Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-43908-20150311013943/@comment-6032121-20190210131335

AdricLovesNyssa wrote: I don't see why we need to separate the pages, as to me in causes more confusion. To me it would make sense to have it on one page with either Landau's Romana 3 as an alternative timeline part of the page or as it is. Landau's Romana does happen as part of the established timeline, though both times Ward's Romana regenerates into her gets aborted.

Poppycock. Even if we finally got in-universe confirmation that the Shalka Doctor occurred in an aborted timeline, as one of the Time War's many temporal anomalies, and even though if you squint Shalka could pass for a young War Doctor, we wouldn't merge him with the War Doctor. They're two different characters.

With the two Romanas III it's even easier: we have a direct statement from the Landau version's creator that she is a different character, distinct from the novels’ future Romana. We might personally choose to believe it's the same incarnation and the slight differences in appearance and behavior are negligible. But in such matters I think authorial intent must prime over potential "confusion" in readers.

The real question is whether the Matrix Trey should be kept merged with the Landau Romana III, or given her own page. (This question hinges on whether we consider that the Matrix Trey is the continuation of Romana III following her death, à la Testimony-Bill or Data-Ghost-River; or that she was more probably copied earlier in Romana III's timeline than the moment of death, in which case she splits off from the original and becomes her own person, à la Shadow-World-Bill or Ganger-Eleven. Again, not on whether it's "confusing".)