User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190202144408

Five years ago, it was decided that there was no need to make a separate page for Professor Yana, even though it would make sense for there to be one in theory (we have separate pages for Tenth Doctor and John Smith, after all).

The reason was that since all we knew, save for a few minutes, of the Derek Jacobi incarnation of the Master was its life as Yana, and it was basically impossible to distinguish the two; thus the page Yana inevitably ended up being about the Jacobi Master in general, and thus fell afoul of our policy to group all incarnations of the Master on just plain The Master.

All fine and good, but now, we have had many stories about the Derek Jacobi Master as himself (we even have an official incarnation name for him, "War Master", a luxury only shared by Missy of all the Master's incarnations), thanks to Big Finish and its The War Master series. Now we do have plenty enough material about the pre-Yana Master that a page about Yana would not be redundant with the section of The Master that deals with the War Master. We can make pronouncements about the human Yana's differences in personality compared to his Time Lord self.

So I think the time has come to overturn the previous decision and make an individual Yana page.