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 :: It is the same reason why ''[[Vienna (series)|Vienna]]'' and ''[[The Confessions of Dorian Gray]]'' only have overview pages rather than individual story pages like this because, despite making their first appearance in a DWU story, they were never intended to be part of the DWU permanently (Vienna pending discussion). [[User:RadMatter|RadMatter]] [[User talk:RadMatter|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 10:35, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+::: That is where you are wrong, as both series have been described in some capacity as being not set in the DWU. (Though ''Vienna'' is oh-so-tenuously been stated to be set outside of the DWU, of course.)
+::: However, with ''Mr Men'', there has been no such statement <div style="background-color:#0E234E; border: solid 0.5px gold; display: inline; white-space: nowrap;">[[doctorwho:user:Epsilon the Eternal|<span style="background:#0E234E; color:white"><code>'''Epsilon'''</code></span>]][[doctorwho:user talk:Epsilon the Eternal|📯]] [[doctorwho:special:Contributions/Epsilon the Eternal|📂]]</div> 10:48, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+:::: There doesn't have to be a statement. The Mr Men books are their own series with no connection to the DWU outside of these crossover stories. Scrooge said that because the Early Bird made their first appearance in a DWU story that we now have to cover every story that they appear in because they are a DWU character, but as my examples have proven this has never been the case. [[User:RadMatter|RadMatter]] [[User talk:RadMatter|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 10:54, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+::::: No, these statements make or break coverage; if it hadn't been for these quotes, we'd most likely be covering all of ''Dorian Gray''. We cannot just ''assume'' something is set outside the DWU - with ''Mr. Men'', the ''Doctor Who'' mythos has essentially become one with it, so therefore, if a DWU character appears in ''Mr. Men'' books after ''Dr. Men'' without a rule four failing statement, these stories deserve coverage. <div style="background-color:#0E234E; border: solid 0.5px gold; display: inline; white-space: nowrap;">[[doctorwho:user:Epsilon the Eternal|<span style="background:#0E234E; color:white"><code>'''Epsilon'''</code></span>]][[doctorwho:user talk:Epsilon the Eternal|📯]] [[doctorwho:special:Contributions/Epsilon the Eternal|📂]]</div> 11:09, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+:::::: I would like to show my support for the coverage of ''Mr Men'' in a valid, or at the very least invalid, capacity. However, this is all dependant on whether [[Early Bird]] did actually debue in ''[[Dr. First (novel)|Dr. First]]''. Therefore, I feel this should be verified first, something I will happily help with when I have more time (likely in about 3-5 days). [[User:Bongolium500|Bongo50 (aka Bongolium500)]] [[User talk:Bongolium500|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 11:39, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+: Let me clarify something: ''The Confession of Dorian Gray'' is not covered because it's a case of a public-domain character being played by the same ''actor'' in a DWU source and another series; it's become clear that it's a different (if similar) ''take'' on Dorian Gray. The ''Confession'' Dorian is simply ''not'' a licensed character who debuted in the DWU.
+: Vienna is a weird aberration and should not be counted because it's 95% certain we will bring her back into the fold once we have Forums. But even then, she was only excluded because there was an ''explicit'' quote which was interpreted as telling us she was not only "not in the conventional DWU", but "not a ''Doctor Who''-related character". We took the interpretation that Vienna had been created as an independent character all along, and had ''happened'' to first appear in the ''Doctor Who'' story in terms of release order.
+: Is it possible the Early Bird is in a similar boat to what-we-have-thus-far-thought-was-up-with-Vienna? Maybe. Heck, it's even possible to argue that it's a public domain character too, what with coming from a saying. I'm really not sure ''[[Walter the Worm (novel)|Walter the Worm]]'' belongs on this Wiki. And we haven't even established for sure that the ''Mr Men'' Early Bird debuted in a valid source at all.
