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: As regards story numbering, my personal opinion is that we should dispense with it entirely as a fundamentally confused, inherently-contradictory endeavour, and, by and large, a thuddingly useless one at that. I… recognise that this is perhaps a radical point of view, but I hope the fact that we're still arguing abour ''Trial'' numbering forty years on will give some people a sense of why I feel that way. (That being said, @Jack, for [[T:BOUND]] reasons you shouldn't have overhauled it on so many pages without prior discussion.) [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']] [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]] 14:02, 10 January 2023 (UTC) | : As regards story numbering, my personal opinion is that we should dispense with it entirely as a fundamentally confused, inherently-contradictory endeavour, and, by and large, a thuddingly useless one at that. I… recognise that this is perhaps a radical point of view, but I hope the fact that we're still arguing abour ''Trial'' numbering forty years on will give some people a sense of why I feel that way. (That being said, @Jack, for [[T:BOUND]] reasons you shouldn't have overhauled it on so many pages without prior discussion.) [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']] [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]] 14:02, 10 January 2023 (UTC) | ||
::Regarding numbering, mercifully we don't need to reinvent the wheel here. ''[[The Complete History]]'', ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', ''[[The Black Archive]]'', and other reference works all use the same standard numbering system, which is the official numbering. That numbering says | ::Regarding numbering, mercifully we don't need to reinvent the wheel here. ''[[The Complete History]]'', ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', ''[[The Black Archive]]'', and other reference works all use the same standard numbering system, which is the official numbering. That numbering says the parts of ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord (TV story)|The Trial of a Time Lord]]'' are numbered 143a-d, the parts of ''[[Flux (TV story)|Flux]]'' are #297a–297f, and ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'' is #300. I agree that this wiki's coverage of stories vs serials is weird and inconsistent, but that just means we should rethink the system (preferably in a forum thread), not that we should double down and use it as the basis for diverging from the rest of fandom. – [[User:NateBumber|n8]] ([[User talk:NateBumber|☎]]) 17:41, 10 January 2023 (UTC) | ||