Category talk:People from the real world encountered by the Doctor

Proposed deletion
This category and all its subcategories should be deleted. From the DWU perspective (that is, the in universe perspective), almost all of the people the Doctor encounters are "real world people". The category proposes to catalogue the people the Doctor meets from the real world, but out of universe categories are never to be applied to in universe pages.

In addition, this category has been placed inside the Category:Real world people, which is an out of universe category.

These categories should be immediately deleted. Shambala108 ☎  13:32, June 24, 2014 (UTC)

I agree. Someone tried to add similar categories a while back (historical figures encountered by the Doctor) and those were all promptly deleted. Slughorn42 ☎  14:06, June 24, 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I just tghoug it would look good alongside the "Places visited by the {?} Doctor"BananaClownMan ☎  16:20, June 24, 2014 (UTC)
 * I think deletion would be unwarranted here.


 * Historical figures encountered by the Doctor was deleted for a very different reason, inapplicable here. On a television show about time travel, everyone is historical, if you go far enough into the future. Thus the name was vague, and the category failed because of T:CAT NAME.


 * But that's not the case here. There are very definitely "real people", in the sense that Agatha Christie lived on this mortal coil, but Reg Arwell didn't. And we categorise plenty of things based upon whether they exist in the real world.  The issue here, it seems to me, is not that these categories have bad content. Their names simply need a tweak.


 * Real world  means that the thing exists only in the real world. So, RTD would be a part of category:Real world people, via a subcategory.  Category:People from the real world, by contrast, are people who lived in the real world, but are also a part of the DWU.  So what needs to happen here is not a deletion of these categories, but a renaming to '''People from the real world who met the Doctor".


 * I'll wait a week to perform the rename, though, just in case anyone can find some other reason that these categories actually fail some part of T:CAT.


 * Please do not attempt to perform the renaming yourself, and do not start new categories along the lines I've suggested. This will complicate the renaming process.  And time should still be allowed for people to comment upon this plan.
 * 03:35: Thu 26 Jun 2014


 * I'm not entirely sure with this one.
 * Everyone who is in the DWU is a fictional version of their real world-equivalent.


 * Richard Dawkins, Gillian Anderson, Alan Yentob, Jarvis Cocker and Richard Branson weren't at a party in 1997 (it happened in The Dying Days)


 * Their DWU equivalents were. They're certainly real people. But they're not "real world people".
 * They don't bring everything of the real world into the DWU.


 * Renaming it to People from the real world who met the Doctor I think gives too much weight to their ties / relationship both to the DWU and the real world.


 * I also think creating a category for People from the real world who met the Doctor opens up the possibility to create categories like Locations from the real world that the Doctor visited. --Tangerineduel / talk 08:25, June 26, 2014 (UTC)