Talk:Doctor Who: Lockdown!

Rename reason

Name changed as stated by creator here Toqgers ☎ 08:07, March 29, 2020 (UTC)

missing number

There is a Watchalong number 8 and number 10, but where is number 9? --Rübenbrei ☎ 19:46, May 5, 2020 (UTC)

I think that someone thought Human Nature / Family of Blood were to be counted seperately. Xx-connor-xX ☎ 19:52, May 5, 2020 (UTC)

Paternoster Gang

Is the Paternoster Gang watch-along really part of this event? It had nothing to do with Emily Cook or the Lockdown! brand. It was organised solely by Big Finish. Xx-connor-xX ☎ 19:52, May 5, 2020 (UTC)

Other Watchalongs

If we are to keep track of ALL tweetalong events during COVID-19 pandemics, I think these events should be added:

• Spyfall watchalong hosted by BBC America. Although it didn't use hashtag, Sacha Dhawan joined the watchalong and tweeted his comments.
• Two Torchwood watchalongs hosted by Radio Times.
• Upcoming The Three Doctors watchalong hosted by TardisMonkey (who arranged The Five Doctors watchalong)

But is it really necessary? I mean, anyone can start a tweetalong event. If I arrange a tweetalong event, should it be covered by this article? I think we need some criteria for this article's coverage.--Wholmesian ☎ 05:44, May 6, 2020 (UTC)

I removed the Paternoser Gang watch-along because frankly it has nothing to do with this event, but someone else added it to a newly created “other” section. I agree that a I don’t think these should be covered, anyone can host a watch-along but none of these are part of the same event. Xx-connor-xX ☎ 09:32, May 6, 2020 (UTC)

That does seem a bit of a shame to remove The Five Doctors and the Big Finish ones, I agree that not every watch-along should be posted, but maybe keep it to anything endorsed or organised by Emily Cook or the BBC? I think that's a fair way of doing it if the "other" section is reinstated. VeryFerociousDrama ☎ 10:35, May 7, 2020 (UTC)

I think it's clear that any and all post-Lockdown, COVID-19-era Doctor Who tweetalongs are inspired by Lockdown!. For that reason, so long as the deleted COVID-19 page remains deleted, I think this is the best page to document all the ‘official’ watchalongs. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 10:50, May 7, 2020 (UTC)

Non-Lockdown stories

so weve established that non-lockdown watchalongs shouldnt be included. so why sould non-lockdown stories like 'how the monk got his habit'? DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎

The issue is that the other watchalongs aren't part of any centralised event (or, in TARDIS Monkey's case, aren't in any way shape or form acknowledged by the BBC or other rightsholders). That obviously doesn't apply to something like Message from the Doctor.

Personally, I think they should remain included on this page, if they're covered on the Wiki, until such a time as we have a COVID-19 page again. They might not be branded as Lockdown!, but these "side-releases" are clearly revolving in the same noosphere, following the trail of the ball that Emily Cook got rolling. Sorry for the tortured metaphor. We should have a list of these somewhere, and this is as good a place as any.

This is what the title of the section, "Associated releases" is supposed to convey. They're associated with Lockdown!, so until we get a better idea, that's where we list them; but they're not necessarily part of Lockdown!. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 14:51, May 17, 2020 (UTC)

an issue to be discussed elsewhere. you shouldt just pile unrelated information here just because another area doesnt exist. the other watch alongs have been decided no to be placed her, and so the nonrelated stories should not be here too. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 14:52, May 17, 2020 (UTC)

That's not your place to decide and it's not mine either. It's the place of an admin, after a lengthy debate involving the rest of the community. Until then, Tardis:Do not disrupt this wiki to prove a point applies. You started this discussion and it must be aired out. The best thing to do would be to create a Panopticon thread, and I'll go do so right now. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 14:59, May 17, 2020 (UTC)

the information should be removed until it is decided that it is allowed by an admin then... information about non-lockdown stories (which you yourself said deserves to be elsewhere) should not reside on the lockdown page - and theres already a president with the non-lockdown watches being removed. it is incredbly misleading. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎

I've started the Panopticon thread. And I would dispute the idea that it is "incredibly misleading". Again, we're calling these Associated releases, not 100%-on-brand-Lockdwon-originals. A bunch of people have been editing this page in the last few months, including admins, not to mention the oodles more passive readers; you're the first to complain. You do not get to make a decision about this and neither do I. Go argue your point in the forums, and an admin will rule over it eventually, but in the meantme, Tardis:You are bound by current policy. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 15:06, May 17, 2020 (UTC)

Fear is a Superpower Comic

The LOCKDOWN! YouTube channel also release a narrated comic strip featuring the life of Danny Pink entitled Fear is a Superpower. It's not exactly a webcast, I'm assuming it still goes under the story list? TheFartyDoctor ^Talk 18:55, May 20, 2020 (UTC)

Sure! There are already other things than webcasts in the story list. Doctor Who and the Time War, for one. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 19:00, May 20, 2020 (UTC)

Vincent and the Doctor's Gallery

Okay, we're straying into edit war territory here. Let's discuss the subject of this project that was posted on the Lockdown! youtube channel. It's a scene of Vincent and the Doctor (TV story), when Starry Night is being conceived, that leads into a series of fan art, and then the gallery scene with "pile of good things and bad things". Does this merit inclusion on this wiki and inclusion in this series? In my view, clearly not. This does not itself constitute a story, as there's a scene, a harsh cut to montage, and then a harsh cut to another scene, with thematic coherence but no narrative coherence. Even putting that aside, there's no new narrative material here, just reposting clips of an already existing episode, at best you should make a note on the episode page, and this wiki is not the place for fan art. And finally, not everything this youtube page does is noteworthy, as evidenced by other videos existing that aren't being talked about on this wiki. Let's discuss. Najawin ☎ 01:22, May 21, 2020 (UTC)

So the issue here isn't "is this part of the event". Technically anyone tweeting while watching the episode is part of the event. It's a tweetalong. It's "is this part of the event and is this something the wiki should cover". I think the reasons I've given establish it's not. Not everything this youtube video posts is worthy of being covered, and this clearly isn't supposed to be taken to be in universe, unlike your example. So, funnily enough, this Wiki actually didn't appear in The Zygon Isolation. Rather, an N-Space version of it did. Which is sort of tangential to the main point, but still defuses it nicely. Najawin ☎ 01:39, May 21, 2020 (UTC)

Well, N-Space is just where Doctor Who takes place. And since this is where the Osgoods exist, sort of by definition they're in N-Space. This isn't speculation. It clearly can't be our wiki, as Doctor Who is not real in our world, but there is Doctor Who (N-Space), and associated fansites. As for why this story isn't taking place in N-Space, well, it's not a story, for one. For the second, we can check the "publisher summary". "A compilation of Vincent van Gogh-inspired Doctor Who fan artwork along with inspirational quotes from the series which have helped fans through tough times." It's very clearly just supposed to be a compilation within a certain framing device using the episode, not an actual story set within N-Space.Najawin ☎ 01:56, May 21, 2020 (UTC)

Let me make one thing perfectly clear: it is a violation of Tardis:Vandalism policy to alter other users' posts on talk pages, discussion boards, and/or forums. Continued violation of this policy WILL result in a block. Shambala108 ☎ 02:05, May 21, 2020 (UTC)

I agree that this isn't a story, or at the very least not a valid story. However, I see no reason not to have a page about it as a "(documentary)". Devious is a good precedent for a licensed DW documentary serving to showcase bits of something that started out as a fanwork. It doesn't mean very much that the Wiki doesn't have pages on a lot of YouTube documentaries — it also lacks a lot of pages about EDA characters. The fact that Wiki editors are only human doesn't mean the pages shouldn't, in the abstract, exist.

