Talk:Policeman (An Unearthly Child)

Merger with Reg Cranfield

The information on Reg Cranfield might suggest that this page and that page should be merged. But reading Reg Cranfield's page there's nothing exactly that links him to the policeman seen at the start of An Unearthly Child, and as this page notes Fred Rawlings is also a contender for the role of the policeman.

I don't think that he's named for the actor who played the policeman is enough of a reason to merge. Continuity references are rife in the DWU especially around the 50th anniversary when Shroud of Sorrow (novel) was published. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:11, September 28, 2017 (UTC)

Although I agree that by the Wiki's policy the in-universe evidence isn't tangible enough to make the link, I don't think I understand the point of that last sentence. How does "there were a lot of continuity references being made at the time" invalidate the idea that the name would be a link to the TV character?

Again, I agree that this link shouldn't be drawn for now, but because of a variation of T:NO RL (within the DWU the name has no significance, it's only with real-world knowledge that we understand its relevance), not some nebulous judgement regarding the amount of continuity references that were going on. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 20:06, December 8, 2019 (UTC)