Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130129081336/@comment-188432-20130404162556

The Master page works perfectly well as a single page about different versions of the same person. Remember that this is a wiki, not a print magazine. That means that we can create links however we want. It's possible and easy to create redirects to specific parts of any article. So if you want to link to the Victorian Clara within an article about the "gestalt" Clara, that's easy to accomplish.

The recent couple of concerns about how putting everything into one page will "hinder … a full exploration of each Clara", or how it's "easier to do three articles into one rather than one into three" are, from a purely technical standpoint, absolutely wrong.

Now, it's fine to have a different opinion about whether you want to have multiple articles or one. But please don't try to interject a falsehood about the technicalities of wiki usage.

As a purely technical matter, it is by far easier to avoid having multiple pages. If we find out later on that Moffat has in fact told us the precise truth, that Clara really is "the woman twice dead", then we'll be obliged to change all the links. There will only be more links as we progress through the series, so the act of consolidation will necessarily be harder the longer we wait.