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Bunch of questions concerning and related to my coverage of the Doctor Whoah! strips:

One thing I’m finding particularly challenging is to determine when characters should be identified as their in-universe selves or as the actors playing them. Some times it’s easy; this story clearly features the Tenth Doctor and Rose as opposed to David Tennant and Billie Piper, while this one is obviously focusing on Tom Baker and his fellow Doctors rather than the Doctors themselves.

But then there are situations like this strip, where all characters seem to appear in costume, in a so-called "in-narrative" moment, except Astrid Peth is explicitly referred to as Kylie Minogue, in which case who is the man in the suit meant to be in this scenario, the Doctor or David Tennant? In strips like this one that appears to depict an on-set moment, is that Rose Tyler and Harriet Jones, or Billie Piper and Penelope Wilton?

My next query: while looking up the Doctor Who? pages to use as a template, I found that pages had been created for the strips’ fictional versions of the real actors that appeared within (Peter Davison (Untitled 6), Colin Baker (Doctor Who?), for two examples). For one thing, I thought this would have gone against the supposed rule that real actors involved in Doctor Who that also had in-universe references should only get “real-world” pages with their in-universe reference being included in a section somewhere (on a related note; how are there pages for the version of Matt Smith that appeared in The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who, and the TV Action version of Tom Baker? Doesn’t that directly go against those rules?

Assuming giving those versions of the characters there own pages was the right thing to do, does that mean pages like "Tom Baker (Doctor Whoah!)" should also be made? And does that also go for real-world characters that are only mentioned (“Russell T Davies (Doctor Whoah!)”) eligible for pages too?

Oh oh oh, AND, if a character that shows up in a Whoah! strip that previously showed up in a strictly-invalid capacity already, does the information concerning their Whoah! appearance go on their existing page, or does a separate page need to be created for that particular version of the character? As yet another example, the page for Grant Mitchell currently covers his appearance in Dimensions in Time, and his Doctor Whoah! appearances. Was this the correct thing to do?

Apologies for the long winded post. This is stuff that I wanted to run by people on the Discord server, but none of the mods have gotten around to allowing me access to the #wiki channel, so here I am.