Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-2378-20131130033153/@comment-188432-20131130175613

GusF wrote: I'm a bit vague on where the first name (for either version) comes from. I don't remember it being mentioned in the story. Is it from the novelisation?

Within the dab term of "Inferno Earth" on the way, I am wondering whether "Ailla (The Face of the Enemy)" and "Koschei (The Face of the Enemy)" need to be changed as well for the sake of consistency even though neither of them appeared in "Inferno" and neither of them are from Earth.

On the topic of "The Face of the Enemy," I'm planning on creating pages for the parallel universe versions of Stalin and Hitler mentioned in the novel. Should I call the former "Joseph Stalin (Inferno Earth)" rather than "Joseph Stalin (The Face of the Enemy)" and the same for Hitler? To your first paragraph, I dunno. I haven't researched Bromley closely enough to tell you definitively. It's likely, though, that the novelisation at least confirms "John".

As to the second and third paragraphs, yes, that's exactly the implication: everyone who's a member of the alternate universe would get the (Inferno Earth) tag, in the same way that there's Peter Tyler (Pete's World) and Harriet Jones (Pete's World). Thus there's some bot work that needs doing.

Your case of Stalin is the perfect example of why disambiguation for parallel world people should be by the parallel world first. The implication of Joseph Stalin (The Face of the Enemy) is that Stalin was first introduced in The Face of the Enemy. That's probably not true, and it's certainly true that Hitler was introduced to the DWU in another story.

Disambiguation by alternative existence thus brings much greater clarity. In fact, in the process of breaking up T:DAB into the new manual of style format, this very topic has its own chapter.