Forum:Single pages about multiple indistinguishable characters

Question
Without going into too much detail; is it okay to make a singular page for two or more one-time characters who are indistinguishable from each other?

This is the sort of headache I find myself dealing with when doing pages for the countless, largely identical-looking Daleks that appear in The Daft Dimension. WaltK ☎  21:18, 15 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Well, it's complicated. T:MERGE states "groups of individuals should never be covered on a single page", but there are, in fact, cases where giving some individuals individual pages. For example, Ruby and Daisy McKenzie are pretty much impossible to separate because we don't know which one is Ruby and which one is Daisy, nor which of the respective twins played which twin.
 * While I haven't created Guards (A Worthy Successor) yet, I can't feasibly create individual pages for the guards in A Worthy Successor as they aren't named and, as the reader, I don't know if the — as a random example — a nameless guard being killed is the same one from earlier which Giles met, but this information still deserves a page.
 * I also do not think pages like Cyberon 1 (More Than Human...), Cyberon 2 (More Than Human...), Cyberon 3 (More Than Human...), etc, are useful when we could just have Cyberons (More Than Human...).
 * Therefore, I feel it may be worth creating an exception to T:MERGE for instances where nameless groups of soldiers/aliens/etc are indistinguishable from one another, and instances like Ruby and Daisy McKenzie, which I do believe is an edge case unrepeated in the DWU. 01:50, 16 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Penguin (Once Upon a Time Lord) would probably be precedent here (although it should really be named to Penguins (Once Upon a Time Lord))? Even though all the penguins are distinguishable, it makes more sense to have a single page for them (also, none of them appeared before the other, so we can't really have Penguin 1 (Once Upon a Time Lord) etc.). Aquanafrahudy   📢   06:47, 16 September 2023 (UTC)