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== Infobox Image Update ==
Hello. Is there any possibility of updating the images used for both the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]'s for ones that are more appropriate? I guess I get the "eyebrows" thing so that image isn't *too* bad I suppose (still think better could be done), but surely the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] deserves an image of herself in her actual clothing rather than the image currently in use which is from her opening story ''[[The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)|The Woman Who Fell to Earth]]'' and displays her still wearing the ragged and battered remains of her previous incarnation's clothing? I hope you'll take these suggestions under advisement. Thank you for reading. --[[User:Alan-WK|Alan-WK]] [[User talk:Alan-WK|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 02:19, January 13, 2020 (UTC)


== Main image ==
== The Timeless Child ==
=== Ok, this is chaos ===
So, obviously there will have to be some changes. For starters, the Jo Martin Doctor added to More Ambiguous section of the Doctor's incarnations. Other than that, how big a rewrite are we looking at and how much should be kept to other pages like[[Timeless Child]]?--[[User:TheOneTrueJack|TheOneTrueJack]] [[User talk:TheOneTrueJack|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:00, March 1, 2020 (UTC)


There seems to be no consistency on whether we use promotional pictures or screencaps for the individual Doctor articles, and for the collage on this page. For example, [[First Doctor]] has a promo image, [[Seventh Doctor]] has a screencap, and [[Tenth Doctor]] has something which looks like a screencap but I'm pretty sure is actually a high-quality image from the Doctor Who website and not technically a capture from an episode. We're going through [[Eleventh Doctor]] images like a bucket of popcorn - why do we really need one from the latest story he was in? It's not even a particularly good picture. Do we actually have a policy on this sort of thing?--[[User:The Traveller|The Traveller]] 11:38, January 22, 2011 (UTC)
:Well, as far as ''I'' can put it together, it's the 8 Timeless Child regenerations, at least 5 more, the 8 Morbius regenerations, Ruth, 4 more, Hartnell - Matt, Capaldi - Present. We know that the Timeless Child regenerations and the Morbius ones can't be the same cycle as the Doctor was kidified after each 13, so it seems. So Jodie is not, ''at least'' the 27th Doctor now.--[[User:HarryPotterRules1|HarryPotterRules1]] [[User talk:HarryPotterRules1|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:16, March 1, 2020 (UTC)
::We do have a policy on this. We don't use promotional pictures on in-universe articles whatsoever. I'm sure that ''all'' of the images on each Doctor's page are screencaps. But I agree with you that the Eleventh Doctor's page needs ''one'' image that stays. I thought that there was no problem with the original one from The Eleventh Hour (the one that represents him on this article's image). The image should be put back and kept that way. --[[User:The Thirteenth Doctor|The Thirteenth Doctor]] 12:39, January 22, 2011 (UTC)
:::I'm almost certain that the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors have images which aren't screencaps. I assume a "screencap" is an image captured directly from an episode. Take the First Doctor article - while it's clearly William Hartnell in character as the First Doctor, that image never appeared in ''[[An Unearthly Child]]''. You can tell just by looking at pictures whether or not they're screencaps. Screencaps tend to be lower-resolution, may have motion blur, and in the case of the classic series might have video noise. Perhaps they're not promotional images, but they're certainly photographs, which are clearly of higher quality than screencaps.--[[User:The Traveller|The Traveller]] 17:41, January 22, 2011 (UTC)


=== Main image ===
::If we take it that The Timeless Child was at the start of Time Lord society and for whatever reason was never cryogenically frozen or forced into the future. Then it stands to reason that he/she is as old as Time Lord society. In The Ultimate Foe who we used to call The Sixth Doctor says that they've been around for 10 Million years. Now if we take The Eleventh Doctors life of 1100 years as a measure for a standard regenerations life span as this was the longest and seemed to die of natural causes. Then at MINIMUM The Doctor has had 9,091 lives which are not including any that were cut short by falling off any cliffs or mother figures experimenting on them. --[[User:Thebobbrom|Thebobbrom]] [[User talk:Thebobbrom|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:53, March 2, 2020 (UTC)


Why was the main image removed? Right now, out of the images that are still being considered for the Master, one of them uses all the TV images, two of them use all the images, and one of them uses images of Masters that have appeared in an entire story and only in a visual medium. If we go by the precedent of any of those choices, we would still need to have all eleven Doctors.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 21:36, July 26, 2011 (UTC)
::It seems like the Thirteen lives rule was put in place much later on. So that wouldn't apply to the Timeless Child incarnations --[[User:TheOneTrueJack|TheOneTrueJack]] [[User talk:TheOneTrueJack|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:24, March 1, 2020 (UTC)


: According to [[User talk:Skittles the hog|Skittles the hog]], the Master image discussion was also for the layout of the images on top of which Masters to use. It didn't come across to me either, but that's what they said. -- [[User:Tybort|Tybort]] ([[User talk:Tybort|talk page]]) 21:56, July 26, 2011 (UTC)
:::Except we can't call any of those before Hartnell any variant of the [number] Doctor. Cause if we do that we'll have to re-route, in no exaggeration, the "''ENTIRE''" Wikia from scratch. --[[User:Danniesen|DCLM]] [[User talk:Danniesen|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:29, March 1, 2020 (UTC)


Well, since all the versions of the Master's main image that had 11 Masters have been rejected, I don't think the exact same format could really be used for both the Doctor and the Master anyway.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 22:05, July 26, 2011 (UTC)
::::Well obviously we can't do that. The Morbius Doctors can be referred to as such, and the Timeless Child incarnations can be included in the [[Timeless Child]] page. But should they both (as two sperate groups) be put in the More Ambiguous section of the Doctor's incarnations? And how much should the main Doctor page talk about them? {{Unsigned|TheOneTrueJack}}


=== Multiple images in main image ===
Well, that's the thing. I don't believe the Doctor ''is'' bound to the 13 lives. The Timelords just sort of "kid-i-fied" the Doctor again when he reached the end of his 13 "lives"; that's what the whole Brendan stuff was. The Doctor believed he was bound to the 13 "lives" because he didn't remember anything before hand. But, in actuality, he wasn't bound to it at all. So it could literally be the 8 on the table plus 5 more - then kid-i-fied  and made to forget - then the 8 morbius, Ruth and 4 more - then Kid-i-fied and made to forget - then Hartnell onwards and the Timelords only gave the "new" cycle to the Doctor to hide their lie.--[[User:HarryPotterRules1|HarryPotterRules1]] [[User talk:HarryPotterRules1|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:46, March 1, 2020 (UTC)
There's been a fairly lengthy discussion on [[Talk:The Master]] concerning whether or not to use all the images of a Time Lord's incarnations or just a few or one or two to define the article.


On species articles we tend to use just one image such as [[Dalek]], despite them changing their outward appearance fairly often.
:That would make sense if the Time Lords didn't have to restore the Doctor's regeneration ability in ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]''. Though if they restored the Doctor's original ability, it ''would'' explain the ambiguity of how many regenerations the Doctor has now.--[[User:WarGrowlmon18|WarGrowlmon18]] [[User talk:WarGrowlmon18|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:55, March 1, 2020 (UTC)


Should we continue to use an image like this one; [[:File:Eleven-doctors.jpg]], which was previously on the page prior to this discussion.
::The Brendan stuff was a cover-story to hide the truth about the Time Lords' beginning. Brendan, his parents, the Sergeant etc. never existed. They were images layered on top of the real truth. --[[User:Danniesen|DCLM]] [[User talk:Danniesen|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:00, March 1, 2020 (UTC)


Or, like the images on [[the Master]]'s and [[Rassilon]]'s articles should we include not just TV but other portrayals like comic strips, audio/novel covers etc to truly reflect what this wiki covers? --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] / '''[[User talk:Tangerineduel|talk]]''' 15:45, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
::: The Timeless Child could regenerate indefinitely. But THE DOCTOR was limited to 13 lives. That's not really a matter of perspective. It was seen that the Doctor could only regenerate 12 times. This means that the limitation of 12 regenerations was also bestowed on the Doctor, or maybe perhaps after they "stopped" being the Timeless Child. --[[User:Danniesen|DCLM]] [[User talk:Danniesen|<span title="Talk to me"></span>]] 22:02, March 1, 2020 (UTC)
*Forgive me, but aren't the eleven canonical Doctors already depicted on screen and film? There aren't any canon Doctors that only appear in books or comics. --[[User:Dr.Kermit|<span style="color: #00C;">'''Doctor Kermit'''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Dr.Kermit|<span style="color: #93C;">'''Complain.'''</span>]])</sup> 15:56, August 15, 2011 (UTC)


::What I meant is that we could have instead of a TV depiction of any of Doctors 1-11 there could be a comic or cover-based depiction of any of the Doctors 1-11. Say the [[Seventh Doctor]] in his linen suit from the NA days or the [[Eighth Doctor]] from DWM comics, or even the 1-6 from MA covers etc. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] / '''[[User talk:Tangerineduel|talk]]''' 16:18, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
::::That's my point. ''Did'' they restore it? I believe the Doctor was bound to the 13 body limits because he ''believed'' he was. He actually ''wasn't'' - he just thought he was because he believed he was a Timelord, when he isn't - he's something different. The Timelords gave him a "new" cycle to hide the truth of what he was - constantly and continually able to regenerate.--[[User:HarryPotterRules1|HarryPotterRules1]] [[User talk:HarryPotterRules1|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:04, March 1, 2020 (UTC)


We should probably use images from the TV show where possible, just because an actor portraying a character looks better than a drawing of the character. Since its the same incarnations in the TV show as anywhere else, it makes most sense to just use the TV images in the infobox.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 21:32, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
:::::The Doctor IS a Time Lord. You can't get around that. However as the Seventh Doctor said "I'm far more than just another Time Lord". And he WAS limited down. That's what they did, as other media stories have explained was done at some point to the Time Lord race. --[[User:Danniesen|DCLM]] [[User talk:Danniesen|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:09, March 1, 2020 (UTC)


