User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-25117610-20180302210944/@comment-25117610-20180302231850

Shambala108 wrote:

Then, also in 2011, a user, probably noticing that most of the entries were TV characters, added the statement: "Note: This only includes Time Lords who have appeared on the television series Doctor Who." This user was not an admin, and doesn't appear to have consulted anyone about this move.

Since then, there have been occasional additions of non-TV Time Lords. Sometimes these additions were removed, sometimes they weren't.

Also, searching the history revision, I found that, before the addition of said note, Time Lords like Astrolabus, The Other, Cuthbert Simpson and even the previously mentioned Braxiatel and Iris were present, but were then removed.

Additionally, I found out that Tardis:Neutral point of view was created in 2012, more than a year later of the addition of this note. As I wasn't an editor back then, I don't know if there was a previous policy which covered the subject of neutrality while writing, but I think that the datings of each event also help clarifying why decisions were made back then, and maybe help us decide what to do with the template now.

The only other options I can think of, make one template for all Time Lords or make a template for each medium, are just not practical.

While we could try that, I agree that they would both not be practical.

• Creating a template for all Time Lords would make it too big/messy for anyone to read.
• Creating a template for each medium would still be too big, and, IMO still not very close to the intentions of T:NPOV.