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:: (To be clear, that's not a definitive admin-hat-on ''decision''. Just a statement that for the time being I remain unconvinced.) --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:02, October 5, 2020 (UTC) | :: (To be clear, that's not a definitive admin-hat-on ''decision''. Just a statement that for the time being I remain unconvinced.) --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:02, October 5, 2020 (UTC) | ||
:::The War Doctor article isn't located at [[War Doctor]] because he's called that within the DWU, though. It's located there because the BBC and Moffat consistently referred to him as "the War Doctor" in non-narrative media such as press releases and interviews, comparable to the aforementioned documentary. It would have been silly to keep him at [[Ninth Doctor (The Name of the Doctor)]] for the following three years, or however long it took until Titan made a comic where Alice Obiefune called him "War Doctor" once. REG's character may not be called "the Quite Handsome Doctor" in-universe, but he's not called "the Tenth Doctor" ''anywhere'', in his universe or ours; the former name has the advantages of being both unique and the official one released for public consumption, whereas the latter has neither. The argument that numerical names extrapolated by fans should override official non-numerical ones provided by the creators seems to rest on an assumption that the numerical names are somehow inherently objective, but I would say that cases like the War Doctor demonstrate that that's emphatically not true. [[User:Gowlbag|Gowlbag]] [[User talk:Gowlbag|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:07, October 5, 2020 (UTC) | |||