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Given that the "Doctor Who?" question is now something with in-universe significance, shouldn't [[The "Doctor Who?" running joke]] be merged into [[The Question]] (and rewritten to be an in-universe account of occasions on which The Question was uttered)? [[Special:Contributions/94.75.90.48|94.75.90.48]]<sup>[[User talk:94.75.90.48#top|talk to me]]</sup> 03:38, February 19, 2012 (UTC) | Given that the "Doctor Who?" question is now something with in-universe significance, shouldn't [[The "Doctor Who?" running joke]] be merged into [[The Question]] (and rewritten to be an in-universe account of occasions on which The Question was uttered)? [[Special:Contributions/94.75.90.48|94.75.90.48]]<sup>[[User talk:94.75.90.48#top|talk to me]]</sup> 03:38, February 19, 2012 (UTC) | ||
:Not just no but ''hell'' no. [[The "Doctor Who?" running joke]], which frankly is a silly article that I still think should be deleted, has an entirely different purpose to [[The Question]]. It's trying to catalogue the metatextual references to the title of the programme, from a decidedly out-of-universe point of view. That's why it's got a big ol' "real world" banner at the top of it. | |||
The Question is about the '''''in-universe''''' question which fuels the religion known as [[the Silence]]. That's it. That's the limit of that article. Yes, the question is "Doctor who?", but '''the''' Question must clearly be asked in a particular ''context'', at a particular time, for it to have resonance with the Silence. Obviously, it's been asked a ton of times in the past without triggering the Silence. At the beginning of ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'', [[Jackie Tyler]] is not asking "'''the'' capital-bloody-Q Question". She's just putting the words "doctor" and "who" into a sentence that ends with a question mark. When Rose asks "Doctor who?" in ''[[The Empty Child]]'', she's not triggering the Silence. When the Brig's replacement in ''[[The Five Doctors]]'' asks the question, he's not calling forth the Silence. [[The Question]] is ''specifically'' relative to some sort of interaction between the Silence and the Eleventh Doctor which has yet to be broadcast. It does not mean every instance of someone asking the Doctor's true name/identity, which is what [[The "Doctor Who?" running joke]] is attempting to catalogue. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">17:31: Sun 19 Feb 2012 </span> | |||
