Talk:Games (poem)

Deletion

This page really isn't a part of the Doctor Who: Lockdown! series. For starters, it's a joke that RTD put on his instagram. Now, yes, it being on Instagram doesn't mean it's invalid inherently and it's a good one in my personal opinion, but the panel is also a part of the Now We Are Six Hundred poetry collection, also by Davies. It's not a new story; it's more like a meme, and if we included it, we'd have to include a lot of things that Who celebrities post on Instagram. Never Forget The Day The 456 Arrived ☎ 11:44, April 4, 2020 (UTC)

I fail to see what it being a joke or posted on social media has to do with anything — Strax Saves the Day was posted on Twitter and is every bit as parodical, yet it clearly is part of Doctor Who: Lockdown!. Both are invalid, but that doesn't mean we don't cover them.

The real salient point is in this panel being repurposed from Now We Are Six Hundred, and thus not being an original work as I (not having read Now We Are Six Hundred) had mistakenly assume. However, separated from the text and given this new title/caption, I would argue that it becomes a new, though, yes, {{invalid}}, narrative; The Message of Mystery is a good precedent for material from an earlier story being given new text and context, and becoming a new story.

In any event, even if we do decide that Breaking Isolation doesn't deserve a page in its own right, it should be merged into the page for the story in Now We Are Six Hundred that the illustration is taken from — Games… a page which, as of yet, does not exist. So really, what we should do if we decide that this doesn't count as a separate release is rework it into a page about Games, and rename it "Games (short story)" — not delete it. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 12:05, April 4, 2020 (UTC)