Just thought I would create a page for Cannon Policy so that something can be worked out. Personally I believe that the following would be the best approach to take, what do other people think?
Ordinary Text Entries
- The Television Series (and TV Movie)
Italics Text Entries
- The Virgin New Adventures
- The Virgin Missing Adventures
- The Decalog Collections
- The BBC EDA
- The BBC PDA (Or Classic's or whatever the range is to be called from now on)
- The Ninth Doctor Novels
- The Big Finish Audio CD's
- The Short Trips Anthologies
- Telos Novellas
- The Missing Adventures (i.e. The Missing Series)
- Other Audio products, e.g. Pescations, Slipback
Non Doctor Who Stories
(Possibly also in Italics but does anyone have any other suggestions?)
- Bernice Summerfield Range
- Sarah Jane Smith
- Other Companions
- Faction Paradox
- Dalek Empire
- Kaldor City
- Miranda
- Gallifrey Audios
- Time Hunter
- UNIT
Other Stories Which Are Probably Non Considered Cannon But Should Be Included For The Sake Of Completeness
- Campaign
- Dimension In Time
- The Peter Cushing Movies
- Scream of the Shalka
- Infinity Doctors
Other Material
Personally with the other material I am undecided as to what I think, I would say no to:
- Fan Fiction not licenced, e.g. online fiction or anything produced in Fanzines no matter how well written
- BBV Productions such as the time travellers which was using a Doctor Who concept but not in the same way as the "real show".
I am unsure what I think about the inclusion of:
- Perfect Trips
- Missing Pieces
- The Various Other Charity Anthologies licenced to be produced
- Brief Encounters
- The Unbound Series from Big Finish
As for the Comic Strips I really dont know what I think about those. Personally I would go with include the ones which fit in with continuity and exclude the ones which dont (John and Gillian for example) but this doesnt seem a very consistent policy.
See Separately my argument on the use of Novelizations (Its under discussion tab)
--Amxitsa 16:45, 20 Mar 2005 (EST)