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 Okay, so now we’re at it again. As some of you may have noticed, [[Russell T Davies]] has taken over as showrunner once more. You even might have noticed that they’ve made a deal with [[Disney Branded Television]] for [[2023 specials|the 60th Anniversary]] specials and beyond to be available for streaming on [[Disney+]].
-So now we come to the, perhaps inevitable, rebranding of the naming scheme going forward, as the powers that be at the [[BBC]] has come to the conclusion that going forward with the naming scheme that has been held for the past 18 years should be no longer. The bosses at the House of Mouse went with the decision that the past 60 years of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' does not, at this time at least, merit a place on their streaming platform, and they’re beginning their era of ''Doctor Who'' partners, with the [[David Tennant]] 2023 specials going forward to the era of [[Fifteenth Doctor]] [[Ncuti Gatwa]], branding the forthcoming batch of episodes post-specials as "[[Series 14 (Doctor Who)|Season One]]", then "[[Series 15 (Doctor Who)|Season Two]]" and so on… this naming scheme has been announced in the [[1 November (releases)|1 November]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] issue of [[SFX (magazine)|SFX magazine]] by Russell T Davies himself as being the naming scheme that they at the BBC and the ''Doctor Who'' production at [[Bad Wolf Productions|Bad Wolf]] are rolling with, therefore putting a halt to the "Series" scheme put forth since [[2005 (releases)|2005]] since [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]], that itself replacing the naming scheme used by the now-"Classic Who" era of the franchise, itself being names "Seasons" since [[1963 (releases)|1963]] with [[Season 1]] all the way up to [[1989 (releases)|1989]]'s [[Season 26]].
+So now we come to the, perhaps inevitable, rebranding of the naming scheme going forward, as the powers that be at the [[BBC]] has come to the conclusion that going forward with the naming scheme that has been held for the past 18 years should be no longer. The bosses at the House of Mouse went with the decision that the past 60 years of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' does not, at this time at least, merit a place on their streaming platform, and they’re beginning their era of ''Doctor Who'' partners, with the [[David Tennant]] 2023 specials going forward to the era of [[Fifteenth Doctor]] [[Ncuti Gatwa]], branding the forthcoming batch of episodes post-specials as "[[Series 14 (Doctor Who)|Season One]]", then "[[Series 15 (Doctor Who)|Season Two]]" and so on… this naming scheme has been announced in the [[1 November (releases)|1 November]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]] issue of [[SFX (magazine)|SFX magazine]] by Russell T Davies himself as being the naming scheme that they at the BBC and the ''Doctor Who'' production at [[Bad Wolf Productions|Bad Wolf]] are rolling with, therefore putting a halt to the "Series" scheme put forth since [[2005 (releases)|2005]] since [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]], that itself replacing the naming scheme used by the now-"Classic Who" era of the franchise, itself being names "Seasons" since [[1963 (releases)|1963]] with [[Season 1]] all the way up to [[1989 (releases)|1989]]'s [[Season 26 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 26]].
 Now here comes the juggernaut of the problem… with the naming scheme going back to being called "Seasons", how do we tackle the situation as we won’t be able to have two identical named pages on the wiki. How do you distinguish [[William Hartnell]]'s Season 1 from Ncuti Gatwa's Season 1? As well as seasons/series going forward for that matter. How do we go ahead with this, practically, identical naming scheme. Do we use dab terms as with the "Series" naming scheme? Do we use words, such as I presented them above instead of numbers? Do we re-name the Classic Who naming scheme to use dabs? Or do we do nothing at all and ignore the bosses of our beloved show?
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 * [[Series 2 (Doctor Who)]] --> [[Series 2 (2006 Doctor Who)]]
 * [[Season 1]] --> [[Season 1 (1963 Doctor Who)]]
-* [[Season 26]] --> [[Season 26 (1989 Doctor Who)]]
+* [[Season 26 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 26]] --> [[Season 26 (1989 Doctor Who)]]
 * [[Series 1 (Torchwood)]] --> [[Series 1 (2006 Torchwood)]]
 * [[Series 1 (SJA)]] --> [[Series 1 (2007 SJA)]]
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 ::::I think we need to keep use of punctuation in the parenthesis to a minimum. That introduces complexity and the probably for mistakes in linking etc.
 ::::As much as I dislike the option presented by [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] and [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] I feel like it's the least worst, we dab by main production house, although we'll need to come up with some rules for things like Miracle Day and the BBC/Starz co-production situation.
-::::*[[Season 1]]-[[Season 26]] > [[Season 1 (BBC Doctor Who)]]-[[Season 26 (BBC Doctor Who)]]
+::::*[[Season 1]]-[[Season 26 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 26]] > [[Season 1 (BBC Doctor Who)]]-[[Season 26 (BBC Doctor Who)]]
 ::::*[[Series 1 (Doctor Who)]]-[[Series 13 (Doctor Who)]] > [[Series 1 (BBC Wales Doctor Who)]]-[[Series 13 (BBC Wales Doctor Who)]]
 ::::*[[Series 14 (Doctor Who)]] > [[Season 1 (Bad Wolf Doctor Who)]]
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 : I had thought that series 11-13 of Doctor Who (2005-2022) were also produced by the BBC? And BBC Wales is, at any rate, a division of the BBC, so this idea does not seem to me to be very intuitive. I think the only solution that is neither convoluted or confusing is:
-:*[[Season 1]]-[[Season 26]] > [[Season 1 (1963-1989 Doctor Who)]]-[[Season 26 (1963-1989 Doctor Who)]]
+:*[[Season 1]]-[[Season 26 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 26]] > [[Season 1 (1963-1989 Doctor Who)]]-[[Season 26 (1963-1989 Doctor Who)]]
 :*[[Series 1 (Doctor Who)]]-[[Series 13 (Doctor Who)]] > [[Series 1 (2005-2022 Doctor Who)]]-[[Series 13 (2005-2022 Doctor Who)]]
 :*[[Series 14 (Doctor Who)]] > [[Season 1 (2023- Doctor Who)]] or [[Series 1 (2023- Doctor Who)]], depending on which iPlayer uses.