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::Sorry but that does not make any sense. Why are you now prioritising TV appearance for this article when you aren't practicing the same for other real world figures? Mary Shelley was already linked here, and William Shakespeare was also a main character in an episode (he's actually had multiple TV appearances as far back as 1965) and yet the only image in his infobox is an illustration from a book. How is this in any way consistent? [[Special:Contributions/148.252.133.119|148.252.133.119]]<sup>[[User talk:148.252.133.119#top|talk to me]]</sup> 17:47, 4 December 2023 (UTC) | ::Sorry but that does not make any sense. Why are you now prioritising TV appearance for this article when you aren't practicing the same for other real world figures? Mary Shelley was already linked here, and William Shakespeare was also a main character in an episode (he's actually had multiple TV appearances as far back as 1965) and yet the only image in his infobox is an illustration from a book. How is this in any way consistent? [[Special:Contributions/148.252.133.119|148.252.133.119]]<sup>[[User talk:148.252.133.119#top|talk to me]]</sup> 17:47, 4 December 2023 (UTC) | ||
::: I know everyone here is refuting my argument, but when an author writes a story, they expect you to use your real world knowledge to fill in certain blanks. If they write something about Isaac Newton, they likely would want you to envisage him vaguely how he really looked, not how he looked in ''WBY''. | |||
::: It may be implicit, as they may not exactly describe his appearance in agonising detail... ''because it goes without saying''. Authors don't spoon-feed us information that they assume we already ''know''. | |||
::: If you write a story set in historical times featuring Cleopatra, the writer would likely want you to imagine how she actually looked... not like [[Elizabeth Taylor]]. | |||
::: Generally speaking, the DWU is like the real world. If there is ''meant'' to be a difference, it'd be textual; it is silly for us to say "nuh uh, [writer] didn't give a police report level of description of Newton, so we don't know how he looks". | |||
::: If Curtis's version of the character goes on to appear a bunch more times, that'd be one thing, but to me, the historical Newton has appeared three times ({{cs|Summer (audio story)}}, {{cs|Newtons Sleep (novel)}}, and {{cs|The Lonely Computer (short story)}}) and Curtis's version in one story. (I'm discounting {{cs|The Bits We've Missed So Far (comic story)}} as that Newton is a very stylised illustration; he's bald, big nosed, buck toothed, and has a scraggy beard. His appearance is also incredibly brief and set in another universe.) | |||
::: To be clear though, I'm arguing for ''TLC'' illustration over his appearance in ''WBY'' not because the former is historically accurate, but because that version has appeared thrice in my eyes. Just want to make ''that'' clear as I've been harping on about "historically accuracy" and don't want anyone to misunderstand my angle. {{User:Epsilon the Eternal/signature}} 18:31, 4 December 2023 (UTC) | |||
