User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130519181606/@comment-7302713-20130520010537

I'm not super fond of piping names like this. For starters, we've grouped at least one family by last name. (Madge, Lily and Cyril Arwell) Also, it's possible to remember only part of someone's names especially if it's not a character you're familiar with. If you hear someone talk about a partcular companion what says that you'll remember the name that they were most often referred to as?

Maybe to add something, like Madame Vastra over Vastra, but for the most part pipe tricking names like this REMOVES information, and I don't know why we'd want to do that. How many cases are there where pipe tricking isn't a matter of information removal?

Besides, it's nice to be able to look at a template and see that X doctor had so many one-named companions, or so many companions who were frequently referred to with a title or other things like this.

The purpose of this navbox is to give a snapshot of the Doctor's companions. Why crop it unnecessarily? That's a bad metaphor but the only one I can find right now.