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::: As for the names, it is one thing that people already on a page explaining the Morbius Doctors will know in context what we mean by "first incarnation"; and another to have page names using those terms. I forgot to mention that in the absence of context, if I see a link to a page called [[First Doctor (something something)]], I'm going to assume it's a page about an alternative counterpart to Hartnell's First Doctor. <span style="color: #baa3d6;font-family:Comic Sans;">[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']]</span> <span style="color: #baa3d6;">[[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]]</span> 17:26, 7 January 2022 (UTC) | ::: As for the names, it is one thing that people already on a page explaining the Morbius Doctors will know in context what we mean by "first incarnation"; and another to have page names using those terms. I forgot to mention that in the absence of context, if I see a link to a page called [[First Doctor (something something)]], I'm going to assume it's a page about an alternative counterpart to Hartnell's First Doctor. <span style="color: #baa3d6;font-family:Comic Sans;">[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']]</span> <span style="color: #baa3d6;">[[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]]</span> 17:26, 7 January 2022 (UTC) | ||
::::Given the recent interest in splitting Time Lord pages, I think Radmatter's proposal seems very do-able. As they say, splitting would allow for more specific and organized coverage of each of the faces. As the page is now, we need this big table to clearly convey who plays each Doc, and lots of the incarnation-specific info is quite scattered. Plus, we have the fact that some stories, like ''Cold Fusion'', only feature appearances by a few of these Doctors, and distinctions like that cannot be as easily conveyed on a single page, arguably lessening the distinctness of the few Morbius Doctors we know a bit about. Plus, when it comes to the Doctor, significance has never been a factor anywhere else in which incarnations get their own pages; this is a main character and pages with little information other than "There was this face, which looked like this and appeared between two other faces. Here's some BTS." are still quite informative. | |||
::::If we are to separate, the issue of keeping this main page could also be important precedent for other Time Lord incarnation splitting. I think that pages for distinct sets of incarnations would make a lot of sense, with an example adjacent to this issue being the distinct [[Life cycle]] of incarnations from the First to Eleventh Doctors. However, there are several sources by which we could say that this "Doctor" is a distinct Time Lord from the individual we cover on [[The Doctor]], possibly being either [[The Other]] or [[Ulysses|the Doctor's father]], so I think that alone justifies keeping the current page. | |||
:::: Also, using [The Doctor 1 (The Brain of Morbius)] in a diegetic numerical order is IMO the way to go, and if these guys are in a template they can be displayed like |"Morbius" (8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1)|. Treat 'em like they're BCE. [[User:TheChampionOfTime|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT">CoT</span>]] [[User talk:TheChampionOfTime|<span title="Talk to me">?</span> ]] 19:03, 7 January 2022 (UTC) | |||
