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 ::Anyhow. How would we handle reprints impacting what ''range'' something is from? Do we just cite things consistently to the first version of Dead Romance? Even though it was reprinted as a MNP book that was FP adjacent? ''Grass'' was originally printed in a sci-fi anthology that had nothing to do with Doctor Who. Is it a Faction Paradox short story or unmarked? [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:16, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
-::: Series information is taken directly from the infobox so this is, in my mind, already a solved problem: whatever is used for <tt>|series=</tt> will be the basis of the series used in the citation. If this is undesirable, <tt>|citation series=</tt> can be set or, more generally, [[Module:Cite source/series overrides]] can be used, but I don't feel that this is relevant in either example here. Hence, ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'' is a VNA and ''[[Grass (short story)|Grass (short story)]]'' is FP. This is what I feel is most helpful for readers. Regarding ''Dead Romance'', I don't see that there would be much need to use variants with it, but if there were, both series could be included in the citation and the same principle applies elsewhere. I'll produce an example of what I mean a little later.
+::: Series information is taken directly from the infobox so this is, in my mind, already a solved problem: whatever is used for <tt>|series=</tt> will be the basis of the series used in the citation. If this is undesirable, <tt>|citation series=</tt> can be set or, more generally, [[Module:Cite source/series overrides]] can be used, but I don't feel that this is relevant in either example here. Hence, ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'' is a VNA and ''[[Grass (short story)|Grass (short story)]]'' is FP. This is what I feel is most helpful for readers. Regarding ''Dead Romance'', I don't see that there would be much need to use variants with it, but if there were, both series could be included in the citation and the same principle applies elsewhere. I'll produce an example of what I mean a little later. {{unsigned|Bongolium500}}
+::::Eh, the variants for Dead Romance are just grammar stuff, iirc. The issue for those is really the range, you can easily make a case that Grass isn't ''quite'' FP and Dead Romance is just barely FP. See [[Talk:The Stranger (novel)]]. Not a 100% resolved issue, so it's a little unfair for me to ask. This is a ''super'' edge case. But we could easily get something similar in the future. [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 06:42, 22 June 2023 (UTC)