Talk:The Doctor

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Ok, this is chaos

There seems to be no consistency on whether we use promotional pictures or screencaps for the individual Doctor articles, and for the collage on this page. For example, First Doctor has a promo image, Seventh Doctor has a screencap, and Tenth Doctor has something which looks like a screencap but I'm pretty sure is actually a high-quality image from the Doctor Who website and not technically a capture from an episode. We're going through Eleventh Doctor images like a bucket of popcorn - why do we really need one from the latest story he was in? It's not even a particularly good picture. Do we actually have a policy on this sort of thing?--The Traveller 11:38, January 22, 2011 (UTC)

We do have a policy on this. We don't use promotional pictures on in-universe articles whatsoever. I'm sure that all of the images on each Doctor's page are screencaps. But I agree with you that the Eleventh Doctor's page needs one image that stays. I thought that there was no problem with the original one from The Eleventh Hour (the one that represents him on this article's image). The image should be put back and kept that way. --The Thirteenth Doctor 12:39, January 22, 2011 (UTC)

I'm almost certain that the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Doctors have images which aren't screencaps. I assume a "screencap" is an image captured directly from an episode. Take the First Doctor article - while it's clearly William Hartnell in character as the First Doctor, that image never appeared in An Unearthly Child. You can tell just by looking at pictures whether or not they're screencaps. Screencaps tend to be lower-resolution, may have motion blur, and in the case of the classic series might have video noise. Perhaps they're not promotional images, but they're certainly photographs, which are clearly of higher quality than screencaps.--The Traveller 17:41, January 22, 2011 (UTC)

Moving

I feel it would be more proper to move Richard Hurndall's name up into the section where the canon Doctors are listed, after all he did portry the First Doctor in "The Five Doctors" replacing the late William Hartnell.Startrekandmore 03:04, March 10, 2011 (UTC)

Typo I can't fix

Connections With Earth:

collegues => colleagues

Flowtron 16:52, May 9, 2011 (UTC)

Doctor Descriptions?

Is it really a good idea to describe the Doctors based on past incarnations? Especially when itgets more detailed, like this quote from the description of the thenth doctor.

"a cross between his Fourth and Ninth incarnations. He displayed hints of the Seventh with the style of the Fifth"

The previous Doctors had varied and unique personalities with variety of aspects and traits each, and to put them all together like this is just confusing. I don't know quite what would result from blending 4, 9, 7 and 5 together, but I would not say confidently that it would be 10. I personally think it would be best to describe them based on their personal traits rather than the traits of others.

Yeah, in my opinion it is. If you look at it from a different angle, they're all but one single person, and looking for similarities between them is a good way to back that up. But if you like, you can also describe each of them as one different person as well.

{{SUBST:Template:LoosedAngel Sig}} 19:26, May 29, 2011 (UTC)

The English (grammar) in the part describing about the 10th Doctor is very poor, but I can't correct it as the article is protected. Can someone do this? 82.42.249.145 20:32, June 7, 2011 (UTC)

"He's not dead yet"

Okay, why in the name of Raxacoricofallapatorius does this article refer to the Doctor in past tense? I mean, the creators have not confirmed his "death by astronaut" as the final timeline, and if he did die for the last time, that would undoubtedly result in a fan war. 203.105.91.88 07:13, June 23, 2011 (UTC)

ALL articles are in past tense per Tardis:Manual of Style.----Skittles the hog--Talk 08:00, June 23, 2011 (UTC)

Part Human on His mother's side

The 1996 TV Movie states that the Doctor's mother is human. Has this been stated anywhere else? -- Past and Future Companion

Not in the TV shows.Icecreamdif 19:59, July 23, 2011 (UTC)

Main Image

Why was the main image removed? Right now, out of the images that are still being considered for the Master, one of them uses all the TV images, two of them use all the images, and one of them uses images of Masters that have appeared in an entire story and only in a visual medium. If we go by the precedent of any of those choices, we would still need to have all eleven Doctors.Icecreamdif 21:36, July 26, 2011 (UTC)

