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We need to resist the fannish urge to number things that actually have no number in any valid source. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 14:49: Sun 14 Apr 2013</span> | We need to resist the fannish urge to number things that actually have no number in any valid source. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 14:49: Sun 14 Apr 2013</span> | ||
:Additionally, the use of numbers has made the article internally incomprehensible, since Big Finish recently retroactively gave the Eighth Doctor a new sonic. This means that what was once the "Mark VI" is now the "Mark VII", and so on. There's absolutely no narrative reason why Big Finish ''couldn't'' give Five, Six or Seven a temporary sonic in future. Or why they might not give Eight another ''new'' sonic at some point. So if there is no source for the numbering of these sonics, the article needs to be wholly rewritten so as to use terms that are absolute, rather than numbers which are relative. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 15:49: Sun 14 Apr 2013</span> | :Additionally, the use of numbers has made the article internally incomprehensible, since Big Finish recently retroactively gave the Eighth Doctor a new sonic. This means that what was once the "Mark VI" is now the "Mark VII", and so on. There's absolutely no narrative reason why Big Finish ''couldn't'' give Five, Six or Seven a temporary sonic in future. Or why they might not give Eight another ''new'' sonic at some point. So if there is no source for the numbering of these sonics, the article needs to be wholly rewritten so as to use terms that are absolute, rather than numbers which are relative. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 15:49: Sun 14 Apr 2013</span> | ||
== Non-canon toys == | |||
There are a lot of new sonic screwdriver toys hitting the market lately, including some that aren't in the show (the "Build Your Own" and "Trans-temporal" sets, in particular). Should these be added in, and if so, how? --[[User:King Starscream|King Starscream]] [[User talk:King Starscream|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 17:40, May 29, 2013 (UTC) | |||
Revision as of 17:40, 29 May 2013
Marks
I'm starting to see our section headers being used as "official" names for the various iterations. Other articles are now using terms like "the Mark IV sonic", as if that means something.
Is there any source for this mark business? If not, it needs to be stripped from the article, replaced by more defensible, plain English terms like, "the Second Doctor's screwdriver", "the screwdriver that the Tenth Doctor used" and the like.
We need to resist the fannish urge to number things that actually have no number in any valid source.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 14:49: Sun 14 Apr 2013
- Additionally, the use of numbers has made the article internally incomprehensible, since Big Finish recently retroactively gave the Eighth Doctor a new sonic. This means that what was once the "Mark VI" is now the "Mark VII", and so on. There's absolutely no narrative reason why Big Finish couldn't give Five, Six or Seven a temporary sonic in future. Or why they might not give Eight another new sonic at some point. So if there is no source for the numbering of these sonics, the article needs to be wholly rewritten so as to use terms that are absolute, rather than numbers which are relative.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 15:49: Sun 14 Apr 2013
Non-canon toys
There are a lot of new sonic screwdriver toys hitting the market lately, including some that aren't in the show (the "Build Your Own" and "Trans-temporal" sets, in particular). Should these be added in, and if so, how? --King Starscream ☎ 17:40, May 29, 2013 (UTC)
