User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20151101035254/@comment-24894325-20151229094344

I had my hopes up for the soon to be Harry Osgood. Because this may solve our conundrum. Why can't we use

• Harry Osgood for the guy from The Seeds of Death
• Tom Osgood for the guy from The Dæmons,
• Osgood for the Osgood collective,
• Osgood (disambiguation) for the disambiguation page,
• Bonnie (The Zygon Invasion) for Bonnie,
• Zygon (Osgood) for the Zygon from The Day of the Doctor?

Benefit: we have trouble finding a good dab term for our Osgoods.

Violates the policy? Let me try to argue that it does not. T:DAB states: Common English names and titles are retained for use as a disambiguation page. I would argue that Osgood is not a common name. We've had three of those in 50+ years (and two of them are likely to be related). Moreover, while SOTO is right that compared to Jack Harkness, Osgood is far from being a primary topic. But it seems to me that the definition of "primary topic" in the policy is actually relative rather than absolute: Although a term may potentially refer to more than one topic, it sometimes is the case that one of these topics is far more likely to be the one a reader is searching for when searching in the Search box. If there is such a topic, then it is known as the primary topic for that term. I think that readers are more likely to search for our Osgood than for Tom Osgood or Harry Osgood or Osgood's sister (no disrespect to Tom and Harry). People are unlikely to search for Osgood's box using just Osgood. So I would deem Osgood to be a primary topic relative to the usage of Osgood, which allows to reserve the Osgood page for the character rather than the disambiguation page.

I hope that we can at least agree on the first five of these names, which would only leave one to discuss.