User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-121.45.54.78-20130925110520/@comment-38288735-20191201220117

Chubby Potato, to address your paragraphs in order, I believe each medium will require its own guidelines and am hoping we can address them one at a time. What I'm thinking is to get a consensus on television, get an admin to give us a "final" ruling just on that issue, and continue the thread onto the next medium (probably audio, since that one will similarly start by going from the cast lists).

I personally would support the Doctor not being listed as appearing in a situation like the one you described. I see no problem with that. If what you're worried about is avoiding spoilers, I would say that situations like this are extremely rare, and people analyzing appearance lists closely enough to catch a spoiler in a situation like this sounds equally rare, so it all comes out to a non-issue in my mind.

Your last point was discussed upthread, and everyone seems to be in agreement with you on it. Visions/dreams/manifestations all count as long as they fit the other guidelines.

JagoAndLitefoot, as we had a debate about it upthread, it is obviously not definitive enough to meet the standard of clearly being another character.

EDIT: Started this before your post, Scrooge. Sorry to ignore you. That's a good point about Romana. I believe other sources contradict that story, so I don't think that would fall under "clearly" a different character.