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Novelisation character names
CzechOut ruled in Thread:232143 that for searchability reasons, we should not use information from novelisations in article titles. Since then, Fandom has updated the search bar so it will show you not only the page name you're typing but also what it redirects to! With the searchability issue therefore resolved, we should officially grant novelisations the same weight as other sources in page naming, particularly in cases where it would help disambiguation. Below is a list of pages that could be renamed with this change. By no means is it complete!

By my count, a majority of pages for characters whose names only appear in their novelisation already use those names: Tom Barclay, Eregous Bates, Theodore Benik, Bourget, Tasambeker Brown, Owen Bywater, Cairn, Pete Callahan, Mick Carney, Cedric (The King's Demons), Alan Clark, Josiah Collins, Shelly Curtis, Raymond Digby, ECCO, Eskon, Cass Fermazzi, Gareth Fitzpatrick, Mark Forester, Sylvia Gribbins, Charles Griffiths, Frank Harris, Mary Hollis, Jebal, Joanna (Doctor Who), Joshua Jobel, Derek Johnson, Fyodor Nikolai Kerensky, Klegg, Joe Latham, August Lilt, Lee Lin, Robert Lines, Katz Makrif, Megara One, Megara Two, Simon Metcalf, George Morris, Fariah Neguib, Jason Overton, Palmer (Terror of the Zygons), Pam (Warriors of Kudlak), Edith Randall, Colin Redmayne, Vincent Russell, Sakkib (Invasion of the Bane), Heidi Scarlioni, Danny Simmons, Smith (The Dinosaur Invasion), Mary Smith, Odessa Smith, Mitch Stannard, Archie Sylvest, Lancelot Takis, Edmund Thursday, Effie Thursday, Ram Vermas, Justin Vogel, Vorn (The Mutants), Owen Watson, Wilkins (The Dinosaur Invasion), and Robert Wigner. Let these serve as not only a demonstration of the practicality of novelisation names being used more generally but also a prompt for us to reconsider the current policy which forbids their existence!

Doctors

 * Cosmic Hobo (Second Doctor etc)
 * El Jefe (Hartnell Doctor)
 * Dr Oho (Cushing Doctor)
 * Ninth Doctor 4 (The Tomorrow Windows) (Shalka Doctor)
 * Grandfather Halfling (Relic Doctor)
 * "Dr. Smith"
 * The Evil Renegade
 * The Dominie (alternative Seventh Doctor, sort of; but also Doctor Omega)
 * Trickster God
 * The President Kodachrome (Sixth Doctor)


 * Doctor Moon (45th Doctor)
 * Old man (42nd Doctor)
 * Paul Bowman (Eighth Doctor)
 * War veteran (Now or Thereabouts) (Eighth Doctor)
 * Drunk man (Now or Thereabouts) (Shalka Doctor)
 * Singing man (Now or Thereabouts) (Ninth Doctor)
 * "John Polidori" (Eleventh Doctor)


 * Lethean Campaign assassin and Rivera Manuscript renegade (Relic Doctor?)
 * Shift (Head of State) (The Other?)
 * The Gestalt (?!?)

Masters

 * Magister1971
 * The Magistrate (currently merged with the War King, but they should really be separate)
 * Man with the Rosette
 * Mestizer
 * Pavo
 * Stream (The Hollows of Time)
 * The War King

Other DWU characters

 * Alice (temporally-altered Ace)
 * Ashlyn (Clara splinter)
 * Auteur (Astrolabus)
 * Ceol (Kelsey Hooper)
 * Companion (The Blue Angel) (Cedric (Search Out Space))
 * The Corsair (The Corsair, but also the public domain characters of "the Corsair, John Gallant" and "the Corsair Queen")
 * The Gamemaster (The Toymaker?)
 * Ganeida (The Doctor's sister)
 * The Imperator (Morbius I)
 * John Scanlon (First Monk (?))
 * Lolita (The Master's first TARDIS)
 * Mademoiselle Machine (Ace)
 * Malakh Imperium (Malakh Empire)
 * The Minister (Minister of Chance)
 * Man with a bent nose (Minister of Chance)
 * Maria (Now or Thereabouts) (Maria Jackson)
 * Merlin's father (Ulysses)
 * The Mistress (The Choice) (Romana II)
 * The Monk (possibly the Monk, but also the public domain character "Monk")
 * Nari (The Rani)
 * Noble-woman (Donna Noble)
 * Quandry (Cleavis)
 * V. M. McCrimmon (Victoria Waterfield)
 * Weapon (The Eyeless) (The Moment)
 * Agent (Is anyone receiving these transmissions?) (Zoria)

Non-DWU characters

 * Tara in Verdigris (Tara King)
 * Claudia in Father Time (Claudia Marwood)
 * Joseph Craator (Judge Dredd)
 * The Professor (Doctor Omega)
 * Cococyte (Doctor Omega)
 * Pyke-Xi Raul (Pike from Harry Potter)
 * Victor (Viktor Krum)
 * "Young Miss Watson" (Hermione Granger)
 * Nosferatu (Dracula)

Blake's 7

 * Kaston Iago (Kerr Avon)
 * Butcher of Zircaster (Travis)

Alien

 * Life-spore (Xenomorph (kind of))
 * Narcissus (Nostromo)
 * James Watt (Kane)
 * Jennifer Alistoun (Ellen Ripley)

Valid references to non-valid stories
An index of topics on this wiki which would be easier to cover using and my subpage proposal. Per Tardis:Valid sources, I've divided them between "invalid" and "not covered". Please feel free to add to this list!

Not covered stories
Here I'm considering specifically licensed crossovers, not unofficial crossovers like the various appearances of Sherlock Holmes.

Realities
Every Doctor Who story gives us a new picture of the Doctor's reality. Technically speaking, we could create The Doctor's reality (Story Name) for every story on the wiki which features the Doctor. But the primary question I believe we should be asking in merge-related conversations is "Is it useful to our readers to have separate pages?" In most cases, there's no reason to doubt that a story depicts the same reality as its predecessor, whether that's the previous Virgin New Adventures novel, Monthly Adventures audio, or TV episode.

But there are several notable exceptions preventing us from merging everything into a single The Doctor's reality. When it comes to continuity, tone, and worldview, the Doctor Who universe's many spin-offs and sub-series have usually been more concerned with themselves than each other. For instance, within a series such as The Monthly Adventures, one can expect to find more references to previous audios and the Classic show than the Virgin Decalogs or Doctor Who annuals. As a result, a story's predecessor often simply isn't clear. Is the first Virgin New Adventures novel, Timewyrm: Genesys, best understood as a continuation of the prior TV episode, Survival, or the prior novel(isation), The Curse of Fenric?

The result of this thought process is a discrete number of relatively self-contained chunks of the Doctor's reality, roughly mapping onto the real-world series or sets of series. It's natural that this would be the most helpful to our readers. Sometimes these pieces have ebbed and flowed into each other through shared characters or references; other times, they have gone out of their way to paint each other as separate timelines or universes. While acknowleding that most sources indicate these chunks to be the same reality, covering them separately helps to highlight the ways in which they stand on their own. TheChampionOfTime and MrThermomanPreacher have paved the way for this with the creation of pages like Virgin reality and The Doctor's reality (An Unearthly Child). I've contributed to MrThermomanPreacher's collaborative chart of these "reality" pages.