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But he still comes after Eight, making him the Ninth, Eccleston the Tenth, and so on[[User:Doug Exeter|Doug Exeter]] [[User talk:Doug Exeter|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 06:40, April 8, 2014 (UTC) | But he still comes after Eight, making him the Ninth, Eccleston the Tenth, and so on[[User:Doug Exeter|Doug Exeter]] [[User talk:Doug Exeter|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 06:40, April 8, 2014 (UTC) | ||
: Steven Moffat confirmed that the War Doctor is NOT the ninth Doctor after the episode caused so much controversy. If you like to number him, he would be considered an "8.5". He may have been the Doctor for about ten minutes, but nobody remembered it at first. The events in ''The Day of the Doctor'' were not remembered, and the War Doctor will keep his title because it causes the least conflict. I would've actually imagined that this would be settled after Moffat made it clear that he is just the War Doctor. Technically, he shouldn't even be called the War Doctor, a better name would just be The Warrior, but that is his official title, that is what he was credited for. [[User:Masterpwn|Masterpwn]] [[User talk:Masterpwn|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 12:22, April 8, 2014 (UTC) | |||
:: Dialogue from ''The Time of the Doctor'' actually calls David Tennant "number 10" and Matt Smith "the Eleventh Doctor" as I recall, so that's '''in-universe''' evidence that the numbering and titling still holds after ''Night'' and ''Day'' establishes John Hurt as a sort of eight-and-a-halfth Doctor. It's a complicated issue, and he IS addressed as "the Doctor" by some (and credited as only "the Doctor" in TDOTD), but he's a locked away secret and not counted in the numbering system according to his "eleventh body". | |||
:: Only a tiny fraction of people would have taken to renumbering Eccleston, Tennant and Smith as "Ten", "Eleven" and "Twelve", because they're not and probably never will be referred to as that. And I don't think any admin is seriously going to consider pushing the RTD and Moffat era Doctors up a place, when on top of what's been said before, on [[Thread:145998]], [[User:CzechOut]] refers to "tons of other narratives where Ten and Eleven are said to be, or proclaim themselves to be, their respective numbers" (I'm not that familiar with non-TV work, so I'm afraid I can't verify ''which'' ones. The [[Tenth Doctor]] page used to cite ''[[The Age of Ice (comic story)|The Age of Ice]]'' I think though before we just got rid of the confusing "was the xth incarnation" in light of ''The Night of the Doctor'' and ''The Name of the Doctor'') | |||
:: And [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01l1z04/profiles/the-day-of-the-doctor-characters the BBC website] still considers them "the Tenth Doctor" and "the Eleventh Doctor" (note how this link shows the David Tennant Doctor illustrated with his Day of the Doctor-era hairstyle. So it's not like it's out of date.) -- [[User:Tybort|Tybort]] ([[User talk:Tybort|talk page]]) 13:19, April 8, 2014 (UTC) | |||
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