Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1296654-20190726133841/@comment-26181766-20200915044741

While I am not too bothered about whether we use et al., etc, or "among other stories" (though, considering how many pages the wiki has, it would be a lot of work for what is, in my opinion, such a small change), I don't think Epsilon's suggestion of a template would work. It seems like a fine enough idea for sources for items and people where you can link it to a specific page of appearances, but there are also plenty of instances where the subject matter is a phrase or action, which do not have their own pages. Such as this continuity point for Kill the Moon (TV story):

''The Doctor says "When I say 'run', run", a saying favoured by his second incarnation. (TV: The Power of the Daleks et al.)''

Whatever we chose to use, however, I think it would be a good idea to add the outcome to the citation policy (or another relevant policy if it isn't on one already) so at least the wiki can be consistent. At the moment, some pages use et al. and other pages use etc and some pages even have both.