User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1432718-20200311152817/@comment-28349479-20200311184428

Danniesen, thank you for clarifying that this thread concerns infoboxes specifically, rather than The Doctor's species as a page; with this clarification about T:BOUND, I've gone ahead and made the edit I was talking about.

Looking at all this, I'm frankly uncertain whether we need a "species" variable on individual incarnation pages at all. We already only list the Doctor's mother, father, grandparents, etc on The Doctor rather than on every incarnation page. Should we treat "species" and "place of origin" in the same way?

(Every incarnation of the Doctor has Gallifrey listed as their "place of origin". Does this make sense? Given that the Eighth Doctor came to be in a morgue refrigerator, how can his place of origin be "Gallifrey" by any stretch of the imagination?)

For a long time I've been thinking about a Template:Infobox Incarnation which would replace all the origin-related variables (species, ancestors, etc) with a big link to the overall character page (in this case, The Doctor) as well as "prev" and "next" variables like we have for stories. I have zero experience with infoboxes, but maybe it's time I figure it out!