User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130129081336/@comment-7302713-20130404120613

I've been following this discussion for a few days now, though I had to stop reading at a certain point. I'm for three separate articles:

• We don't know that they are the same person
• It's easier to do three articles to one instead of one to three
• It's easier to keep track of the individuality of each appearance as well as the similarities between them

For me, the last reason is perhaps the most compelling. I'm sure we'll see lots of references in the current Oswald to the past Oswalds. Things she says or does that remind the Doctor of a girl he met who died. But if we treat them as separate characters and write up full articles on them (including full personality sections) than we will do the best job of treating them as individuals. We'll do the best job painting a picture of the girls that the Doctor met. The girls that the Doctor had no idea were the same person. The girls the Doctor liked and was intrigued by even before he knew just how special they were. If this issue isn't cleared up in the future, I'll likely feel the same way. I know we like to think or her as one girl, but really, the Doctor met two whole and complete people before he found his current companion. I don't really like the idea of discounting that just because she's also a mystery spread throughout time and space.

Edited to say: Not three articles specifically. As many articles as we have versions of Clara. Which at the moment would be four. Or, alternatively versions of Clara like the one seen at the end of The Snowmen could go on a disambig page. Basically versions where we're seen a girl who looks like Clara but know little other than "a girl who looked like Clara was here, did X here sometime in the general time period of/after/before..."