:Can we have a GIF file that changes from 1 Doctor to another and scroll through all? -- [[User:Deb1701|Future Companion]]
::::::: No, wrong. We know now that the Doctor is ''not'' a Timelord. The Doctor is an entirely different species who was studied by the ''original'' Timelord/Shebogan to create regeneration. The Doctor only ''believed'' she/he was a Timelord. --[[User:HarryPotterRules1|HarryPotterRules1]] [[User talk:HarryPotterRules1|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:18, March 1, 2020 (UTC)


::GIFs aren't really good to use, they're limited in the colours that are used to create a GIF and if you want something detailed it ends up taking up a lot of space / takes a significant time to load. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] / '''[[User talk:Tangerineduel|talk]]''' 14:28, August 16, 2011 (UTC)
:::::::: I'm up with Harry. The Doctor is not a Timelord anymore, but the "ancestor" species of the Time Lords: a Timeless Child (not official name but just to make it clear). --[[User:Con Carne|Con Carne]] ([[User Talk:Con Carne|''Di la verdad, o cobras...'']]) 10:09, March 2, 2020 (UTC)


:::A compromise solution would probably be to use an animated PNG. They are considered a standard and will render properly in Firefox (can't speak for other browsers) and are not limited in their colors. -- [[User:GuitarMan666|GuitarMan666]] [[User talk:GuitarMan666|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 04:34, August 16, 2012 (UTC)
:::::::::No. The Doctor was MADE into a Time Lord. Also whoever changed the page, please don't just change it without a conclusion to this. Con Carne, don't just make a change this major. It needs proper discussion. You and Harry agreeing, doesn't alone make it so. We need proper consultation that admins also join in on before we can just decide something this major. --[[User:Danniesen|DCLM]] [[User talk:Danniesen|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 10:19, March 2, 2020 (UTC)


If we must have images of every single incarnation of a Time Lord, then we should just use the image that was already there. Otherwise, we can show just the Eleventh Doctor, or show both the First and Eleventh Doctors as was discussed for the Master.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 22:02, August 17, 2011 (UTC)
This is a discussion for the Board of Discussions. I'll make a thread. --[[User:Danniesen|DCLM]] [[User talk:Danniesen|<span title="Talk to me"></span>]] 10:21, March 2, 2020 (UTC)
:Just as at [[companion]] and now [[the Master]], I would prefer the image be ''representative'', not ''exhaustive''.  I do think Smith should get pride of place and positional dominance, but I don't think we need all 11, since the article is chock full of the 11, anyway.  The infobox need only summarise.  {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}&nbsp;<span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">'''21:57:35 Thu&nbsp;'''18 Aug 2011&nbsp;</span>


How about we use four images. The First Doctor from the black & white era, one of the Doctors from 3-7 for the classic color era (maybe the fourth since he was probably the most popular), the eigth doctor from the TV movie, and the Eleventh as the current one and representing the new series.[[User:Gowron8472|Gowron8472]] 07:19, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
:Just one thing, it wasn't me, I haven't changed anything in the article. :( --[[User:Con Carne|Con Carne]] ([[User Talk:Con Carne|''Di la verdad, o cobras...'']]) 11:49, March 2, 2020 (UTC)
:I don't see anything wrong with using pictures of all 11 Doctors, aside from aesthetics. And arguing "this doesn't make the page look pretty" (AKA aesthetics) is not a very good argument. --[[User:Bold Clone|<span style="color:darkblue">'''Bold'''</span>]] [[User Talk:Bold Clone|<span style="color:gold">'''Clone'''</span>]] 18:59, August 21, 2011 (UTC)


Well, the decision on the Master's page has sort of set a precedent for not using every incarnation of a Time Lord in the infobox, hasn't it.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 04:03, August 22, 2011 (UTC)
::I know, that was my bad. I didn't looks properly. Sorry about that. I DID change my statement to say "whoever changed the page". Sorry for the mistunderstanding. --[[User:Danniesen|DCLM]] [[User talk:Danniesen|<span title="Talk to me"></span>]] 11:53, March 2, 2020 (UTC)
:Again, the discussion of the Master's images was basically either "the pictures aren't relevant," or "the pictures don't make the page as pretty." I thought we just should have left it that way--show the canon images of the Master. --[[User:Bold Clone|<span style="color:darkblue">'''Bold'''</span>]] [[User Talk:Bold Clone|<span style="color:gold">'''Clone'''</span>]] 14:47, August 22, 2011 (UTC)


:What about adding a picture of each beside their entry under "The Doctor's incarnations" section? -- [[User:Deb1701|TARDIS 1701]]
== How did you make the docpic slideshow? ==
:Been there, done that; it didn't work. I am actually the person who removed the pictures. --[[User:Bold Clone|<span style="color:darkblue">'''Bold'''</span>]] [[User Talk:Bold Clone|<span style="color:gold">'''Clone'''</span>]] 02:56, August 25, 2011 (UTC)


Okay, I didn't even know this discussion existed. Now I do. We really should use all of the incarnations. He's the main character! [[User:BroadcastCorp|BroadcastCorp]] <small>([[User talk:BroadcastCorp|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/BroadcastCorp|contribs]])</small> 12:41, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
How did you make the slideshow feature/template entitled "docpic" inside the infobox? I'd like to achieve something similar for a wiki I'm working on. [[User:JustWilhelm|JustWilhelm]] [[User talk:JustWilhelm|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 10:10, July 27, 2020 (UTC)


[[file:TheFiveDoctors.jpg|thumb|250px|right|As CzechOut said, we really should use "fresh" images, and most of these are fresh. I think it looks brilliant, and this should be featured on the main page.]]
== "The Doctor's Species" ==
:Actually, I've been thinking about it, and actually, we don't need all the Doctor. There, I said it. We should just have five, like the on at [[the Master]]. Here is my image suggestion:


*'''Smith''' dominates the design, because he is the current Doctor, and this is from [[DW]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut]]'', where he says "Space, 1969". Best moment in my opinion.
I agree that we should keep the "the doctor's species" under their species but why isn't there also "Time Lord" as well. Although the Doctor started life as whatever species they were when Tecteun found them, since Hartnell -> Whittaker, they have been bound to the thirteen incarnation cycles with two hearts and should unequivocably be called a time lord since being changed into one by the time lords using the chameleon arch (as hinted at by those Brendan scenes). {{unsigned|Cptjackhotness}}
*'''Baker''' (Tom not Colin) is at the bottom left hand corner. I just had to include him. He played the Doctor for so long, so he's got to be on this image. The screenshot is from [[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'' (thanks [[User:CzechOut|CzechOut]])
:Hi! If [[The Doctor's species]] were the page about the species of the Timeless Child, you would be correct, but it's not. That's "[[Timeless Child's species]]". The page [[The Doctor's species]] is an overview detailing all the conflicting accounts of whether the Doctor is a Time Lord, a human, half-human, a member of the Timeless Child's species, etc.
*'''Hartnell''' is the black-and-white one. I included him because a) he's the original and initial Doctor (and, in a way, his true appearance) and b) it shows that the Doctor has appeared in black-and-white, and not all in colour (bit similar to the Master image, CzechOut had to use a comic Master to show they exist). This screenshot is from [[DW]]: ''[[The Ark]]''.
*'''Tennant''' and '''Eccleston''' are the ones at the bottom-right hand-corner. I felt they needed to be included, as they are the most recent Doctors. I included Eccleston because this Doctor was the one after the Time War, I just felt we needed to show that. I chose Tennant because he's very well-known, he's played the Doctor for about five years or minus one year. Every fan knows him, not saying he's typecast, but I think as he's also recent (like Eccleston) he needs to included.


Many thanks to CzechOut, who inspired the design, and added some of the images I've needed. So... what do you make of the image? [[User:BroadcastCorp|BroadcastCorp]] <small>([[User talk:BroadcastCorp|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/BroadcastCorp|contribs]])</small> 08:12, August 26, 2011 (UTC)
:Also, it's not evident that the Brendan scene corresponds to a [[chameleon arch]] specifically. It could just as easily have ''just'' been a deaging/mindwiping process. According to ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'' the [[Shobogan (species)|Shobogan]]s became the [[Time Lord]]s when [[Tecteun]] spliced DNA of the Timeless Child into them, so it's a perfectly valid interpretation that the Timeless Child was the original two-hearted binary-vascular-systemed species, and it's the Shobogans who were altered to resemble the Doctor, not the other way around. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 13:26, 12 January 2021 (UTC)


:I like the design, the only thing I would chnage is the Tenth Doctor. I would replace it with the Eighth Doctor. At the moment, the image is has to much of the New series in it, and I think two Old Series plus to New Series, with the Eighth Doctor (who current exists in neither the old or new series.)
== Usage of "Dr. Who" ==
Okay, seeing as my edits on ''[[TV Comic]]'' stories have been questioned, I shall explain why I am using the name "Dr. Who" and how policy backs me up on this.


:Also, keep the basic design (one big, two squares and two smaller ones), but chnage them about. Maybe put the squares and smaller squares at the top of the page? Or out the two smaller squares in between the squares.  
As a bit of context, the names "First Doctor" and "Second Doctor" were never used in the characters' original televised runs. The only times they are used are in stories such as [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'' and other works by [[Terrance Dicks]]. (see more about Dicks' naming conventions over at [[Forum:Is using "First Doctor", "Second Doctor" etc in-universe?]], however, me linking this does not mean I agree with the conclusion.)<br>These names have been retroactively applied to these characters, despite evidence from the television stories directly contradicting this, perhaps most notably in [[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (TV story)|The Power of the Daleks]]'' when the "Patrick Troughton" Doctor mentioned that the "[[regeneration]]" he undertook was a restorative feature of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] and that he had ''used it before'', meaing that Troughton was not playing the "Second Doctor". (This also means there have been "Pre-Hartnell Doctors" from pretty early on folks!). A precedent notably seen over on [[Talk:Tzim-Sha#Rename]] and the various talk pages of [[Amy Pond]], is that the name that the characters actually use to refer to themselves as takes precendent. So, in the case of the Doctor, this policy applies. We, as the rule abiding users, should use [[The Doctor (title)|the name, the ''title'' that the Doctor chose for himself]], which is in most stories, "the Doctor". In the case of ''[[TV Comic]]'', "the Doctor" is short for "Dr. Who", so this indicates to me that "the Doctor" should be the name that is most widely used, and "Dr. Who" for his name in place of the regular usage of "[insert number here] Doctor", in sources that actually state that "Dr. Who" is the Doctor's full name of course. This also would be mean that "[insert number here] Doctor" would be acceptable if substantiated by the respective source.


