Talk:Doctor Who Magazine (in-universe)
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As for the name, I can just about make out the letters "M" "z" and "e". It's quite obvious it spells out Magazine.
23:46, November 8, 2020 (UTC)
- But is it? T:NO RW, my friend. if someone who knew nothing about Doctor Who whatsoever was told this spelled "Maze-engine" or whatever, I think they'd believe it. Thread:272817 may change our coverage of this specific case, but until we get something straightened out there, it is correct that we abide by the letter of T:NO RW. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 23:50, November 8, 2020 (UTC)
- I actually find it substantially easier to read "Maga" than I do to read a Z or an E, due to, uh, recent events. But I think this is the problem. It's so blurry that while we can recover some of it, since we know what to look for, someone who didn't know might not. But I guess more specifically, the naming of this thing actually did come up in Thread:272817, so while I guess I can cede that creating the page as you did is fine (per the principle of "all pages have to be named something"), the conjecture tag does seem to be T:BOUND as well. Najawin ☎ 23:58, November 8, 2020 (UTC)
- Seriously though, it seems rather pedantic to say it could spell anything else. We have "m" "a" "g" "a" "z" _ _ "e" worked out, so I'm struggling to see the issue calling this Doctor Who Magazine. I completely understand T:NO RW, but aren't we going a bit far? Ome last thing? How is this supposed to help the readers of this page? "Oh here's a magazine that's quite clearly Doctor Who Magazine, but as the resolution of the webcast is a bit crappy, we can't call it that." 00:04, November 9, 2020 (UTC)
- I should note, since @Najawin mentioned the discussion of this specific page in Thread:272817, that I retract my earlier statements on the matter on that thread. If we already had a source for the name "Doctor Who Magazine" in N-Space, I would unequivocally support covering accounts of "DWM alias Doctor Who somethingsomething" on the same page as it. But since then it turned out Doctor Who Magazine (The Thief of Sherwood) was from a different universe than N-Space so that this is not, actually, the case.
- I actually find it substantially easier to read "Maga" than I do to read a Z or an E, due to, uh, recent events. But I think this is the problem. It's so blurry that while we can recover some of it, since we know what to look for, someone who didn't know might not. But I guess more specifically, the naming of this thing actually did come up in Thread:272817, so while I guess I can cede that creating the page as you did is fine (per the principle of "all pages have to be named something"), the conjecture tag does seem to be T:BOUND as well. Najawin ☎ 23:58, November 8, 2020 (UTC)
- @Epsilon, the fact that a straightforward application of T:NO RW produces these weird and counterproductive results in these edge-cases is precisely what is at stake at Thread:272817. The argument you are making is a good one, but it's something for that thread, and until that thread is resolved, T:BOUND applies here. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 00:06, November 9, 2020 (UTC)
You all must have better devices than I do, I cannot make out a single letter other than the DWM underneath. PoolsideJazz ☎ 00:09, November 9, 2020 (UTC)
