122230354

NateBumber wrote: Of course they wouldn't use the Time Lords' names for themselves! Renaming and unnaming through perspective shifts is a fundamental part of the Faction Paradox series. No, the Ship isn't referred to using the words "the Doctor's TARDIS". But it's a blue police box that's bigger on the inside and can travel through space and time, carrying a redhead with an ear implant and a male who's been replicated by the cuckoo pilot.

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If we're to deny this and decide that unambiguous physical descriptions and identifiers aren't enough to establish identity (and this is what we would be deciding, since one of these cannot come without the other), a lot of this wiki needs to be drastically changed. To begin with, in Short Trips (series), the Doctor is never identified by number, just physical description; therefore, we must create individual pages for each character, since "the Doctor with the technicolor dreamcoat" is only implied to be the Sixth. Similarly, every single uncopyrighted reference to the Daleks in the Virgin New Adventures must be removed, as must the appearance of K9 in Kept Safe and Sound (which is a perfect analogy for Toy Story, since it was both published officially and in a fan anthology without BBC licenses). Note how the first sentence quoted is a speculation. Plus, why wouldn't they use the actual names of their passengers pilots? We know that the Doctor's TARDIS knows the Doctor's name. And has used it. Indeed, why would anyone use lengthy descriptions instead of actual names? Maybe TARDISes are like that, maybe not. We can only speculate.

Regarding "unambiguous physical descriptions" in a world with Zygons, parallel universes, mirror images, clones, etc., thanks but no thanks.

It is true that sometimes the identity is deduced based on the sum of stated features. Someone who is called the Doctor and is wearing a technicolour coat looks like someone we know. If everyone agrees, it is used, if someone disagrees, it is discussed. That's what I'm used to on this wiki. I am used, however, to having at least one name as a point of reference.

So let me ask again. Has it been decided by a discussion on this wiki that the female companion is Compassion, that the male companion is Fitz Kreiner, that the Pilot is the (not just any but Eighth) Doctor. If I missed that discussion, just point to a link to a closed forum thread or an adopted policy. I'll be happy and stop worrying about speculations and authorial intent creeping up.