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'''Promotional fiction is now no longer {{tlx|invalid}} by default.''' As [[User:OttselSpy25]] pithily summarised: | '''Promotional fiction is now no longer {{tlx|invalid}} by default.''' As [[User:OttselSpy25]] pithily summarised: | ||
{{quote|What we have effectively done here is ban capitalism. Most ''Doctor Who'' spinoff media has existed to sell something else — be it when the BBC novels were being used to boost VHS sales, or all the times ''Doctor Who Magazine'' has been used to promote the revived series.|User:OttselSpy25}} | {{quote|What we have effectively done here is ban capitalism. Most ''Doctor Who'' spinoff media has existed to sell something else — be it when the BBC novels were being used to boost VHS sales, or all the times ''Doctor Who Magazine'' has been used to promote the revived series.|User:OttselSpy25}} | ||
We just cannot assume that overriding promotional intent on something like ''[[Dalek Wars (series)|Dalek Wars]]'' or ''[[Genetics of the Daleks (webcast)|Genetics of the Daleks]]'' means a story automatically fails [[Tardis:Valid sources|Rule 4]], when we make no such claim about [[Prequel]]s and [[Tardisode]]s and [[Target novelisation]]s. Indeed, we have frequent ''positive'' evidence of intent to be set in the DWU, as with [[Time Lord Victorious: Trailer (webcast)|the ''Time Lord Victorious'' CGI trailer]] having an entry in the grand timeline chart of the series. | We just cannot assume that some kind of overriding promotional intent on something like ''[[Dalek Wars (series)|Dalek Wars]]'' or ''[[Genetics of the Daleks (webcast)|Genetics of the Daleks]]'' means a story automatically fails [[Tardis:Valid sources|Rule 4]], when we make no such claim about [[Prequel]]s and [[Tardisode]]s and [[Target novelisation]]s. Indeed, we have frequent ''positive'' evidence of intent to be set in the DWU, as with [[Time Lord Victorious: Trailer (webcast)|the ''Time Lord Victorious'' CGI trailer]] having an entry in the grand timeline chart of the series. | ||
[[User:Najawin]]'s archeology has unearthed the following statement as the origin of the ban on promotional works: | [[User:Najawin]]'s archeology has unearthed the following statement as the origin of the ban on promotional works: | ||