Ergo, I think we can cover Vincent and the Doctor's Gallery the way we cover a lot of episodes of The Fan Show: as a documentary with some invalid in-universe bits that are impossible to separate fully from the documentariness. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 09:47, May 22, 2020 (UTC)

Seconded. Danochy ☎ 12:25, May 22, 2020 (UTC)

So we all agree it's not a story within the DWU. The issue is that I don't think it's a story without the DWU either, which it would usually need to be to be a documentary. There's simply no narrative to the thing. It's a compilation of fan art. There's no discussion of how the the fan art is impacting people, or how people are making the fan art, these things are taken as ontological primitives and there's a montage of fan art. It can't be a documentary in the traditional sense. It's something else. What else that thing is is up for debate.

As for your example of Devious, I don't think the two are comparable. The one was on a BBC release, so while it wasn't produced with a license, it certainly was distributed as if it had one (though not intended to be in the DWU). But we know that the Lockdown as a whole does not have a license. This is something that's come up multiple times in our discussions in Thread:273268. The things that are debatable are "new Official Doctor Who stories", and what those are and whether those are licensed. This is quite clearly not one of those. So I think it just blatantly runs afoul of T:NO FANVID, especially considering the definition of fanvid given in the sidebar there. Najawin ☎ 18:13, May 22, 2020 (UTC)

But… if it's not a story at all, but rather a documentary, then it wouldn't need a license, would it? The portion of T:VS that's concerned with things having commercial licenses is for what counts as a valid story. But for documentary features, all that's required is that the source be reliable. I think a DWM editor like Emily Cook is a reliable source for REF information, and that's what matters.

(This Wiki's understanding of "documentary", unless I'm very wrong, is "video or audio product that tells about DW in the real world rather than being a purveyor of fiction". Vincnt and the Doctor's Gallery very much is that if nothing else.) --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 18:38, May 22, 2020 (UTC)

My point on the license issue is more to show that the two aren't comparable. Not to argue that it's not a documentary. The argument for why it's not a documentary is the prior paragraph, which I think still stands. This doesn't tell us anything about Doctor Who. It isn't intended to tell us about Doctor Who. It's intended to be a collection of fan art and inspirational quotes that have helped people through these tough times. It's intended to be part of Lockdown's overall goal, which is more community and keeping people in high spirits. But it's not telling us anything about Doctor Who or anything about Doctor Who Fan Culture except listing off a set of ontological primitives. Which just isn't sufficient for a documentary. Najawin ☎ 18:44, May 22, 2020 (UTC)

Well, it's showcasing a bunch of real-world Doctor Who-related objects (namely, the pieces of fanart). If standalone releases of VFX tests, without any additional commentary, count as documentaries, then I think so should this. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 18:46, May 22, 2020 (UTC)

If it's an individual VFX test, or a compilation of a single or similar VFX tests, that actually has narrative continuity, funnily enough. If it's just a bunch of random VFX effects thrown together, I'd agree, that would be precedent, as that's just a bunch of ontological primitives thrown together with no relation, exactly the same situation as we have here. I'd prefer to call that not a documentary and invent a new term, and perhaps then argue whether this should be covered under that new term. But by T:BOUND it would be precedent, that's just my preference. Najawin ☎ 18:52, May 22, 2020 (UTC)

Well, User:OncomingStorm12th changed Heaven Sent Previsualizations’s dab term from my "(webcast)" to "(documentary)". User:SOTO later removed the dab term altogether due to their not being any conflict, but not denying that if we were to use a dab term, this would be the correct one. So there we are. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 19:00, May 22, 2020 (UTC)

No, I don't think this qualifies. These are both shots mocked up in CGI, actual scenes, described, and they're united by the description of being previsualizations of a single episode. What I imagined you talking about was, say, someone compiling different VFX effects from S3 into a single documentary, and showing how they did Lazarus before immediately showing a mockup of the Master's regeneration. That would be the level of discontinuity that's analogous. (I apologize for the miscommunication, in my mind VFX test = you're testing the visual effects, not creating a CGI mockup of a scene that will be created later with some CGI and some live action.) Najawin ☎ 19:09, May 22, 2020 (UTC)

I mean, all the pieces of fan-submitted art featured in Vincent and the Doctor's Gallery are also united by a common theme, indeed, united by a common episode as their subject. I'm not sure I follow. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 19:14, May 22, 2020 (UTC)

The "actual scenes" clause there is rather relevant. But this also just isn't true. There are two pieces of artwork that are generic TARDISes. Perhaps they'd be more relevant from afar? But from what we can see they've got no connection to the framing device. (Also if I want to be really pedantic, some of their connection to the episode is just the style of art, "The Pandorica Opens" is featured, and that belongs to a latter episode. As in, Vincent Van Gogh outright shows up in a latter episode with the picture, so it's just out of place here. But I don't think I need to be that specific.) Najawin ☎ 19:24, May 22, 2020 (UTC)

An Adventure in Space and Time

A watchalong for An Adventure in Space and Time has been announced and scheduled for the 23rd of May, featuring live commentary from Mark Gatiss and Sacha Dhawan with the hashtag #London1963. Since the page is protected, I am hereby requesting for an administrator to add it to the list of watchalongs. TheDarkBomber -- Talk Page 12:38, May 22, 2020 (UTC)

What's more, another lock-down story has also come out Doctors Assemble. This also needs to be added as well. Snivy ✦ The coolest Pokemon ever ✦ 18:12, May 23, 2020 (UTC)

Name change proposal, and dates

Just wanted to drop a message here I can't see a discussion about the proposal to change this article's name to "Lockdown!". Personally, I don't see a problem with this especially if it is the convention of this wiki for "Doctor Who:..." articles. Although, I have noticed another article titled "Lockdown" without the "!", so perhaps the distinction is necessary/useful to avoid confusion. Opinions anyone?

Also, I noticed that the dates of this are listed as "21 March 2020-present", but this should probably be changed as per tweets such as https://twitter.com/Emily_Rosina/status/1269671792785973248 and https://twitter.com/Emily_Rosina/status/1269532196492148736 which indicate June 7th as the final date. Oswinoswaldbowtiesarecool ☎ 23:04, June 9, 2020 (UTC)

the page should be "Doctor Who: LOCKDOWN!" that is what Emily Cook officially stated that she was naming the event. [1] the YouTube channel also takes this exact name, and only the tweets go by "#DoctorWhoLockdown" because i'm pretty sure you cannot have a colon or exclamation mark in the hashtag - dont know why the "Lockdown" wasnt capitalised in the hashtag but it is elsewhere. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 23:10, June 9, 2020 (UTC)

While this is all true, please see the threads linked in the rename template for why this page might not be named that way. Thread:116217 seems to be a dead link, but Forum:Doctor Who prefix in titles seems to work alright. Danochy ☎ 23:42, June 9, 2020 (UTC)

Capitalising Lockdown brings us a technical problem (all caps is read as shouting, and words in all caps at this length are caught by the abuse filter unless a specific exception is made), so it is certainly easier for us to read "Doctor Who: LOCKDOWN!" as a stylisation of "Doctor Who: Lockdown!". This would incidentally be following Wikipedia's lead on non-standard capitalisation when the name isn't an acronym. If you google the name, you'll find news sources for Lockdown in regular title case, so it (presumably) isn't our invention. Finally, there's the issue of inconsistency. The YouTube channel might be called "Doctor Who: LOCKDOWN!" now, but the title of each video excludes the exclamation mark. We've gotta go with something.

