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==Opening Post==
(Next step: Actually define the comic tree stuff, as in the WC stuff. Some of the branches have their own leaves.)
===Introduction===
==Wow, I should have gotten to this project sooner, but the fork gives me reason to return to it.==
[[Forum:Temporary forums/Categories for stories without summaries]] established that this category tree should exist, and that it should look a specific way. However, generating the specific categories takes a bit of work because it requires figuring out where all our, say, PROSE works are, and making sure that we can figure out a relatively simple definition of a PROSE work using our category system. (Obviously we could start from the root [[:Category:Prose sources]] and work down to the leaves, but this is a monumental amount of work for the bot run and isn't guaranteed to be error free.)
===Category tree===
[[:Category:Missing summaries]]
:[[:Category:Missing plot summaries]]
:Clearly to be in this category the bot will need to detect that the "plot" section on whatever page is being tested says some variation of "To be added" or similar. (Perhaps if there both exists a plot section, and it is smaller than a certain length? We'd have to be careful about [[Vrs (short story)]] and a few others if we do that, but it's plausible.)
::[[:Category:Missing PROSE plot summaries]]
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::::[[The Human Bombs (comic story)]] (As of writing.)
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:::[[:Category:Missing DWA comic plot summaries]]
::::[[The Greatest Movie Never Made (comic story)]] (As of writing.)
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::::[[:Category:Missing Alien Babies! comic plot summaries]]
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:::[[:Category:Missing DWBIT comic plot summaries]]
::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:DWBIT comic stories]]
:::[[:Category:Missing DWM comic plot summaries]]
::::[[The Masque of Mandragora (comic story)]]
::::[[Terror of the Autons (comic story)]]
::::[[:Category:Missing DWM backup comic plot summaries]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:DWM backup comic stories]], not Four Hours to Doomsday.
::::[[:Category:Missing The Cybermen plot summaries‎]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:The Cybermen]]
::::[[:Category:Missing The Daft Dimension comic plot summaries‎]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:The Daft Dimension comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing First Doctor DWM comic plot summaries‎]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:First Doctor DWM comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing Second Doctor DWM comic plot summaries‎]]
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::::[[:Category:Missing Third Doctor DWM comic plot summaries‎]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:Third Doctor DWM comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing Fourth Doctor DWM comic plot summaries‎]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:Fourth Doctor DWM comic stories]], not Time Tales.
::::[[:Category:Missing Fifth Doctor DWM comic plot summaries‎]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:Fifth Doctor DWM comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing Sixth Doctor DWM comic plot summaries‎]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:Sixth Doctor DWM comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing Seventh Doctor DWM comic plot summaries‎]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:Seventh Doctor DWM comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing Eighth Doctor DWM comic plot summaries‎]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:Eighth Doctor DWM comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing Ninth Doctor DWM comic plot summaries‎]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:Ninth Doctor DWM comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing Tenth Doctor DWM comic plot summaries‎]]
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::::[[:Category:Missing Eleventh Doctor DWM comic plot summaries‎]]
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:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:Fourteenth Doctor DWM comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing Fifteenth Doctor DWM comic plot summaries‎]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:Fifteenth Doctor DWM comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing Doctor Who? comic plot summaries‎]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:Fifteenth Doctor DWM comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing The History Tour comic plot summaries‎]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:The History Tour comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing Tales from the TARDIS comic plot summaries‎]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:Tales from the TARDIS]]
:::[[:Category:Missing FF comic plot summaries]]
::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:FF comic stories]]
:::[[:Category:Missing Free-Fall Warriors plot summaries]]
::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:Free-Fall Warriors]]
:::[[:Category:Missing IDW comic plot summaries]]
::::Section from leaves in [[:Category:IDW comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing DW11 comic plot summaries]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:DW11 comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing DW12 comic plot summaries]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:DW12 comic stories]]
::::[[:Category:Missing IDW Doctor Who Annual comic plot summaries]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:IDW Doctor Who Annual comic stories]]
:::[[:Category:Missing LP comic plot summaries]]
::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:LP comic stories]]
:::[[:Category:Missing Polystyle comic plot summaries]]
::::[[:Category:Missing TVC comic plot summaries]]
:::::[[:Category:Missing First Doctor TVC comic plot summaries]]
::::::[[Prisoners of Gritog (comic story)]]
:::::[[:Category:Missing Second Doctor TVC comic plot summaries]]
::::::Section from leaves in [[:Category:Second Doctor TVC comic stories]]
::::::[[:Category:Missing Second Doctor TVC Annual comic plot summaries]]
:::::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:Second Doctor TVC Annual comic stories]]
::::::[[:Category:Missing Second Doctor TVC Holiday Special comic plot summaries]]