:Keep the Eleventh as the main image, then have the First and Ninth Doctor as the big squares and the Fourth and Third as the smaller squares.  
Now, the argument has been made that "Dr. Who" is not as clear cut as "the [insert number here] Doctor", however, the aforementioned precedent I cited comes into play here. (Additionally, adjectives can be used to adequately describe which "Dr. Who" the source is talking about.) Due to the ruling by admin @[[USer:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]]...
{{quote|Where you are correct is that '''with all the conflicting accounts of what this fellow calls himself, we should probably strive to use the names given by each individual sources in individually-sourced statement'''. Information from [[COMIC]]: ''[[4-Dimensional Vistas (comic story)|4-Dimensional Vistas]]'' does belong on this page, sorry. But a paragraph sourced to that story should refer to him as "the Time Meddler", not "the Monk". And so on.|@[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]]}}
...as stated at [[Talk:The Monk/Archive 1#Article made from whole cloth]], accompanied by the polcies given by [[Tardis:Valid sources]], we should use the name of the character as given within the story, regardless of whether or not another story uses a different name. The Doctor refers to himself as "Dr. Who"? That is the name we use. An example of this, as aforementioned admin @[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] gave at [[User talk:Danochy]], is [[COMIC]]: ''[[4-Dimensional Vistas (comic story)|4-Dimensional Vistas]]'', which uses the name "[[The Monk|The Time-Meddler]]" to refer to [[the Monk]] as "The Time-Meddler" was the name given in the source; this name is perfectly acceptable for use so long as it is cited by its respective story, despite "the Monk" being a more well-known name. There is an exception to this, which is that the character's best known name should be used in infoboxes, for clarity. I, admittedly, did not know this, however as soon as it was brought up, I immediately backtracked and switched "Dr. Who" for "First Doctor" becuase I wanted to follow the policies exactly


:Nice work though! [[User:Mini-mitch|MM]]/<small>[[User talk:Mini-mitch|Want to talk?]]</small> 09:48, August 26, 2011 (UTC)
Furthermore, I am also backed up by [[Tardis:Neutral point of view]], which states quite clearly at the top of the page...
{{quote|Media doesn't matter. One of the most important aspects of this wiki is that '''all media have equal weight here.''' Television is not the most important source of information on this wiki. That which is said in a short story in [[Doctor Who Annual 1967|the 1967 ''Doctor Who Annual'']], or a ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' audio drama, is just as valid as the latest episode of [[BBC Wales]] ''[[Doctor Who]]''.|[[T:NPOV]]}}
...therefore, the names retroactively applied to the Hartnell and Troughton Doctors ''do not'' supersede "Dr. Who".


Thanks. But replacing the Tenth Doctor image is a bit of a tough one. As these are five images, the images won't be equal, if you know what I mean. As he's the second most recent incarnation I think he should be featured. [[User:BroadcastCorp|BroadcastCorp]] <small>([[User talk:BroadcastCorp|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/BroadcastCorp|contribs]])</small> 09:52, August 26, 2011 (UTC)
Despite this, I am ''not'' advocating for the name "Dr. Who" to be intergrated into the pages of sources that do not use it. Even so, this change being implemented into the pages of television and other notable sources will obviously require a Forum thread, owing to the controversial nature of this proposed name change. Additionally, a name change towards certain incarnations of the Doctor may be beneficial, seeing as [[The Timeless Children (TV story)|certain major plot threads]] state that William Hartnell's Doctor was not the first. Another note against the current naming of the Doctors is that their names are barely even substantiated by any [[Tardis:Valid sources|valid sources]], so perhaps a new naming style like with the Monk may actually be the best course of action. [[The Doctor (An Unearthly Child)]], [[The Doctor (Planet of the Spiders)]], etc will likely be better for compliance with [[T:NPOV]]. I am rambling though, and this is really its own separate discussion that of course should be brought to the Forums when @[[User:CzechOut|CzechOut]] works out the problems, so I'll stop talking about this and focus on this little facet of the problem that ''can'' be resolved without much effort or discussion.


:We have the first incarnation and the Eleventh. They should be in. Then we have the Ninth Doctor, who was the first "New Series" Doctor, so he should be included. That means we should not have the Tenth Doctor, it should not matter if they were most popular or most recent, since we have the current. The would strongly advise replacing the Tenth with the Eighth, so it's not New Series heavy. With having the Ninth/Eleventh and First/Fourth, we have a equal and fair number for fans of either the old or new series.
I will mention however, as my actions are well within policy, and I only changing the names in stories published by ''[[TV Comic]]'', which again, unambiguously uses the name "Dr. Who". I suspect that my actions will continue to be correct despite certain objections held by editors, but do remember, [[Tardis:You are bound by current policy]] and [[Tardis:Canon policy]] apply, in case if anybody is thinking that them simply objecting to this on a talk page will be enough to overturn policy or that if ''[[TV Comic]]'' is non-canonical. <div style="background-color:#0E234E; border: solid 0.5px gold; display: inline; white-space: nowrap;">[[doctorwho:user:Epsilon the Eternal|<span style="background:#0E234E; color:white"><code>'''Epsilon'''</code></span>]][[doctorwho:user talk:Epsilon the Eternal|📯]] [[doctorwho:special:Contributions/Epsilon the Eternal|📂]]</div> 14:51, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
[[file:7Doctors.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A seven Doctor image (Doctors two, five and six and not included).]]  
[[file:5Doctorsv2.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A 5 Doctor version]]  
:The point is, we should have two from each series, plus the Eighth Doctor, so I really think you should replace either the Tenth or the Ninth Doctor with the Eighth. So as to balance the image out. [[User:Mini-mitch|MM]]/<small>[[User talk:Mini-mitch|Want to talk?]]</small> 09:58, August 26, 2011 (UTC)


:What's wrong with showing all the incarnations, aside from "it doesn't make the page pretty"? --[[User:Bold Clone|<span style="color:darkblue">'''Bold'''</span>]] [[User Talk:Bold Clone|<span style="color:gold">'''Clone'''</span>]] 15:20, August 26, 2011 (UTC)
:I largely agree with the direction of these edits, but don't forget about [[T:DOCTORS]]. On the page for a TV Comic story, I agree that we should use the name for the Doctor used in that story, with the exact incarnation number specified in the lede or the notes section; but on other pages, it's important for comprehensability's sake that each Doctor be identified by incarnation, [[T:NPOV]] be damned. I'm partial to "the first Dr. Who", myself. – [[User:NateBumber|n8]] ([[User talk:NateBumber|]]) 20:31, 7 June 2021 (UTC)


::That is great work BroadcastCorp.
:: Yep, I'm in 100% agreement with N8 here. Specify "First Doctor" or "First Dr. Who" where necessary for the sake of clarity, specify "Dr. Who" or "The Doctor" (as appropriate to the text) following the initial numerical identifier.
::I also think the Eighth Doctor should be included as he's often forgotten, yet his appearance TV wise bridges the two 'Wilderness years'. I'd suggest getting rid of Nine/Ten and putting Eight in there, or get rid of just Ten or Nine and replace with Eight.
::The infobox is a summary of the page, so we don't ''need'' to have all the images, plus we've had the all images in one box, which is kinda what lead us to this discussion. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] / '''[[User talk:Tangerineduel|talk]]''' 15:42, August 26, 2011 (UTC)


Can't you put a bit of a spin on it. Not much, just so it's not the exact same layout as [[the Master]]'s image.--{{User:Skittles the hog/sig}} 16:54, August 26, 2011 (UTC)
:: Also, is the quote where 2 mentions having regenerated before really in the TV serial? I'm certain it originated in the [[1993]] [[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|novelisation]]. I.e. it's a reference to [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)]]. In fact, Epsilon, your argument against numbering falls apart when you consider ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'', as the same logic would suggest we can't even refer to [[Tom Baker]]'s Doctor from that era as the [[Fourth Doctor]]! [[User:Danochy|Danochy]] [[User talk:Danochy|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:49, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
:::That bit in the novelization was based on a deleted scene from the original script. But even then, for a long time it was thought that Ian coined the title "the Doctor" and passed it along to other companions via word-of-mouth. (For instance, the First Doctor on TV never really referred to himself as "the Doctor".) So even if there were any number of incarnations before Hartnell, he still would have been the "First Doctor". – [[User:NateBumber|n8]] ([[User talk:NateBumber|☎]]) 20:58, 7 June 2021 (UTC)


Okay why can't we put the tenth and another doctor's pic to the right and left of 11's pic? [[User:Cory Jaynes|Cory Jaynes]] 19:18, August 26, 2011 (UTC)
:::: No, no, I am pretty sure it was mentioned in the television serial. And actually, the Fourth Doctor shouldn't be used on Baker's Doctor, as up until ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', he wasn't the Fourth Doctor, especially as ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'' literally showed that he had multiple incarnations ''before'' Hartnell. So "Fourth Doctor" is really not a good name. As for the "Dr. Who" bit, if an incarnation is to be used, it should be styled as "first Dr. Who", in accordance with [[Tardis:Doctors]], though I would still prefer ditching the numbering system in accounts where it is blatantly untrue. As for what the Doctor calls himself, there is a f deal of evidence to show that he refers to himself as "the Doctor" and "Dr. Who". <div style="background-color:#0E234E; border: solid 0.5px gold; display: inline; white-space: nowrap;">[[doctorwho:user:Epsilon the Eternal|<span style="background:#0E234E; color:white"><code>'''Epsilon'''</code></span>]][[doctorwho:user talk:Epsilon the Eternal|📯]] [[doctorwho:special:Contributions/Epsilon the Eternal|📂]]</div> 21:16, 7 June 2021 (UTC)


I think there are more than enough Doctor's in the image right now. I understand that Eccleston is there because he is the first new series companion, but is he really that significant. He was only in one season. I would suggest removing him and making the McGann's image bigger. I don't really see the need to keep the classic and new series perfectly equal. A new series Doctor already takes up about half of the image, and the Classic series is a much bigger part of the show than the new series is. There are seven Doctors in the classic series, and only three in the new series, and about 30 years worth of classic episodes with only about five years worth of new episodes.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 01:51, September 1, 2011 (UTC)
:::::It's nice that you're "pretty sure" it was mentioned, but I am absolutely certain that [http://www.chakoteya.net/DoctorWho/4-3.htm it wasn't.]


