Forum:David Campbell and others' upgrade to companion

David Campbell, Samantha Briggs, Marco Polo, Bret Vyon and other, more obscure characters, like ones from "The Keys of Marinus", have now gotten upgraded to single adventure companions of their respective Doctors. can we get a consensus for/against this? to me it really does seem like stretching the definition of companion (and beyond) its utmost limits.--24.61.10.36talk to me 22:41, January 30, 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree. There seems to be a general pattern of expansion of any term unti it becomes meaningless. (cf. C. Northcote Parkinson on committology). It would be nice if the list were trimmed. Boblipton talk to me 01:54, January 31, 2012 (UTC)


 * There should be reverted, no way are they companions - they are allies. It was just one User who started to add the navbox and the categories to the pages - some of which I reverted - then another User came along and started to do the exact same thing, so I was fighting a loosing battle.


 * I have already suggested to User:Tangerineduel that with the random individuals being added to the categories of companions, allies and enemies, we completely strip the categories so we have nothing in them and we have a discussion, per Doctor, of who is a companion, ally and enemy. It will be time-taking, but we may finally get somewhere. MM/ Want to talk? 09:45, January 31, 2012 (UTC)

Archivist's notes
This was part of a series of threads in late 2011/early 2012 which eventually resulted in the dramatic thinning of companion categories and the complete elimination of "x Doctor allies" and "x Doctor enemies" categories. See also Forum:Enemies, intention and association, Forum:What makes an ally and an enemy? and Forum:What counts as an enemy? 20:25: Wed 02 May 2012