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== Realities ==
== Realities ==
When it comes to continuity, tone, and worldview, the ''Doctor Who'' universe's many spin-offs and sub-series have usually been more concerned with themselves than each other. For instance, within a series such as ''[[The Monthly Adventures]]'', one can expect to find more references to previous audios and the Classic show than the [[Virgin Decalogs]] or [[Doctor Who annual]]s. As a result, each series presents a relatively self-contained chunk of [[the Doctor's reality]]. Sometimes these pieces have ebbed and flowed into each other through shared characters or references; other times, they have gone out of their way to paint each other as separate timelines or universes.
<!-- Every ''Doctor Who'' story gives us a new picture of the Doctor's reality. Therefore, we could create [[The Doctor's reality (Story Name)]] for every story on the wiki which features the Doctor. But in most cases, there's no reason to doubt that story depicts the same reality as its predecessor, whether that's the previous [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel, [[The Monthly Adventures (audio series)|Monthly Adventures]] audio, or television episode. There are only a few notable exceptions preventing us from merging everything into a single [[The Doctor's reality]]. For instance, sometimes a story's predecessor simply isn't clear: is the first Virgin ''New Adventure'' novel, ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)|Timewyrm: Genesys]]'', best understood as a continuation of the prior TV episode, ''[[Survival (TV story)|]]'', or the prior novel(isation), ''[[The Curse of Fenric (novelisation)|]]''? The result would be a number of chunks for each series. or, in some cases, the series name that describes them: for instance, [[The Doctor's reality (The Eight Doctors)]] and [[Virgin reality]].


While acknowleding that most sources suggest these chunks all to be the same reality, covering them separately helps to highlight the ways in which they stand on their own. [[User:TheChampionOfTime|TheChampionOfTime]] has paved the way for this with the creation of pages like [[Virgin reality]].<ref>To emphasize the fact that these are ''not'' necessarily separate realities, perhaps it would be better to use subpages such as [[The Doctor's reality/Virgin reality]] etc.</ref> To help myself keep it all straight, this table matches the "reality" pages, both created and relinked, with the approximate stories and series they cover.
-->When it comes to continuity, tone, and worldview, the ''Doctor Who'' universe's many spin-offs and sub-series have usually been more concerned with themselves than each other. For instance, within a series such as ''[[The Monthly Adventures]]'', one can expect to find more references to previous audios and the Classic show than the [[Virgin Decalogs]] or [[Doctor Who annual]]s. As a result, each series presents a relatively self-contained chunk of [[the Doctor's reality]]. Sometimes these pieces have ebbed and flowed into each other through shared characters or references; other times, they have gone out of their way to paint each other as separate timelines or universes.
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! colspan=2|Reality || Series
While acknowleding that most sources suggest these chunks all to be the same reality, covering them separately helps to highlight the ways in which they stand on their own. [[User:TheChampionOfTime|TheChampionOfTime]] and [[User:MrThermomanPreacher|MrThermomanPreacher]] have paved the way for this with the creation of pages like [[Virgin reality]] and [[The Doctor's reality (An Unearthly Child)]]. I've contributed to MrThermomanPreacher's collaborative chart of these "reality" pages, both created and relinked, along with the approximate stories and series they cover.
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{{main|User:MrThermomanPreacher/Sandbox/Disputed realities}}
|colspan=2|[[The Doctor's reality (An Unearthly Child)]]
|Classic ''[[Doctor Who]]''
|-
|colspan=2|[[The Doctor's reality (Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks)]]
|''[[Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks]]''
|-
|colspan=2|[[The Doctor's reality (The Not-So-Sinister Sponge)]]
|[[Doctor Who annual]]s<br />"Special Occasions" from ''[[Short Trips and Side Steps]]''
|-
|colspan=2|[[2-D universe]]
|''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comics
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Virgin reality]]
|colspan=2|[[Virgin Books|Virgin]] ''[[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]]'', ''[[Virgin Missing Adventures|Missing Adventures]]'', and ''[[Virgin Decalogs|Decalogs]]''
|-
|[[Braxiatel Collection's revised timeline]]
|''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]''
|-
|colspan=2|[[Barusa's universe]]
|[[Leekley Bible]]
|-
|colspan=2|[[Infinity Doctor's reality]]
|''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]''
|-
|rowspan=5|[[The Doctor's reality (The Eight Doctors)]]
|rowspan=5|[[BBC Books|BBC]] ''[[Eighth Doctor Adventures (prose series)|Eighth Doctor Adventures]]''<br />''[[BBC Past Doctor Adventures|Past Doctor Adventures]]''<br />''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]''<br />''[[Miranda (comic story)|Miranda]]''
|-
|[[Blonde Sam timeline]]
|-
|[[The Relic's timeline]]
|-
|[[Infected timeline (Interference)]]
|-
|[[Post-War universe]]
|-
|[[Council of Eight's universe]]
|-
|colspan=2|[[Positive-time universe]]
|[[Big Finish]]'s ''[[The Monthly Adventures|Monthly Adventures]]'' et al.
|-
|colspan=2|[[The Doctor's reality (Real Time)]]
|''[[Real Time (webcast)|Real Time]]''
|-
|colspan=2|[[Unbound Universe]]
|''[[Sympathy for the Devil (audio story)|Sympathy for the Devil]]'' et al.
|-
|colspan=2|[[Auld Mortality's universe]]
|''[[Auld Mortality (audio story)|Auld Mortality]]'' et al.
|-
|colspan=2|[[Parallel universe (Deadline)]]
|''[[Deadline (audio story)|Deadline]]'' et al.
|-
|colspan=2|[[Parallel universe (Full Fathom Five)]]
|''[[Full Fathom Five (audio story)|Full Fathom Five]]''
|-
|colspan=2|[[2040 timeline (The Nuclear Option)]]
|''[[Short Trips: 2040]]''
|-
|rowspan=3|[[Post-Time War universe]]
|[[Cracked universe (The Eleventh Hour)]]
|rowspan=3|''[[Doctor Who]]'' (2005–)
|-
|[[Starless world]]
|-
|[[Rebooted universe (The Big Bang)]]
|-
|colspan=2|[[Lethbridge-Stewart's universe (The Forgotten Son)]]
|''[[Lethbridge-Stewart (series)|Lethbridge-Stewart]]''
|-
|colspan=2|[[Collapsing Universe]]
|''[[Collapsing Universe Cycle]]''
|}


== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==
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Revision as of 17:20, 3 October 2022

Novelisation character names

This is a list of pages that could be renamed under the policy change I suggested in Thread:231243. By no means is it complete!

The above grouping only includes characters whose names are currently not unique on the wiki. Characters whose names were already unique are listed below; the issue of whether the longer titles should be used regardless as "[[Tardis:Characters with one name#future proofing|]]" is probably best decided case-by-case, as described in the policy about when not to disambiguate.

It's worth noting that there are already a ton of pages which use names from novelisations. An incomplete sample: Archie Sylvest; August Lilt; Cairn; Cass Fermazzi; Cedric (The King's Demons); Colin Redmayne; Derek Johnson; ECCO; Edith Randall; Fariah Neguib; Frank Harris; Fyodor Nikolai Kerensky; George Morris; Heidi Scarlioni; Jason Overton; Jebal; Joanna; Joshua Jobel; Justin Vogel; Lancelot Takis; Lee Lin; Mary Smith; Megara One; Megara Two; Odessa Smith; Owen Bywater; Owen Watson; Palmer; Ram Vermas; Robert Lines; Sakkib; Simon Metcalf; Smith; Sylvia Gribbins; Tasambeker Brown; Theodore Benik; Vincent Russell; Vorn; and Wilkins. Let them serve as not only demonstrations of the practicality of novelisation names being used more generally but also prompts for us to reconsider the current policy which forbids their existence!

Thinly-veiled characters

Doctors

Masters

Other DWU characters

Non-DWU characters

Gerry Anderson universe

Main article: Talk:The Indestructible Man (novel)#Parallels

Blake's 7

Alien

Valid references to invalid stories

"The Pilot Episode"

Dr. Who and the Daleks

Too many to name, including

A Fix with Sontarans

Search Out Space

Dimensions in Time

The Skivers (1995)

Death Comes to Time

Scream of the Shalka

whoisdoctorwho.co.uk

Attack of the Graske

The Twelfth Doctor Interactive Story

Time Fracture

Realities

When it comes to continuity, tone, and worldview, the Doctor Who universe's many spin-offs and sub-series have usually been more concerned with themselves than each other. For instance, within a series such as The Monthly Adventures, one can expect to find more references to previous audios and the Classic show than the Virgin Decalogs or Doctor Who annuals. As a result, each series presents a relatively self-contained chunk of the Doctor's reality. Sometimes these pieces have ebbed and flowed into each other through shared characters or references; other times, they have gone out of their way to paint each other as separate timelines or universes.

While acknowleding that most sources suggest these chunks all to be the same reality, covering them separately helps to highlight the ways in which they stand on their own. TheChampionOfTime and MrThermomanPreacher have paved the way for this with the creation of pages like Virgin reality and The Doctor's reality (An Unearthly Child). I've contributed to MrThermomanPreacher's collaborative chart of these "reality" pages, both created and relinked, along with the approximate stories and series they cover.

Main article: User:MrThermomanPreacher/Sandbox/Disputed realities

Footnotes

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