User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-28743561-20171110222524/@comment-1432718-20171112180042

I don't think this post should be closed so soon. This is a very difficult and potentially controversial page, and the thread has only been open a couple of days and attended by only three people. I'd like to see some more suggestions, because in my opinion some of the terms listed above are way too open to misinterpretation and disagreement. In addition, we still have never finished the multiple "what is an appearance" threads, and until we do, we can't really define whether an incarnation of the Doctor appears in a story.

I always look for the simplest solution, because that's the easiest to explain and enforce and correct. The comments at Thread:178629 point out just how complicated this situation is, as do NateBumber's comments above, and I'd like to hear a little more discussion before it's closed.

I think it's important to this discussion that every participant read Thread:178629 to get some perspective. Also, since User:CzechOut's suggestion has been brought up, I want to post it here so everyone can see exactly what he suggested:


 * "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." (emphasis mine)