Talk:First Doctor

How detailed should things be
Hi, it has come to my attention that there is some disagreement regarding the extent to which the latest episode should be covered on this page. First of all, as always, I invite you to explain the thinking behind your edits here on the talk page. It is quite common that different edits are based on different ideologies and learning about the modi operandi of other editors was always very illuminating for me. Amorkuz ☎  23:33, January 4, 2018 (UTC)


 * Meanwhile, let me leave my two cents. My firm belief is that all relevant information should be on the wiki but it should be curated according to the focus of each particular page to maximise usefulness for the readers. Detailed plots on story page is something that is sorely missing all too often. (Even so, plot does not equate to a transcript and should be shorter, more digested, if only for copyright reasons.) Care should be taken to treat all stories equally. Most recent stories should not be given more prevalence than older ones. Indeed, every most recent story soon ceases to be one. Things that seem important because they are fresh and emotionally raw for us now may well become mere footnotes in one-two years. All articles should be written from the point of view of a historian looking back (from the end of the universe for in-universe pages or from some unspecified future for BTS portions). Less blogging on the spur of the moment; more recording for posterity. A good mental exercise is to imagine reading this article right after the (imaginary potential) regeneration of the Thirteenth Doctor to see whether a particular detail still seems important then.


 * Apart from this global posture, there is a peculiarity of this particular character. Personally, I settle on different level of details for blink-and-you-miss-them characters, guest characters, companions and Doctor's incarnations. How compact the information should be naturally depends on the total amount of information available. If one struggles to fill the height of the infobox with the available info on the character, there is no problem writing everything in excruciating detail (such as is known). On the contrary, the page of a Doctor incarnation is almost without exception extremely long. There are dozens of stories, from all media. Making sense of his/her life is hard enough when each story is represented by a short paragraph. Putting even a short plot of every story would, IMHO, make the page rather unusable for anyone. Thus, I generally am for brevity on pages such as this. Only the most basic of information. Veni-vedi-vici, followed by a link to a more detailed description on the stories page. Amorkuz ☎  23:56, January 4, 2018 (UTC)