Master comment

I broadly agree with the spirit, if not the letter, of this proposal. Some reasons:

* Parallelism is something that matters a lot on this wiki. When the [[not we]] get used to finding information about a specific incarnation of the Doctor on a page specially made for that incarnation, such as [[Romana I]], [[Fourth Doctor]], or [[the Eleven]], they will ''of course'' try to do the same for [[Missy]] or [[the Master (Doctor Who)]], and we fail in our duties as a wiki by making our Master pages inaccessible!

* It's even worse for editors than it is for readers. Currently, when I try to edit [[The Master]], my browser lags. It doesn't matter what browser I'm using or what computer I'm on, the whole thing is completely unworkable unless I ctrl+A ctrl+C the whole thing into Notepad/Pastebin first. This is a problem!

* Per these reasons, and as dictated in [[Thread:264489]], pages like [[The Master]] have to be made shorter, one way or the other. One way to fix this is painful culling of information; the other way is splitting the page up into separate, smaller pages. Thankfully, we already have ample precedent for creating pages for individual incarnations of Time Lords. Let's use it!

* Multi-Master stories are a mess. As it stands, one paragraph about [[the Battle of the Bands Beyond the Stars]] is more or less copy-pasted ''five times'' on the page.

* There have been several incarnations of the Master which aren't currently counted as official incarnations for various reasons. While [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|]] was right that [[the War Chief]] is best left to its own thread, [[T:NPOV]] mandates that we leave the possibility open that (eg) the [[Man with the Rosette]] is an incarnation of the Master, but covering him on a different page from all the "official" Master incarnations precludes any ambiguity or subtlety of interpretation!

None of these factors were considered during [[Forum:The Master]] and [[Forum:The Master - 1 article]], and since then we have invented the marvelous system of dabbing based on appearances, so we can cover [[The Master (Doctor Who)]] etc without speculating as to which exact incarnation that was. I struggle to see a single good reason for us to ''not'' adopt this change, and given [[User:BananaClownMan]]'s rigorous Sandbox treatments of individual Master articles, I hope we can move forward with it quickly!