Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1432718-20200311152817/@comment-28349479-20200311183541

I don't think that The Doctor's species is any more debatable than the Timeless Child's species (or the "Timeless species") just because it covers multiple accounts. After all, The Doctor's mother summarizes multiple accounts about the Doctor's mother being a human named Penelope, a Time Lord who appeared as an unnamed Woman, or a fake memory because the Doctor actually came from a machine. But that doesn't stop "The Doctor's mother" from being listed in the infobox on The Doctor.

What does disqualify something from being in an infobox is it not being mentioned on the page itself. For instance, if we set the Fifth Doctor's job3 variable to "Fisherman", but there was no reference to the Fifth Doctor being a fisherman on the page, that would be a misuse. Infoboxes are meant to summarize information on the page, and as it stands, there is zero reference to the Timeless Child or its species on the Fifth Doctor's page. (Nor is there any mention on the wiki of anything called the "Timeless species" at all.) But it's mentioned in his infobox.

Think about it from the perspective of the not-we. If someone is looking at Fifth Doctor and see his species is "Timeless species", then click on the link and read about a Thirteenth Doctor story, they'll just end up confused. The variable should instead link to the hub that discusses all the different accounts side-by-side so readers can get a fuller understanding.