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:::::[[:Category:Missing Third Doctor TVC comic plot summaries]]
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:::[[:Category:Missing TIDH comic plot summaries]]
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:::[[:Category:Missing Titan comic plot summaries]]
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::::[[:Category:Missing 10D comic plot summaries]]
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:::::[[:Category:Missing 11D backup comic plot summaries]]
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:::::(Note:Currently empty as of writing. Leaving because it easily may change, so reserving it in the architecture is a decent idea.)
::::[[:Category:Missing DW20 comic plot summaries]]
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::::[[:Category:Missing FCBD comic plot summaries]]
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:::[[:Category:Missing Who's Where? comic plot summaries]]
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So, like, what even is validity?
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:::[[:Category:Missing Lego Dimensions WC plot summaries]]
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:::[[:Category:Missing Monster Files plot summaries]]
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:::[[:Category:Missing P.R.O.B.E. plot summaries]]
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:::[[:Category:Missing SJA WC plot summaries]]
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::::[[:Category:Missing Mr Smith's data updates‎ WC plot summaries]]
:::::Comes from [[:Category:Mr Smith's data updates‎‎]]'s leaves. INTERSECT WC
:::[[:Category:Missing TLV WC plot summaries]]
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::::[[:Category:Missing UNIT Field Log WC plot summaries]]
:::::Comes from [[:Category:UNIT Field Log webcasts‎]]'s leaves. INTERSECT WC
::[[:Category:Missing GAME plot summaries]]
:::Take the leaves from this category + the leaves from the subcategories of [[:Category:Video games by Doctor]]
::[[:Category:Missing NOTVALID plot summaries]]
:[[:Category:Missing publisher summaries]]
:Same as before, but for publisher summary.
::[[:Category:Missing PROSE publisher summaries]]
::[[:Category:Missing AUDIO publisher summaries]]
:::Generate subcategories based on "[[:Category:Audio stories by company]]", preserving subcategories within this structure. (So, eg, [[:Category:Big Finish audio stories plot summaries]], followed by [[:Category:BFBS audio stories plot summaries]])
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::::[[The Human Bombs (comic story)]] (As of writing.)
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:::[[:Category:Missing DWA comic publisher summaries]]
::::[[The Greatest Movie Never Made (comic story)]] (As of writing.)
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:::[[:Category:Missing DWBIT comic publisher summaries]]
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:::[[:Category:Missing DWM comic publisher summaries]]
::::[[The Masque of Mandragora (comic story)]]
::::[[Terror of the Autons (comic story)]]
::::[[:Category:Missing DWM backup comic publisher summaries]]
:::::Comes from leaves in [[:Category:DWM backup comic stories]], not Four Hours to Doomsday.
::::[[:Category:Missing The Cybermen publisher summaries]]
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::::[[:Category:Missing The Daft Dimension comic publisher summaries]]
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::::[[:Category:Missing First Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries]]
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::::[[:Category:Missing Fourth Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries]]
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::::[[:Category:Missing Fifth Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries]]
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::::[[:Category:Missing Ninth Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries]]
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::::[[:Category:Missing Tenth Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries]]
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::::[[:Category:Missing Doctor Who? comic publisher summaries]]
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::::[[:Category:Missing Tales from the TARDIS comic publisher summaries]]
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:::::[[:Category:Missing First Doctor TVC comic publisher summaries]]
::::::[[Prisoners of Gritog (comic story)]]
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::::::Section from leaves in [[:Category:Second Doctor TVC comic stories]]
::::::[[:Category:Missing Second Doctor TVC Annual comic publisher summaries]]
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:::::(Note:Currently empty as of writing. Leaving because it easily may change, so reserving it in the architecture is a decent idea.)
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Wait, no, come back, I promise this is important.
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[[T:CAN|Validity isn't canon.]] It's not something given to us from on high by The BBC. It's also not ''really'' a thing that exists out there in the general fanbase, like, we don't poll the overall ''Doctor Who'' community to see what should be a valid source for articles on this wiki. We have ''[[Dr. Men]]'' as valid, and for the longest time didn't have ''[[P.S. (webcast)|P.S.]]'' as valid. I think anyone would say this is the wrong way 'round. We don't smash atoms together to find out what validity is, it's not a platonic form floating out there in the ether. It's not really a [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-kinds/ natural kind] and probably not a [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-kinds/#NatuKindSociScie social kind]. It is socially constructed though, it's constructed by the actions of the editors of the wiki. I've opined before that we could, tomorrow, if we so decided, make it so that only ''[[Summer Falls (novel)|Summer Falls]]'' is valid on this wiki. That's what validity becomes. It just becomes a fundamentally worthless concept. We're not ''factually incorrect'' to do so. It's just a bad idea.
====Transversal of tree====
(For reference, [[:Category:Sources]])
Not sure if this will help the bot, but I'm specifying this just in case, our category tree is rather complicated, and it will also allow me to simplify my notation above.


