User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-60605-20141206212039/@comment-188432-20141213161325

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-60605-20141206212039/@comment-188432-20141213161325 Oh, sure! That's specifically what T:CHAR NAMES would call for.

However, the title of their infoboxes shouldn't include the longform name. That is, infobox names should match the page title, minus parentheticals. So, "Bruse" and "Miranda" on the infobox title. In these two cases, though, the behind the scenes info shouldn't be removed. People will want to know where the heck the surnames are coming from, so the BTS notes are still useful.

I would caution people, though, not to extrapolate much from these two cases. Just because we reject the use of surnames-derived-from-novelisations here does not mean that we universally do so. The TVM novelisaiton is such a footnote in the history of DW, that it's a pretty easy to call to say that almost no one will be looking for these characters by that surnamee.

Target novelisations, however, are quite different. For many people, they are the primary way that some classic serials were consumed. So you will find that character surnames included in the novelisation of sixties and seventies stories are used here as page titles, without particular controversy.

The interaction between our general practice to allow non-conflicting novelisation information, and the need to title articles in a way that makes them easily discoverable, is complex. And we need to look at it on a case-by-case basis. It unfortunately does not easily allow a one-size-fits-all approach. But we do at least know that when we decide these cases we're doing so on the basis of two questions:
 * 1) Is the novelisation name in conflict with the televised episode? If no, then proceed to the second question.
 * 2) Which name is the most helpful for people to find in an auto-suggest drop-down? And the basic, but not universal, way that we determine here is that if it's a novelisation of a missing episode, we assume that more people will know the novelisation than the audio/transcripts.