Talk:Ninth Doctor/Appearances

The Ninth Doctor in The Albino's Dancer

 * Is the Ninth Doctor actually in The Albino's Dancer? I can't see any reference on respective wiki page.
 * Epsilon the Eternal ☎  16:47, June 18, 2020 (UTC)
 * He's referred to as "the Navvie" for legal reason.BananaClownMan ☎  17:01, June 18, 2020 (UTC)
 * Isn't that like how Professor Stream was meant to be The Master? And the wiki seperated those two, so why have these characters been merged? Especially as I doubt the Time Hunter series had the licence to use the Ninth Doctor.
 * Epsilon the Eternal ☎  17:16, June 18, 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, they have the license to use the "Cabinet of Light" Doctor, who may or may not be a Ninth Doctor, although they do not have the license to have him go by the name of "the Doctor". (It's complicated.) But no, I don't think they have the right to use the Ninth Doctor.


 * That being said, this may be a similar situation to the mention of a Cyberman (by name) in one line in An Ordinary Man. Single-line references do not break copyright law, and as near I can tell, the conclusion of the debate at Talk:Legacies (short story) was that this Wiki acknowledged this.


 * So either "the Navvie" is a really really minor mention which we can link to Ninth Doctor, or it is a sufficiently important character that we use the "precedent of Stream (The Hollows of Time) or The War King, and create a separate page. I'm not sure which. If it's the former, then a minor but physical appearance could still warrant being placed on this LOA, as it was decided long ago that this Wiki doesn't acknowledge "cameos", and considers all physical appearances to "count".--Scrooge MacDuck ☎  17:25, June 18, 2020 (UTC)