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 == Proposal ==
 The core part of this proposal is very straightforward: adding "unproduced" to the dab term of pages in [[:Category:Unproduced stories]], such as moving [[Lungbarrow (TV story)]] to [[Lungbarrow (unproduced TV story)]]. We already do this when a title is shared with a produced story, like [[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (unproduced TV story)]]; expanding it more broadly will be a simple quality-of-life improvement by making it clear in search results which stories were released and which ones aren't.
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 :::::I agree with the majority on this one! [[User:FractalDoctor|Fractal Doctor]] [[User talk:FractalDoctor|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 19:17, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
-:I am not sure that I can agree with the proposal's intention of using just "unproduced" or "unreleased" as dabs in this sense at this stage, as part of an issue I have with terminology. It is difficult to perhaps illustrate this... but this would, in my opinion, cause a bit of further complication to the issue we already have with [[Category:Unproduced Doctor Who TV stories]].
+:I am not sure that I can agree with the proposal's intention of using just "unproduced" or "unreleased" as dabs in this sense at this stage, as part of an issue I have with terminology. It is difficult to perhaps illustrate this... but this would, in my opinion, cause a bit of further complication to the issue we already have with [[:Category:Unproduced Doctor Who TV stories]].
 :''The Dark Dimension'', for instance, cannot be called Unproduced. It had a production office, script, recces and contracted cast. But inversely, we cannot really call it Unreleased either. That would suggest a level of completeness that one would assign to ''Journey into Time'' or ''Absent Friends''.
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 ::I just don't feel that it would be otherwise correct to conflate unsolicited spec. pitches like the TV ''Doctor Who and the Star Beast'' or ''Mind of the Hodiac'' for things that got formal commissions. Between those three terms: we can keep a relatively minimal number of categories with losing immediate & important distinctions... and ultimately, we can reformat the current List of Unproduced Stories into a list that makes clear distinctions on what got how far in terms of specifically those 'Uncompleted' stories. [[User:JDPManjoume|JDPManjoume]] [[User talk:JDPManjoume|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 17:06, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
+:::I can understand why that perspective makes sense if we focus only on TV. But does it make sense in the context of every other medium? How many "unproduced" and "uncompleted" novels are there, using this distinction? Not many. I can think of [[Campaign (novel)]], [[Nimon of Athens (novel)]] and [[Mentor (novel)]] qualifying under some metrics, some being uncompleted, some unproduced. Pretty much every other "lost novel" we cover is a pitch. If the proposed dab terms slices things into sets too small to make categories, (Category:Uncompleted Novels), the distinction is probably not worth making. [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:14, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
+::::What about [[Equilibrium (novel)]]? I'm not sure how far along the novel actually got while Forward was shopping it around to Virgin and then BBC Books, but it was certainly completed at some point since Forward released it online. Perhaps there's discussion of that novel in some DWM issue, but I don't have the desire to search through a bunch of back issues to look. [[User:Pluto2|Pluto2]][[User talk:Pluto2|<span title="talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:21, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
+:::::That's not particularly indicative of anything. [[Smoking Mirror (novel)]] is in a similar situation. Some of this discussion already occurred at [[Talk:List of unproduced stories]]. The relevant paragraph is from Scrooge:
+::::::The distinction is also only really applicable for TV — cases of a book or audio being greenlit only to be cancelled partway through "production" are so vanishingly rare that I can think of only [[Campaign (novel)|one “Unproduced” novel fitting that description]]. Nearly all the interesting non-TV "stories that almost were, had influence on later productions, but were never completed themselves" never made it past the ''pitch'', because "production"-wise, much more of the work on a novel is done ''before'' the author officially brings a pitch to the publisher.
+:::::I think Mentor might count, given the comments made about it, and we know that Tardis Team Diaries 3 and 4 were planned, if not commissioned/written. So we have somewhere between 1 and 5 stories that count under this metric, them being ''officially green-lit'' and then ''failing to materialize'', for one reason for another, at least that I can find. (Maybe you also count the Paul Cornell novel where 7 regenerates, since it was discussed with the [[Peter Darvill-Evans]]? I wouldn't.) [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:45, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
+So I've re-read through this discussion and, while maybe things could change in the last 24 hours, thus far there seem to be three conclusions:
+#Broad support for including "unproduced" in the dab terms of unproduced story pages.
+#Broad support for using "unreleased" as a dab term for the rare few stories which were fully finished but not released, such as ''[[Absent Friends (Torchwood audio story)|Absent Friends]]'' and ''[[Campaign (novel)|Campaign]]''.
+#No consensus on any more complicated level of differentiation between unproduced stories.
+It's the eleventh hour but I'd like to add one further corollary for admin consideration in the closing statement: since "unproduced" will now be present in the title of each unproduced story page, surely we still won't need {{tlx|unprod}} to be so damn big? It's recently been pointed out to me that, since most casual users have no reason to be familiar with our template image practices, it's unnecessarily confusing to users to see the ''[[Scratchman (novelisation)|Scratchman]]'' logo above, for instance, ''[[Faction Paradox (theatrical film)|Faction Paradox]]''. A smaller template the size of {{tlx|wikipediainfo}} or {{tlx|stub}} will surely suffice going forward. – [[User:NateBumber|n8]] ([[User talk:NateBumber|☎]]) 17:08, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
+:Today is the final day for this proposal, so if anyone has anything more to add, now would be the time to say it. [[User:Danniesen|Danniesen]] [[User talk:Danniesen|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 11:25, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
+== Conclusion ==
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+As Nate summarised, there is broad support for including "unproduced" in the dab term for unproduced stories. Therefore, '''"unproduced" will now be used by default in the dab term of anything currently covered as unproduced - that is, anything currently in [[:category:Unproduced content]]'''.
+Moreover, there is also relatively broad support to use "unreleased" in some form or other for stories which don't pass [[Tardis:Valid sources#Rule 3|Rule 3 of T:VS]], but for which the descriptor of ''unproduced'' would be inaccurate by some understandings of the word "produced". As there was no consensus on how to best define rules for this, I think that it would be best to make this a case by case decision to be discussed on the talk page of relevant content. Therefore, and this is something that could potentially have clearer rules discussed and formalised in a future thread, '''stories and over media may, on a case by case basis, be classed as unreleased in order to aid with accuracy and clarity. When this is done, "unreleased" should be used in the dab term'''.
+Additionally, I do feel that a rework of categories will be needed here and so I will be creating a new category, [[:category:Unreleased content]], to directly house the stories and other media that are classed as unreleased. This category will also contain, as a subcategory, the currently existing [[:category:Unproduced content]]. It will also contain a new subcategory, [[:category:Future releases]], which will house [[List of future releases]], [[List of future Big Finish releases]] and pages on any individual future releases. While this was not proposed initially and received very little discussion, it is a logical thing to do and comes naturally with these other changes. I will create these categories and place pages into them over the next few days when I have time but, if anyone wants to help me out, feel free.
+Finally, Nate's proposal near the end to shrink {{tlx|unprod}} seems reasonable. I do not have the required skills to make the graphic required for this but, if someone does and wants to, it needs to be 130 x 25 pixels and follow the format of [[:File:StubTab.png]], [[:File:InvalidSource.png]] and [[:Category:Stub images|other similar images]]. If anyone does make this graphic, please upload it to the wiki, alert me on [[User talk:Bongolium500|my talk page]] and I'll do the rest. [[User:Bongolium500|<span title="aka Bongolium500">Bongo50</span>]] [[User talk:Bongolium500|<span title="talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:00, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
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