The seven doctors image has way too many. We don't need both the third and the fourth, as they are both from the same era of the show. I personally like the Third better, but the Fourth was more popular and was around the longest, so he should be on their instead. We definetly don't need both the ninth and the tenth for the same reason. I don't think that we need either as we have the eleventh, but if we must have one I would go with the tenth as he was more popular and was around for longer. As it is now, it seems more like we  are just excluding some of the Doctors rather than only including a few.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 18:29, September 1, 2011 (UTC)
:::::I've said this to you before: the ''single purpose'' of every wiki is to be legible and usable, and all the other rules are in service of that goal. So if a rule makes a wiki less legible or usable, it bends. (Check out [[Talk:Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]] if you want to see this in action.) What would it look like if we got rid of [[T:DOCTORS]] and the numbering system? What did it look like on ''[[The Power of the Daleks (TV story)|The Power of the Daleks]]'' after [[Special:Diff/3110042|your edits to it]]? Every user would have to hover over every instance of "the Doctor" or "Dr. Who" to see what dab term was pipe switched away. And that would be neither legible nor usable.


I like the design of the seven Doctors image, but the pictures would need changing as they're not that great. We don't want to be using the same images that are in the individual infoboxes.--{{User:Skittles the hog/sig}} 20:19, September 1, 2011 (UTC)
:::::Whether "Fourth Doctor" is a good name has nothing to do with what he called himself or how it fits with [[T:NPOV]], and it has ''everything'' to do with the fact that "Fourth Doctor" is his ''[https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=fourth+doctor universally recognized]'' name. If [[T:DOCTORS]] breaks [[T:NPOV]], [[T:DOCTORS]] wins ''every single time''. You're doing nothing but hurting your case and wasting your time by complaining about numbering rather than focusing on more limited compromises that might be actually achievable. – [[User:NateBumber|n8]] ([[User talk:NateBumber|☎]]) 12:31, 8 June 2021 (UTC)


The sevend doctors image just isn't ver representative of his character or the show. Think about it, there is one image from the 60s, 2 from the 70s, nothing from the 80s, one from the 90s, and three from the 2000s. At the very least, either the 3rd or fourth doctor should be changed to either the 5th, 6th, or 7th, but the main image really doesn't need to have more than half of the doctors. We should try to stick with just four or  five images. [[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 20:41, September 1, 2011 (UTC)
:::::: I am once again in agreement with Nate. Changing the name to "Dr. Who" in the comic plot summaries is all well and good, but changing it on actors pages is pretty pedantic (and the redirect just plain pointless). Yes in the 60s, William Hartnell was not known as the "First Doctor", but this wiki is not being read in the 60s, it is being read in the 21st century and the people of the 21st century know him as the First Doctor (and have done for decades). And changing all accounts of "the x Doctor" to "Dr Who" or "the Doctor" (such as The Power of the Daleks edit) is massively confusing and unhelpful.
:If the general consensus of the wiki is to only have ''some'' of the Doctors shown (which I still think is rubbish idea), then go with the five Doctors, as shown above, not the seven. Seven images of varying size and no pattern is just not going to help anyone. --[[User:Bold Clone|<span style="color:darkblue">'''Bold'''</span>]] [[User Talk:Bold Clone|<span style="color:gold">'''Clone'''</span>]] 23:32, September 1, 2011 (UTC)


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:::::: P.S. Apologies, Epsilon for not replying to your message on my talk page. When I saw that you had created this thread, I figured this would be a more appropriate place to put my thoughts. [[User:LauraBatham|LauraBatham]] [[User talk:LauraBatham|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 12:59, 8 June 2021 (UTC)


:1. I think we should either have ALL or just the current one.
:::::: I’m no expert on wiki policy, but I would agree that there’s a need for the wiki to be easily legible and usable by readers. Referring to the Doctor as Dr Who specifically in the context of TV Comic stories seems reasonable, but renaming all the Doctors as variants of [[The Doctor (An Unearthly Child)]] would be potentially difficult for readers to navigate and put this wiki out of touch with 99% of discussion around Doctor Who where the Doctors are referred to by those familiar numbers. I don’t think the [[The Timeless Children (TV story)|recent developments]] changes this at all, as a [[War Doctor|previous revelation]] also altered the numbering of the Doctors’ incarnations but the norm of referring to Eccleston’s Doctor as the Ninth Doctor, Tennant’s as Tenth, Smith’s as Eleventh etc has remained the same. [[User:SherlockTheII|SherlockTheII]] [[User talk:SherlockTheII|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 16:54, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
:2. I think we should set the photos up in a WHEEL or CLOCK with the current Doctor in the center and the others going around in the proper order. -- [[User:Deb1701|Future Time Lord]]


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: Yeah, I'm sorry, Epsilon, but dabbed page names for [[First Doctor]] onwards are simply never going to happen. And infoboxes should use a name that is specific to the page we are linking. If we had some other in-universe moniker specific to the Troughton Doctor, then perhaps it would be worth weighing that option… but we ''cannot'' start putting just "Dr Who", or indeed "The Doctor", in the |doctor= field of infoboxes. This helps no one whatsoever.  
Each Doctor's got it's own page, so there's really no reason to put all1 Doctors in the infobox on this page. We also don't want just the Eleventh Doctor, as that would be misleading, uggesting that Matt Smith is the only person to portray the Doctor. Plus, that would set a precedent for other Timelords who have regenerated, who all have multiple images in the infobox. I think we should go with a four Doctors image, with just Hartnell, T. Baker, McGann, and Eccleston, but if everyone wants to have five then I think that we should also include Eccleston as he was the last Doctor of the Classic Series.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 01:45, September 9, 2011 (UTC)


No he wasn't. McCoy was the last Doctor of the classic series. Eccleston was the first Doctor of the revived series. [[User:DomeSeven|DomeSeven]] 15:34, September 10, 2011 (UTC)
: Using "Dr. Who", and refraining from using "First" or "Second", makes sense for ''plot summaries'', as well as for the writing of paragraphs cited to these stories. Yes, plot description of, say, ''[[The Highlanders (TV story)|The Highlanders]]'' should not mention "the Second Doctor", just "the Doctor" or "Dr Who". But that doesn't mean that the legibility essentially real-world constructs such as infoboxes (whether it be the story's infobox or the actors') should be compromised — nor that it is ''false'' to refer to the man in ''The Highlanders'' as the Second Doctor in an in-universe sense. He ''is'' in fact "the Second Doctor" — albeit "according to some accounts". Thus, while we must not give the impression that the story uses this name, "the Second Doctor lived through these events" is a valid statement within the wider the DWU.


You're right, I mistyped. I meant to say McCoy.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 16:39, September 11, 2011 (UTC)
: The thing about [[T:NPOV]] is that it mostly applies to what statements we make about the DWU, not how pages are named. Because pages cannot truly have several names at once, we ''necessarily'' have to "prioritise" one version over another when a character has several valid names. T:NPOV still has its place in terms of making sure that, for example, it is not "TV by default" that wins this assessment, rather than the name that actually makes the most sense and best reflects DWU sources in ''aggregate''. But it is not inherently a T:NPOV breach to say Troughton was the Second Doctor just because ''some'' stories number the Doctors differently. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 17:51, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
:: I am endorsing what Scrooge MacDuck, LauraBatham and NateBumber have said, above. Standardisation is necessary on a wiki (and universe) of this size, especially where characters as central as ''the Doctor'' are concerned.


How bout we do a montage thing like in eleventh hour? I know they have some like that on youtube. [[User:Cory Jaynes|Cory Jaynes]] 05:11, September 14, 2011 (UTC)
:: Also of note, as to why [[T:DOCTORS]] trumps any [[T:NPOV]] arguments: even with the last decade of ''Doctor Who'' on ''television'' firmly renumbering the Doctor's incarnations, in one way or another, "Twelfth Doctor" is a title, not always an accurate description.


May I suggest that we do a poll to see the opinion of the majority of the Wiki's fallowers opinion. This seemed to work on the Master's page. (I'm not gonna do it, for it's propably more of an admin job.) [[User:OttselSpy25|OttselSpy25]] <sup>[[User talk:OttselSpy25|talk to me]]</sup> 00:25, October 28, 2011 (UTC)
:: This is where capitalising Twelfth, by convention, happens to also give the right idea: he is not necessarily the Doctor's twelfth incarnation, but he is, by most sources and common understanding, the "Twelfth Doctor". We decided in 2013 to stick with this and not confuse things, and we are not going back on that. The wiki would unfortunately be quite illegible.{{User:SOTO/sig}} 08:35, 9 June 2021 (UTC)


I agree that a poll might be appropriate, although I don't think it really worked on the Master page (the most popular image in the poll is not the image that's currently being used...) It'd be interesting if we could set up an animated gif that could scroll through all the Doctors. Is anyone skilled enough in making those to make one (if one doesn't already exist somewhere)? [[User:Memnarc|Memnarc]] 17:01, October 28, 2011 (UTC)
== Fugitive Doctor Placement (Infobox) ==


=== objection to using a select number of doctors in the article image ===
After [[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|Once, Upon Time]], should the [[Fugitive Doctor|Fugitve Doctor]] be moved from "Others/Unplaced Incarnations" to "Widley Accpeted"? That story does confirm her to be a pre-Hartnell incarnation that worked for [[The Division]]. Or should we wait until this era is done, on the off chance they show an actual regeneration/transition. Perhpas even from her to the [[First Doctor|The First Doctor]], somehow.