As for the prefix issue, we have decided to retain the Doctor Who prefix where doing away with it would bring ambiguity (or require unnecessary disambiguation). ex: A Celebration vs. Doctor Who: A Celebration, or Regeneration vs. Doctor Who: Regeneration. This is a possibility if that's what is resolved through discussion.
× SOTO (☎/✍/↯) 00:05, June 10, 2020 (UTC)

thanks for going into detail, the link in the rename tag wasn't going to the thread (just taking me back to the main page). i think the name is best as it is right now. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 00:35, June 10, 2020 (UTC)

(The correct link is Thread:117218)
× SOTO (☎/✍/↯) 00:37, June 10, 2020 (UTC)

DWM 554

I am cautious posting this, as I do not want to reopen the discussion outside of the current thread, but I think that this information is extremely important. @RingoRoadagain claims that DWM 554 gives a comprehensive list on all of the stories that they believe to be part of the “Lockdown Season” (with the insight of having interviewed creatives like Emily Cook.

• Strax Saves the Day

• Revenge of the Nestene

• The Raggedy Doctor by Amelia Pond

• Rory's Story

• Farewell, Sarah Jane

• Shadow of a Doubt

• The Shadow in the Mirror

• Sven and the Scarf

• Pompadour

• The Zygon Isolation

• The Descendants of Pompeii

• Listen

• Fear Is a Superpower

• Doctors Assemble!

• The Secret of Novice Hame

• The Best of Days

The stories that are left behind are;

The BBC released stories - which most were in agreement deserved their own page

• Things She Thought While Falling

• Doctor Who and the Time War

• Press Play

• The Terror of the Umpty Ums

• The Shadow Passes

• The Simple Things

The released COVID-related video messages

• Message from the Doctor

• Incoming Message

• United we stand, 2m apart

This leaves three stories (two of which are worthy candidates for deletion):

• Breaking Isolation

• Dalek alternative script extract

• How The Monk Got His Habit

It only seems logical to go with the stories that DWM credited as being “Lockdown” releases, while finding new places to house the other stories. I think that a new page should be created to house the BBC lockdown stories. The COVID-related video messages could be covered on the main COVID or Lockdown pages.

That leaves us with the three stories that are orphaned. I am more than sure that two out of three stories will find themselves deleted (or merged) before long, and the final story – Dalek alternative script extract – could remain on this page as mention only rather than on the stories list (as it is the odd one out of all the other releases which all got webcasts – even the short story that was ‘Revenge of the Nestene’ got the webcast of Jacob Dudman’s narration). DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 00:15, July 30, 2020 (UTC)

DWM 554 does contain this list, and I agree that it is a very interesting piece of data. Still, it makes no claim to be "comprehensive", nor that the list itself was based on their discussions with Cook.

It also notably includes the non-narrative Long Song cover, which they don't separate from the rest at all, so they clearly use different criteria than we would in any case. Since we're going to slightly mess with their scheme by not including Long Song in the same list, I see no reason not to also leave Dalek alternative script extract in the list, possibly with a footnote explaining that it was not included in the DWM article. Ditto for How The Monk Got His Habit under the current policy of considering it a short story, though of course, if your proposal to merge it goes through, that would change matters somewhat.

After all, DWM are positing a Lockdown Season. It is obvious that such a thing could only contain media which are, in one shape or another, video. This is not necessarily a denial that prose obviously released under the Lockdown! banner (in this case, the Dalek alternative script extracts and arguably Monk) is not part of Lockdown!.

I agree that the lack of any mention of the BBC Website stories is compelling evidence to house them on a different page, albeit with prominent link from that page to this one and vice-versa. We might also think of some scheme whereby Doctor Who and the Time War and Incoming Message, while not part of the list of stories, are mentioned in the infobox of the watchalongs themselves as having been released to tie in with the Rose watchalong, even if they are not quite part of the Lockdown! brand and/or Season. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 00:26, July 30, 2020 (UTC)

Not interested at all in going over the discussions we have been circling for the past couple of months once again. The reason for my post was to publish the new information, that you erased from the page, as it is extremely valuable.

You can suggest that they use different criteria all you like, but the fact is that what is published in DWM is more reliable than your interpretatiobs. Coincidentally, their list is the exact same as the one I originally created at the start of the discussion...!

I will leave the topic for the admins to pick up, and hope that the new information speeds up the resolution. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 00:31, July 30, 2020 (UTC)

I was actually trying to avoid the main sticking points of our arguments (such as the Monk story). Still, the fact remains that the list you reproduced above is not quite the list DWM gave us. The list DWM gave us includes the Long Song cover, and the formatting of the article leaves no question that they consider it to be an installment of "the Lockdown Season" like any other, non-narrative though it may be.

The matter cannot possibly be resolved (by admins or otherwise) until a full solution is put forward in the Forums. Your post, while mistaken in one respect, was a step on the way to constructing such a solution, and I'd like your opinion on the option to e.g. mention the two not-quite-Lockdown stories released on the day of the Rose watchalong in the watchalongs table but not the stories list. Surely this doesn't require sparking up any old arguments?

I did not 'erase' this information from the page. The lead already contains a paragraph describing the contents of the DWM article. It phrases it by pointing out which stories currently held to be Lockdown! by this Wiki the DWM article did not include — but that is the same information, and it was redundant to have it appear twice. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 00:37, July 30, 2020 (UTC)

The Long Song cover is the only lockdown-created documentary that could be properly reviewed. All of the other documentaries are either news related, preparations for the song cover, work that was created long ago (like the Heaven Sent stuff) or a COVID-related webcast like The Doctors Say Thank You. The only other thing created in lockdown was Vincent and the Doctor’s Gallery and that is just a collection of fan work, not really worth reviewing.

The fact is that I believe the true lockdown releases have been obvious from the start - case in point my original list matching DWM’s. That’s why I have no intention whatsoever discussing it with you further as I know we are unable to see eye to eye on this matter. There’s no doubt in my mind that we’d go another 500 posts before agreeing, and I’m not prepared to do it. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 00:53, July 30, 2020 (UTC)

I dunno what's all this talk of "reviewing" is. The Wiki is unconcerned with what you choose to critique. (Unless you mean "rewatch"? But again, T:NPOV. If you think these documentaries are dull, that's your problem.)

But again, staying away from the matter of what is a part of Lockdown!, I don't see why you won't provide feedback on a suggestion for what to do with possibly the only two damn things which we agree aren't quite part of Lockdown! yet should be covered, namely Incoming Message and Doctor Who and the Time War. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 01:02, July 30, 2020 (UTC)

Mention only in the introduction - similar to the other content and watchalongs. That has always been my stance. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 01:06, July 30, 2020 (UTC)

New Evidence re Lockdown stories

The official Doctor Who: Lockdown! website, which launched today, gives us a list of "Minisodes" and "Extras" that are counted as part of the official Lockdown event.

The minisodes are as follows (and this information lines up EXACTLY with what was explained in DWM 554 which I mentioned above);

• Strax Saves the Day

• Revenge of the Nestene

• The Raggedy Doctor by Amelia Pond

• Rory's Story

• Farewell, Sarah Jane

• Shadow of a Doubt

• The Shadow in the Mirror

• Sven and the Scarf

• Pompadour

• The Zygon Isolation

• The Descendants of Pompeii

• Listen

• Fear Is a Superpower

• Doctors Assemble!