+: But in terms of policy, let me be crystal clear: '''in the overwhelming majority of cases, if a story uses a character who debuted in a licensed work we cover, then we will have a page about that story. If that story is not meant to be set in the DWU, this will simply make the page {{tl|invalid}}.''' The vanishingly rare cases where a story exploits a license to a concept that debuted in the DWU, and yet is not covered on this Wiki, are abnormal and idiosyncratic and do not reflect the Wiki's general philosophy in these matters. Interested parties should reread [[T:VS]]. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 12:11, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+:: Just because a character appeared in a DWU story ''does not'' mean that every subsequent appearance of that character is worthy of coverage - especially in an established non-DWU series such as the ''Mr Men'' books. And regardless, Scrooge you already know that the appearance of a single character has been deemed in the past to be not enough for coverage - for example; Panda's appearance in ''Hells Bells'' was ruled as not enough to cover the Brenda and Effie series and we have since had to unearth more links to other DWU licensed concepts and are waiting to reopen the discussion.
+:: Also, you ''cannot'' say that we shouldn't count Vienna as a precedent because we are waiting for the discussion to be reopened as you are bound to current policy.  [[User:RadMatter|RadMatter]] [[User talk:RadMatter|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 12:33, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+::: ...I do not ever recall a specific inclusion debate for ''[[Hell's Belles]]'' @[[User:RadMatter|RadMatter]] - only the inclusion debate for the series as a whole, which, IIRC, was botched up as nobody had actually ''read'' the damn novels, a common trend with Magrs' Works That Are Not Covered By This Wiki (cough''[[Baker's End (audio series)|Baker's End]]''cough). And as for Early Bird... you're still assuming that [[Roger Hargreaves]] believes that the ''[[Dr. Men (series)|Dr. Men]]'' are a mere crossover, and that ''Dr. Men'' isn't a part of the world of ''Mr. Men'', or vice versa. What evidence do you have to support your claims? Until you can actually provide something tangible, let's treat this series with the benefit of the doubt. <div style="background-color:#0E234E; border: solid 0.5px gold; display: inline; white-space: nowrap;">[[doctorwho:user:Epsilon the Eternal|<span style="background:#0E234E; color:white"><code>'''Epsilon'''</code></span>]][[doctorwho:user talk:Epsilon the Eternal|📯]] [[doctorwho:special:Contributions/Epsilon the Eternal|📂]]</div> 12:42, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+[[User:RadMatter|RadMatter]], you write — "just because a character appeared in a DWU story ''does not'' mean that every subsequent appearance of that character is worthy of coverage" — not ''necessarily''. What I am telling you is that per [[T:VS]] it is the ''default''. There are special circumstances where other concerns ''outweigh'' the fact that a story using a licensed concept that debuted in a DWU is, by default, covered. This was the case with ''Vienna''. And the even better, ur-type example might be ''Señor 105'', where the creator explicitly said "this shouldn't be on Tardis Wiki". But ''in the absence'' of serious reasons to think ''otherwise'' it leads to default coverage.
+Another way to put it is that the policy is this:
+* If a story features a licensed appearance by something which debuted in the DWU, the presumption is that it's intended to be set in the DWU too. We cover it as valid.
+* If the creators say that the story is not continuous with the previous appearances of this DWU concept/with the DWU itself, then we cover it from a real-world perspective (because it's historically descended from the DWU), but it's {{tl|invalid}}.
+* If the creators go out of their way to explicitly say the story shouldn't be read in the context of the DWU even in real-world terms, we give it a series-overview page but ''don't'' give it {{tl|invalid}} coverage.
