Talk:List of Earth historical figures

Problems with this page
I see a couple of major things wrong with this page.

First, the lead paragraph specifies that these are people the Doctor/companions have met, whether occurring in-story or mentioned as having once occurred. However, the tables posted have a column for "mentioned or seen", and this includes (at the bottom of the page) people who appeared on television, watched by the Doctor/companion, but who never in-story met the Doctor/companion. In addition, the title of the article is "list of Earth historical figures", but the second paragraph emphasizes that this does not include all Earth historical figures, just the ones met by the Doctor/companion.

Second, every figure has a section for adding an image. Do we really need this? First, the pictures are really tiny. Second, if we fill as many as possible, the load time for this page would be horrible. Third, if someone wants to see a picture of the figure, they can just click on the figure's page.

If these issues aren't addressed, I think this page would still qualify for a deletion candidate, despite the attempts to include non-TV figures and figures of earlier centuries. Shambala108 ☎  22:26, July 3, 2016 (UTC)

It seems to be the qualifications for the page are too vague. Is it all people we ever see in stories set in the past? Is it famous people from the past? Is it just real famous people from the past? Confusing. OS25 (Talk) 18:12, February 15, 2017 (UTC)