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::::A few issues here. Now, I'm an American, so I'm looking at the site from the US. But it ''doesn't'' say "1963-1989". It says "1963-1996". It also doesn't have a year range for the BBC Wales production, it just lists it as "Doctor Who". And it starts the new era in 2023, which, for a range of dates, is probably a bit counterintuitive to most people. Ultimately it ran into two different edge cases here - treating the 2023 specials/TCoRR as the start of the new era and thus choosing a side on the 2023/2024 issue, and saying the TV movie was part of the classic era rather than its own thing, as well as simply not disambiguating the BBC Wales production. Now, not all of this is disqualifying, I want to stress. But it's definitely hitting edge cases. And I certainly wouldn't say that leaving the BBC Wales era undabbed is intuitive. (Obviously the caveat here is that I can only comment on what I see, and this is what I see from the US.) [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 08:30, 3 March 2024 (UTC) | ::::A few issues here. Now, I'm an American, so I'm looking at the site from the US. But it ''doesn't'' say "1963-1989". It says "1963-1996". It also doesn't have a year range for the BBC Wales production, it just lists it as "Doctor Who". And it starts the new era in 2023, which, for a range of dates, is probably a bit counterintuitive to most people. Ultimately it ran into two different edge cases here - treating the 2023 specials/TCoRR as the start of the new era and thus choosing a side on the 2023/2024 issue, and saying the TV movie was part of the classic era rather than its own thing, as well as simply not disambiguating the BBC Wales production. Now, not all of this is disqualifying, I want to stress. But it's definitely hitting edge cases. And I certainly wouldn't say that leaving the BBC Wales era undabbed is intuitive. (Obviously the caveat here is that I can only comment on what I see, and this is what I see from the US.) [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 08:30, 3 March 2024 (UTC) | ||
:: I must say, I agree with SilverSunbird here. And though I sympathise, I personally ''strongly'' disagree with dabbing seasons by year of release, rather than standard disambiguation. | :: I must say, I agree with [[User:SilverSunbird|SilverSunbird]] and [[User:66 Seconds|66 Seconds]] here. And though I sympathise, I personally ''strongly'' disagree with dabbing seasons by year of release, rather than standard disambiguation. | ||
:: This is for a couple of big reasons. '''1.''' For the same reasonscwe instated consistent dabbing for ''all'' stories: we should never expect users or readers to have encyclopaedic knowledge just to be able to link to a page correctly. | :: This is for a couple of big reasons. '''1.''' For the same reasonscwe instated consistent dabbing for ''all'' stories: we should never expect users or readers to have encyclopaedic knowledge just to be able to link to a page correctly. | ||