User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20171027202334/@comment-28349479-20171029171039

... since I made that post, I've been made aware of T:DAB OTHER, which I feel like I can argue against, since I'm in the Panopticon? It seems to me that the policies on that page are trying to solve problems that don't exist.

Imagine the case of Greg Sutton. He was a character introduced in Inferno. But so was the version of him in the parallel Earth of that story. So the name Greg Sutton (Inferno) is ambiguous.

But plenty of pages have "Alternate timeline" or "Parallel universe" sections. Tenth Doctor#Alternate timelines and Tenth Doctor#In a parallel world are perfect examples of this; I'm not even going to try to list more, since there are so many. A section called "In the Inferno universe" would perfectly suffice for Mr Sutton.

A good example is Adolf Hitler (Inferno Earth). He doesn't exactly appear in the book The Face of the Enemy, but his legend on Inferno Earth is described. A name like Adolf Hitler (The Face of the Enemy) wouldn't make nearly the common sense of Adolf Hitler (Inferno Earth).

... why not? If all the information about someone comes from a single story, why not disambiguate ? Or, even better, just pop the information into the already-expansive Adolf Hitler#Other realities! I guess in general, I just don't understand the appeal. If the Tardis Wiki is supposed to be an encyclopedia, why are we intent on splitting information about characters as simple as Ellie Martin across multiple pages?

(Don't even get me started on situations like the Shadow World, where the Twelfth Doctor (Shadow World) clearly lived through the events of Deep Breath through Oxygen, but his page can only have information about Extremis; or, even worse, how we can't list Moira (The Pilot) as a recurring character in series 10 because Moira (Shadow World) is technically a different person ...)