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::To put it another way, I'm not making points about a broader, shared "prime continuity" that things are in or out of, which would be tantamount to canon; my approach is, so to speak, one of [[TARDIS|''relative'' dimensions]] in fiction-space. Validity is not Canon, but it ''is'' a sort of endless family tree of Continuity, burgeoning forth from ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]''. Any given story is valid because it places itself in the same universe as at least one specific prior one that's already considered valid, going all the way back to [[1963 (releases)|1963]]. That's how we roll. ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' begets ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'' begets ''[[Dalek Survival Guide (novel)|Dalek Survival Guide]]''. My suggestion is simply to put a non-linear spin on that logic, and say that we can in exceptional circumstances consider a "pair" the other way round; that we can look at ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'' as though it postdated ''Survival Guide'' rather than predated it; to look at it as ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]''-begets-''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]''-begets-''[[Dalek Survival Guide (novel)|Dalek Survival Guide]]''-begets-''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]''. | ::To put it another way, I'm not making points about a broader, shared "prime continuity" that things are in or out of, which would be tantamount to canon; my approach is, so to speak, one of [[TARDIS|''relative'' dimensions]] in fiction-space. Validity is not Canon, but it ''is'' a sort of endless family tree of Continuity, burgeoning forth from ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]''. Any given story is valid because it places itself in the same universe as at least one specific prior one that's already considered valid, going all the way back to [[1963 (releases)|1963]]. That's how we roll. ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'' begets ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'' begets ''[[Dalek Survival Guide (novel)|Dalek Survival Guide]]''. My suggestion is simply to put a non-linear spin on that logic, and say that we can in exceptional circumstances consider a "pair" the other way round; that we can look at ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'' as though it postdated ''Survival Guide'' rather than predated it; to look at it as ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]''-begets-''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]''-begets-''[[Dalek Survival Guide (novel)|Dalek Survival Guide]]''-begets-''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]''. | ||
::I don't think that's too far afield at all from how we've thought of validity. Mind you, even if it were, that's what a new Forum Thread is for. The current form of T:VS isn't a divine tablet we're bound by. Not that I'm proposing to do such a thing, but a Forum thread with a sufficiently large consensus of the active editors would be perfectly empowered to scrap it altogether and start over from scratch. If everyone thinks my proposal would make for a better Wiki (and you seem to agree ''there'', on a personal level!), '''we can choose to go forward with that proposal and change T:VS to accommodate it rather than the other way around'''. We have that power and that right. The policies exist to serve and assist the Wiki and its community; not the other way around. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']] [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]] 14:28, 12 January 2023 (UTC) | ::I don't think that's too far afield at all from how we've thought of validity. Mind you, even if it were, that's what a new Forum Thread is for. The current form of T:VS isn't a divine tablet we're bound by. Not that I'm proposing to do such a thing, but a Forum thread with a sufficiently large consensus of the active editors would be perfectly empowered to scrap it altogether and start over from scratch. If everyone thinks my proposal would make for a better Wiki (and you seem to agree ''there'', on a personal level!), '''we can choose to go forward with that proposal and change T:VS to accommodate it rather than the other way around'''. We have that power and that right. The policies exist to serve and assist the Wiki and its community; not the other way around. | ||
::(EDIT: Oh, in lighter matters, regarding ''[[Storm in a Tikka (short story)|Storm in a Tikka]]'', it's really just as straightforward as I made it sound. Right between the title and the start of the story is a little note that says, in so many words, "This story takes place between ''Dimensions in Time'' and ''Search out Science''".) [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']] [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]] 14:28, 12 January 2023 (UTC) | |||
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