User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130129081336/@comment-183721-20130130021057

Honestly, this reminds me of the whole "Did River kill the Doctor?" question after "Let's Kill Hitler" last season. The situation was the same: the characters state a fact in-story, but the debate was whether we could trust the character (maybe they were mistaken?) Anyway, common sense did not prevail that time, so I would like to avoid that sort of stuff this time. Czech seems to have the best idea: the character has stated something in-universe, so we should go with the best information we have at the moment. The best info at the moment is that all three Claras are somehow the same. So, we ought to merge the pages together unless/until something in-story changes. To say that "we don't know for sure, the Doctor could be mistaken" is true, but we can't take that approach about everything everyone says about everything; that would just be stupid. To use the "we don't know for sure argument" is just not taking an objective, factual stance. The fact is that the Doctor has stated that the Claras are the same. So we work off of that objective statement, NOT our subjective doubt over whether the statement is true. I advocate that all the pages should be remerged like they were in the first place.