Forum:Cast lists

In the cast lists for various TV stories, I have noticed that the characters have the names of the articles they are under as their names. Although it may be secretly written in the Manual of Style and I just haven't picked it up, I believe that this is against the whole purpose of a Cast list. From what I believe that you may not believe, the Cast lists are intended to be what the credits displayed at theend of the TV story. In the credits, David Tennant is credited as The Doctor, yet in quite a lot of the Cast lists, it calls him Tenth Doctor, unlike in the credits. Of course this whole ordeal maybe be stupid and pointless because there probably is some reason for this, but if there isn't and the Manual of Style doesn't say so, I think we should stick to what the credits say. Bigredrabbit 05:19, October 4, 2009 (UTC)


 * Are you sure you arent confused between the infobox and cast list Bigshowbower 05:29, October 4, 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm with Bigshowbower. The cast lists do do as you say. I just randomly checked Tooth and Claw, The Lazarus Experiment add The Fires of Pompeii. The all have the cast list as listed as is in the credits (or in some cases as listed on the BBC's site list of credits). Unless what you're talking about is how they're linked? The wikilinks display as 'The Doctor' but in the above examples (and in fact every TV, novel, novella and audio drama) link through to the specific Doctor to which it relates to. --Tangerineduel 15:05, October 4, 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, well in Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? Luke Smith is credited as Luke, but in the Cast lists on the page, he's credited as Luke Smith. Bigredrabbit 05:26, October 5, 2009 (UTC)