Talk:Patience's husband

Merger or rename?
"Patience's husband" is just a weird name for this page. It follows the format that's been tried and tested on pages like Bill Potts' mother where we don't know the character's actual name. But per The Infinity Doctors and both versions of Cold Fusion, we know Patience's husband's name, and it's "the Doctor". So this page either needs to be renamed The Doctor (Cold Fusion) ...

... or merged into The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius), which (per the citations of The Power of the Daleks, Something at the Door, and Cold Fusion itself) serves as the general landing page for all incarnations of the Doctor prior to the "first". I think I'd prefer the merger, since it reflects Lance Parkin's intention, the understanding of his audience, and the in-text evidence: for instance, the physical description of Patience's husband (across two incarnations) resembles specific Morbius Doctors more than the descriptions we've used to identify which incarnation of the Doctor is in several Short Trips. Thoughts? – N8 ☎ 15:34, April 24, 2019 (UTC)


 * Well, here’s some input: that merger idea is completely bonkers. All the lore about the Other and the Morbius Doctors is a contradictory mess, so the best we can do (short of making one page that discusses all the content from an out-of-universe perspective) is just keeping them separate, pointing out the links, and letting the readers draw their own conclusions. – N8 ☎ 04:56, August 13, 2019 (UTC)