==== Objection of the image use ====
[[User:TheOneTrueJack|TheOneTrueJack]] [[User talk:TheOneTrueJack|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:59, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Sorry, but I must step in and say that I completely disagree about only using a certain number of images of the Doctor. Either they all are represented, or none are. Someone above said that it wouldn't be fair to just have Smith as it would seem as though he was the only actor to portray the Doctor, so really what is the difference between missing ten of them out or missing six of them out? Nothing. There is no difference. Incarnations of the Doctor are still not being represented when they should be. Nothing makes Eleven better than Six, or Four better than Seven, or any incarnation better than any other. Either all should be represented or none should. If the only argument is that it makes the page look messy then that is  not a good argument, because as a wiki we are here to provide ''fact'' first, not miss out bits to make the wiki look good. --[[User:The Thirteenth Doctor|The Thirteenth Doctor]] <sup>[[User talk:The Thirteenth Doctor|talk to me]]</sup> 21:36, October 1, 2011 (UTC)
:: "Widely accepted" is really for the "main line-up", as it were, not just for characters who are "definitely the Doctor" in their portrayal. No one is denying [[The Doctor (Contents)]] counts, but they don't belongI suppose, if there were a direct regeneration into Harntell, the question could be raised of slotting Martin in that row, but so long as she remains, as it were, "free-floating" without a number or explicit precise placement, she doesn't belong there. <span style="color: #baa3d6;font-family:Comic Sans;">[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']]</span> <span style="color: #baa3d6;">[[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]]</span> 22:11, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
:Strongly disagree with this, 13D. The question here isn't about fact but exhaustiveness.  If we have only a few incarnations listed, we aren't implying that these are the ''only'' or ''preferred'' incarnationsIt's better, from a layout and design standpoint, to have clear imagery rather than absolutely complete imagery.  It's simple math:  Infobox pics are 250px. Divide that by 11 and you've got 22px per image.  Even if you do a 2-up design, you've got 41px per image, with two rows of ~6.  That's ''tiny''.  A 3-up design, on 4 rows, gives you 83px per image — but that would also mean something ''massively'' tall.  This isn't 1982, where we only had 5 Doctors. We need to consider how well we can see ''each''' picture, and how well that overall picture illustrates the concept of the Doctor.  Do 11 pictures really do a better job than 3 or 4?  I don't think they do. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}&nbsp;<span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">17:59: Thu&nbsp;06 Oct 2011&nbsp;</span>


I agree. By The Thirteenth Doctor's logic, the image on [[The Master]]'s page suggests that Eric Roberts was a better Master than Derek Jacobi, which is a statement that I think few would agree with. I still think that the best system would be if we had one from the black & white era, one from the classic color era, one from the TV Movie, and one from the new series. One, Four, Eight, and Eleven would be a good way to go. I am not being biased with my choices, as my favorite Doctors from each of these eras are Two, Three, Eight, and Ten, but One is the original Doctor, Four was the Doctor for longer than any of them, Eight is obviously the only one who had more than two lines in the TV Movie, and Eleven is the current Doctor. Either way, we should try to agree on something, because its been months since we've had a picture in the Doctor's infobox.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] <sup>[[User talk:Icecreamdif|talk to me]]</sup> 20:18, October 9, 2011 (UTC)
== Defaulting to the most recent incarnation with the tabbed infobox images ==
{{User:Bongolium500/Sandbox 7}}At almost exactly the same time as [[User:Scrooge MacDuck]] closed [[Tardis:Temporary forums/Archive/Replacing docpic]], I finalised a mock-up of a potential solution to allow us to keep the chronilogical ordering of tabs while having the [[Fourteenth Doctor|most recent incarnation]] selected by default, shown to the right (and on [[User:Bongolium500/Sandbox 7]]). Pretty much, the image listed earliest in the gallery is always the one that is selected by default. CSS can then be used to move this tab to the end of the row when the page is viewed. Therefore, the image for the most recent incarnation can be listed first and is then simply moved to the end by CSS. Currently, and temporarily, this is done by wrapping the infobox in a <tt><nowiki><div></nowiki></tt>, but a new infobox field could easily be added to allow this to be enabled on any infobox. The only issue I can think of is with mobile: CSS doesn't work there so the images will be displayed in the order they're listed, regardless of any changes made to their order with CSS. [[User:Bongolium500|<span title="aka Bongolium500">Bongo50</span>]] [[User talk:Bongolium500|<span title="talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:02, 3 February 2023 (UTC)


I absolutely, completely and WHOLE HEARTEDLY disagree with and dislike the new image.  I don't see a consensus on this page either.  Why did a few admins take it upon themselves to make a change?  I think it needs more discussion from the community on the whole. [[Special:Contributions/214.13.69.132|214.13.69.132]]<sup>[[User talk:214.13.69.132#top|talk to me]]</sup> 09:25, March 7, 2012 (UTC)
: If the mobile issue is deemed to large, I have another potential solution which would avoid it using JavaScript. However, this would cause the first tab to initially be selected before jumping to the last tab during page load which may also be undesirable. [[User:Bongolium500|<span title="aka Bongolium500">Bongo50</span>]] [[User talk:Bongolium500|<span title="talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:08, 3 February 2023 (UTC)


:No consensus was actually reached. The topic just sorta, stopped. I added the five doctor image based on the comments, but it was only to be a "filler" image until we actually decided upon one. [[User:Mini-mitch|MM]]/<small>[[User talk:Mini-mitch|Want to talk?]]</small> 10:49, March 7, 2012 (UTC)
:I'm fully in support of this. [[User:Cousin Ettolrhc|Cousin Ettolrahc]] [[User talk:Cousin Ettolrhc|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:27, 17 November 2023 (UTC)


=== More image talk ===
== I still don't understand why… ==
It's a reasonable position to hold -- that all images should be included or none.  Given the reality that including eleven in one block would result in itty bitty images, the best answer would seem to be eleven images -- so far -- and I would suggest a strict chronological order. [[User:Boblipton|Boblipton]] <sup>[[User talk:Boblipton|talk to me]]</sup> 20:31, October 9, 2011 (UTC)


Why must it be all or none? The Master's image is missing a few of his incarnations, but there's nothing wrong with that image. The article makes it pretty clear that there are eleven Doctors, so nobody is going to think that there are only four or five after looking at the infobox.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] <sup>[[User talk:Icecreamdif|talk to me]]</sup> 03:11, October 10, 2011 (UTC)
…the infobox images for each Doctor are completely different from those used on the individual pages? [[User:WaltK|WaltK]] [[User talk:WaltK|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:06, 16 November 2023 (UTC)


=== This is getting confusin; a solution would be nice. ===
We need a picture at the top, so if someone feels like jigsawing together the current ''Eleven'' faces of the Doctor, please do.


Also, we should try putting pictures back with the indiviual incarntions breif bios. However, with Doctors who wore vastly different outfits in their time, like the Fourth's radical outfit redigin in his final year compared to his other six years, let's include dual pictures. If you need another example, try the Tenth switching his brown suit with the blue one, of the Seventh's outfit change in season 26 that is unlike the one in seasons 24 and 25. Kinda getting the idea?
== Fourteenth Doctor tab pic ==
We'll definitely find better images as the specials progress, but for right now I'd like to propose we make the Fourteenth Doctor tab's pic on this page be [[:File:14 never here.png|14 never here.png]]. Just a better aspect ratio and look at the character than what we have right now. -- [[User:MattTheNerd42|MattTheNerd42]] [[User talk:MattTheNerd42|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 17:48, 29 November 2023 (UTC)


([[User:Forgetful 10th doctor fan|Forgetful 10th doctor fan]] <sup>[[User talk:Forgetful 10th doctor fan|talk to me]]</sup> 23:21, November 14, 2011 (UTC))
: I don't think this suggested image is suitable at all. The subject of an image needs to be clearly visible when it's a thumbnail and most of the image is the TARDIS exterior. [[User:Jack &#34;BtR&#34; Saxon|Jack &#34;BtR&#34; Saxon]] [[User talk:Jack &#34;BtR&#34; Saxon|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 17:53, 29 November 2023 (UTC)


Have you seen the Wikipedia image? It's not perfect, but I'd say that it is better than the current one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(Doctor_Who) - [[User:BillyWilliam3rd|BillyWilliam3rd]], 21:56, 6 May, 2012
== Article picture aspect ratios ==


: I refer you to the discussion above, that is against the use of a eleven Doctor image. Although in fairness, a decision was not reached, it was left in limbo. [[User:Mini-mitch|MM]]/<small>[[User talk:Mini-mitch|Want to talk?]]</small> 20:59, May 6, 2012 (UTC)
The aspect ratios for the pictures of Doctors 1 - 13 are the same, but 14 and 15 have different sizes. If someone knows how to make them equal to the others, I suggest they do so. [[User:Wozza123|Wozza123]] [[User talk:Wozza123|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:19, 20 January 2024 (UTC)


Sorry man I just totally put it up before I read that. - [[User:BillyWilliam3rd|BillyWilliam3rd]], 22:03, 6 May, 2012
: NGL I think we should seize this opportunity to overhaul most, if not all, of the images. They all have that annoying "crop out the forehead" crop that is not necessary now (or even ever, technically, people just misunderstood what counted as part of a person's face) and the overall resolution of a lot of these images are also low. {{User:Epsilon the Eternal/signature}} 21:12, 20 January 2024 (UTC)


