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Another similar issue is pages like [[Aliases of the Doctor|this one]]. The page itself isn't bad, but the entire names given by others section is pretty useless, particularly with the ninth and tenth doctors. To make it even worse, the section has a tag that says it’s a stub and people should try to add more useless aliases. It’s filled with completely useless names like voice of god, dumbo, great big outer space dunce, and pretty much everything that’s from the new series. That page, at least, is entitled “Aliases of the Doctor,” so there isn’t really any good defense to keep these completely useless joke names and descriptions.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 21:47, September 16, 2011 (UTC) | Another similar issue is pages like [[Aliases of the Doctor|this one]]. The page itself isn't bad, but the entire names given by others section is pretty useless, particularly with the ninth and tenth doctors. To make it even worse, the section has a tag that says it’s a stub and people should try to add more useless aliases. It’s filled with completely useless names like voice of god, dumbo, great big outer space dunce, and pretty much everything that’s from the new series. That page, at least, is entitled “Aliases of the Doctor,” so there isn’t really any good defense to keep these completely useless joke names and descriptions.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 21:47, September 16, 2011 (UTC) | ||
: Agreed. It might be arguably useful to have a section on "Descriptions, epithets, and one-time nicknames" separate from the "Names given by others" (although I think I'd vote against it), but it's definitely not right to have hem all dumped into the "Names given by others" section. There's a difference between "Snail" and "Great Big Outer Space Dunce", and a list that has the former without the latter is useful. | |||
: Are there any other pages like that one? The only one I can think of is [[Aliases of the Master]], and that one already seems good as it is. | |||
: Anyway, I hate to suggest that someone else do an edit that I could have done, but it seems less likely that it'll get reverted without thinking if done by a user with a long edit history than by an IP, so if you're willing, I think that would be better. And, while I hate even more to tell anyone else _how_ to do en edit I could have done, I have some suggestions on that, too. I think we want to do everything possible to encourage anyone who disagrees with the overall idea to come here and discuss it, and anyone who disagrees with one particular name to discuss it on the Talk page rather than just putting it back in. Being somewhat liberal if what you allow to stay (we can always remove more of them later), copying all of the deleted text to the Talk page (in a section that explains the reasoning and links back here), and giving an edit summary that refers to both the Talk page section and this thread seems like a good way to encourage that. --[[Special:Contributions/70.36.140.19|70.36.140.19]] 14:19, September 17, 2011 (UTC) | |||
I don't think there are any other alias pages like that one, and the Master's is actually surprisingly lacking in one-off joke names(though that could be that some of the more ridiculous ones are listed on the specific incarnation's pages). I'll go to the aiaees of the doctor page and do what you've suggested, and see what happens. The pproblem doeesn't seem to exist in the classic series for some reason, so it's really only the ninth, tenth and eleventh doctors where there's a problem.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 17:54, September 17, 2011 (UTC) | I don't think there are any other alias pages like that one, and the Master's is actually surprisingly lacking in one-off joke names(though that could be that some of the more ridiculous ones are listed on the specific incarnation's pages). I'll go to the aiaees of the doctor page and do what you've suggested, and see what happens. The pproblem doeesn't seem to exist in the classic series for some reason, so it's really only the ninth, tenth and eleventh doctors where there's a problem.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] 17:54, September 17, 2011 (UTC) | ||
<p style="margin-left: 40px; ">It looked good to me (even down to the details of which specific borderline names you left in to avoid dispute, like "Mr Spock"). But again, Mini-mitch reverted it with no edit summary, no comment here, and no talk page discussion. --[[Special:Contributions/70.36.140.19|70.36.140.19]] 18:59, September 17, 2011 (UTC)</p> | |||
