User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-121.45.54.78-20130925110520/@comment-188432-20140226005601

OttselSpy25 wrote: At the same time, it's our duty to inform our readers on the brief appearances and cameos that characters make in stories, even if it is just stock footage. We just need to make it clear that it IS a flashback. If someone was looking for a list of appearances and archive material used for, say, Susan Foreman, removing all of that would be a disservice to that person.

Why? See, that's not how I look at the term "appearance" at all. For me, an appearance is only one in which the actor got paid. So, Adric in Caves? Sure. Rose in Let's Kill Hitler? No way.

I don't think it's our "duty" to track non-appearances (in the traditional, legal sense of that term) on a page called "appearances".

However, I have no problem with creating a single page dedicated to these lil re-uses of previous imagery. You could make a table of Doctors, a table of companions, and a table of, I dunno, "species", and then just give a list of the stories where you'll find re-used footage or still images.

Something like this:

Doctor	Type	Stories where reused	Time code	Original source
Seventh Doctor	Video	The Name of the Doctor	several instances	Dragonfire