== Casting ==
== Matching individual article pages ==


Do we need to add to add those ''considered'' for the role, rather than just the ones that actually got the role in the "Casting" section? Seems a bit messy otherwise. -- [[User:Tybort|Tybort]] ([[User talk:Tybort|talk page]]) 11:42, April 2, 2012 (UTC)
:: Shouldn't the images be the same as on the individual incarnation pages? {{User:Aquanafrahudy/Sig}} 22:14, 20 January 2024 (UTC)


==Still a Renegade?==
::: I think Aquanafrahudy has a good point. Would be nice to update them all to match their respective pages. [[User:FractalDoctor|FractalDoctor]] [[User talk:FractalDoctor|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 01:03, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
By the end of the [[Last Great Time War]], the Doctor was the [[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]. With the society that branded him a renegade gone, is he STILL one? ([[Special:Contributions/173.167.179.77|173.167.179.77]]<sup>[[User talk:173.167.179.77#top|talk to me]]</sup> 16:37, May 18, 2012 (UTC))


== Reopening the image discussion ==
:::: As I did on the other version of the Wiki, I've gone ahead and updated the infobox gallery so that each Docpic matches their respective Docpic on their page. When we make a decision on 14 and 15's final images, we can then update this one to match. Surely this just makes sense. We could maybe crop them all in due course so they're all the same aspect ratio too? — [[User:FractalDoctor|Fractal Doctor]] [[User talk:FractalDoctor|<span title="Talk">•</span>]] 21:27, 26 February 2024 (UTC)


[[#Objection of the image use|As Mini-mitch pointed out]], the discussion on the image sort of just stopped rather than anyone coming to any agreement.
::::: This has now been undone, so I guess I'll instead second Aquanafrahudy's suggestion above. Personally, I'm not even sure ''why'' the images here would be different to the ones on each individual page. At the very least, these images really could do with updated versions because most are very poor quality and haven't been updated with higher quality ones since 2014. I notice not only have myself and Aquanafrahudy mentioned it, but WaltK also raised the question back in November 2023 too. — [[User:FractalDoctor|Fractal Doctor]] [[User talk:FractalDoctor|<span title="Talk">•</span>]] 18:42, 2 March 2024 (UTC)


If I put in my two cents, wouldn't putting the Tenth Doctor be more representative of the "2005-2010" era if we're dividing the five images loosely by era? Also, even if we keep Eccleston, could someone update the collage to make the various Doctors (in particular Smith and Baker) more tightly focused? -- [[User:Tybort|Tybort]] ([[User talk:Tybort|talk page]])
:::::: Just to add: on the page for [[The Master]], each image used in the infobox correlates / is the same as the one used on each individual incarnation's respective page. Not sure why the Doctor is different then in this respect. — [[User:FractalDoctor|Fractal Doctor]] [[User talk:FractalDoctor|<span title="Talk">•</span>]] 19:24, 2 March 2024 (UTC)


: Yes, let's revisit (or finish) this. I didn't participate in this discussion last fall, because I was still a newbie, but I did follow it. I just reread the comments above, and they are full of "We should include this Doctor because..." If we choose to only include ''some'' Doctors, we will always have this objection. There can be made a valid argument for each Doctor's significance. [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] <sup>[[User talk:Shambala108|talk to me]]</sup> 14:34, July 12, 2012 (UTC)
Bringing this back because I feel it's a valid discussion to have. Not sure why the images on this page wouldn't mirror those on each respective Doctor's page... especially since several are very low-quality, 6 is a promo photo (I think), 8 is a different aspect ratio, War is weirdly framed/cropped, some images are different sizes, 12 is just outright unflattering, 14 is quite dark, etc. <font face="Maven Pro" color="#000000">— [[User:Fractal|Fractal]] [[User talk:Fractal|<span title="Talk">•</span>]]</font> 20:35, 10 September 2024 (UTC)


:Well, basically, the ones in the image are the most important. Baker is the most famous and iconic Doctor, so he has to be there. Smith is the present Doctor, so he does too. Hartnell, of coarse, was the first, so he needs to stay. Ecclestone and McGann also were the first in their own eras, so they need to stay as well. [[User:OttselSpy25|OS25]] ([[User Talk:OttselSpy25|talk to me, baby.]]) 22:14, July 12, 2012 (UTC)
: I agree but I think [[User:SOTO]] is opposed. It would be good to hear why. [[User:Bongolium500|<span title="aka Bongolium500">Bongo50</span>]] [[User talk:Bongolium500|☎]] 20:54, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
 
== Changing main actor to reflect current actor. ==
 
 
I personally feel that the Main Actor listed in this article should reflect the current portrayal of the Doctor. The others are all fine actors and of course Mr. Hartnell is the ''originating'' actor but in my opinion the ''main'' actor is the person currently holding the role while the others are...well just that, other actors. Would there be opposition to changing the "Main actor" in the infobox to Matt Smith? -- [[User:GuitarMan666|GuitarMan666]] [[User talk:GuitarMan666|<span title="Talk to me"></span>]] 04:38, August 16, 2012 (UTC)
:Actually, the variable {{{main actor}}} is usually interpreted as "the actor who played the role the most number of times".  For this reason the {{{main actor}}} for [[Davros]] is [[Terry Molloy]], not [[Michael Wisher]] or [[Julian Bleech]].  Thus the main portrayer of the Docor is — by a country mile — [[Tom Baker]]. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}&nbsp;<span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">04:56: Thu&nbsp;16 Aug 2012&nbsp;</span>
::"Usually interpreted" is neither "correctly interpreted" nor "always interpreted." Given the central nature of the character. This should be an exception to that rule since any other appearances of the Doctor which co-incide with his present incarnation would be the ancillary character relegating the main (or lead) role to the current actor. It is also the actor that the BBC wants to associate with the character in its own promotional material and could lead to confusion in new people finding this site as to who is currently potraying the Doctor. Therefore it stands out that either a) A new variable needs to be defined for "Current actor" or b) Main actor should be reinterpreted in this case. -- [[User:GuitarMan666|GuitarMan666]] [[User talk:GuitarMan666|<span title="Talk to me"></span>]] 05:10, August 16, 2012 (UTC)

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Infobox Image Update[[edit source]]

Hello. Is there any possibility of updating the images used for both the Twelfth Doctor and the Thirteenth Doctor's for ones that are more appropriate? I guess I get the "eyebrows" thing so that image isn't *too* bad I suppose (still think better could be done), but surely the Thirteenth Doctor deserves an image of herself in her actual clothing rather than the image currently in use which is from her opening story The Woman Who Fell to Earth and displays her still wearing the ragged and battered remains of her previous incarnation's clothing? I hope you'll take these suggestions under advisement. Thank you for reading. --Alan-WK 02:19, January 13, 2020 (UTC)

The Timeless Child[[edit source]]

So, obviously there will have to be some changes. For starters, the Jo Martin Doctor added to More Ambiguous section of the Doctor's incarnations. Other than that, how big a rewrite are we looking at and how much should be kept to other pages likeTimeless Child?--TheOneTrueJack 21:00, March 1, 2020 (UTC)

Well, as far as I can put it together, it's the 8 Timeless Child regenerations, at least 5 more, the 8 Morbius regenerations, Ruth, 4 more, Hartnell - Matt, Capaldi - Present. We know that the Timeless Child regenerations and the Morbius ones can't be the same cycle as the Doctor was kidified after each 13, so it seems. So Jodie is not, at least the 27th Doctor now.--HarryPotterRules1 21:16, March 1, 2020 (UTC)
If we take it that The Timeless Child was at the start of Time Lord society and for whatever reason was never cryogenically frozen or forced into the future. Then it stands to reason that he/she is as old as Time Lord society. In The Ultimate Foe who we used to call The Sixth Doctor says that they've been around for 10 Million years. Now if we take The Eleventh Doctors life of 1100 years as a measure for a standard regenerations life span as this was the longest and seemed to die of natural causes. Then at MINIMUM The Doctor has had 9,091 lives which are not including any that were cut short by falling off any cliffs or mother figures experimenting on them. --Thebobbrom 23:53, March 2, 2020 (UTC)
It seems like the Thirteen lives rule was put in place much later on. So that wouldn't apply to the Timeless Child incarnations --TheOneTrueJack 21:24, March 1, 2020 (UTC)
Except we can't call any of those before Hartnell any variant of the [number] Doctor. Cause if we do that we'll have to re-route, in no exaggeration, the "ENTIRE" Wikia from scratch. --DCLM 21:29, March 1, 2020 (UTC)
Well obviously we can't do that. The Morbius Doctors can be referred to as such, and the Timeless Child incarnations can be included in the Timeless Child page. But should they both (as two sperate groups) be put in the More Ambiguous section of the Doctor's incarnations? And how much should the main Doctor page talk about them? The preceding unsigned comment was added by TheOneTrueJack (talk • contribs) .

