User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130129081336/@comment-26975268-20130325162157
Actually, from what I understood, one of the main reasons all the Doctors are split up is because of the massive amount of information. Tenth Doctor and Eleventh Doctor are two of our longest pages — imagine all the Doctor pages in one!
As far as the Master, as you know, we originally had separate pages, but grouped them together. Why? From what I gathered, one of the main reasons was that we can't really name the articles easily, and we don't really know much about numbering of incarnations and such. Unlike with the Doctor, who we follow around and know nearly every major event in his life, the Master's life is way more fuzzy and our understanding of it exclusively centred around his encounters with the Doctor.
So let's inspect Clara:
- Name: At the moment, we have "Oswin Oswald," "Clara Oswin Oswald," "Clara (The Snowmen)," and "Clara Oswald (The Bells of Saint John: A Prequel)." That works okay as it stands now. But I'm positive that the Clara we'll be introduced to in 7B will be named "Clara Oswald" as well — probably with a middle name of "Oswin" too. And any incarnations from hereon, if she should die again, will be named "Clara Oswin Oswald," or, if not specified, "Clara Oswald." So we're going to end up with a lot of "Clara Oswin Oswald (dab term)"s and "Clara Oswald (dab term)"s. I think it would be easier to handle on one page, split by her many lives.
- Readers: Next question: what are the readers looking for? Especially during 7B, readers will go to Clara Oswin Oswald to gather information on all the different versions of Clara and possibly formulate their own theories, only to find out that the page only has The Snowmen information. With all the information gathered on one page, it would please the readers much more, as they could look at all the information at once, and be able to think.
By the way, an alternate way of handling this is to have one common page, ie. Clara Oswin Oswald, where we put basic information on all of them, as well as similarities, differences, and, when we get it, the explanation for the split-up. In sections for each incarnation, we'd have basic information and storyline, and a link to the "main article" on that specific incarnation for more information.