+As for ''Brenda & Effie'', while [[User:Epsilon the Eternal]]'s contention that the original debate was "botched" isn't really proper, my recollection of the debate ''is'' simply that Panda's appearances in a ''later'' book was not sufficient to show that the series as a whole should be covered (because the DWU elements weren't in the story's ''first'' entry, so it couldn't be considered to be a spin-off on the ''whole''). But the door was left open to inclusion debates for those books in the series which "crossed over" with the DWU by featuring specific DWU elements — namely ''Hell's Bells'' and ''The Bride That Time Forgot''. Those debates were never held because nobody really cared and there were enough inclusion debates as it was, but I must resist the spurious interpretation that the Wiki did anything as self-evidently wrong as rule that a story featuring as major a DWU character as [[Panda]] was not worthy of coverage. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 12:47, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+: Literally rule four is '''"If a story was intended to be set outside the DWU, then it's probably not allowed. But a community discussion will likely be needed to make a final decision"'''. This story is clearly set outside the DWU, @Epsilon asks me to prove that it isn't set in the DWU (and for his information [[Roger Hargreaves]] died 30 years before the books came out so I doubt he cares if they are in the DWU or not) clearly forgetting that it is his burden to prove that it is set in the DWU. And one character, who may or may not have first appeared in a DWU story, is not enough. [[User:RadMatter|RadMatter]] [[User talk:RadMatter|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 13:04, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+::: …Read that sentence again. The burden of proof in fact rests on the people wanting to ''exclude'' it. We need positive evidence of a story "being intended to be set outside the DWU", and '''even if we have it''' it's only "probably" not allowed. Excluding a story on Rule ''4'' grounds is something that can only be done with a thread and actual evidence.
+::: And when it comes to the ''presumptive'' authorial intent in this case, what we have been trying to tell you is this: the way the ''[[Dr. Men (series)|Dr. Men]]'' books are written involves no interdimensional travel or things of that kind. They act like the Earth of the ''Mr. Men'' books and the Earth of the DWU are one and the same. Therefore, as far as the writers of these books are concerned, ''any'' further ''Mr. Men'' book logically passes Rule 4: it's all the same universe. This is similar to how I would expect that any Sherlock Holmes story written by [[Andy Lane]] (who wrote ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'') would pass Rule 4 in an abstract sense, because Lane believes the DWU and ''Sherlock Holmes'' universes to be one and the same. We don't cover every Lane ''Sherlock Holmes'' book, or every ''Mr. Men'' book ever, because they don't have an actual licensed concept to "prove" that they're DWU; but in terms of authorial intent, they are.
+::: I'm not too hot on covering this book, myself. (I'm the guy who placed the {{tl|delete}} tag!) But I think the arguments to exclude it have nothing to do with Rule 4 or authorial intent. The question is whether the ''Mr. Men'' rendition of a public-domain concept like "the Early Bird" really can be considered a copyrightable character as understood in [[T:VS]], and, assuming it can, whether that character really ''did'' debut in the ''Dr. Men'' series or not. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 13:11, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+:::: This is literally why this Wikia is mocked so heavily as there are people who want to cover everything despite it having nothing to do with the DWU. It is a shame to see the rules being twisted in favour of coverage when they have never meant what you are suggesting for them to mean. [[User:RadMatter|RadMatter]] [[User talk:RadMatter|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 13:14, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+: Please don't use phrases such as "twisting the rules" when talking about other users. This could be construed as a [[Tardis:No personal attacks|personal attack]].
+: As for the Wiki being mocked, people off the Wiki having boring conceptions of what "the DWU" can be is none of our concern, and stories which make use of concepts which debuted in the DWU clearly ''do'' have 'something to do' with the DWU in a very direct, objective, causal sense. Besides, in my own experience of my forays in online fandom spaces, people more often mock us for being too ''exclusionist'' (most notably for excluding ''Vienna'') than too inclusionist. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 13:24, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+:: It isn't a personal attack as I am not saying that people are doing it on purpose or with intention. The rules are certainly being twisted here but it may simply be a poor understanding of them. [[User:RadMatter|RadMatter]] [[User talk:RadMatter|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 13:26, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+::: Thank you for the clarification. I… will leave it up to readers to determine in their own minds who has the better reading comprehension, of the person who somehow thought Rule 4's wording meant the burden of proof was on the inclusive side, or the administrator who ''wrote'' parts of the current [[Tardis:Valid sources]] page.