Well, that's the thing. I don't believe the Doctor is bound to the 13 lives. The Timelords just sort of "kid-i-fied" the Doctor again when he reached the end of his 13 "lives"; that's what the whole Brendan stuff was. The Doctor believed he was bound to the 13 "lives" because he didn't remember anything before hand. But, in actuality, he wasn't bound to it at all. So it could literally be the 8 on the table plus 5 more - then kid-i-fied and made to forget - then the 8 morbius, Ruth and 4 more - then Kid-i-fied and made to forget - then Hartnell onwards and the Timelords only gave the "new" cycle to the Doctor to hide their lie.--HarryPotterRules1 21:46, March 1, 2020 (UTC)

That would make sense if the Time Lords didn't have to restore the Doctor's regeneration ability in The Time of the Doctor. Though if they restored the Doctor's original ability, it would explain the ambiguity of how many regenerations the Doctor has now.--WarGrowlmon18 21:55, March 1, 2020 (UTC)
The Brendan stuff was a cover-story to hide the truth about the Time Lords' beginning. Brendan, his parents, the Sergeant etc. never existed. They were images layered on top of the real truth. --DCLM 22:00, March 1, 2020 (UTC)
The Timeless Child could regenerate indefinitely. But THE DOCTOR was limited to 13 lives. That's not really a matter of perspective. It was seen that the Doctor could only regenerate 12 times. This means that the limitation of 12 regenerations was also bestowed on the Doctor, or maybe perhaps after they "stopped" being the Timeless Child. --DCLM 22:02, March 1, 2020 (UTC)
That's my point. Did they restore it? I believe the Doctor was bound to the 13 body limits because he believed he was. He actually wasn't - he just thought he was because he believed he was a Timelord, when he isn't - he's something different. The Timelords gave him a "new" cycle to hide the truth of what he was - constantly and continually able to regenerate.--HarryPotterRules1 22:04, March 1, 2020 (UTC)
The Doctor IS a Time Lord. You can't get around that. However as the Seventh Doctor said "I'm far more than just another Time Lord". And he WAS limited down. That's what they did, as other media stories have explained was done at some point to the Time Lord race. --DCLM 22:09, March 1, 2020 (UTC)
No, wrong. We know now that the Doctor is not a Timelord. The Doctor is an entirely different species who was studied by the original Timelord/Shebogan to create regeneration. The Doctor only believed she/he was a Timelord. --HarryPotterRules1 22:18, March 1, 2020 (UTC)
I'm up with Harry. The Doctor is not a Timelord anymore, but the "ancestor" species of the Time Lords: a Timeless Child (not official name but just to make it clear). --Con Carne (Di la verdad, o cobras...) 10:09, March 2, 2020 (UTC)
No. The Doctor was MADE into a Time Lord. Also whoever changed the page, please don't just change it without a conclusion to this. Con Carne, don't just make a change this major. It needs proper discussion. You and Harry agreeing, doesn't alone make it so. We need proper consultation that admins also join in on before we can just decide something this major. --DCLM 10:19, March 2, 2020 (UTC)

This is a discussion for the Board of Discussions. I'll make a thread. --DCLM 10:21, March 2, 2020 (UTC)

Just one thing, it wasn't me, I haven't changed anything in the article. :( --Con Carne (Di la verdad, o cobras...) 11:49, March 2, 2020 (UTC)
I know, that was my bad. I didn't looks properly. Sorry about that. I DID change my statement to say "whoever changed the page". Sorry for the mistunderstanding. --DCLM 11:53, March 2, 2020 (UTC)

How did you make the docpic slideshow?[[edit source]]

How did you make the slideshow feature/template entitled "docpic" inside the infobox? I'd like to achieve something similar for a wiki I'm working on. JustWilhelm 10:10, July 27, 2020 (UTC)

"The Doctor's Species"[[edit source]]

I agree that we should keep the "the doctor's species" under their species but why isn't there also "Time Lord" as well. Although the Doctor started life as whatever species they were when Tecteun found them, since Hartnell -> Whittaker, they have been bound to the thirteen incarnation cycles with two hearts and should unequivocably be called a time lord since being changed into one by the time lords using the chameleon arch (as hinted at by those Brendan scenes). The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cptjackhotness (talk • contribs) .

Hi! If The Doctor's species were the page about the species of the Timeless Child, you would be correct, but it's not. That's "Timeless Child's species". The page The Doctor's species is an overview detailing all the conflicting accounts of whether the Doctor is a Time Lord, a human, half-human, a member of the Timeless Child's species, etc.
Also, it's not evident that the Brendan scene corresponds to a chameleon arch specifically. It could just as easily have just been a deaging/mindwiping process. According to The Timeless Children the Shobogans became the Time Lords when Tecteun spliced DNA of the Timeless Child into them, so it's a perfectly valid interpretation that the Timeless Child was the original two-hearted binary-vascular-systemed species, and it's the Shobogans who were altered to resemble the Doctor, not the other way around. Scrooge MacDuck 13:26, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Usage of "Dr. Who"[[edit source]]

Okay, seeing as my edits on TV Comic stories have been questioned, I shall explain why I am using the name "Dr. Who" and how policy backs me up on this.

As a bit of context, the names "First Doctor" and "Second Doctor" were never used in the characters' original televised runs. The only times they are used are in stories such as PROSE: The Eight Doctors and other works by Terrance Dicks. (see more about Dicks' naming conventions over at Forum:Is using "First Doctor", "Second Doctor" etc in-universe?, however, me linking this does not mean I agree with the conclusion.)
These names have been retroactively applied to these characters, despite evidence from the television stories directly contradicting this, perhaps most notably in TV: The Power of the Daleks when the "Patrick Troughton" Doctor mentioned that the "regeneration" he undertook was a restorative feature of his TARDIS and that he had used it before, meaing that Troughton was not playing the "Second Doctor". (This also means there have been "Pre-Hartnell Doctors" from pretty early on folks!). A precedent notably seen over on Talk:Tzim-Sha#Rename and the various talk pages of Amy Pond, is that the name that the characters actually use to refer to themselves as takes precendent. So, in the case of the Doctor, this policy applies. We, as the rule abiding users, should use the name, the title that the Doctor chose for himself, which is in most stories, "the Doctor". In the case of TV Comic, "the Doctor" is short for "Dr. Who", so this indicates to me that "the Doctor" should be the name that is most widely used, and "Dr. Who" for his name in place of the regular usage of "[insert number here] Doctor", in sources that actually state that "Dr. Who" is the Doctor's full name of course. This also would be mean that "[insert number here] Doctor" would be acceptable if substantiated by the respective source.

Now, the argument has been made that "Dr. Who" is not as clear cut as "the [insert number here] Doctor", however, the aforementioned precedent I cited comes into play here. (Additionally, adjectives can be used to adequately describe which "Dr. Who" the source is talking about.) Due to the ruling by admin @Scrooge MacDuck...

Where you are correct is that with all the conflicting accounts of what this fellow calls himself, we should probably strive to use the names given by each individual sources in individually-sourced statement. Information from COMIC: 4-Dimensional Vistas does belong on this page, sorry. But a paragraph sourced to that story should refer to him as "the Time Meddler", not "the Monk". And so on.@Scrooge MacDuck

...as stated at Talk:The Monk/Archive 1#Article made from whole cloth, accompanied by the polcies given by Tardis:Valid sources, we should use the name of the character as given within the story, regardless of whether or not another story uses a different name. The Doctor refers to himself as "Dr. Who"? That is the name we use. An example of this, as aforementioned admin @Scrooge MacDuck gave at User talk:Danochy, is COMIC: 4-Dimensional Vistas, which uses the name "The Time-Meddler" to refer to the Monk as "The Time-Meddler" was the name given in the source; this name is perfectly acceptable for use so long as it is cited by its respective story, despite "the Monk" being a more well-known name. There is an exception to this, which is that the character's best known name should be used in infoboxes, for clarity. I, admittedly, did not know this, however as soon as it was brought up, I immediately backtracked and switched "Dr. Who" for "First Doctor" becuase I wanted to follow the policies exactly

Furthermore, I am also backed up by Tardis:Neutral point of view, which states quite clearly at the top of the page...

Media doesn't matter. One of the most important aspects of this wiki is that all media have equal weight here. Television is not the most important source of information on this wiki. That which is said in a short story in the 1967 Doctor Who Annual, or a Faction Paradox audio drama, is just as valid as the latest episode of BBC Wales Doctor Who.T:NPOV

...therefore, the names retroactively applied to the Hartnell and Troughton Doctors do not supersede "Dr. Who".

Despite this, I am not advocating for the name "Dr. Who" to be intergrated into the pages of sources that do not use it. Even so, this change being implemented into the pages of television and other notable sources will obviously require a Forum thread, owing to the controversial nature of this proposed name change. Additionally, a name change towards certain incarnations of the Doctor may be beneficial, seeing as certain major plot threads state that William Hartnell's Doctor was not the first. Another note against the current naming of the Doctors is that their names are barely even substantiated by any valid sources, so perhaps a new naming style like with the Monk may actually be the best course of action. The Doctor (An Unearthly Child), The Doctor (Planet of the Spiders), etc will likely be better for compliance with T:NPOV. I am rambling though, and this is really its own separate discussion that of course should be brought to the Forums when @CzechOut works out the problems, so I'll stop talking about this and focus on this little facet of the problem that can be resolved without much effort or discussion.

I will mention however, as my actions are well within policy, and I only changing the names in stories published by TV Comic, which again, unambiguously uses the name "Dr. Who". I suspect that my actions will continue to be correct despite certain objections held by editors, but do remember, Tardis:You are bound by current policy and Tardis:Canon policy apply, in case if anybody is thinking that them simply objecting to this on a talk page will be enough to overturn policy or that if TV Comic is non-canonical.

