Talk:List Of Deaths In The William Hartnell TV Era

After my last attempt to create a list of deaths in the series, I took the objections raised into account and I created a new page which I hope meets the necessary standards.

First, I delt with the problems of speculation, by removing the sections about “Implied” deaths, as well as setting some clear standards about what constitutes an onscreen death. If there is any way they could be clearer, I am happy to hear suggestions.

I divided it up more thoroughly in order to avoid creating a page which is large and unwieldy. This time, it is divided into each Doctor’s era. In time, hopefully pages covering their Big Finnish and other expanded universe stories can be added.

Finally, to address the point that was raised about whether this would be of interest to anybody, I would like to point out there are entire websites and very popular Youtube channels dedicated to compiling body counts from film and TV. There are also plenty of trivia pages which will make references to the bloddiest Doctor Who stories so clearly this information is of interest to somebody, and of no particular harm to those who are not interested. For instance, there are many pages on the site which are of no interest to me. For example entire pages dedicated to characters who had a single line in one episode, which I would argue serve less purpose than this one. But I simply ignore them and read the pages that do interest me. After all, someone probably does want to read them, and it's no concern of mine. At the end of the day, we are just a collection of fans, compiling data which is largely worthless in the grand scheme of things, but which interests us and at least some of those who come to the site.

That is my case. If you still wish to delete this page, I will not object further, nor will I attempt to create a similar page again.