Ultimately, and I do want to stress this fact, the users of this wiki can just decide to make something valid or invalid by sheer fiat, regardless of logical consistency, regardless of argument, regardless of strength of evidence or whether the rules we've written down elsewhere say otherwise. If we want to encode some sort of exception to the rest of our validity practices that mean any story that begins with "q" and doesn't immediately follow it up with "u" or "i" is valid, we can do this. It's a, forgive me, insane rule, but we can do it. So you all ''absolutely can'' simply reject the argument I'm going to present in this thread. But I don't think that this is a good idea. (Well, of course I would say that.)
NOTVALID = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Non-DWU sources->[[:Category:Non-DWU sources by medium]] (UNION of all subcategories)


But what does it mean for our validity rules to be good or bad?
Novel = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->PROSE stories->Novels->[[:Category:Novels by year of release]] (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID


Well. This is obviously a truly massive topic for discussion and not really something that I think anyone is prepared to discuss in full here. In part because I don't think anyone is fully cognizant of their own motivations! The specific reasoning that you or I have towards certain policies will be a subtle interplay of conscious and unconscious factors. I don't expect anyone here to have a completely fleshed out philosophy of what our validity rules would look like were they to be written from scratch - I certainly don't. But I have thought about some general principles that I think any ''change'' to [[T:VS]] should try to hew towards.
Feature = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->PROSE stories->Features->[[:Category:Features by year of release]] (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID


*Ease of explanation
Short Story = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->PROSE stories->Short stories->[[:Category:Short stories by year of release]] (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID
*Ease of enforcement
*Continuity; in 2 senses
**Continuity with past policy interpretation
**Continuity with prior forum rulings
*Consistency of reasoning


Now, there are others, of course, such as maintaining that ''Summer Falls'', that pure, pristine bastion of innocence, is valid, but I bring these up because I think we have a problem with a recent rule change that violates these specific four(five) principles. That rule change is, of course, Rule 4 by Proxy (hereafter "R4bp"), as detailed at [[Forum:Temporary forums/An update to T:VS]], as those of you who know me are aware. I'll admit that in my crusade against this rule change I have at times sympathized with the following quote:
PROSE = Short Story UNION Novel UNION Feature


{{Quote|William James said that sometimes detailed philosophical argument is irrelevant. Once a current of thought is under way, trying to oppose it with argument is like trying to plant a stick in a river to alter its course: "round your obstacle flows the water and 'gets there just the same'". […] Planting a stick in this water is probably futile, but having done so before I shall do so again, and-who knows?-enough sticks may make a dam, and the waters of error may subside.|Simon Blackburn}}
WC = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Webcasts->[[:Category:Webcasts by year of release]] (UNION Of all subcategories)


I too may be shoving forward sticks futilely in an attempt to provide guidance to a torrent of water. But unlike Blackburn I think there might be a more optimistic route forward. While many sticks may make a dam - so too may they make a water wheel, and we can harness the tides of change towards something constructive. I think both options are possible outcomes from the reasoning this thread will present. The choice is up to you.
Film = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->[[:Category:Theatrical films]] (UNION Of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID


===So what's this R4bp thing anyhow?===
Tv = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Television stories->[[:Category:Television stories]] by airdate (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID


Well, as stated, the relevant thread is [[Forum:Temporary forums/An update to T:VS]]. The original proposal is that we "accept the retroactive validity of Rule-4-breakers which are later explicitly referenced in valid sources in a manner which seeks to "bring them into continuity" in one way or another". The proposal was met with open arms and an outpouring of praise from everyone except myself and [[User:Tangerineduel]]. With that said, I don't think it's particularly uncharitable to say that at least part of the reason why this proposal was so popular was due to the particular historical circumstances we found ourselves in. This was during the [[Forum:Temporary forums]], when we only had six slots to discuss things, and as noted at the very beginning of the thread,
TV=Film UNION Tv


:Within hours of [[Tardis:Temporary forums]] being activated, it began filling up with suggestions that we redeem all sorts of things from ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'' to ''[[Vienna (series)|Vienna]]'' from <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Invalid|invalid]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> status.
GAME = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Real world video games->[[:Category:Video games by year of release]] (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID (nb: As far as I can tell the other groups can't consistently have plot summaries, they're just not the sorts of things where that makes sense, and almost always have the publisher summaries listed already. Personally I don't see the need for subcategories here for mediums, since the others should be effectively rounding errors. Also, in general I'm skeptical about doing this one by bot run, a lot of these aren't written in such a way that plot summary / publisher's summary are present. Might be better to completely ignore the GAME sources in the bot run and just add them by hand.)


