User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-45314928-20200525010944/@comment-31010985-20200525203055

I will also add my support for the immediate closure of this thread. There are too many conflicting definitions (or not enough) to come up with any sort of general rule for companions.

This is the sort of thing that should be decided on a case-by-case basis, as evidenced by the numerous failed attempts to implement something such as that proposed in the OP.

As User:CzechOut wrote way back in 2011 in his closing statement for Forum:Disputed Companions: "Closing as unresolved, because these companion discussions never get clear closure." (emphasis his)