• The Secret of Novice Hame

• The Best of Days

"Extras" are;

• Dalek: Spoof Scenes

• Heaven Sent Previsualizations

• Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angel

Now two individual sources; the official Lockdown website and the DWM, both reveal that those 16 stories above are the only releases associated with the Lockdown brand.

We should be finding a place to rehouse the other stories listed in the associated releases section. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 15:57, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

Quite so. We're long overdue finding some way to split the BBC website stories from the YouTube and Twitter stories.

Fact remains, though, that a lot of the documentary webcasts that are unquestionably part of Lockdown! (having been released on the YouTube channel) aren't on the website's listings: no A-to-Z of Impressions With Jon Culshaw to be seen, for example. And Tests for the Mechanism of Heaven Sent's Confession Dial isn't listed despite being clearly the same thing as Heaven Sent Previsualizations. So while this reinforces that we should find somewhere else to put the BBC stories than in the same table as the strictly Lockdown! ones, we shouldn't get carried away.

I still think the easiest solution is to keep it all on this page but split the lists further — I'm thinking three sections using the titles and listings given on the new website ("Minisodes", "Singalongs", "Extras"), then "BBC website stories", then a "Miscellaneous" in which we can stuff the other Lockdown! YouTube channel videos, Incoming Message, How The Monk Got His Habit, and so on. I'm unsure if the BBC videos (like Message from the Doctor) should be lumped in with "BBC website stories," "Miscellaneous", or be yet a sixth listing.

Thoughts? --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 16:08, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

Sounds reasonable.

Epsilon 📯 📂

16:16, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

We should be going with what DWM and the official Doctor Who: Lockdown site tells us - especially as they both agree on which stories count and which stories don't.

The 6 BBC stories should be on their own page, and the 3 COVID-related messages should be either with them or relegated to mentions on the COVID-related pages (unsure which ones).

The only stories I can see that should be up for discussion are; Breaking Isolation and How The Monk Got His Habit. In my opinion these two should either be mentioned only - due to the fact that they are the only invalid releases and have not been claimed by either Emily Rosina or the Lockdown team, or at a push included in the "Extras" section. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 16:19, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

User:Najawin's question at Talk:COVID-19#Behind the scenes has yet to be answered and could prove relevant here. Although it would not be my perfect solution due to the omissions Scrooge mentioned above, it could be feasible to cover on this article only what is on the website and then use the bts section of the COVID-19 article to provide an overview of everything else that has been created, or otherwise affected, as a result of the pandemic. --Borisashton ☎ 16:22, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

That's maybe a valid place to shunt off the BBC websites stories — although even then, it's weird historical revisionism to act as though Doctor Who and the Time War wasn't very specifically released to tie in with the Lockdown! tweetalong of TV: Rose. The real problems are the webcasts that are on the Doctor Who: Lockdown! YouTube channel, just not on the website. And, of course, Monk, which was released as part of the tweetalong hashtag, but not through the usual channels.

Speaking of which, @DiSoRiEnTeD1, those are far from the only two invalid releases. Spoof Scenes ain't valid, just to name one that unquestionably belongs on this page. But there are also all the documentary-type things and singalongs.

(I think we can discount Breaking Isolation at this stage, though. I still maintain that it can be read as a story in its own right, but in hindsight it's clear that it wasn't actually part of Lockdown! to any extent, so its licensedness is up for debate. The page should probably be reconverted into being about the poem it stole the image from, and the comic story Breaking Isolation, which was technically "fanfic", will become a BTS note. Not because it fails Rule 1, though. But because it fails Rules 2 and 3.)--Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 16:29, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

I think it would be helpful if you yourself @ScroogeMacDuck took responsibility of Breaking Isolation having learned from your problematic creation of the K9 "stories" (which turned out to just be replies from the official Twitter account). This "story" was only a picture from another work with a single caption, it does not equate a new story - and several people on Talk: Breaking Isolation (comic story) agree with that.

With Breaking Isolation removed from the equation the only story I see without a place is How The Monk Got His Habit. The 16 Lockdown stories can go on this page along with the 3 Extra features, and the 6 BBC website stories can go on their own page along with the 3 video messages. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 16:31, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

…Look, if you're going to ignore the arguments raised in answer to your points, I'm going to have to ask you to stop participating in this conversation until you've actually read through it properly. To wit, to name but one: the Lockdown! webcasts that are on the YouTube channel but not on the website: what do we do with'em, in your scheme?

The video messages also can't all go on the BBC website because it's not clear that Incoming Message was licensed by the BBC rather than by RTD himself, creator and owner of the character Yvonne Hartman. Even if the BBC lent it their approval, however, it certainly wasn't released by the Beeb.

I can see shunting off the BBC website stories to their own page, if that's what the consensus is, but we're still going to need a "Miscellaneous" list on the Lockdown! page to cover things like Tests for the Mechanism of Heaven Sent's Confession Dial. I suggest we stick Monk there, perhaps with a footnote explaining the specificities of that particular story's release. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 16:39, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

To be fair, the length of a story is irrelevant, @DiSoRiEnTeD1 - go check out Vrs and Untitled - two very short stories, each under a word count of no more than 25.

And also, theoretically, a flash-faction short story could be released on Twitter, as it is possible for a story of such a short length to be contained within a Tweet.

Epsilon 📯 📂

16:41, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

Scrooge, please do not accuse me of being off-topic in a discussion I raised.

There is no way that I was able to discuss anything else while Breaking Isolating was still factoring into that argument. I pointed out that I saw it as your responsibility to deal with this “story” (which was in actuality just a picture from another story, with a one-word caption and no evidence of it having been intended to be a story in its own right). Since Breaking Isolating has been dealt with, I am now able to discuss other things without that causing issues. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 20:36, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

(I simply reiterate the massive hole in the argument concerning Doctor Who and the Time War, while noting that "Lockdown Who Extras" says "Exclusive extra content released in conjunction with the Tweetalongs", which, even if the prose stories on the BBC website were intended to be part of Lockdown!, they would instantly fail, as they're not exclusive.) Najawin ☎ 16:48, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

Here is what I think should be done:

• The Doctor Who: Lockdown! page should feature only releases claimed by either Emily Cook or the official Lockdown team. Therefore the following sixteen stories should be kept under a heading entitled "Minisodes"; Strax Saves the Day, Revenge of the Nestene, The Raggedy Doctor by Amelia Pond, Rory's Story, Farewell, Sarah Jane, Shadow of a Doubt, The Shadow in the Mirror,Sven and the Scarf, Pompadour, The Zygon Isolation, The Descendants of Pompeii, Listen, Fear Is a Superpower, Doctors Assemble!, The Secret of Novice Hame, The Best of Days. There should also be an "Extras" section for the three additional releases; Dalek: Spoof Scenes, Heaven Sent Previsualizations and Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angel. Any future releases will hopefully be clarified by their immediate inclusion on the official website.

• A page should be created for the six BBC website releases; Things She Thought While Falling, Doctor Who and the Time War, Press Play, The Terror of the Umpty Ums, The Shadow Passes and The Simple Things. Those releases which had any involvement with the lockdown event (such as Doctor Who and the Time War being released by the BBC to coincide with Lockdown's tweetalong) should be noted on the Doctor Who: Lockdown page only.

• The three COVID-related video messages; Message from the Doctor, Incoming Message and United we stand, 2m apart should be mentioned on the COVID-related pages (potentially at Lockdown). Incoming Message also deserves mention on the Doctor Who: Lockdown page due to the fact that it was also released to coincide with a tweetalong.

