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:::::Brilliant! Unorthodox, true, but so was [[Joan Redfern (novel character)]] (or [[John Smith (Tenth Doctor)]]). Needs must when we're dealt this kind of hand. I'll go ahead and perform the rename.
:::::Brilliant! Unorthodox, true, but so was [[Joan Redfern (novel character)]] (or [[John Smith (Tenth Doctor)]]). Needs must when we're dealt this kind of hand. I'll go ahead and perform the rename.


:::::(To be clear, the precedent here is only that [[Christine Summerfield (23rd century)]] is a format we '''can''' turn to when normal disambiguation fails. I fail to think of other examples, but they might well turn up. Specifically, story dabs should remain the frontline, and [[T:DAB OTHER]] or exceptions to [[T:HONOUR]] generally work wonders, long before we turn to exceptions like this.){{User:SOTO/sig}} 01:10, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
:::::(To be clear, the precedent here is only that [[Christine Summerfield (23rd century)]] is a format we '''can''' turn to when normal disambiguation fails. I fail to think of other examples, but they might well turn up. Specifically, story dabs should remain the frontline, and [[T:DAB OTHER]] or exceptions to [[T:HONOUR]] generally work wonders, long before we turn to exceptions like this.)
 
:::::Crucially, this is not only the problem of naming her universe, but knowing that this is not a counterpart to our "main" [[Christine Summerfield]], according to the narrative. We have here two characters introduced in the same story, with the same name, and it's not principally universe or family role which separates them.
 
:::::[[Christine Summerfield]] will remain un-dabbed, as a primary topic. {{User:SOTO/sig}} 01:10, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
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