User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-60605-20141206212039/@comment-188432-20141213055014

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-60605-20141206212039/@comment-188432-20141213055014 The case is a bit different with Vicki, as the name doesn't just come from a novelisation, but actual, original narratives like Byzantium! and The Eleventh Tiger. Vicki is much more like Polly, whose last name is commonly given in multiple stories in other media.

With Bruce and Miranda — two extraordinarily common names — parenthetical inclusion of the story that they come form is likely to be of much more help than giving their last names. T:CHAR NAMES cases are always a bit arbitrary, but the likelihood is that even huge fans of Doctor Who won't know that these characters were give surnames by the novelisation — because many people don't even know there is a novelisation of the TVM.

So disambiguating on their story name, yet including redirects at their names-with-surnames, allows both the hyper knowledgeable fan and the newbie to meet somewhere close to the middle.