Seriously, [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Forum:Temporary_forums?oldid=3385504 go look] at the situation if you've forgotten or were unaware.
HOMEVID = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Home videos->[[:Category:Home videos by year of release]] (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID


The policy could be characterized as a blunt instrument to save everyone time, if one were feeling truly uncharitable. I don't think this is accurate, I think [[User:Scrooge MacDuck]] truly thought about this problem as a disconnect between the users of the wiki and our validity rules and attempted to slice through the particularly tricky Gordian Knot. But I don't think this view of the situation is accurate. I don't think the reason why people were so frustrated with, say, ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'' being invalid is because ''[[Storm in a Tikka]]'' referenced it. [[Thread:211495]] in [[User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates 2]] mentions it once, and not as motivation. Certainly some threads bring up narrative connections, either as an attempt to use it as procedurally required new evidence ([[Thread:267931]], ibid) or by a new user in reference to a thread that ''could'' be construed as doing something similar ([[Thread:240617]], ibid). I'm rather convinced that the frustrations with the various stories listed are that often there were perfectly good threads that argued in favor of validity and certain people just shut their ears. Most infamously ''Vienna'', of course, but there was a ''Death Comes to Time'' thread not too long before the forums closed. (In the effort of full disclosure, [[Thread:179549]] and [[Thread:207499]] in [[User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates 1]] ''do'' seem to have these concerns. But these are the only ones I can find. (Well, I think another Shalka one might.) They're outliers.)
COMIC = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Comic stories->[[:Category:Comic stories by year of release]] (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID


Now, perhaps it doesn't matter ultimately that this isn't what people thought, even if it's explicitly stated to be part of the motivation in the thread. But, you know, imagine I put some pretentious comment here about the different sword strokes you could make while cutting a knot and how it's dangerous, as well as maybe how you might just want to untie it, yada yada Sword of Damocles. You get it.
AUDIO = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Audio stories->[[:Category:Audio stories by year of release]] (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID
 
Now, the reasoning presented for ''why'' we should accept this reinterpretation, aside from solving so many problems all at once - because what the people arguing about these things in threads really care about is continuity and not authorial intent - is that if we accept the fundamental premise before, that the majority, or even a substantial number, of these discussions kept coming up because of continuity concerns, and then that we even cared that people made these discussions rather than just ignoring them and kept ruling them invalid, this overall methodology was sound because narrative continuity was evidence of intent. Specifically,
:as I see it, in-story continuity serves as (sometimes ''strong'') ''circumstantial evidence'' of intent-of-continuity, without meaning that one is reducible to the other in all cases. What else could Rule 4 mean, save something like intent-of-continuity-with-some-prior-DWU-source? It cannot sanely be divorced from ''some'' concept of "continuity", lest it turn into an arbitrary tag pertaining only and exclusively to a story's status under T:VS itself (and that would be a terrible thing, as it would mean that decades' worth of now-dead writers simply weren't in a position to have any opinions on the matter!) or, at best, some kind of question of "branding"
Cards on the table, I straightforwardly reject this. I think the "arbitrary tag" formulation is ''largely'' correct, in that there's a "DWU" as the wiki understands the term, and then a "DWU" as every ''individual'' author understands the term and for R4 statements we do some translation between the two. I rather assume that no author understands the term quite like the wiki does, though Scrooge, Nate, or a few others might if they really wanted to put their editor hats on while writing. For the ''wiki'' I think it's simply a label and doesn't refer to continuity in the slightest. As I think you'll see later, I'm far from the only user to have said similar sentiments in the past.
 
I could say more, but I don't want to rehash old discussions, as that absolutely would be in violation of [[T:POINT]] and this is just meant as a summary for those who either weren't present or have forgotten. The thread was closed in favor of the policy, noting that
:In general, it is safe to assume that, if information presented within a source pulls another source into the DWU, that is sufficient for validity under rule 4 by proxy as presented by [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]]. While it is often possible to find quotes about the "DWU-ness" of a source as a whole, I feel that it is ''much'' less practical to expect to find quotes affirming the "DWU-ness" of separate stories that an author happened to reference.
 
