Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20170618182814/@comment-28349479-20170618184556

Hear hear.

The whole issue strikes me as funny, especially since I'm particularly used to stories where Dr Who connections are rarely explicitly stated and need to be teased out by the audience. In comparison to these, the appearance of MLK in Lie of the Land is completely straight-forward. Sure, the connection between the War King and the Master should be behind-the-scenes (well, until I finish compiling evidence) but if a literal clear shot of MLK's face can't even be valid, I'd might as well not even bother!

While I don't think this is as much an issue in the exact case of Martin Luther King, where the mentions are still clearly visible despite being hidden in the BtS, I think this thread clarifies a valuable subtlety of the existing policy, a subtlety that affects multiple pages in meaningful ways despite not being well represented on the actual policy page (which should be edited to prevent further misunderstanding in this way).