User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130129081336/@comment-188432-20130402201806

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130129081336/@comment-188432-20130402201806 Absolutely. It's vitally important on any number of pages that we say, "According to this character", or "In that character's opinion", or "This other character said that such and such was true."

The more this wiki can closely cite and characterise its statements, the stronger its articles will be.

Take, for instance, the page on the Master. If we just said, "The Master was an evil Time Lord", we'd have to strike that from the page as speculation or hyperbole or just lazy writing. But because we put in actual quotes from people calling him the "quintessence of evil", "one of the most evil and corrupt beings", we're able to say he's evil in a way that irrefutably "sticks".

There's no reason that we can't approach the Clara situation in exactly the same way. We report precisely what's in the episodes. And if we stick to that, rather than buying into the tricks that Moffat seems to be setting up for us, then we'll probably end up with an article that doesn't require a lot of editing, once Moffat's knots are all untangled.