Template talk:Doctor Who

Phrasing
"DOCTOR WHO STORIES & ASSOCIATED SPIN-OFFS" probably doesn't help the average user who comes across this template understand what's going on and instead just confuses them with how sparse it is. Najawin ☎  03:26, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Perhaps I should rename it to "DOCTOR WHO (N-SPACE)"? I dunno, feel free to suggest something. I'm personally unhappy with what I currently called it, due to the inclusion of cast and crew, etc. Epsilon  📯 📂 03:31, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Maybe? I think we should just bring this up as part of the Massive N-Space Thread That We'll Be Doing First Thing When The Forums Are Back. Najawin ☎  03:39, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * With that said I quite like what SOTO just did. Najawin ☎  04:22, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Conflation of two topics
It seems to me that this template has grown a bit past its remit, and is beginning to conflate actual instances of things we know in-universe to be attached to the in-universe version of the franchise with things that are merely references to people who have worked on the franchise out-of-universe. (There is a third instance here, one where we can reasonably attach their existence to the in-universe franchise through out-of-universe reasoning, or conjecture, such as BBC production team, but I'm not particularly concerned about that issue just yet.)

But pages like Niki Haringsma (For the Girl Who Has Everything), Timothy Dalton or Michael Moorcock (In the Sixties) have absolutely nothing to do with the in-universe franchise. We can quibble over things like Ayesha Antoine, but those three instances absolutely are a different sort of thing than the actual phenomena of a Doctor Who franchise existing in the DWU and some people from OOU having IU counterparts who are confirmed to work on it.

While I'm not against documenting these things, it seems to me deeply misleading to group them together, and would suggest at the very least a separate navbox. Najawin ☎  21:20, 29 December 2020 (UTC)