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Why is this dab necessary? Why would we need real world page for MySpace because a short story was hosted on it? Surely the precedent with Twitter is best to follow in this case, as we have many articles for short stories that have originated from and have been hosted on Twitter, yet no real world page for Twitter itself. As far as I can tell, Martha Jones is the only DWU source to have been hosted on MySpace, and it's highly unlikely the BBC will use it for any other licenced work anytime soon. BlueSupergiant ☎ 14:11, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
- Well, I had planned on creating an OOU page for MySpace in my coverage of Doctor Who tie-in websites. Considering we have pages for publishers, filming locations, etc, it would make sense to have a page for social media sites which host blogs. We have Category:Real world websites, we have iPlayer and BBC iPlayer (in-universe)...
- And, for the record, Martha Jones wasnt the only character to get a MySpace page; Harold Saxon got one too, although that one appears to be completely lost. 14:19, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
- I'm just not really sure what a real world page for MySpace would add that is not already covered by the Martha Jones (short story) article, beyond the limited info we have of the lost Harold Saxon blog. I would argue iPlayer would be different territory, being a streaming service of the BBC itself rather than a social media site anybody can post on. Otherwise, by that same reasoning, we could also have a real world page for YouTube which hosts a far greater number of licenced works than MySpace.
- I'm not opposed to a real world MySpace article, but it would seem inconsistent when compared with how we currently approach other social media sources and their hosts. BlueSupergiant ☎ 14:43, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
- NGL I don't think there is a "current approach" to this; real world articles are sorely neglected and there is very little policy surrounding them. So I don't think it's that the editor base has non-verbally agreed that these pages aren't allowed but nobody has ever really considered them.
- A real world page for YouTube, for example, would be useful IMO. 15:05, 10 January 2024 (UTC)