User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20151101035254/@comment-5918438-20151229140906

The line about future-proofing "common...names" does not mean that we don't still need to disambiguate other names which are used multiple times. According to policy, Osgood should be a dab page, because there are at least three other "Osgoods". To go against that and use Osgood for the UNIT scientist would be to call her a "primary topic". Usually, the existence of other pages by that name depends on that primary topic. Rose, the flower, is a primary topic. (Nope, rose's since been moved...)

Anyway, Osgood: are you sure users would be "far more likely" to be searching for her? Let's not pretend that TV stories, or recent stories, are somehow more important in the game of disambiguation.

I really wish we could just use Osgood, because it looks nice and, from a certain perspective, The Day of the Doctor isn't the first story of all the Osgoods which that page would cover. It is still unquestionably Osgood's first appearance, though, in general. Though not in need of dabbing, Rassilon's first appearance is in COMIC: Star Death—even if his later incarnations didn't originate then, and he might be "known" for his three appearances on television. In the end, Osgood (The Day of the Doctor) isn't really wrong, in my opinion at least.