According to Skittles the hog, the Master image discussion was also for the layout of the images on top of which Masters to use. It didn't come across to me either, but that's what they said. -- Tybort (talk page) 21:56, July 26, 2011 (UTC)

Well, since all the versions of the Master's main image that had 11 Masters have been rejected, I don't think the exact same format could really be used for both the Doctor and the Master anyway.Icecreamdif 22:05, July 26, 2011 (UTC)

Family

Didn't his father made an appearance by the name of Ulisses? 95.93.73.119 02:32, July 27, 2011 (UTC)

Ulysses. But yes, it looks that way. It also seems to be another mention of the Doctor's half-human parentage. -- Tybort (talk page) 06:52, July 27, 2011 (UTC)

Multiple images in main image

There's been a fairly lengthy discussion on Talk:The Master concerning whether or not to use all the images of a Time Lord's incarnations or just a few or one or two to define the article.

On species articles we tend to use just one image such as Dalek, despite them changing their outward appearance fairly often.

Should we continue to use an image like this one; File:Eleven-doctors.jpg, which was previously on the page prior to this discussion.

Or, like the images on the Master's and Rassilon's articles should we include not just TV but other portrayals like comic strips, audio/novel covers etc to truly reflect what this wiki covers? --Tangerineduel / talk 15:45, August 15, 2011 (UTC)

• Forgive me, but aren't the eleven canonical Doctors already depicted on screen and film? There aren't any canon Doctors that only appear in books or comics. --Doctor Kermit^(Complain.) 15:56, August 15, 2011 (UTC)

What I meant is that we could have instead of a TV depiction of any of Doctors 1-11 there could be a comic or cover-based depiction of any of the Doctors 1-11. Say the Seventh Doctor in his linen suit from the NA days or the Eighth Doctor from DWM comics, or even the 1-6 from MA covers etc. --Tangerineduel / talk 16:18, August 15, 2011 (UTC)

We should probably use images from the TV show where possible, just because an actor portraying a character looks better than a drawing of the character. Since its the same incarnations in the TV show as anywhere else, it makes most sense to just use the TV images in the infobox.Icecreamdif 21:32, August 15, 2011 (UTC)

Can we have a GIF file that changes from 1 Doctor to another and scroll through all? -- Future Companion

GIFs aren't really good to use, they're limited in the colours that are used to create a GIF and if you want something detailed it ends up taking up a lot of space / takes a significant time to load. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:28, August 16, 2011 (UTC)

If we must have images of every single incarnation of a Time Lord, then we should just use the image that was already there. Otherwise, we can show just the Eleventh Doctor, or show both the First and Eleventh Doctors as was discussed for the Master.Icecreamdif 22:02, August 17, 2011 (UTC)

Just as at companion and now the Master, I would prefer the image be representative, not exhaustive. I do think Smith should get pride of place and positional dominance, but I don't think we need all 11, since the article is chock full of the 11, anyway. The infobox need only summarise.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  <span style="">21:57:35 Thu 18 Aug 2011 

How about we use four images. The First Doctor from the black & white era, one of the Doctors from 3-7 for the classic color era (maybe the fourth since he was probably the most popular), the eigth doctor from the TV movie, and the Eleventh as the current one and representing the new series.Gowron8472 07:19, August 19, 2011 (UTC)

I don't see anything wrong with using pictures of all 11 Doctors, aside from aesthetics. And arguing "this doesn't make the page look pretty" (AKA aesthetics) is not a very good argument. --Bold Clone 18:59, August 21, 2011 (UTC)

Well, the decision on the Master's page has sort of set a precedent for not using every incarnation of a Time Lord in the infobox, hasn't it.Icecreamdif 04:03, August 22, 2011 (UTC)

Again, the discussion of the Master's images was basically either "the pictures aren't relevant," or "the pictures don't make the page as pretty." I thought we just should have left it that way--show the canon images of the Master. --Bold Clone 14:47, August 22, 2011 (UTC)

What about adding a picture of each beside their entry under "The Doctor's incarnations" section? -- TARDIS 1701

Been there, done that; it didn't work. I am actually the person who removed the pictures. --Bold Clone 02:56, August 25, 2011 (UTC)