With this context in mind, let's turn now to the ways in which R4bp might fail to meet the principles I've laid out above, and how we might solve these problems.
 
===Explanation===
 
It is my contention that we both want our validity rules to be easy to understand for new editors to this website and that R4bp fails to meet this mark. I mean this not in the sense that new editors won't understand the reasoning, we'll get to that, but that the rule itself seems poorly worded and ambiguous at first glance. Let's take each of these things in turn.
 
First, why would we want our validity rules to be easy for new editors to understand? This, I think, is trivial. So that new editors can swiftly begin having input in our discussions surrounding whether certain sources are valid. Indeed, not only new editors, but people ''outside the wiki community'' should, ideally, be able to understand our validity rules. I think this is probably impossible to ever get to, especially on the more technical issues like what to do when an entirely new form of media springs up for us to cover - our wiki just has too many moving parts - but you know, it's a nice ideal. Indeed, many other people have felt the same, while [[User:CzechOut]] noted in [[Thread:207499]] at [[User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates 1]]
:The four little rules "chart", for lack of a better word, was never intended as the be-all, end-all of validity on the wiki. It was meant to be a simplified guide to the whole page of text at [[T:VS]].
the 2020 rewrite of [[T:VS]] greatly simplified things so that everything referred back to the 4 rules, making it much easier for new editors to onboard. Most recently there was the decrying of the idea of a "secret rule 5" at [[Forum:The Daft Dimension and Doctor Who? as parallel universes]]. Easily accessible validity rules are something that many people profess to want.
 
How does R4bp fail to meet this mark? Well, the official standard given in [[T:VS]] is
:a later story makes an effort to bring an otherwise invalid story back into the DWU [...] [i]n general, in-story evidence may be used for this purpose
This is literally so vague as to be meaningless. Look at our page on [[Doctor Who universe]].
:Much like the related term of [[canon]], its scope is somewhat debated by fans. Fans often disagree about whether some stories and series are considered part of the ''Doctor Who'' universe, and some dispute the concept's meaning or utility altogether.
 
:This wiki has established rules about what is and is not part of the ''Doctor Who'' universe for its own purposes (see [[T:VS|our valid source policy]] for more information), but this wiki has no authority beyond its borders.
What does it mean to make efforts to bring stories back into the DWU? Does the fact that our wiki has rules for what constitutes the DWU impact what it means to "bring a story into the DWU"? Would it mean something else if we weren't considering the wiki rules? Does this distinction matter to R4bp? None of this would be remotely comprehensible to a new editor. You're only making them ''more'' confused.
 
So let's try another tactic.
 
We return once more to the thread that enshrined R4bp and see instead that the original proposal that passed is that
:we accept the retroactive validity of Rule-4-breakers which are later explicitly referenced in valid sources in a manner which seeks to "bring them into continuity" in one way or another
Well, what does "bring them into continuity" mean? I'm certainly not confident that a new editor will understand this. The standard given in [[Forum:Temporary forums/Trailers]] ties this directly to the ''wiki'' notion of continuity.
:[we have] a lot of precedent about what we as a Wiki call "continuity": ''the continuity sections we have on all our pages''.
Now, I personally find this a ''little'' difficult to square with how continuity is used in the original R4bp thread, but ultimately it doesn't seem too far afield. I'm slightly more concerned about two other areas. One is an issue of enforcement, so we'll touch on it later. But fundamentally I don't think new editors are all that clear about the difference between continuity and references. Hell. I'm not, even as people try to explain it to me.
 
Now, I know, I know, some of you think I'm tilting at windmills here. But I'm just fundamentally not. See [[Forum:References and continuity: what exactly is the difference?]], [[Forum:DWU, Canon, Continuity and References - rename them]], and [[Thread:117229]] in [[User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon I]]. In the first thread we have one ''admin'' and ''one of the rare users granted rollback rights'' express their lack of understanding of the system. In the second it's still the same fundamental confusion and we have our longtime bureaucrat [[User:Tangerineduel]] seriously propose tying the words "canon" and "continuity" together for the section. In the last thread [[User:Shambala108]], who would later go on to become an admin, proposed the same. This last thread never had a clear resolution that I can see, but dear lord, just read it. There's ''no'' consensus. There are people like Shambala or [[User:OttselSpy25]] who say they just intuitively understand the difference, but also users like [[User:Mewiet]] and Czech who fundamentally don't. Quite frankly, I find the arguments presented in this thread by Czech and [[User:SOTO]] to be ''foundationally'' damning to the difference between references and continuity and I can't see any coherent way to separate them consistently.
 
