Talk:Barnaby Edwards (in-universe)

Rename
Personally, I believe this character should be renamed to Barnaby Edwards (Old Friend), as the "(in-universe)" dab term is for in-universe counterparts of real world people, which this Barnaby Edwards isn't. His name is obviously a reference to Barnaby Edwards, but there is a difference between "reference" and "counterpart".

Compare Groenewegen: lots of Groenewgens in the DWU named after Sarah Groenewegen, but they're not in-universe counterparts of the real Sarah. 01:13, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
 * If it were only the name it'd be one thing, but the IU Edwards is also drawn to look like the actor. To my mind, if we had a character called Jodie Whittaker who was drawn to look like Jodie Whittaker, she would uncontroversially get the "(in-universe)" dab even if it was a heavily fictionalised version who never played the Doctor or any adjacent role. Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 01:33, 5 October 2023 (UTC)


 * I had been led to believe that we used the in-universe dab term for anything that was named after something in the real world that we had a page on:

"The "(in-universe)" disambiguation term should be used to dab any in-universe thing named after an out-of-universe thing."

- T:DAB IU


 * Aquanafrahudy  📢   07:36, 5 October 2023 (UTC)


 * This case seems different though. As referenced in the BTS on this page, this character derived from two different people called Barnaby Edwards. I'd argue using (in-universe) as a dab, in this case, is slightly misleading, so I agree with Epsilon here. Danochy ☎  02:31, 7 October 2023 (UTC)