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==Merger with Reg Cranfield== | |||
:==Merger with Reg Cranfield== | |||
The information on [[Reg Cranfield]] might suggest that this page and that page should be merged. But reading Reg Cranfield's page there's nothing exactly that links him to the policeman seen at the start of ''An Unearthly Child'', and as this page notes Fred Rawlings is also a contender for the role of the policeman. | The information on [[Reg Cranfield]] might suggest that this page and that page should be merged. But reading Reg Cranfield's page there's nothing exactly that links him to the policeman seen at the start of ''An Unearthly Child'', and as this page notes Fred Rawlings is also a contender for the role of the policeman. | ||
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::::There's nothing "disastrously wrong" about requiring sources for info. We don't do assumptions. If something is intended, it can't be that hard to find a source for it. [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] [[User talk:Shambala108|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:48, 27 August 2021 (UTC) | ::::There's nothing "disastrously wrong" about requiring sources for info. We don't do assumptions. If something is intended, it can't be that hard to find a source for it. [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] [[User talk:Shambala108|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:48, 27 August 2021 (UTC) | ||
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: Of course. But I didn't say something ''had'' "gone disastrously wrong". I say it would if we couldn't; but in fact, it is my contention that we can. When a story is advertised as featuring the Third Doctor, and the man on the cover looks like Jon Pertwee, then even if in-story he's not called "the Third Doctor," we know the "white-haired time-traveller" is Pertwee, not Hartnell or Capaldi. | |||
: By the same token, I was ''telling'' our anonymous friend over there that if a story is advertised as the story that reveals who the ''Unearthly Child'' policeman was, and the guy on the cover looks like the man in ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', then we can in fact consider that this is an appearance of that character even if he doesn't break the fourth wall in-story to lean at you and whisper in your ear "by the way that was me at timestap 00:00:03 of ''An Unearthly Child'', Episode One. | |||
: [[User:CzechOut]]'s comments and conclusions at [[Talk:Totem (short story)]] are I think the precedent we need if we want a specific word of policy on the subject — finding that yes, if it's clear from the out-of-universe intent that the character was meant to be the [[Eighth Doctor]], and there are actual narrative clues in-story that point towards the Eighth Doctor (even though they ''could theoretically'' point towards the Third Doctor as well), then we can acknowledge that it's an Eighth Doctor story. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:35, 27 August 2021 (UTC) | |||
