Talk:Thirteenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)

Name

If this page is to have a Template:Conjecture tag, it may as well be renamed to "The Female Doctor", the moniker used to refer to this incarnation from the script extract released in DWM 328. Epsilon (Contact me) 18:17, October 3, 2020 (UTC)

Mmmmh. Thing is, that's not great for disambiguation purposes. "Female Doctor" could describe a number of different incarnations of the Doctor. You'd have to go to Female Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death) at which point you just go right back to having to dab anyway, and frankly what's the point?

Historically we haven't actually needed confirmation of the "Numberth Doctor" form to use it without a conjecture tag. As pointed out by User:Borisashton in the Curse debate, the Eccleston Ninth Doctor wasn't confirmed as the "ninth Doctor" (let alone "the Ninth Doctor") until Series 3 — and I'm not actually sure we yet have a source officially calling Whittaker "the Thirteenth Doctor" in so many words. Certainly we didn't back in 2017, and yet that doesn't mean we put a conjecture tag on her article. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 18:39, October 3, 2020 (UTC)

I only added it because of the wording of the article "an individual who would logically have been called...", but you do make a point there. However, Epsilon also make a point about calling them what the credits identified them as.... hmmm.... 🤔 NightmareofEden ☎ 18:45, October 3, 2020 (UTC)

Moving the articles would allow us to eliminate the disambiguation from Tenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death), Eleventh Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death) and Twelfth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death), since they would become Quite Handsome Doctor, Shy Doctor and Handsome Doctor respectively. Lumley's Doctor will require disambiguation regardless, so why not just use the official name she's given in the VHS release? Gowlbag ☎ 03:59, October 4, 2020 (UTC)

Nuh-uh. Again, and with no offence to T:NPOV, it's not exactly hard to see how the descriptors Quite Handsome Doctor or Handsome Doctor could apply to other incarnations than the two Grants's. (Cough, cough, to name but the two "consensus" fangirl-worshipped heartthrobs.) And as for "Shy Doctor", just last season we had the Thirteenth Doctor sheepishly describing herself as "still quite socially awkward", so you don't even need to get into audience perception. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 09:11, October 4, 2020 (UTC)

Understandable, but are these descriptors ever actually going to be used for another official Doctor? Because these are the official names, as these were used in both the DWM script extract and the Curse documentary. (Which is actually on the wiki, I just can't remember its name...)Epsilon (Contact me) 09:29, October 4, 2020 (UTC)

All I'm saying is that we'd want to dab them if we used them, not that we shouldn't use them per se. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 09:31, October 4, 2020 (UTC)

I call your attention to [1] (dear lord I hate Discussions). The joke book used titles like "Sore Doctor". It's not outside the realm of plausibility that a second such joke book would use these descriptors. Najawin ☎ 09:35, October 4, 2020 (UTC)

And the chances of these exact, specific names being used would be very slim. Epsilon (Contact me) 09:38, October 4, 2020 (UTC)

I would personally advocate that we maintain Thirteenth Doctor with the dab. Script excerpt terms are good and all, but if one starts applying them for page name cases when there's a more recognisable term... well, it would be calling the First Doctor's page "Dr. Who" in my mind. Not strictly untrue, but not exactly what people are going to be searching for.

You could argue that Female Doctor might be more commonly searched when trying to locate this page, but does Thirteenth Doctor allow for that as is - since searching for CoFD Doctors is going to lead you to all of the other numbered ones (and I even more strongly would hope against changing them from numbering to descriptive terms) anyway. And as noted above, changing to Female Doctor would still need a dab.

Also, I can't speak for the accuracy of it but I also note that this page notes the script as calling her "The (Female) Thirteenth Doctor". That would imply emphasis on the number first, surely? JDPManjoume ☎ 09:16, October 5, 2020 (UTC)