Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130110025213/@comment-188432-20130110205804

Please read the entirety of the thread :) Had you done so, you would have found a link to the debate on the name change.

It's interesting that you say that "Tardis Data Core is surely not a a TARDIS reference" while "Index File was a reference to the TARDIS that the majority of fans understood". The precise opposite is true.

The TARDIS Data Core was specifically referenced in State of Decay, but there is no such thing as a TARDIS Index File. The latter is a misunderstanding of the script of Castrovalva. In fact, Nyssa's looking for the index file of the TARDIS information system, not the so-called "TARDIS Index File". The TARDIS almost certainly has multiple index files, since every bit of computer technology would likely need one — as is implied by Nyssa.

Anyway, a debate was held for a bit over a month, during the time when the most number of visitors to the site were likely to be had in this long break between the two halves of series 7. Sorry you missed it.