User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-4028641-20170306172600/@comment-4028641-20170312000707

I did not say that the wikia agreed with my proposal. I said that if in a few weeks no one has voiced a dissenting opinion, there is no need to keep the thread open. We do not need to keep this discussion out in the air for two years if no one actively debates the suggested change.

A "lack of opposing opinion" is what made Dimensions in Time "non-canon" years ago, and that reason stands strong on the page for the four little rules. So my simple reasoning was that if in a long period of time there has been no one who has voiced any concerns, we had no reason to close the thread down.

I gave a dammed time limit. I gave a time limit. I at no point said that the forum was over and we needed to close it down that second. Was my time limit too small? Yea. But I stand by it.

Shambala108 wrote: ...most people, especially you, don't want my participation.

... I don't remember who you are.

Aren't you assuming a lot about me right now?

Presuming what I think of you, presuming why I'm making statements, presuming what I mean by believing such and such things...

All I've said is that there is no real controversy in calling these three short stories from the past valid, and no one ever had a good reason to call them invalid.

If you want to keep them invalid just to save a slight annoyance on your end, I have just one request. Change NONVALID back to NONCANON. Because if we keep these stories outside of the range of valid stories, then we're still living by silly rules that we made up back when we practiced in canon and continuity.

If a thread is kept open for a long period of time and has no detractors at all, there should be no problem with closing it down after a month or two. And this thread is one of those threads, because only you have debated for us to not debate the issue.

Again -- if you don't like that we haven't consulted "the wider wikia sleeping for reasons other than the fact that there isn't much to add to this debate" then just make a poll and leave the thread open for a month. Mark it so that people logging into TARDIS get notified about the thread, and let people contribute as they will.

In refusing to deal with these things while they pile higher and higher, you just make it more annoying to deal with the inclusion threads. Creation of these forums are not going to slow down simply because no one ever wraps them up. There's only about four threads currently open which have any clear controversies, and most of the others have had no proper attention.

I will not stop fixing problems on this site just because you think I have better things to do with my day. I will not debate on if this topic needs debating, because it does and that-is-that.

If anyone has something to contribute to this discussion about if Storm in a Tikka, Fixing a Hole or Rescue should be invalid; I'd like to hear it. But if that is not the case after a long period of time, we can start to close down shop.