Forum:BBV and canon policy: Difference between revisions

:::As for [[Faction Paradox (series)]], I still think it's got a perfectly good wiki of its own, to which we link on our main page.  We don't need to cover it.  We need to create ample links to '''the wiki that covers it'''.  We're including it only because of the ''subtext''.  We, as long time ''Doctor Who'' readers, are meant to know that this character is the Doctor, that character is Susan, that planet is Gallifrey, etc.  But in terms of its ''actual'' text, it's not got a single thing to do with the ''Doctor Who'' universe.  It'll just be so much easier to administer the wiki if we don't have to deal with "facts" from FP.  Even those users who know FP, like Revan, are tempted to sometimes cross the line and insinuate that the FPU has something to do with the DWU.  Which it actually doesn't.  If someone who didn't know DW read a Faction Paradox novel, they'd have no clue it was making veiled references to the DWU.  I just think it's dangerous o use FP material, save that which appears in the EDAs, on this wiki.  Because when an FPU novel/short story references London, for instance, they're not talking about the London which is in the DWU.  They're talking about a totally different one.  And it's not even a BBC-authorised alternate London, like in ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' or even [[BFDWU]]: ''[[Exile]]''.  It's a London like the one in ''Blakes 7'' or ''Tripods'' or something.  It's very hard to adequately convey that you're talking about an alternate London every time you use the FP prefix.  Most users just don't bother.  They bung in the FP reference and leave it at that, implying that FP stories take place in the DWU.  Which, again, they don't.