Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130129081336/@comment-1046-20130131171732

The thing is that based on in-universe, diegetic information only, we can combine only Victorian Clara and Oswin from the Alaska. It's obvious to us as viewers that modern-day Clara is a third iteration of "the same woman", but we can't say that based on in-universe evidence yet. In-universe, all that we know is that modern Clara looks like the other two and walked past Victorian Clara's grave. We can justify a merger of Victorian Clara and Alaska because the Doctor says they're "the same woman", but adding in modern Clara is our supposition. Yes, it's strongly implied by the narrative, but in-universe the Doctor doesn't even know that modern Clara exists yet. So how can we justify merging her stub into an omnibus article?