User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20151101035254/@comment-1432718-20160707030944

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20151101035254/@comment-1432718-20160707030944 Amorkuz wrote: To summarise, unless someone objects, it seems reasonable to me to go ahead with the renaming of "Osgood (The Day of the Doctor)" into "Petronella Osgood". I would like to put an end to this kind of statement on this wiki: "unless someone objects". Too many users take the lack of objection as a go-ahead, when it may just be no one has all the information they want.

But to make it clear, I do object. We have no new information aside from some hints of future closure. There is no rush to make a decision here; long-time users will recall how long it took us to come to a proper conclusion on what to do with Clara Oswald and her various parts or whether Missy was really the Master.

This is a messy enough issue that it will take an admin ruling after we have concrete evidence to support the proposal.

And just to be clear for anyone who doesn't already know, only admins are permitted to move/rename pages. Amorkuz wrote: What's the worst that can happen? The worst that can happen is that we're wrong and we have to do a major cleanup. That is the only reason for the delay. For those who are interested, there are two "case studies" at Forum:Why we sometimes protect article creation: the curious case of Dorium Maldavar and Tardis:Spoiler policy.

The interpretation of CzechOut's comments applies to characters whose pages haven't been created yet ("relatively minor articles"), and therefore do not have a huge number of links to them, and is mostly concerned with spelling. In addition, there is more to Osgood than just deciding on the name. This is a very long thread, and I may have missed something, but there doesn't seem to be a definite answer on the original question of how to deal with the collective identity or the person.