User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130412143615/@comment-24894325-20170605004526

There is no disagreement on the top two or bottom two items on the list of precedence. Regarding the middle part, more editors favoured putting scripts below both prose and end credits. And this is natural in light of T:NO RW to consider prose narratives above the out-of-universe sources such as scripts or at best semi-universe sources such as end credits. It is also natural to put end credits above scripts as the former are created later in the production and the latter are sometimes released without a particular pressure to update to the last version. However, a serious reservation here exists regarding novelisations. Thus, given the lower status of novelisations compared to the original episodes, they are moved below both scripts and end credits.

Final ruling

In case of disputes, the spelling of proper names, titles, etc is determined based on the following available written sources ordered in the downward order of preference (a spelling from a source higher on the list wins over a spelling from a source further down):

1. Dialogue in which the character actually spells a name (e.g., Susan Foreman saying: "T-A-R-D-I-S: Time and Relative Dimension in Space").
2. Onscreen graphics that establish the spelling (e.g., a gravestone that shows us how to spell Clara Oswin Oswald).
3. Primary prose narratives using the characters, e.g., an original novel, a short story (e.g., the last name of April MacLean spelled in the Class novels) or UPD: a novelisation (per Thread:231243).
4. End credits (e.g., it's Barbara as in Wright, not Barbra as in Streisand)
5. Officially released scripts.
6. Novelisations. (updated based on Thread:231243)
7. The Doctor Who website, run by BBC Online. This is not a valid source for the existence of a thing or even the existence of another part of the name, but it is acceptable for the spelling of the part of the name that was pronounced in-universe. (For instance, while BBC website listed the character as Matteusz Andrzejewski but he was only called by the first name in-universe, the page was Matteusz until the last name appeared in-universe too.)
8. Closed captioning. When all else fails, CC can be used: namely,
   1. DVD/Blu-ray release is the highest order CC;
   2. until such time as the DVD/Blu-Ray is released, the CC from Red Bee Media that is seen on BBC One and BBC iPlayer is the highest global CC authority, and the page is named from that;
   3. redirects from the spellings seen on other official transmissions of episodes allowed as redirects so people can find the page, but not allowed in page names or links.

Exception

This decision does not affect T:K9.