User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-9435571-20140927221308/@comment-188432-20141213152900

I don't know that it was particularly hard. It was as simple as waiting for the story to unfold.

See, there's only one brief moment where she appears to be a willing passenger in the TARDIS — and she throws up while doing so. In her second trip, she is quite literally kidnapped. And in her other appearances, she's really just an incidental student — little more than a featured extra.

If she'd made anther appearance after Moon in which she definitively rejected an offer to travel with the Doctor — or maybe have been a willing agent of the Master — I think it'd be harder calling her a companion.

Waiting lets us know more about her and allows us to proceed on surer footing, after useful discussion and deliberation.

See, five years from now, when series 8 is a half-remembered thing, and Courtney is long forgotten, some new user is going to come along and ask why we've put her in the navbox. They'll say something like, "She's even less important to plots than Jackie!"

But because we waited and talked about it, we can turn to that new user and say, "She's in the box because most of the editors of the site who were around during the transmission of series 8 wanted her there."

That's incredibly valuable to the administration of a wiki.