User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-45314928-20200727170605/@comment-45314928-20200727204941

So, I will try to explain my points as clearly as possible:

The character of Bernice Summerfield came at a time where writers often retained their original concepts / characters. This meant that Paul Cornell owned the copyright for Bernice and has licensed her individually in all of her appearances. Therefore Bernice has been the same character throughout (unless said to be a parallel version, clone or other) and deserves a single page. I can only assume that this is the same case with Gary Russell and Irving Braxiatel.

The reason that this is different when it comes to The Homeworld and Yssgaroth is that these creations were not original, they were tethered to the already copyrighted concepts Gallifrey and Great Vampires. These separate names can be seen as unique enough to allow them to appear in other works, but they are by no means appearances of the original unless licensed to be so. It seems that Lawrence Miles and Lars Pearson, or whoever, contacted Marc Platt and Neil Penswick about obtaining their individual names for these properties as a way of getting round not being able to use them.

But the fact is... that these appearances are only licensed versions of those created by Marc and Neil, and not the original creations and therefore they should not be on the same page whatsoever.