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::Whoops. [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 08:17, 7 September 2023 (UTC) | ::Whoops. [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 08:17, 7 September 2023 (UTC) | ||
:::I stand behind my comment made while this was a sandbox and I thought it was a forum. :P (Also, doing a little bit of archaeology, [[T:NAMING]] used to redirect to the "Naming of articles" section in the [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Tardis:Tardis_Manual?oldid=1179222 MoS] (scroll down). It's the specific subsection that was spunoff to [[T:CHAR NAMES]] though. Indeed, this dates back to the [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Tardis:Tardis_Manual?oldid=14870 original] MoS in 2006. And it's one of those weird issues where I can't see anything because it's so early in the wiki's history. Maybe there was discussion off site, or wiki saved something on another server and it didn't get ported over. But there's no discussion about the MoS anywhere and no discussion about the PoV page [[User:OncomingStorm]] wrote the same day.) | |||
:::There are two types of IU sections that seem relevant here, broadly speaking. Summaries and biographies. Surely summaries should use the names present in the book, regardless of stylization elsewhere. Indeed, they often do, I believe. Is this always the case with biographies? I'm... less sure. Suppose we're discussing the biography of some Doctor, and in some paragraph we discuss his loyal companion K9. Then, five paragraphs later, in a completely different context, we discuss K-9. Have we done something wrong here? Maybe. I dunno. Try this with Lolita and Lilith and Lady Wakai. I think there's a case to be made that we might want to keep biographies readable for the fans that we try to serve. Especially, might I add, for cases where it doesn't reflect some sort of evolving understanding of the character, but instead simply a stylistic choice about how to represent that character (and/or their name) in a way that's fundamentally familiar to what we know about them prior. I dunno, ymmv. | |||
:::And I think there's also the issue of how to address ''BTS'' naming conventions here. If we're on [[The Monk]] and we refer to BTS facts about the character during [[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]], what do we refer to them as? (Well, you can treat "monk" as a name rather than description, but the basic point still holds. This is more than just an IU problem.) [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 04:24, 21 November 2023 (UTC) | |||
