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This template merely announces to readers that we've had to make up a name for a thing because story writers failed to. The perfect example is the article '''[[stingray]]''', which is about the main threat in the story ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]''. [[RTD|Davies]] and [[Gareth Roberts|Roberts]] did not flatly name the creatures in the Easter 2009 special, yet they clearly exist in the DWU and so are worthy of an article here. We had to name the article ''something'', so we picked a logical name and went with that. | This template merely announces to readers that we've had to make up a name for a thing because story writers failed to. The perfect example is the article '''[[stingray]]''', which is about the main threat in the story ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]''. [[RTD|Davies]] and [[Gareth Roberts|Roberts]] did not flatly name the creatures in the Easter 2009 special, yet they clearly exist in the DWU and so are worthy of an article here. We had to name the article ''something'', so we picked a logical name and went with that. | ||
This template merely makes it clear to readers that there is no actual name for the topic. | This template merely makes it clear to readers that there is no actual name for the topic in a valid source. | ||
Sometimes, when this is clearest or improves searchability, we draw a conjectural name from a script, deleted scene or other real-world material which '''is not, itself, a [[Tardis:Valid sources|valid source]]'''. Note that '''such conjectural names should not be used in the in-universe sections of the page'''. | |||
== What this template is not == | == What this template is not == | ||
