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User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-28743561-20171110222524/@comment-28743561-20171112193614 NateBumber wrote: eg why is Four Doctors listed under both "Direct Encounters" and "Separate Narratives"? If two Doctors have stories that start in separate narratives, then turn into a direct encounter, should we list it under one or both?

As I wrote at the end of the initial post, Four Doctors has 10, 11, and 12, (and an alternate timeline 12) all meeting in person. But it also has the War Doctor in an opening scene and he meets no other Doctors. The ending scene has 9, 10, 11, and 12 all in the same cafe, but 9 doesn't meet his successors.

Thus I decided to list it in all three categories: Direct Encounter, Separate Narratives, and Close Proximity.

I hope that doesn't over complicate things.

NateBumber wrote: (I'd be in favor of some sort of hierarchy system here, where Direct > Close > Separate > Manifestation > Regen > Retro-regen) -- but this is nothing that can't be sorted out on a talk page.

I initially had Close Proximity between Direct Encounters and Separate Narratives (it was a good hierarchy), but it looks like there are relatively few Close Proximity stories, so I decided Direct Encounters > Separate Narratives > Close Proximity looked better. Still open to moving things around, though.