Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130129081336/@comment-188432-20130129190609

No, OS25, you're misapprehending the situation. Rory Williams (Auton), Pete Tyler (Pete's World), Martha Jones (clone) — all of these were firmly understood within their script of introduction to be different entities from their "originals". It was important to the plots of those stories that they be so understood. Even Gwen Cooper's similarity to Gwenyth was eventually explicitly dealt with.

Clara is precisely the opposite. We have the Doctor explicitly saying in several different ways, along with the director's visual language, and Moffat's scripted intercutting of Clara's speech, overwhelming evidence that we are meant to understand these are the same people. The question Moffat obviously means for us to ask is not, "How can different people have the same physical appearance?", but, "How can this be the same woman?"

Secondarily, from a wiki administration standpoint, we also have the unquestionably bad precedent of a user, in the middle of a discussion, simply pre-empting the end of that discussion and splitting pages. That will not be allowed to stand.

If this discussion ends in a hung jury, the pages are still going back to one article because Digifiend went against our normal rules of order.

Everyone participating in this discussion should understand that this is the discussion to split the article apart. Digifiend's separation is invalid, as it was done without consensus. If we end up with a hung jury, then there's no consensus for change from the original, single article approach and the article remains as it originally was — one article.

In order for the article to be split, there must be a clear and overwhelming consensus in this thread for that eventuality.