User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20170121220436/@comment-28349479-20170122063318

Amorkuz wrote: As for the "stretch", let me ask you: do you believe you should start making changes before this discussion is over? Do you not believe that it is a policy of this Wiki to wait until the thread is closed even when it is not a matter of policy but another more local debate concerning multiple pages? Do you need me to persuade you of that?

I pointed you to the relevant policy. Are you trying to wiggle your way out of it? Or is this an intellectual exercise? In the latter case, I would prefer not to spend time humouring you on that. Jeez, dude, please calm down. This seems unnecessarily hostile. I'm sorry for any offense I've caused to you; it was completely accidental.

I freely admit that this is by no means an intellectual exercise; I had no clue whatsoever that "a local debate involving multiple pages" is remotely covered by T:BOUND, especially since said policy is explicitly written solely and only in reference to the rules (that is to say, those encoded in the very well-written forum policies), not mere precedent. Furthermore, it seemed to me like there was already plenty of long-standing precedent for some TARDISes being individuals while others were objects, as I demonstrated in a cursory examination of Category:Individual TARDISes.

(And just to settle something - "Faction Paradox stories" is currently referring to stories in which Faction Paradox appear, whereas "FP stories" is stories in the Faction Paradox spinoff range. Alien Bodies was an Eighth Doctor novel published by the BBC.)

As I said (or intended to say) earlier, I think a lot of the current templates need heavy revision. The weird and vague differences between "Individual" and "Object", and "Group" and "Species" in general, could be a lot more coherently addressed. But I 1000% back the proposal to create a unique infobox for TARDISes! I think that would be a wonderful compromise, and I'm glad to see some agreement on it. Hopefully this debate can come to a speedy and amenable resolution for all parties.