• How The Monk Got His Habit should be mention only on the Doctor Who: Lockdown page as something mentioned by one of the tweetalong guests but not an official release claimed by the Lockdown team.

Finally, I will go through each of the documentary features in turn:

• The BBC news report should be mention only on Doctor Who: Lockdown. This was not a release by the event - it was a news report about the event, it actually puzzles me as to why this was ever added.
• Tests for the Mechanism of Heaven Sent's Confession Dial should be kept with Heaven Sent Previsualizations in the "Extras" section. I believe that it was an oversight for this not to be included in the "Extras" section already.
• The Doctors Say Thank You should go wherever the COVID-related video messages are placed.
• All of the Lockdown Long Song releases should be covered on a single page (The Long Song: Fan Cover - How To Get Involved..., Lockdown Long Song - Choir-Only Version, Doctor Who: Lockdown! - Tweetalong Trailers Mega Mix and Doctor Who: LOCKDOWN - Lockdown Long Song (with the Doctor's Rings of Akhaten Speech)). It makes little sense to me that these have individual pages in the first place.

That leaves only two which I am completely at a loss as to where they deserve to be placed; Vincent and the Doctor's Gallery and An A-Z of Impressions with Jon Culshaw!. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 22:04, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

I commend User:DiSoRiEnTeD1's lengthy and precise post immediately above mine, but would also, as regards his earlier post, direct his attention to the fact that the ruling at what is now Talk:Games (NWASH short story) is most emphatically not that it failed Rule 1. Simply that it failed Rules 2 and 3. It is not a T:BOUND violation to mistakenly claim that it failed Rule 1, of course; talk is one thing and editing is another. But it is incorrect.

Also, DiSoRiEnTeD1 when I took issue with your earlier post, it had nothing to do with your focusing on Breaking Isolation. Rather, I took issue with your statement that "(…) with Breaking Isolation removed from the equation the only story [you] could see without a place is How The Monk Got His Habit" when there exists a much more pressing issue than Monk, and one which had already been brought up: the other YouTube webcasts.

But now you have addressed this issue, so, let's see. Under your scheme, we're already allowing ourselves to put things that clearly are extras in the "Extras" section, so I don't see why we wouldn't do the same for Vincent and the Doctor's Gallery and An A-Z of Impressions with Jon Culshaw!. I think it's a toss-up whether we put Monk on this expanded "Extras" list — it's after all basically the same thing as Spoof Scenes, in much the same way that Tests for the Mechanism of Heaven Sent's Confession Dial is pretty much the same thing as Heaven Sent Previsualizations — or if we mention it in-text on the page, but keep it off the "official" table. Either solution works. We both know where we stand there, so I suggest we stop bickering about it and put it up for the rest of the community to decide. It's a relatively minor matter.

The singalongs will most definitely not be merged, though. We can have a page about the "series" on its own terms, but one webcast = one page, regardless of length or narrativity. I mean, that's just common sense, IMO. This Wiki's basic policies must be clear and easy to enforce: "one officially-licensed webcast = one page" is as basic as it gets, and is much simpler to keep track of than lumping some webcast series into one page, and some not. We used to do something like this in the early days of the Wiki — I believe the Monster Files were once all covered on one page — but this fell by the wayside fairly quickly, and quite right too. (This is also the reason we want to have a page for BBC News - Friday 3 April 2020 (documentary). The fact that it was or was not aired on the BBC earlier is immaterial. What we have a page about is the webcast itself, as a webcast.)

But the singalongs are a non-problem. The website gives us a header for them, held to be equivalent to "Minisodes" and "Extras," so if you want us to hew as close to how the website presents it as possible, I don't see why we can't just make a third table/list.

Also, I think you might have mentioned this before, but just so we have the entire proposal in one place: what name are you proposing for the six BBC website short stories' collective page, again?--Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 22:16, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

The difference between Dalek: Spoof Scenes and How The Monk Got His Habit is that the former was claimed by both Emily Cook and the Lockdown website. As far as I am aware, Monk has never once been acknowledged by any of the Doctor Who: Lockdown team (apart from when Emily Cook dismissed it as being something that Peter Harness "mentioned"). Therefore I definitely think that all it deserves is a mention along the lines of "During his appearance as a tweetalong guest Peter Harness revealed scrapped ideas for a television episode and a short story".

While I don't think that the webcasts for the singalong deserve separate pages (literally one of them is only for information on how to get involved...) I think that an umbrella page for the series should exist, and that this page should be the only one linked under a third heading "singalong" (along with the upcoming Christmas Carol singalong series).

Maybe the name for the BBC releases something like BBC Lockdown releases. I'm not really familiar with naming conventions, etc. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 22:34, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

Feel free to create an umbrella page for Singalong (series), but unless we do the same for "Extras" and "Minisodes" I don't see why we shouldn't link to every individual webcast. Again, that's how the Lockdown! website does it. I'm not sure why you find anything wrong with it, save for this (as I have said, misguided) notion of yours that the content (or lack thereof, as the case may be!) of the webcasts is at all relevant to this issue.

Also, I feel like a broken record, but as has clearly been established already, Cook's comment on How The Monk Got His Habit clearly referred to the unproduced TV story, not to the short story — and the latter is the thing we're talking about here. Consequently, whether it has or has not been "acknowledged by any of the Doctor Who: Lockdown team" depends on whether we deem Peter Harness, in his quality as the guest of honour of the Zygon tweetalong, counted as part of the "team". I say yea, you say nay. We could argue about this until the cybercows come home to roost. As I have said, let's stop talking about it between the two of us and leave the matter of whether it goes in the text, or in-the-table-but-with-a-footnote, to the rest of the community.

BBC Lockdown releases would be a bad idea because it kind of implies that these stories were part of the event known as "Lockdown", whereas the whole point of splitting them into another page would be to highlight that they're not. How do the BBC themselves call it, on their website? That's what we need to look at. What language (if not what title) they use. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 22:53, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

I once again reiterate my point that the wording of the website does not actually confirm that the BBC releases are not to be taken as part of Lockdown!, but rather they are not exclusively hosted as Lockdown! content. The BBC hosted their prose stories on Staying in the TARDIS, which as noted the original discussion, was originally a slapdash affair that they sort of churned out very quickly. (It's since gotten much better.) Najawin ☎ 23:15, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

Have only just seen this comment.

The short stories are still there, albeit quite far down the page. I think that a page for Staying in the TARDIS should be created - all six BBC lockdown stories should be housed on this page, along with information about the puzzles, games, recipes and other things that were released under the "Staying in the TARDIS" brand. Also, the video The Doctors Say Thank You is listed here too. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 01:20, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

The umbrella title for the Long Song singalong should be The Lockdown Longsong - which is the title given to it by the Doctor Who: Lockdown website. Likewise, the upcoming Christmas carol singalong should be given the title A Lockdown Carol.

