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:: I have gone back and forth a bit with this type of suggestion since the last thread. I still feel that having both a shorter and longer biography would be ideal but I'm not entirely sure on the best way of deciding what goes on the shorter one. [[User:Bongolium500|<span title="aka Bongolium500">Bongo50</span>]] [[User talk:Bongolium500|<span title="talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:16, 16 March 2023 (UTC) | :: I have gone back and forth a bit with this type of suggestion since the last thread. I still feel that having both a shorter and longer biography would be ideal but I'm not entirely sure on the best way of deciding what goes on the shorter one. [[User:Bongolium500|<span title="aka Bongolium500">Bongo50</span>]] [[User talk:Bongolium500|<span title="talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:16, 16 March 2023 (UTC) | ||
Hmm. I do think there is value in spinning off some of the history pages for species into subpages. Certainly the Dalek one is one I was going to suggest. Arguably we've sort of done this before with [[Gallifreyan history]] covering all the gritty details of Time Lord history whilst the history section of [[Time Lord]] takes a more overview style (I know it's not a subpage but its the same principle of spinning off the detailed history). But one thing I do want to emphasise is when I did edited said history section, I did take pains to include the expanded material as well as TV. Hence in that overview there's as much coverage of the classic serials as the novel/audios around Romana's presidency. Equally the biography section on [[the Doctor]] main page does show how you can summarise individual incarnations' lives in a way that acknowledges both TV and expanded. So I think summary biographies ''could'' be done along those lines, with subpages covering all the nitty gritty. '''But''' my concern about doing this for prominent individuals like the Doctors is debates about the balance between TV/expanded will become a regular issue and I'm just not sure how we prevent that. | |||
I do take issue with the "spoiler-free" angle there, as frankly with so much Who material online I don't see the point of us constraining coverage like that. Even the summary on the official DoctorWho.TV site goes into more detail of the Twelfth Doctor's fate than the example offered in the proposed policy: https://www.doctorwho.tv/characters/twelfth-doctor Certainly when I read this wiki as a newer fan (many years ago!) it was never the spoilers that troubled me, but I could be the execption here. [[User:SherlockTheII|SherlockTheII]] [[User talk:SherlockTheII|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 11:09, 20 March 2023 (UTC) | |||
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