Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-86.174.105.135-20161211174119/@comment-24894325-20161215220007

With the alternative timelines that have been reversed, it's not as bad as all that. Though the events have been reversed, typically the Doctor lived through them and remembers them. In other words, it's typically the same body inhabited by the same consciousness that lived through an alternative timeline. And that's why we don't create a separate page. (I'm sure there are also counter examples, as always.)

Secondly, if an alternative version primarily uses an alternative name, then that's a clear reason for a separate page.

I would propose to restrict this discussion to the the scope of the OP: pages named "The Doctor (story name)". A separate version with a separate name is served well by a separate page. It is when the separation is in question that a merge may be warranted. IMHO.