Tardis talk:Canon policy

Just thought I would create a page for Cannon Policy so that something can be worked out. Personally I believe that the following would be the best approach to take, what do other people think?

Ordinary Text Entries

• The Television Series (and TV Movie)

Italics Text Entries

• The Virgin New Adventures
• The Virgin Missing Adventures
• The Decalog Collections
• The BBC EDA
• The BBC PDA (Or Classic's or whatever the range is to be called from now on)
• The Ninth Doctor Novels
• The Big Finish Audio CD's
• The Short Trips Anthologies
• Telos Novellas
• The Missing Adventures (i.e. The Missing Series)
• Other Audio products, e.g. Pescations, Slipback

Non Doctor Who Stories

(Possibly also in Italics but does anyone have any other suggestions?)

• Bernice Summerfield Range
• Sarah Jane Smith
• Other Companions
• Faction Paradox
• Dalek Empire
• Kaldor City
• Miranda
• Gallifrey Audios
• Time Hunter
• UNIT

Other Stories Which Are Probably Non Considered Cannon But Should Be Included For The Sake Of Completeness

• Campaign
• Dimension In Time
• The Peter Cushing Movies
• Scream of the Shalka
• Infinity Doctors

Other Material

Personally with the other material I am undecided as to what I think, I would say no to:

• Fan Fiction not licenced, e.g. online fiction or anything produced in Fanzines no matter how well written
• BBV Productions such as the time travellers which was using a Doctor Who concept but not in the same way as the "real show".

I am unsure what I think about the inclusion of:

• Perfect Trips
• Missing Pieces
• The Various Other Charity Anthologies licenced to be produced
• Brief Encounters
• The Unbound Series from Big Finish

As for the Comic Strips I really dont know what I think about those. Personally I would go with include the ones which fit in with continuity and exclude the ones which dont (John and Gillian for example) but this doesnt seem a very consistent policy.

See Separately my argument on the use of Novelizations

--Amxitsa 16:45, 20 Mar 2005 (EST)