User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-25117610-20180302210944/@comment-1432718-20180302230616

Some history...

This template was created in 2008. A year or so later, there was an attempt to at least include a link to the (now deleted) article "List of individual Time Lords". This link was, unfortunately, improperly typed so didn't actually link to a real page. In 2011, after the format of the template was cleaned up, an attempt was made to clarify the unnamed Time Lords by sorting them by story.

Then, also in 2011, a user, probably noticing that most of the entries were TV characters, added the statement: "Note: This only includes Time Lords who have appeared on the television series Doctor Who." This user was not an admin, and doesn't appear to have consulted anyone about this move.

Since then, there have been occasional additions of non-TV Time Lords. Sometimes these additions were removed, sometimes they weren't. In 2013, User:CzechOut fixed the broken link to the page for all Time Lords, a page which has since been deleted. That link was then removed by me in 2017.

Now that I've bored you all to tears, I just want to clarify my stance. I asked User:OncomingStorm12th to remove the delete tag from the template page and bring the issue here because the delete tag was showing up on the pages that have this template. It's not a good idea to put delete tags on template pages. But I have no problem with the idea of deleting this template. The only other options I can think of, make one template for all Time Lords or make a template for each medium, are just not practical.