Here is my draft of how the page should look;

Minisodes

#	Title	Featuring	Tweetalong	Author	Release date
1	Strax Saves the Day	Strax, Vastra	The Day of the Doctor	Steven Moffat	21 March 2020
2	Revenge of the Nestene	Nestene Consciousness	Rose	Russell T Davies	26 March 2020
3	The Raggedy Doctor by Amelia Pond	Amelia Pond	The Eleventh Hour	Steven Moffat	3 April 2020
4	Rory's Story	Rory, Amy	The Doctor's Wife	Neil Gaiman	11 April 2020
5	Farewell, Sarah Jane	Jo, Ace, Gita, Luke, Clyde, Rani, Mr Smith	The Stolen Earth/Journey's End	Russell T Davies	19 April 2020
6	Shadow of a Doubt	Bernice Summerfield, Daughter of Mine	Human Nature/The Family of Blood	Paul Cornell	24 April 2020
7	The Shadow in the Mirror	Thirteenth Doctor, Daughter of Mine
8	Sven and the Scarf	Sven	Dalek	Andrew Ireland	30 April 2020
9	Pompadour	SS Madame de Pompadour	The Girl in the Fireplace	Steven Moffat	6 May 2020
10	The Zygon Isolation	Osgood, Osgood	The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion	Peter Harness	10 May 2020
11	The Descendants of Pompeii	Lobus Caecilius's descendants	The Fires of Pompeii	James Moran	17 May 2020
12	Listen	Twelfth Doctor	Listen	Steven Moffat	20 May 2020
13	Fear Is a Superpower	Danny Pink, Clara		James Peaty
14	Doctors Assemble!	The Doctors	An Adventure in Space and Time	James Goss	23 May 2020
15	The Secret of Novice Hame	Hame, Tenth Doctor	New Earth/Gridlock	Russell T Davies	30 May 2020
16	The Best of Days	Bill, Nardole	World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls	Steven Moffat	7 June 2020

Extras

#	Title	Featuring	Tweetalong	Author	Release date
1	Dalek: Spoof Scenes	Ninth Doctor, Rose	Dalek	Robert Shearman	30 April 2020
2	Tests for the Mechanism of Heaven Sent's Confession Dial		Heaven Sent		14 April 2020
3	Heaven Sent Previsualizations
4	Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angel	Sally Sparrow, Weeping Angels	Blink	Steven Moffat	2 November 2020

Singalongs

#	Title	Tweetalong	Release date
1	The Lockdown Longsong	The Rings of Akhaten	26 May 2020
2	A Lockdown Carol	A Christmas Carol	TBC

DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 23:20, November 3, 2020 (UTC)

Concerning the Singalongs, I think you don't understand. Our pages are not about the events. They are about the individual webcasts that happened to be made about the events. Insofar as we document the "events", we should do so in a completely different part of the page than the one devoted to releases. (Also, why not include the A-Z in "Extras" as I proposed?) --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 01:23, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

I see no need whatsoever to include all of the Long Song releases on a list for this page. A link to an umbrella Long Song series page could be provided (as can be seen on my draft) and then that page could provide a list of all the releases in that series. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 01:34, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

I suppose that's viable — but by the same token we might as wellc reate Lockdown! Extras, Lockdown! Minisodes, and so on, and link to those. I'm not sure why you want to treat the singalong webcasts differently to the other kinds, is what I'm saying. Your solution is certainly feasible by policy, but it just seems a bit odd. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 01:38, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

Re:A similar misunderstanding, I believe there was agreement on the old thread to create a page for Staying in the TARDIS, but this did not solve our disagreement over whether the stories should still be considered part of Lockdown! or not. So while surely such a page should be created, it's not a solution to the problem we find ourselves in, which is the ambiguous wording of the website and the messy nature of the whole affair. Najawin ☎ 01:43, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

If I had it my way there would only be a single page for all the Long Song material, but you have said that they deserve separate pages and so I have reluctantly accepted that.

I still think that only the umbrella series should be liked to this page however - this will simplify the information to the casual reader. The separate Long Song releases have long titles and there are quite a few of them, this will get even more complicated when the Christmas Carol cover comes. It just looks better and is easier for casual readers to access the information and immediately see that there were two singalongs rather than a bunch of information about how to be a part of the event, etc. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 01:47, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

That's a fair concern. How about splitting the tables via further subtitles? Something like:

===Singalongs===

[Brief overview of the singalongs as a whole]

====The Lockdown Long Song====

[Brief written overview of the Long Song cover]

[Table with all the Long Song webcasts]

====The Lockdown Carol====

[Brief written overview of the Carol cover]

[Table with all the Carol webcasts]

…? This would allow us to keep everything on one page without being needlessly confusing. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 01:53, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

But, surely we’re going to have series pages for the separate singalongs anyway - so why not just link to those instead of repeating the information on two pages? DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 01:56, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

Er, no, I'm not sure we should have pages on the singalongs qua singalongs. We could if we wanted to, but there's not that much precedent for making pages about "events" like this, as opposed to tangible releases that are part of them. I'm not even sure we'd have a page on Lockdown! itself if it was just tweetalongs with no associated releases, even if the tweetalongs were officially-backed.--Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 02:05, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

Just to be clear I’m taking about having The Long Song (series) which covers all the Long Song webcasts in one place (and then having a similar one for the upcoming Christmas Carol singalong), as opposed to having a Singalong (series). DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 02:08, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

Hm. I see. Well, we theoretically could do that. But I'm not sure I entirely see the benefit of doing that, when my above proposition for organising the list of webcasts on the Lockdown! page does the same job of clearly delineating the two singalongs. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 02:13, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

The series pages will be made regardless, as there were a series of several releases posted in regards to the Long Song. Therefore I see no reason as to why the information would need to be repeated on this page - when a link to the series overview page would work just as well. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 08:54, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

I keep telling you, there is nothing certain about us giving those a series overview page. We might. It's a possibility. But it's not at all a done deal. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 11:50, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

Well it should be. There were a series of releases on the same topic and therefore those need an overview page, that is literally what those pages are intended for. I didn’t even think that was up for debate. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 12:09, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

But have they been presented as individual series? You might argue that Singalong as a whole has been rpesented as as subseries to Lockdown!. But the Long Song webcasts and then Christmas Carol webcasts don't seem like further subseries to me, so much as the non-narrative equivalent of "story arcs" within the Singalong series. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 12:43, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

Yes, they are presented as part of “The Lockdown Longsong” on the official lockdown website. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 12:49, November 4, 2020 (UTC)

Be that as it may, the T:SPOIL concerns have just evaporated from around another major piece of evidence, pointing in a very direction from the website. I'm talking, of course, about Adventures in Lockdown, which freely mixes BBC website stories with novelisations of Lockdown! webcasts — and also throws in a prose version of WC: Message from the Doctor for good measure! I honestly can think of few stronger arguments for keeping it all on one page in some fashion. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 14:01, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

At this point this is just a continuation of Thread:273268, which was closed due to length and no admin has given the go ahead for re-opening discussion. My suggestion is that we shelve the discussion for now (as we're potentially in violation of some policy or another by having this discussion), wait until we're back on the forums, and take the temperature of the admin team for reopening the discussion. While I hope given the distance from the original subject and time to cool off we might be more productive and not need 500 comments, the risk of making no real headway due to how inherently slapdash the whole affair has been is still a very real possibility. Najawin ☎ 16:48, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

I'm not necessarily opposed to a further cooling-off period, but, er, Najawin, I am in fact an admin, these days. My participation in this conversation should be understood as a tacit acknowledgement that as the thread closed itself for technical reasons instead of anybody actually making an active decision to close it, and since this is an issue that is of immediate importance to our coverage of an ongoing part current DWU media, it was in fact okay for us to take these concerns here and continue discussing them.

