User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20170618182814/@comment-4028641-20170619005858

Alright, so I'm playing into your game here... But Winston Churchill has looked like his real-world counterpart before in COMIC: Time Wake.

While you may question if Yuri Gagarin looks like the version depicted inside the Monk's propaganda, I think it serves very few people to outright deny that Gagarin did appear in the Cathedral's illusion-thing. I think it's fine for the page Donald Trump to mention his role in The Lie of the Land, even if we don't really like out-right saying that his appearance in that story is how he regularly appeared. But I certainly came to strongly disagree with the slippery slope which lead you to deny that MLK was featured in Remembrance of the Daleks.

Would it be too out-of-the ordinary to suggest that we forge a rule to discrepancies like this in the future? Perhaps the redirect would be T:DUH.

The basic outline of the rule would be that if a person is pictured in a story, or if a book is quoted in a story, or a tune whistled, that we can use the real world name of said thing.

I, for one, see no difference from naming a song and identifying the players as the Beatles and identifying Martin Luther King Jr as the speaker in the "I Have a Dream" speech. (It has a wikipedia page! It's basically just a spoken song haha)