User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1046-20180501024620/@comment-28349479-20180504050336

I'm rereading the conclusion to Thread:231243, and you're absolutely right that the rule on novelisation names could use some clarification. Conclusions based on the popularity (or lack thereof) of The Novel of the Film shouldn't be generalised to apply to the immeasurably more popular Target Books novelisations. Even then, when it comes to the case of Miranda Gerhardt, I can't bring myself to accept the notion that a "casual reader of our site" would be familiar enough with our dab term and TV movie naming rules to search for "Miranda (Doctor Who)" rather than, say, looking at the dab page for "Miranda" or checking the cast list on Doctor Who.

More directly related to the proposal at hand, here are some other examples of characters that, like Mickey Smith's mother aka Odessa Smith, are currently named with descriptions rather than the names given to them in the novelisations:
 * Radio operator (The Sea Devils) aka Sharps
 * The Squire (The Visitation) aka John (The Visitation)
 * Co-pilot (The Horns of Nimon) aka Sardor
 * Pilot (The Horns of Nimon) aka Sekkoth
 * Soldier (Planet of the Spiders) aka Hodges (Planet of the Spiders)
 * Sergeant (The Highlanders) aka Klegg [redirect exists]
 * Interviewer (The Daleks' Master Plan) aka Jim Grant [redirect exists]
 * Caretaker (Scream of the Shalka) aka Mitch Stannard