Also, generally, while the Forums remain incapacitated, talk pages can and should serve as the next best thing to discuss urgent issues with specific pages and groups of pages. They're not the place to hold a proper inclusion debate or policy-changing threads, but things like the conversation here or at Talk:Emperor of the Restoration, which, under normal circumstances, could and should have been Threads, are perfectly fair to bring to talk pages. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 17:03, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

I realize you're an admin, that fact was not lost on me. I was just taking into consideration the rather pointed refusal of admins prior to reopen discussion. If you think the situation has changed sufficiently to do so, by all means. Najawin ☎ 17:07, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

I mean, I'm willing to entertain arguments otherwise by outside-observes among my fellow admins, if anyone wants to put any forward. But the situation has changed significantly from how it was a few months ago.

First, we originally thought Lockdown! had run its course. Well, no. Surprise, everyone: it's alive and kicking. So it's not a "how do we sort out those twenty-something stories we already know all about", but a "what are we going to present editors with as they add more and more to the pile". That's immediately more urgent.

Second, even by ordinary T:BOUND standards, User:DiSoRiEnTeD1's first post here presented some compelling new evidence, and now even more new evidence has been added in the form of the anthology book.

So I'm fairly confident that this discussion was due for a second attempt. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 17:12, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

My concern is actually T:POINT, not T:BOUND. Namely, the "single thread" clause. Regardless, I don't actually mind the discussion continuing, aside from, you know, it being on a talk page rather than a forum (which we can't fix at this time). Najawin ☎ 17:18, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

What you fail to grasp, Scrooge, is that while the Doctor Who: Lockdown! and the BBC releases are contained within Adventures in Lockdown that is an anthology book about all of the releases from lockdown NOT all of the releases from Emily Cook’s event which this page is for.

The DWM and the official lockdown website have given us very specific guidelines as to which stories count as part of this event. It completely baffles me as to how that can continue to be challenge, and I actually didn’t think that it still was - I thought the discussion had progressed onto dealing with the documentaries and other things. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 17:25, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

As Najawin pointed out, the website's wording makes it less definitive than it seemed to start with. And DWM was never very definitive to start with, being that it only cared about webcasts and didn't even include the one prose story we are now certain beyond reasonable doubt should be considered part of Lockdown!: Spoof Scenes. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 17:31, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

The website has done no such thing, this is a mischaracterization of what the website actually says. The website says the "extras" tab is

Exclusive extra content released in conjunction with the Tweetalongs.

This disqualifies the BBC prose stories not because they're not part of Lockdown!, but because the BBC owns the rights to them and they're not exclusive to Lockdown!. It may be that they're not part of Lockdown!. But this website cannot establish that. Najawin ☎ 17:34, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

That’s absolutely not the case - but regardless, it is your burden to prove that beyond reasonable doubt rather than saying “it may be”.

Also, Dalek: Spoof Scenes is not an original story - it is placed into the “Extras” section. None of the “Extras” releases were covered by DWM. The magazine was covering the stories (now called “Minisodes”) and their list is exactly the same as that of the lockdown website, so the Dalek Spoof not being included is not a contradiction. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 17:37, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

By definition, no prose stories could have been put in "Minisodes". Hence why Dalek: Spoof Scenes is under "Extras". Nobody's denying that it's a story, but it's not a minisode.

Likewise, DWM was covering the "season" of "webcasts". As such, while it can feasibly be used to rule out the other COVID-era webcasts (e.g. Message from the Doctor), it would not have been its remit to discuss the prose stories regardless of whether they were part of Lockdown!.

And looking at the timeline, the first of the prose stories was, of course, Doctor Who and the Time War, whose release we know was prompted by Cook. As such, assuming all the other BBC website short stories were released as "follow-ups" to Time War, it becomes apparent that the BBC website short stories are a "spin-off" of the mainline Lockdown! releases, regardless of whether Cook personally continued to be involved with them. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 17:42, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

No, it’s “apparent” that the BBC were inspired to do something of their own after the success of Doctor Who: Lockdown! However, these stories were not part of that event.

From what I recall, the reason that Emily Cook promoted Doctor Who and the Time War was because that story was what RTD was originally going to offer up to the Doctor Who: Lockdown! event (before Chris Chibnall approached him for some material for BBC’s separate event).

Other than this story I can’t see her having promoted any of the other BBC stories? DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 17:51, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

A: You can't just say "nuh uh". The wording on extras is very distinct from the wording on minisodes, "exclusive" only shows up on the former.

B: The "it may be" referred to your position that they're not part of Lockdown!. The website in principle cannot show that the prose pieces are not part of it - the category under which they would fall (certainly not minisodes) has a word that explicitly rules out the BBC prose stories from ever being listed even if they're part of Lockdown!. You need other evidence. Najawin ☎ 17:46, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

She quotetweeted Incoming Message while using a hashtag relevant to the tweetalong. As stated in the thread

Are we really going to pretend that Cook, ostensibly an adult, can't differentiate between retweeting a fan video using the hashtag, constituting an endorsement of this as a fan action within the grounds of the tweetalong, and retweeting an official Doctor Who story using the hashtag constituting an endorsement of this as an official story within the grounds of the tweetalong? Who are we trying to fool here?

You accused this of "speculation". Najawin ☎ 18:06, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

Actually I pointed out that she also used the hashtag on several fan videos - therefore the hashtag alone isn’t enough to confirm the story’s involvement with Doctor Who: Lockdown! DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 18:08, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

And as we already said then, all this proves is that unlicensed fan productions can be part of Lockdown! too. Which is also what Cook has always promoted as the essence of Lockdown!: fan engagement. Just because we don't cover those productions, doesn't mean they're not part of Lockdown! just as much as the licensed ones. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 18:25, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

This discussion is going nowhere. Please can either of you explain - again if you already have, why the six BBC releases should count as being part of lockdown. So far the only reason that I can see is that Emily Cook retweeted one of those six stories - so why should the other five stories be counted? The way I see it Doctor Who and the Time War should be mentioned on this page, as it was originally intended to be a lockdown release anyway, but it and the rest of the BBC releases can be housed elsewhere as they have nothing to do with Emily Cook's specific lockdown event. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 18:30, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

No, you literally said "that would be speculating Najawin" in response to the comment I pasted above.

There are a variety of pieces of evidence that the BBC prose pieces are to be taken as part of Lockdown!.

1. Connective tissue from a production standpoint.
   1. This refers to the idea that there is at least one release that is a part of "DiS Lockdown!" hosted and seemingly produced by the BBC, as well as at least one prose piece originally slated for "DiS Lockdown!" that was later appropriated by the BBC when Chibnall came a'calling. Respectively these are
      1. Farewell, Sarah Jane
      2. Doctor Who and the Time War
   2. The source for the idea that Time War was originally slated for "DiS Lockdown!" is here, there were concerns about how she would host a prose piece, hence the decision to read Revenge of the Nestene aloud.
2. The Shadow Trilogy
   1. There's really not much to say here except that this one is cut and dry. You have a BBC prose piece that randomly mentions something that happened in an episode he wrote as if to set it up. Then in two "DiS Lockdown!" related releases he pays off the setup. These are all clearly the same sort of thing.
3. The involvement of Chibnall in Lockdown!
   1. Really just note Thread:273268#148 and my edit at Thread:273268#213 for the relevant evidence here, as well as this tweet from Cornell, which only works if he thinks that the story in question "counts".
   2. User:TazminDaytime did bring up some concerns related to his lack of explicit involvement with Strax Saves the Day, but given it was retweeted by the BBC, it's not clear that these are defeaters for the point we're making. (And, indeed, if he's not involved, many of these stories would be invalid.)
      1. DWM 551 even calls it "canon", meaning that I think his concerns really just don't work here. (See Thread:269368#6)
4. Adventures in Lockdown.
   1. A piece of evidence so damning that really we don't need to have this discussion. Not only does it freely mix the two types of stories, is put out by the BBC, but as established at Talk:Adventures in Lockdown, these are literally just the same things as the webcasts, no sprucing up, with Rory's Story apparently just being the shooting script.

