Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-28349479-20161216221639/@comment-27280472-20161217015731

Here's what I propose for integrating Faction Paradox concepts: don't try to make connections between things if they're only subtext. Which is what the policy is already.


 * General consensus is that the War King is the Master/War Chief. But that's only ever implied, so he goes on a separate page, with a footnote mentioning the connection, just like Man with the Rosette.
 * I really don't know where the idea that Faction Paradox calls the Doctor "The Evil Renegade" comes from. In the non-FP book Dead Romance, brainwashed Chris describes him as "an evil renegade" (no capitalization). He doesn't come up at all in the Faction Paradox series. He did die early in the War, you know.
 * The only exception is Grandfather Halfling. He's a champion of half-human rights in the City of the Saved, and considering the Grandfather Paradox connection from The Ancestor Cell, he could be the Doctor. But again, that's basically only a theory, so separate page.
 * There already is a Great House page, so information about them goes there. There's no denying that the Great Houses in FP are the Great Houses of the Time Lords, or that the Time Lords are the people who make up the Great Houses. The two are equated many times. Character pages should refer to things the way the text does, "member of one of the Great Houses" or "Time Lord" based on context.
 * If something described as a timeship comes from the Great Houses, it should link to TARDIS, but if it's non-Gallifreyan, it should link to Space-time vessel. I.e. exactly what's done already.
 * The name of the homeworld of the Great Houses of the Time Lords is Gallifrey. Sometimes they refer to it generically, some people don't know that name, and some people call it the "Houseworld" because it's not their home and it's where the Houses come from.
 * Information about Compassion goes on Compassion, information about Yssgaroth goes on Yssgaroth, etc.

CzechOut complained about using the "wrong" terms, specifically, "Handramit was a Time Lord from House Mirraflex, who left Gallifrey when he was young. He settled on Onesia, becoming a naturalised subject of the Onesian Emirate. ( Of the City of the Saved...)" But there's no reason it has to be one or the other. It already isn't. The credits on pages for many TV episodes credit the Doctor as "Dr. Who," but it just links to First Doctor. "Handramit was a member of House Mirraflex, who left his Homeworld when he was young. He settled on Onesia, becoming a naturalised subject of the Onesian Emirate." That statement doesn't contradict the original, it just follows the conventions of the text — a house-based perspective on Time Lords, and a preference for the generic word for Gallifrey.