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 Has anyone ever objected to our already existing pages for [[Campaign (unreleased novel)]] or other unreleased novels? How about for various reference works? These seem to be the most analogous things. [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:14, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
+:[[User:Najawin|Najawin]] I recall I did copy the 'no fanfic' policy from another wiki, as was back in the day I'd look around for other examples on other wikis of problems we'd encounter as the wiki grew. And there wasn't a lot of discussion on some of these things because the wiki was growing at such a pace we were struggling just to deal with vandalism and other stuff a the time.
+:I agree with a page to cover fan films as a concept, there's some examples even on officially released stuff like the Wartime VHS which included some clips of Doctor Who fan films would be one of the earliest releases I can think of. An umbrella real world page would be a good place to collect these, although they would still need to pass a notability standard.
+:My concern would be notability and 'content bleed' from these pages as [[User:JDPManjoume|JDPManjoume]] refers to.
+:And I agree with '''81.108.82.15''''s sentiments. There is a danger in covering too much of this stuff the wiki descends into too much coverage of vaguely related topics, which dilute the licensed/inuniverse topics which we've worked hard to keep free from fan works etc.
+:It is where the threshold is for "incredibly notable" works as [[User:Aquanafrahudy|Aquanafrahudy]]  terms that is my concern if we are creating dedicated pages for these works, rather than them just being covered on an umbrella page.
+:[[User:Najawin|Najawin]] raises an interesting point, but I'm not sure if it's relevant, unreleased / unproduced stories that are released inhabit a little bit of a different sphere to stories that are pure fan productions. There is the implication with the former that they were commissioned (or had the potential to be) vs just a fan work. —[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] / '''[[User talk:Tangerineduel|talk]]''' 06:59, 17 June 2023 (UTC)