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:: As a hypothetical example, let's suggest that [[Doctor Strange]] had been mentioned in a story, but not been connected to the Marvel multiverse in-universe. You are a reader, a [[Not We]], on the Wiki, and you decide to explore the connections Marvel has to ''Doctor Who'': so you find yourself going through pages, and you notice a template - a template that contains a handy list of Marvel Comics characters - but Doctor Strange isn't on there. What would be your first thought? A. Doctor Strange, if he is not in this list of characters, must have not appeared in the DWU, or b. has appeared in the DWU but the Wiki has decide to prioritise pedantry over common sense and has separated relevant information based solely on the conscious decision to forgoe the real world context the original writer of the story assumed their readers would possess. Of bloody course it would be the ''former''. <div style="background-color:#0E234E; border: solid 0.5px gold; display: inline; white-space: nowrap;">[[doctorwho:user:Epsilon the Eternal|<span style="background:#0E234E; color:white"><code>Epsilon</code></span>]][[doctorwho:user talk:Epsilon the Eternal|📯]] [[doctorwho:special:Contributions/Epsilon the Eternal|📂]]</div> 01:37, 9 September 2022 (UTC) | :: As a hypothetical example, let's suggest that [[Doctor Strange]] had been mentioned in a story, but not been connected to the Marvel multiverse in-universe. You are a reader, a [[Not We]], on the Wiki, and you decide to explore the connections Marvel has to ''Doctor Who'': so you find yourself going through pages, and you notice a template - a template that contains a handy list of Marvel Comics characters - but Doctor Strange isn't on there. What would be your first thought? A. Doctor Strange, if he is not in this list of characters, must have not appeared in the DWU, or b. has appeared in the DWU but the Wiki has decide to prioritise pedantry over common sense and has separated relevant information based solely on the conscious decision to forgoe the real world context the original writer of the story assumed their readers would possess. Of bloody course it would be the ''former''. <div style="background-color:#0E234E; border: solid 0.5px gold; display: inline; white-space: nowrap;">[[doctorwho:user:Epsilon the Eternal|<span style="background:#0E234E; color:white"><code>Epsilon</code></span>]][[doctorwho:user talk:Epsilon the Eternal|📯]] [[doctorwho:special:Contributions/Epsilon the Eternal|📂]]</div> 01:37, 9 September 2022 (UTC) | ||
:::Well, the homeworld treatment is a little more complicated than simple licensing, it's more like a continuous chain of overlapping licensed concepts. But as Epsilon said, the decision to split the pages relates to ''in universe'' statements and how we deal with ''validity'', we still note the connection in the BTS sections. This isn't necessarily different in kind. And since we don't have any concrete policies for Navboxes (oh, crap, I should put that on [[User:Najawin/Sandbox 5|the list]], brb) there's nothing forbidding us from doing this. As far as copyright infringement goes, I direct you to [[Talk:Legacies (short story)]]. [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 01:39, 9 September 2022 (UTC) | |||