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I move that we rule ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'' non-canonical, in the sense that it can't be used as a valid soure for other articles. | I move that we rule ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'' non-canonical, in the sense that it can't be used as a valid soure for other articles. | ||
*The incarnation of the Doctor is uncertain, with different reviewers saying "it's definitely the Eighth Doctor", "it may be the First Doctor prior to leaving Gallifrey", or it may be a future or alternative timeline version of whom we've never heard elsewhere | *The incarnation of the Doctor is uncertain, with different reviewers saying "it's definitely the Eighth Doctor", "it may be the First Doctor prior to leaving Gallifrey", or it may be a future or alternative timeline version of whom we've never heard elsewhere | ||
{{quote|He's clearly not the eighth Doctor of mainstream continuity. He does look like Paul McGann.|Lance Parkin|http://reprintthedoctor.weebly.com/lance-interview.html}} | |||
*The time setting is, by the author's admission, intentionally vague. With no clear setting, how can we possibly speak of any of the events with anything like certainty? | *The time setting is, by the author's admission, intentionally vague. With no clear setting, how can we possibly speak of any of the events with anything like certainty? | ||
*Reviewers can't seem to agree whether the book even happens in the normal DWU | *Reviewers can't seem to agree whether the book even happens in the normal DWU | ||
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I move that we rule The Infinity Doctors non-canonical, in the sense that it can't be used as a valid soure for other articles.
- The incarnation of the Doctor is uncertain, with different reviewers saying "it's definitely the Eighth Doctor", "it may be the First Doctor prior to leaving Gallifrey", or it may be a future or alternative timeline version of whom we've never heard elsewhere
He's clearly not the eighth Doctor of mainstream continuity. He does look like Paul McGann.
- The time setting is, by the author's admission, intentionally vague. With no clear setting, how can we possibly speak of any of the events with anything like certainty?
- Reviewers can't seem to agree whether the book even happens in the normal DWU
- Lance Parkin said in an interview with the old BBCi that it was meant to be book one of a two book series, with the second book containing a "reset button" that would allow the story to return to the "normal" DWU. Without this reset button, the story languishes in a weird nether world
- Because of the vast narrative uncertainties, it is extremely problematic to allow even basic information from this story into our other pages. Basic factual writing requires that we define the who-what-when-why-and-how of situations, but the novel doesn't allow us to precisely know the who, what or when of almost any statement we'd care to craft.
Obviously, I'm not suggesting that we delete the page The Infinity Doctors, but I think we do need to quarantine it from the rest of our pages. Thoughts?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">04:57: Fri 20 Apr 2012
