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CzechOut wrote: SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: Once again, what's the rationale for having series pages in the first place? How can we possibly have series pages, when you manage to completely dismiss this? I'm really not following you. To my mind, there is no comparison between what you're proposing and a series page. You might as well be asking, "What's the difference between the 50th anniversary and a maple tree?" A series has form and definition which can be easily sourced and understood without much controversy. The term "fiftieth anniversary" means, as I've well demonstrated, many different things. They are really nothing alike, other than that they both have to do with Doctor Who.

And please don't mischaracterise my participation in this thread. If I were "completely dismissing" your proposal I would have said "no", closed the thread, and moved on. I'm considering what you're saying, asking questions, but ultimately finding your answers unpersuasive. That's not dismissal.

Yes, that's been my main worry every time I get an email saying you replied: that you closed the thread just because you disagreed with it. By this point, you are mostly dismissing it - you even tried to tell me how none of my points were valid and to "move on." The only reason I'm being stubborn on this, is because of find your answers "unpersuasive," and I'm yet to be convinced that the page shouldn't exist.

As far as series, "Series 7" or "Season 7" can mean either Series 7 (Doctor Who) or Season 7. While that's how we distinguish it, I'm waiting to hear how it's not conjectural - we didn't take it from a valid source, at least not to my knowledge. Let's say Moffat or the BBC says that the first episode of 7B is the seventh episode of series 7 - there you go, it's officially series 7. If he says instead that it's series 8, it's series 8 now. Point is — series is defined by what the BBC or anyone official says it is. And the anniversary has been mentioned in numerous interviews (by "numerous," I mean "a lot!").