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CzechOut wrote: That is the case in the BBC Wales series, but certainly not in the old days. From 1963 to 1989 the script editor was one-half of the "production team". Along with the producer he (cause it was always a he) was the only permanent part of Doctor Who's above the line staff. Script editors back then are what we would today call the head writer.

With that in mind, then:

• Classic Who - Script editor over writer
• New Who - Writer over script editor

That makes sense... I hadn't known that script editors were the equivalent of the head writer, in the old days. Good to know.

Also, maybe we shouldn't include births and deaths of actors who only appeared once or twice in tiny roles. We should definitely include major Doctor Who personalities, like Doctor actors, companion actors, Head Writers, recurring writers, recurring directors, founders...

But I don't think we should include every single actor. We already have two pages for births and deaths. You have no idea how many actors have appeared in Who! Which is why I started adding "who portrayed the Third Doctor," for example, to highlight the actors that played the Doctor. I also added this for the first writer, the first director and the founders. But maybe we should not even include the less significant actors at all.