14:51, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

I largely agree with the direction of these edits, but don't forget about T:DOCTORS. On the page for a TV Comic story, I agree that we should use the name for the Doctor used in that story, with the exact incarnation number specified in the lede or the notes section; but on other pages, it's important for comprehensability's sake that each Doctor be identified by incarnation, T:NPOV be damned. I'm partial to "the first Dr. Who", myself. – n8 () 20:31, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
Yep, I'm in 100% agreement with N8 here. Specify "First Doctor" or "First Dr. Who" where necessary for the sake of clarity, specify "Dr. Who" or "The Doctor" (as appropriate to the text) following the initial numerical identifier.
Also, is the quote where 2 mentions having regenerated before really in the TV serial? I'm certain it originated in the 1993 novelisation. I.e. it's a reference to The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius). In fact, Epsilon, your argument against numbering falls apart when you consider The Brain of Morbius, as the same logic would suggest we can't even refer to Tom Baker's Doctor from that era as the Fourth Doctor! Danochy 20:49, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
That bit in the novelization was based on a deleted scene from the original script. But even then, for a long time it was thought that Ian coined the title "the Doctor" and passed it along to other companions via word-of-mouth. (For instance, the First Doctor on TV never really referred to himself as "the Doctor".) So even if there were any number of incarnations before Hartnell, he still would have been the "First Doctor". – n8 () 20:58, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
No, no, I am pretty sure it was mentioned in the television serial. And actually, the Fourth Doctor shouldn't be used on Baker's Doctor, as up until The Deadly Assassin, he wasn't the Fourth Doctor, especially as The Brain of Morbius literally showed that he had multiple incarnations before Hartnell. So "Fourth Doctor" is really not a good name. As for the "Dr. Who" bit, if an incarnation is to be used, it should be styled as "first Dr. Who", in accordance with Tardis:Doctors, though I would still prefer ditching the numbering system in accounts where it is blatantly untrue. As for what the Doctor calls himself, there is a f deal of evidence to show that he refers to himself as "the Doctor" and "Dr. Who". 21:16, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
It's nice that you're "pretty sure" it was mentioned, but I am absolutely certain that it wasn't.
I've said this to you before: the single purpose of every wiki is to be legible and usable, and all the other rules are in service of that goal. So if a rule makes a wiki less legible or usable, it bends. (Check out Interference - Book Two if you want to see this in action.) What would it look like if we got rid of T:DOCTORS and the numbering system? What did it look like on The Power of the Daleks after your edits to it? Every user would have to hover over every instance of "the Doctor" or "Dr. Who" to see what dab term was pipe switched away. And that would be neither legible nor usable.
Whether "Fourth Doctor" is a good name has nothing to do with what he called himself or how it fits with T:NPOV, and it has everything to do with the fact that "Fourth Doctor" is his universally recognized name. If T:DOCTORS breaks T:NPOV, T:DOCTORS wins every single time. You're doing nothing but hurting your case and wasting your time by complaining about numbering rather than focusing on more limited compromises that might be actually achievable. – n8 () 12:31, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
I am once again in agreement with Nate. Changing the name to "Dr. Who" in the comic plot summaries is all well and good, but changing it on actors pages is pretty pedantic (and the redirect just plain pointless). Yes in the 60s, William Hartnell was not known as the "First Doctor", but this wiki is not being read in the 60s, it is being read in the 21st century and the people of the 21st century know him as the First Doctor (and have done for decades). And changing all accounts of "the x Doctor" to "Dr Who" or "the Doctor" (such as The Power of the Daleks edit) is massively confusing and unhelpful.
P.S. Apologies, Epsilon for not replying to your message on my talk page. When I saw that you had created this thread, I figured this would be a more appropriate place to put my thoughts. LauraBatham 12:59, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
I’m no expert on wiki policy, but I would agree that there’s a need for the wiki to be easily legible and usable by readers. Referring to the Doctor as Dr Who specifically in the context of TV Comic stories seems reasonable, but renaming all the Doctors as variants of The Doctor (An Unearthly Child) would be potentially difficult for readers to navigate and put this wiki out of touch with 99% of discussion around Doctor Who where the Doctors are referred to by those familiar numbers. I don’t think the recent developments changes this at all, as a previous revelation also altered the numbering of the Doctors’ incarnations but the norm of referring to Eccleston’s Doctor as the Ninth Doctor, Tennant’s as Tenth, Smith’s as Eleventh etc has remained the same. SherlockTheII 16:54, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Yeah, I'm sorry, Epsilon, but dabbed page names for First Doctor onwards are simply never going to happen. And infoboxes should use a name that is specific to the page we are linking. If we had some other in-universe moniker specific to the Troughton Doctor, then perhaps it would be worth weighing that option… but we cannot start putting just "Dr Who", or indeed "The Doctor", in the |doctor= field of infoboxes. This helps no one whatsoever.
Using "Dr. Who", and refraining from using "First" or "Second", makes sense for plot summaries, as well as for the writing of paragraphs cited to these stories. Yes, plot description of, say, The Highlanders should not mention "the Second Doctor", just "the Doctor" or "Dr Who". But that doesn't mean that the legibility essentially real-world constructs such as infoboxes (whether it be the story's infobox or the actors') should be compromised — nor that it is false to refer to the man in The Highlanders as the Second Doctor in an in-universe sense. He is in fact "the Second Doctor" — albeit "according to some accounts". Thus, while we must not give the impression that the story uses this name, "the Second Doctor lived through these events" is a valid statement within the wider the DWU.
The thing about T:NPOV is that it mostly applies to what statements we make about the DWU, not how pages are named. Because pages cannot truly have several names at once, we necessarily have to "prioritise" one version over another when a character has several valid names. T:NPOV still has its place in terms of making sure that, for example, it is not "TV by default" that wins this assessment, rather than the name that actually makes the most sense and best reflects DWU sources in aggregate. But it is not inherently a T:NPOV breach to say Troughton was the Second Doctor just because some stories number the Doctors differently. Scrooge MacDuck 17:51, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
I am endorsing what Scrooge MacDuck, LauraBatham and NateBumber have said, above. Standardisation is necessary on a wiki (and universe) of this size, especially where characters as central as the Doctor are concerned.
Also of note, as to why T:DOCTORS trumps any T:NPOV arguments: even with the last decade of Doctor Who on television firmly renumbering the Doctor's incarnations, in one way or another, "Twelfth Doctor" is a title, not always an accurate description.
This is where capitalising Twelfth, by convention, happens to also give the right idea: he is not necessarily the Doctor's twelfth incarnation, but he is, by most sources and common understanding, the "Twelfth Doctor". We decided in 2013 to stick with this and not confuse things, and we are not going back on that. The wiki would unfortunately be quite illegible.
× SOTO (//) 08:35, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Fugitive Doctor Placement (Infobox)[[edit source]]

After Once, Upon Time, should the Fugitve Doctor be moved from "Others/Unplaced Incarnations" to "Widley Accpeted"? That story does confirm her to be a pre-Hartnell incarnation that worked for The Division. Or should we wait until this era is done, on the off chance they show an actual regeneration/transition. Perhpas even from her to the The First Doctor, somehow.

TheOneTrueJack 21:59, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

"Widely accepted" is really for the "main line-up", as it were, not just for characters who are "definitely the Doctor" in their portrayal. No one is denying The Doctor (Contents) counts, but they don't belong. I suppose, if there were a direct regeneration into Harntell, the question could be raised of slotting Martin in that row, but so long as she remains, as it were, "free-floating" without a number or explicit precise placement, she doesn't belong there. Scrooge MacDuck 22:11, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Defaulting to the most recent incarnation with the tabbed infobox images[[edit source]]

At almost exactly the same time as User:Scrooge MacDuck closed Tardis:Temporary forums/Archive/Replacing docpic, I finalised a mock-up of a potential solution to allow us to keep the chronilogical ordering of tabs while having the most recent incarnation selected by default, shown to the right (and on User:Bongolium500/Sandbox 7). Pretty much, the image listed earliest in the gallery is always the one that is selected by default. CSS can then be used to move this tab to the end of the row when the page is viewed. Therefore, the image for the most recent incarnation can be listed first and is then simply moved to the end by CSS. Currently, and temporarily, this is done by wrapping the infobox in a <div>, but a new infobox field could easily be added to allow this to be enabled on any infobox. The only issue I can think of is with mobile: CSS doesn't work there so the images will be displayed in the order they're listed, regardless of any changes made to their order with CSS. Bongo50 22:02, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

If the mobile issue is deemed to large, I have another potential solution which would avoid it using JavaScript. However, this would cause the first tab to initially be selected before jumping to the last tab during page load which may also be undesirable. Bongo50 22:08, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
I'm fully in support of this. Cousin Ettolrahc 22:27, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

I still don't understand why…[[edit source]]

…the infobox images for each Doctor are completely different from those used on the individual pages? WaltK 20:06, 16 November 2023 (UTC)


Fourteenth Doctor tab pic[[edit source]]

We'll definitely find better images as the specials progress, but for right now I'd like to propose we make the Fourteenth Doctor tab's pic on this page be 14 never here.png. Just a better aspect ratio and look at the character than what we have right now. -- MattTheNerd42 17:48, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

I don't think this suggested image is suitable at all. The subject of an image needs to be clearly visible when it's a thumbnail and most of the image is the TARDIS exterior. Jack "BtR" Saxon 17:53, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Article picture aspect ratios[[edit source]]

The aspect ratios for the pictures of Doctors 1 - 13 are the same, but 14 and 15 have different sizes. If someone knows how to make them equal to the others, I suggest they do so. Wozza123 18:19, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

NGL I think we should seize this opportunity to overhaul most, if not all, of the images. They all have that annoying "crop out the forehead" crop that is not necessary now (or even ever, technically, people just misunderstood what counted as part of a person's face) and the overall resolution of a lot of these images are also low. 21:12, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Matching individual article pages[[edit source]]

Shouldn't the images be the same as on the individual incarnation pages? Aquanafrahudy 📢 🖊️ 22:14, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
I think Aquanafrahudy has a good point. Would be nice to update them all to match their respective pages. FractalDoctor 01:03, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
As I did on the other version of the Wiki, I've gone ahead and updated the infobox gallery so that each Docpic matches their respective Docpic on their page. When we make a decision on 14 and 15's final images, we can then update this one to match. Surely this just makes sense. We could maybe crop them all in due course so they're all the same aspect ratio too? — Fractal Doctor 21:27, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
This has now been undone, so I guess I'll instead second Aquanafrahudy's suggestion above. Personally, I'm not even sure why the images here would be different to the ones on each individual page. At the very least, these images really could do with updated versions because most are very poor quality and haven't been updated with higher quality ones since 2014. I notice not only have myself and Aquanafrahudy mentioned it, but WaltK also raised the question back in November 2023 too. — Fractal Doctor 18:42, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
Just to add: on the page for The Master, each image used in the infobox correlates / is the same as the one used on each individual incarnation's respective page. Not sure why the Doctor is different then in this respect. — Fractal Doctor 19:24, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Bringing this back because I feel it's a valid discussion to have. Not sure why the images on this page wouldn't mirror those on each respective Doctor's page... especially since several are very low-quality, 6 is a promo photo (I think), 8 is a different aspect ratio, War is weirdly framed/cropped, some images are different sizes, 12 is just outright unflattering, 14 is quite dark, etc. Fractal 20:35, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

I agree but I think User:SOTO is opposed. It would be good to hear why. Bongo50 20:54, 10 September 2024 (UTC)