But that's not the point. The point is that if we have ''admins'' who can't agree on the definition of continuity as we use it on our pages, if there's never any resolution to these threads and experienced users are truly confused, it's certainly ''reasonable to expect'' that a reasonable amount of new editors will encounter the same problems and simply be unable to truly understand the policy when it's first presented to them. No matter who here thinks it's obvious and trivial, the fact remains that there's strong evidence that experienced editors have struggled with these concepts!
 
===Enforcement===
 
It's an occasionally repeated line on this wiki that
:'''[[Tardis talk:Valid sources#Only Stories Count|All rules of the wiki have to be clear and easy to administer.]]'''
With not only Czech holding this, but other users occasionally repeating similar sentiments. Is this a good standard?
 
I think so, even aside from the reasons for onboarding new users. First and most obviously it reduces workload on admins and editors, this is a wiki with >100k pages, it could easily take up an admin's life and it's trivial that there's always more work to do. Next, if rules become heavily bogged down in minutiae and byzantine procedural steps that it's hard to work with it can easily cause users who are already present on the wiki to feel put off from editing - like the things they do on the wiki are valued less, that their views are being dismissed out of hand, that they aren't having due process, etc etc, and can lead to diminished user base. Finally if the lack of clarity extends to a ''fundamental ambiguity'', if the rules are, in fact, ''guidelines'', this actually can cause existential damage to the wiki. Replacing due process and rules with community discussions, as some may wish to do, will slowly undermine whatever trust the community has in us. Would we ever do something as insane as invalidating [[The Snowmen (TV story)|a BBC Wales episode]]? Likely not. But if we constantly rule by diktat, with any semblance of firm policy thrown to the wind, these worries will emerge. The slope is only slightly slippery, and we haven't ''truly'' begun to go down it yet at all, but it's worth being aware of all the same, if only as motivation for why consistency matters.
 
So where do the worries emerge with R4bp?
 
As stated above, I think the criticisms of SOTO and Czech in [[Thread:117229]] at [[User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon I]] are foundationally damning to any clear distinction between continuity and references from the perspective from this wiki. As such, I don't see a way in which policy can be meaningfully based on one of them (and not the other). Now, perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems to me that there's only one potential way for R4bp to have around this, as it explicitly denies the necessity of statements of authorial intent, and it's the second issue I referenced above. At [[Forum:Deleted Scenes and Rule 4 By Proxy]] we're told
:R4BP applies when the natural assumption is that the validating story is making a continuity reference to the validated story.
Perhaps we could make these assumptions so clear, so unambiguous, that nobody could dispute that they're continuity references. But the statement made is decidedly unclear yet again. Is this truly what "natural assumption" means in this context? Is "continuity" here referring to the ''wiki'''s (incoherent) usage of the term, or some other? It's tea leaf reading and subjective interpretation all the way down. And this is without getting into the metaphysical and linguistic ambiguities of what it means for a "story" to "refer" to "another story".
 
Consider the following example, of SOTO's comments at [[Thread:117229]]
:the Doctor saying he once had an android boyfriend in ''Time''. That's not a reference to any specific story from a real-world perspective, but it's still a reference to something in the DWU
And then consider [[Thread:207499]] from [[User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates 1]]
:The Eleventh Doctor mentions having an android boyfriend, and the creators of the webcast have stated that, yes, the "Shalka Doctor" and the Master were a couple.
What to one person is a reference is to another continuity. Is this clearly trying to bring Shalka into continuity? Who knows? The only options available to us are to attempt to divine Steven Moffat's mental state, given that he's close friends with Paul Cornell. But even this doesn't guarantee that this is an intentional ''continuity reference to that story'' rather than a fun gag that happens to ''resemble that story'', given how notoriously forgetful Moffat is (dude literally forgot [[Corner of the Eye (short story)|an entire story he wrote]], as well as that he created the [[Memory worm]]). There is simply no way to determine intended continuity references when they look like this without explicit statements of intent. And even if you insist that it's too big a coincidence given Moffat's friendship with Cornell, consider the hypothetical where another writer wrote this. It's ''such'' a vague statement - which is why SOTO saw it as a reference rather than as continuity. Can this ''ever'' be a "natural assumption"? I dunno. I think some people think it's obvious, and others clearly won't. Just as is the case for ''every'' discussion of references v continuity linked above.
 
