Forum:Temporary forums/Lists of Appearances/Martha Jones - list of appearances

This page illustrates how Martha Jones - list of appearances would look according to the two options proposed in the List of Appearances forum thread.

Option 1
This option presents all of Martha Jones' appearances in a single table, with no separation based on validity.

Note that the order in which the stories are presented – grouped first by medium, then by series – matches the order currently in use on Martha Jones - list of appearances and other pages. However, the table also allows for sorting by author and release date. This makes it easy to notice interesting real-world information about the character: for instance, how she debuted in a Quick Reads novel before her first television appearance, or how Joseph Lidster has written stories with Martha in more media than any other author. The following is a list of appearances by Martha Jones.

Option 2
Alternately, we could split the invalid appearances into a separate section.

I don't prefer this option, since it awkwardly centers the wiki's semi-arbitrary validity rules in an out-of-universe page. This division doesn't matter to audiences and gets in the way of finding interesting real-world information: for instance, just because an old discussion concluded that the BBC Writers' Comics were too contradictory to cover in-universe, it's much harder to see how 3 of the 5 authors who featured Martha in those stories also wrote for her on television – a fact which could be discovered very simply using the sorting features in Option 1. The following is a list of appearances by Martha Jones.

Invalid stories
These stories have been found not to meet this wiki's Valid sources policy, so they aren't used as sources for our in-universe pages, except when noted.