User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190202144408/@comment-5918438-20200127223624

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190202144408/@comment-5918438-20200127223624 Closing in favour. The earlier decision, as cited in the original post here, was quite correct at the time, but circumstances have indeed changed since 2013. That earlier proposal failed on the grounds that we do not have enough to cover which would allow us to differentiate between Professor Yana and Jacobi's Master (likely leading to a conflation of topics on Yana's page, which might fall afoul of our decision to cover all the Master's incarnations together).

Since then, as noted extensively above, the War Master (as he is now called) has been given his own spin-off series with Big Finish, on top of multiple appearances being made in other BF series, like UNIT, Gallifrey, The Diary of River Song and Ravenous. As a result, a clear distinction can now be made between the two characters, both in personality and biography. We have more than enough now to follow the precedent of John Smith (Tenth Doctor), and give Yana his own page, as a Chameleon Arch identity.

The same should apply to all cases where a Chameleon Arch is used, so long as the requirements set by Thread:122404 are met. So as noted above, Quarren Maguire should not be split into two pages until or unless we hear from him again (in part due to a lack of information to distinguish his identities, and in part because we have no other name for the Time Lord), but Ruth Clayton might well deserve her own page, alongside The Doctor (Fugitive of the Judoon), if a talk page discussion finds that these requirements, as laid out for Yana, have been adequately met.

So, take care to follow John Smith (Tenth Doctor)'s basic format, and ensure that the War Master himself does not become the subject of this article. The Yana page is now, once again, open for editing.