So far from being a way around the issues referenced by SOTO and Czech, appeals to "natural assumptions" that a work contains "continuity references" to another only serves to underline just how damaging these criticisms are to this proposed framing of R4bp.
 
===Previous interpretation of policy===
 
====What's the difference between policy interpretation and forum threads?====
 
===Forum threads===
 
====The elephant in the room====
 
====The hippopotamus in the room====
 
====The rhinoceros in the room====
 
===Inconsistent reasoning===
 
===Potential responses===
 
====But we just validated all of these things!====
 
====The fluffy little Pomeranian in the room====
 
===In conclusion===
 
==Discussion==

Latest revision as of 07:45, 24 November 2024

(Next step: Actually define the comic tree stuff, as in the WC stuff. Some of the branches have their own leaves.)

Wow, I should have gotten to this project sooner, but the fork gives me reason to return to it.[[edit] | [edit source]]

Forum:Temporary forums/Categories for stories without summaries established that this category tree should exist, and that it should look a specific way. However, generating the specific categories takes a bit of work because it requires figuring out where all our, say, PROSE works are, and making sure that we can figure out a relatively simple definition of a PROSE work using our category system. (Obviously we could start from the root Category:Prose sources and work down to the leaves, but this is a monumental amount of work for the bot run and isn't guaranteed to be error free.)

Category tree[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Clearly to be in this category the bot will need to detect that the "plot" section on whatever page is being tested says some variation of "To be added" or similar. (Perhaps if there both exists a plot section, and it is smaller than a certain length? We'd have to be careful about Vrs (short story) and a few others if we do that, but it's plausible.)
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Category:Missing Eleventh Doctor DWA comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Eleventh Doctor DWA comic stories
Category:Missing Twelfth Doctor DWA comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Twelfth Doctor DWA comic stories
Category:Missing DWAN comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:DWAN comic stories
Category:Missing DWBIT comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:DWBIT comic stories
Category:Missing DWM comic publisher summaries
The Masque of Mandragora (comic story)
Terror of the Autons (comic story)
Category:Missing DWM backup comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:DWM backup comic stories, not Four Hours to Doomsday.
Category:Missing The Cybermen publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:The Cybermen
Category:Missing The Daft Dimension comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:The Daft Dimension comic stories
Category:Missing First Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:First Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing Second Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Second Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing Third Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Third Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing Fourth Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Fourth Doctor DWM comic stories, not Time Tales.
Category:Missing Fifth Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Fifth Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing Sixth Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Sixth Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing Seventh Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Seventh Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing Eighth Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Eighth Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing Ninth Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Ninth Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing Tenth Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Tenth Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing Eleventh Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Eleventh Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing Twelfth Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Twelfth Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing Thirteenth Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Thirteenth Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing Fourteenth Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Fourteenth Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing Fifteenth Doctor DWM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Fifteenth Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing Doctor Who? comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Fifteenth Doctor DWM comic stories
Category:Missing The History Tour comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:The History Tour comic stories
Category:Missing Tales from the TARDIS comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Tales from the TARDIS
Category:Missing FF comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:FF comic stories
Category:Missing Free-Fall Warriors publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Free-Fall Warriors
Category:Missing IDW comic publisher summaries
Section from leaves in Category:IDW comic stories
Category:Missing DW11 comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:DW11 comic stories
Category:Missing DW12 comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:DW12 comic stories
Category:Missing IDW Doctor Who Annual comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:IDW Doctor Who Annual comic stories
Category:Missing LP comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:LP comic stories
Category:Missing Polystyle comic publisher summaries
Category:Missing TVC comic publisher summaries
Category:Missing First Doctor TVC comic publisher summaries
Prisoners of Gritog (comic story)
Category:Missing Second Doctor TVC comic publisher summaries
Section from leaves in Category:Second Doctor TVC comic stories
Category:Missing Second Doctor TVC Annual comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Second Doctor TVC Annual comic stories
Category:Missing Second Doctor TVC Holiday Special comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Second Doctor TVC Holiday Special comic stories
Category:Missing Third Doctor TVC comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Third Doctor TVC comic stories
Category:Missing Fourth Doctor TVC comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Fourth Doctor TVC comic stories
Category:Missing TIDH comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Reprinted TIDH comic stories
Category:Missing Titan comic publisher summaries
Section from leaves in Category:Titan comic stories
Category:Missing 10D comic publisher summaries
Section from leaves in Category:10D comic stories
Category:Missing 10D backup comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:10D backup comic stories
Category:Missing 11D comic publisher summaries
Section from leaves in Category:11D comic stories
Category:Missing 11D backup comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:11D backup comic stories
Category:Missing 12D comic publisher summaries
Section from leaves in Category:12D comic stories
Category:Missing 13D comic publisher summaries
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Category:Missing 7D comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:7D comic stories
Category:Missing 9D comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:9D comic stories
Category:Missing 15D comic publisher summaries
(Note:Currently empty as of writing. Leaving because it easily may change, so reserving it in the architecture is a decent idea.)
Category:Missing DW20 comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:DW20 comic stories
Category:Missing FCBD comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:FCBD comic stories
Category:Missing TM comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:TM comic stories
Category:Missing TW comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:TW comic stories
Category:Missing WeLoveTITANS publisher summaries
Category:Missing 10D WLT comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:10D WLT comic stories
Category:Missing 11D WLT comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:11D WLT comic stories
Category:Missing 12D WLT comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:12D WLT comic stories
Category:Missing 9D WLT comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:9D WLT comic stories
Category:Missing TV21 comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:TV21 comic stories
Category:Missing Web-based comic publisher summaries
Section from leaves in Category:Web-based comic stories
Category:Missing BBC Writers' Comics publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:BBC Writers' Comics stories
Category:Missing The Forge comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:The Forge comic stories
Category:Missing Who's Where? comic publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Who's Where? comic stories
Category:Missing HOMEVID publisher summaries
No subcategories, generated entirely from the HOMEVID cat defined below
Category:Missing WC publisher summaries
Category:Missing Arcbeatle WC publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Arcbeatle webcasts INTERSECT WC
Category:Missing BBCi WC publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:BBCi, minus BBC Red Button, and then the leaves of Category:TARDIS Cam stories INTERSECT WC
Category:Missing BBV WC publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:BBV webcasts INTERSECT WC
Category:Missing Big Finish WC publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Big Finish webcasts INTERSECT WC
Category:Missing Doom's Day WC publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Doom's Day webcasts INTERSECT WC
Category:Missing Lego Dimensions WC publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:LEGO Dimensions trailers‎ INTERSECT WC
Category:Missing Monster Files publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:Monster Files stories‎ INTERSECT WC
Category:Missing P.R.O.B.E. publisher summaries
Comes from leaves in Category:P.R.O.B.E. webcasts‎ INTERSECT WC
Category:Missing SJA WC publisher summaries
Comes from Category:SJA webcasts‎'s leaves, not the subcategory. INTERSECT WC
Category:Missing Mr Smith's data updates‎ WC publisher summaries
Comes from Category:Mr Smith's data updates‎‎'s leaves. INTERSECT WC
Category:Missing TLV WC publisher summaries
Comes from Category:TLV webcasts's leaves, not the subcategory. INTERSECT WC
Category:Missing UNIT Field Log WC publisher summaries
Comes from Category:UNIT Field Log webcasts‎'s leaves. INTERSECT WC
Category:Missing GAME publisher summaries
Take the leaves from this category + the leaves from the subcategories of Category:Video games by Doctor
Category:Missing NOTVALID publisher summaries

