User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-24894325-20170404105642

Okay, let's not be carried away. I did not propose merging the pages. Shambala108 recently mentioned (elsewhere) a rule adhered to in the modern times for more or less all media. It's a simple rule and, therefore, an effective one. One title - one story.

I did not mean that working on the episode Rise of the Cybermen would be made easier by bundling it together with The Age of Steel. It is, somehow, expected that working on a story you do research on that story.

Here is the situation I did have in mind. Say, the Eleventh Doctor mentions to Amy this blighter Lumic in his gothic-looking wheelchair being impolite to the Prime Minister. This would normally be a continuity reference, and a specific one at that. Lumic definitely puts it in the two-parter, but I really don't want rewatching the whole two-parter to figure out in which part that happened. It seems like a reasonable compromise to be able to refer to the whole two-parter in such cases. And the rules seem to prohibit it if the story is not considered a two-parter.