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:For the naming, if people really feel strongly that "she's generally known as River Song, so surely the character should be known as that", there's absolutely no reason the pages can't be named "River Song (Little Girl)", "River Song (Mels)", etc. | :For the naming, if people really feel strongly that "she's generally known as River Song, so surely the character should be known as that", there's absolutely no reason the pages can't be named "River Song (Little Girl)", "River Song (Mels)", etc. | ||
:But meanwhile, there's really a limit to how much information can be written about Mels, given that she's got a total of 20 minutes of screen time covering her entire life, and most of that is spent on a single adventure. Of course the same is true of many people who have articles of their own, like Mo Northover or Sara Kingdom, but in those cases there is no good "umbrella article" to put them under, and in Mels's case there is. | :But meanwhile, there's really a limit to how much information can be written about Mels, given that she's got a total of 20 minutes of screen time covering her entire life, and most of that is spent on a single adventure. Of course the same is true of many people who have articles of their own, like Mo Northover or Sara Kingdom, but in those cases there is no good "umbrella article" to put them under, and in Mels's case there is. | ||
:Finally, even if there _is_ reason to split off one incarnation, that doesn't mean there has to be an article for each one. Otherwise, we'd need at least five more stub pages in the Master template for the Man with the Blue Rosette, the disembodied voice in the TARDIS walls, the godlike spirit existing in the link to the Eye of Harmony, and the energy being and Richard in ''Forgotten'' (and those are just off the top of my head; there might be more), and clearly we don't. --[[Special:Contributions/173.228.85.35|173.228.85.35]] 17:52, September 1, 2011 (UTC) | :Finally, even if there _is_ reason to split off one incarnation, that doesn't mean there has to be an article for each one. Otherwise, we'd need at least five more stub pages in the Master template for the Man with the Blue Rosette, the disembodied voice in the TARDIS walls, the godlike spirit existing in the link to the Eye of Harmony, and the energy being and Richard in ''Forgotten'' (and those are just off the top of my head; there might be more), and clearly we don't. --[[Special:Contributions/173.228.85.35|173.228.85.35]] 17:52, September 1, 2011 (UTC) | ||
::If we were to go with 3 pages, what would the last one be called? River Song (River Song)? One page still seems fine to me. '''[http://doctor-who-collectors.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tardis1963 <span style="background:#0E234E; color:white">Tardis1963</span>]''' 18:41, September 1, 2011 (UTC) | ::If we were to go with 3 pages, what would the last one be called? River Song (River Song)? One page still seems fine to me. '''[http://doctor-who-collectors.wikia.com/wiki/User:Tardis1963 <span style="background:#0E234E; color:white">Tardis1963</span>]''' 18:41, September 1, 2011 (UTC) | ||
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::Three pages just aren't needed, we can easily fit all the info on River comfortably onto one page. Other characters have incarnation pages because each incarnation has been in so many stories that it would make an extremely long and tedious article if we were to merge it into one. --[[User:Revanvolatrelundar|Revan]]\[[User_talk:Revanvolatrelundar|Talk]] 18:43, September 1, 2011 (UTC) | |||