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(For reference, Category:Sources) Not sure if this will help the bot, but I'm specifying this just in case, our category tree is rather complicated, and it will also allow me to simplify my notation above.

NOTVALID = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Non-DWU sources->Category:Non-DWU sources by medium (UNION of all subcategories)

Novel = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->PROSE stories->Novels->Category:Novels by year of release (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID

Feature = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->PROSE stories->Features->Category:Features by year of release (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID

Short Story = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->PROSE stories->Short stories->Category:Short stories by year of release (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID

PROSE = Short Story UNION Novel UNION Feature

WC = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Webcasts->Category:Webcasts by year of release (UNION Of all subcategories)

Film = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Category:Theatrical films (UNION Of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID

Tv = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Television stories->Category:Television stories by airdate (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID

TV=Film UNION Tv

GAME = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Real world video games->Category:Video games by year of release (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID (nb: As far as I can tell the other groups can't consistently have plot summaries, they're just not the sorts of things where that makes sense, and almost always have the publisher summaries listed already. Personally I don't see the need for subcategories here for mediums, since the others should be effectively rounding errors. Also, in general I'm skeptical about doing this one by bot run, a lot of these aren't written in such a way that plot summary / publisher's summary are present. Might be better to completely ignore the GAME sources in the bot run and just add them by hand.)

HOMEVID = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Home videos->Category:Home videos by year of release (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID

COMIC = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Comic stories->Category:Comic stories by year of release (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID

AUDIO = Floor 500->Real world->Sources->Audio stories->Category:Audio stories by year of release (UNION of all subcategories) SETMINUS NOTVALID