+::: In any case, this is all a bit of a digression and I'd appreciate it if we could stick to the topic at hand: this ''Walter the Worm'' thing. Let's first wait for [[User:Bongolium500]] to report back with their research and inform us whether the Early Bird appeared in any earlier ''Mr. Men'' book, as that alone would render all other concerns moot and mean the instant deletion of this page. Also, I would appreciate second opinions on my inkling that "the Early Bird" might be considered a public domain character rather than a copyrightable one.  [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 13:36, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+I have taken the time to research this topic (there are several YouTube videos online which read the stories).
+Neither [[Walter the Worm]] nor the [[Early Bird]] are named in ''[[Dr. First (novel)|Dr. First]]''. What is apparently the "Early Bird" is simply a generic bird design that has been seen in ''Mr Men'' book since their conception, and looks nothing like the later established named Early Bird from ''[[Walter the Worm (novel)|Walter the Worm]]''. For some reason the Wikia isn't letting me post images at the moment? [[User:RadMatter|RadMatter]] [[User talk:RadMatter|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 13:39, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+:: Ah. Good work! Yyeah, that's a deletion, then.
+:: Not sure what trouble you're having with the images; it's probably a UCP thing. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 13:44, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+[[File:Dr. First Bird.jpg|100px|The generic unnamed bird from [[Dr. First (novel)|Dr. First]].]]
+[[File:Walter Early Bird.jpg|100px|The later named Early Bird from this story.]]
+[[File:Generic Bird.jpg|100px|The same generic bird from Dr. First which has appeared through Mr. Men history. This one being from Mr. Lazy from 1976.]]
+::: Before we delete, I would like to note that I will still be reading through the ''Mr Men'' books I have access to in order to see if there are any other grounds for inclusion. [[User:Bongolium500|Bongo50 (aka Bongolium500)]] [[User talk:Bongolium500|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 15:20, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+:It's a bit late for "before we delete"s, being that the page ''has'' been deleted. But it's really no trouble to ''un''delete a page, for an Administrator, so if you do perchance find something solid, just present it here, and if the consensus is in favour I'll be there to recreate the page. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 15:26, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+:: I don't understand why you would be reading through all of the ''Mr Men'' books to find a link from this story to the DWU. [[User:RadMatter|RadMatter]] [[User talk:RadMatter|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 15:30, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+:: Sorry, I assumed the talk page would be deleted as well (but I'm glad it hasn't been). Personally, I am all for the inclusion of as much as possible and that includes ''Mr Men''. Reading through it all of the sort of thing I think is quite fun. [[User:Bongolium500|Bongo50 (aka Bongolium500)]] [[User talk:Bongolium500|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 15:34, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
+OK I'm glad this page was deleted (I've always thought it nonsense), but why was [[Early Bird]] deleted too? Regardless of whether this should get a page (and I FIRMLY believe it should NOT), the fact of the matter is that the character HAS appeared in an unambiguously VALID source, as mentioned on this very talk page, [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr. First (novel)|Dr. First]]''. Even if he is a crossover character, well [[Worf]] gets a page. And even if we don't count this book well, to use an example put forward earlier in this very page,  [[Vienna Salvatori]] gets a page, even if the individual stories in [[Vienna (series)|her series]] don't. The validity of the character of [[Early Bird]] was never really in question. This story, however, was. [[User:NightmareofEden|NightmareofEden]] [[User talk:NightmareofEden|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 08:38, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
+Wait, sorry, misread [[User:RadMatter|RadMatter]]'s about it not being Early Bird, thought they said it WAS Early Bird, my mistake. But, even so, was there any reason to believe it might've been to begin with or was the entire thing just a total misconception? Will this require further discussion or is it a clear case of mistaken identity? [[User:NightmareofEden|NightmareofEden]] [[User talk:NightmareofEden|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 08:40, 13 July 2021 (UTC)