User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-86.174.105.135-20161211174119/@comment-5918438-20161212190351

We also have one page by that nomenclature The Doctor (TV Action!), who is a fictional character in the TV Action! universe, played by Tom Baker (TV Action!).

The Doctor (Doctormania) is a fictional character within the Doctor's universe, based on the real Ninth Doctor himself, in the holovid programme Doctor Who?.

Oh, there's also The Doctor (In the Forest of the Night), but I feel that page and Clara's are verging on speculation. Doctor Who (In the Forest of the Night) is fine, but the people on it are not named or identified.

So:
 * 5. Fictional Doctors

Onto the main issue, at hand, I actually agree that it is confusing to have separate pages for unspecified incarnations, when those would normally be reserved for separate incarnations. Obviously, if an incarnation is specifically intended to be a "future Doctor" or one that is not any of the number of Doctors already established, they should get their own page.

Doctors in alternate timelines should still get their own pages per T:DAB OTHER.

So how would we cover indeterminate incarnations? It's been suggested to put them in an "undated events" section. But what if we found a solution wherein we'd have subheadings we could redirect to directly?

So instead of just linking to The Doctor when speaking of the Doctor in that story, or in the story's infobox, it would be an ultimate link to The Doctor, The Doctor, etc. Much like we do with the Master. And since we couldn't, of course, list them chronologically without speculating, we could simply list the subheadings by release order of their stories, and state at the beginning of the main section that they are not given in any particular chronological order.