The arguments against appear to be something like "Cook didn't promote them", "they don't meet [insert criteria it would be literally impossible for them to meet here, such as Cook being a producer or them being listed on the 'extras' tab which only lists 'exclusive' extras]" or "The BBC is hosting things elsewhere". Which just aren't convincing in comparison imo. Najawin ☎ 20:10, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

So... basically you're saying that because Doctor Who and the Time War was initially planned to be reworked for the Doctor Who: Lockdown! event (before being used for the BBC's separate event) and that [[Paul Cornell[]] referenced his other work in The Shadow Passes that we should count all unrelated lockdown-produced BBC prose stories? That's what I took away from your comment.

The fact that they were all contained in the same book is irrelevant. That book contains lockdown-produced stories, not just Doctor Who: Lockdown! produced stories. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 20:26, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

In an interview yesterday Emily Cook stated that the "BBC have been hands-off" too...[2] DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎

Furthermore, in this YouTube interview [3] Emily Cook states; "You can also find all of the Doctor Who minisodes and extra content that was created before". There is no picking apart the words there, she doesn't use "exclusive". She states that all of the Doctor Who: Lockdown! material is on the website. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 20:38, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

Surely you understand that if I see a swan that is white and then another swan that is white that's evidence for the idea that all swans are white. (Note that I'm using this example explicitly because there are swans that aren't white, and thus conceding the possibility that I'm mistaken. But this is an inductive argument, these things are evidence of the connection between the two.)

The book is in no sense irrelevant. It establishes that the BBC considers the Lockdown! stories as "under their umbrella".

That interview was neither yesterday, nor was it in reference to the stories she was creating, but instead in reference to the tweetalongs themselves.

The BBC has been hands-off. Aside from the odd encouraging message from Chris Chibnall and the publicity machine, Cook has been left to her own devices. “They love the fact that it’s an organic fan thing,” she says.

Original source is here, it's pretty clearly in reference to the actual organization of the tweetalongs. But, interestingly, does further confirm the involvement of Chibnall, strengthening the case of the two being linked.

As for Cook's comment, that was made at 28:09 for those who want to go looking for it, and it was in response to a question about where listeners should go to submit their fan content. I'm disinclined to think she's being tremendously precise in her wording here. Najawin ☎ 20:57, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

You're being completely unreasonable. You've got it into your head that these two separate events are linked. Doctor Who: Lockdown! is Emily Cook's event only - all the minisodes were produced and organised by her, and all the Extra content was sought out by her too. The BBC stories are completely separate - they may have minor ties; RTD having been approached by both events for content, and Paul Cornell referencing his work from one event to the other, but these are extremely minor "ties" and should be reduced to mentions.

The BBC stories / Doctor Who: Lockdown! stories should be kept separate at all costs, apart from on the Adventures in Lockdown which collects all of the lockdown-produced material.

I have no idea why you are so desperate to keep them together. There have been several comments made by Cook which have denied the BBC stories yet you spend time picking them apart, using individual words to try and find loopholes to continue the discussion that should have been resolved long ago! DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 21:06, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

If there have been several comments made by Cook that do this, then it should be abundantly easy for you to find them. Yet you're consistently unable to do so, finding only very ambiguous comments.

Please, do everyone a favor and flesh out your summary for why the two are not related in a step by step manner similar to how I did two comments ago. Use Thread:273268 as a reference if need be. Doing so allows everyone to get on the same page and we can evaluate the arguments sans rhetoric, looking just at the line items and the facts. I think whatever admin who ends up closing this affair will appreciate this. Najawin ☎ 21:15, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

I have repeatedly posted comments by Cook but you repeatedly pick away at them with your own flawed interpretations. For example here she is clearly talking about the Doctor Who: Lockdown event;

"The BBC has been hands-off. Aside from the odd encouraging message from Chris Chibnall and the publicity machine, Cook has been left to her own devices. “They love the fact that it’s an organic fan thing,” she says."

However, you have tried to say that she is talking about the tweetalongs only. There is never a discussion about only the tweetalongs, she is talking about the entire event which she founded and has said that "the BBC has been hands-off".

Then there was the comment from YouTube where she talks about all of the Doctor Who: Lockdown! content being found on the official website, but you suggest that she is in fact talking about the fan content (which is completely false as she later goes on to talk about the fan material!).

I will go through them individually, once again. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 21:21, November 5, 2020 (UTC)

The Doctor Who: Lockdown! event was founded by Emily Cook in March. Originally Who at Home, the event was purely her creation - without any assistance from the BBC. Countless interviews have seen her explain the event's creation - and the fact that she was acting as a fan at the start and never expected the event to receive the reaction that it did. Strax Saves the Day was the first unique release related to the specific "Lockdown!" brand that Cook founded, with Steven Moffat contributing the piece.

To follow this up Cook approached Russell T Davies, who planned to offer his unused prequel to Rose. That same day RTD was also approached by Chris Chibnall who, alongside the BBC, was planning his own project for lockdown-produced Doctor Who (almost a month later at the end of April that project was unveiled as Staying in the TARDIS). As part of Chibnall's project the BBC had already posted Message from the Doctor and Things She Thought While Falling to the BBC website (and social media pages). For whatever reason, RTD decided to offer the prequel idea to Chibnall - which was posted to the official Doctor Who website as Doctor Who and the Time War. Doctor Who: Lockdown! in the meantime received an entirely new short story Revenge of the Nestene (which Cook decided to "bring to life" as a webcast with Jacob Dudman narrating).

Both of these releases, Doctor Who and the Time War and Revenge of the Nestene, were released on the same day but by completely different projects. Incoming Message was also shared that same day - but this seems, like Peter Harness with How The Monk Got His Habit, to be something that RTD did without assistance from the Doctor Who: Lockdown! team (although Emily Cook did retweet this piece).

Chibnall's project continued with four other pieces Press Play, The Terror of the Umpty Ums, The Shadow Passes and The Simple Things. His project was later given the aforementioned name Staying in the TARDIS, and all six of the BBC released stories can still be found on that site to this day. These four releases had no connection to the growing Doctor Who: Lockdown! brand, apart from Paul Cornell minorly referencing his upcoming two-parter in The Shadow Passes.

The Doctor Who: Lockdown! brand continued with fourteen more releases - each one produced and organised by the founder Emily Cook - The Raggedy Doctor by Amelia Pond, Rory's Story, Farewell, Sarah Jane, Shadow of a Doubt, The Shadow in the Mirror, Sven and the Scarf, Pompadour, The Zygon Isolation, The Descendants of Pompeii, Listen, Fear Is a Superpower, Doctors Assemble!, The Secret of Novice Hame and The Best of Days.

To my knowledge the only release that the BBC ever acknowledge within these next fourteen was Farewell, Sarah Jane. The official BBC YouTube channel posted this story, and their social media promoted it. However, this is the only release that both the BBC / Doctor Who: Lockdown! appear to have worked on together therefore it is an exception and shouldn't mean that the six unreleased BBC stories are considered part of Cook's event.

All of these stories were collected in Adventures in Lockdown as they were all lockdown-produced stories rather than Doctor Who: Lockdown! stories. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 22:04, November 5, 2020 (UTC)