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 I like this proposal. I think having an EXHIBIT prefix would be really solid, even when it comes to OOU behind-the-scenes coverage. Expanding our documentation of historical exhibits would also be a really good idea, since these sorts of things go back to the Hartnell era. There's a lovely book I have about this, it's called ''Doctor Who Exhibitions''. [[User:OttselSpy25|OttselSpy25]] [[User talk:OttselSpy25|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 14:38, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
+:This is a very good proposal! Having some example pages already in this style is also helpful, as it lets us see what others might look like. In my mind, one of the biggest hurdles with exhibits (which ties into what you say about Dave’s Kebab Shop) is that these are primarily visually documented by guests taking pictures, which opens up a slightly unique copyright situation wherein the photos you find online are copyrighted to individual people rather than companies and so etiquette around copying them on this wiki would be slightly different. I feel like part of rules we build around exhibit pages should be to make sure you have permission.
+:Also, re: Dave’s Kebabs, there’s a difference between public landmarks and shops. To my mind, when an exhibit is displayed outside, the notable location information is the public landmarks around it. IMO discussing private businesses is similar to if we covered a cosplayer going up to the Pink TARDIS and doing a skit; just because it physically happened doesn’t mean that its part of the intended experience. Covering brands that appear in the background of the TV show is possible because episodes of the show are finite products whose contents have been approved by the people making them.
+:Regarding untitled exhibits, I feel like descriptive titles are justified in this context. [[SDCC 2024 TARDIS (exhibit)]], [[Pink TARDIS (exhibit)]], and so on. Let us not forget that calling pages “Untitled” is itself a descriptive title in which one chooses that the untitled nature of a piece is its defining aspect, which IMO doesn't apply to exhibits which operate on different norms from fiction with home releases. There’s obviously a degree of uncertainty in how different people would title things in different ways, but descriptive titles communicate more than [[Untitled (SDCC 2024 exhibit)]] and are possible if we keep things relating to core event and content information. The way these things tend to go is that whenever these pages are made, the person who does the work making them makes certain choices and us who come afterwards tend to follow them if they work alright.
+:Anyways, this is quite exciting because there’s [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/doctor-who-series-8-tardis-crashlands-in-parliament-square-9685919.html some more, older exhibits that would get pages from this proposal]. This goes back at least to the Doctor Who exhibit within the [[BBC tv Special Effects Exhibition]], which would absolutely get a page by these criteria due to the whole thing being set in the TARDIS, with the viewer looking out through windows at aliens on other planets. Pretty in-universe, with an original console and console room design.
+:I wonder if we should define which in-universe exhibitions aren’t to be covered? My initial thought is that this would be "adaptational exhibits" that faithfully recreate scenes or settings from the show and do nothing more, such as those found in [[Doctor Who Exhibition (Longleat)|Doctor Who Exhibition Longleat]] and the [[Doctor Who Experience (London/Cardiff)|Doctor Who Experience]], or when sets from the TV show are displayed to the public, such as the ''Five Doctors'' sets at [[Longleat Doctor Who Celebration]] or when [[Clara Oswald's flat]] was displayed at ''[[The Doctor Who Festival]]'' (both events which don't have pages, RIP). If we had a page for [[Solon's castle]], rather than having a list of appearances which includes [[Brain of Morbius diorama Longleat (exhibit)]], the same information could be conveyed by a BTS note saying that a room of the castle was recreated in Longleat with the Morbius Monster costume and a mannequin resembling [[Solon]]. However, this whole line of thought comes apart when one considers that [[Doctor Who (MTB exhibit)]] is clearly a page we should have, and that’s arguably an adaptation of a scene. Perhaps the issue is more how/if to divide larger Dr Who Exhibitions which are composed entirely of in-universe scenes, as my next paragraph gets into.
+:A resource which I very much enjoy is the free online book [https://blackpoolremembered7485.wordpress.com/ Blackpool Remembered], which goes into the [[Doctor Who Exhibition Blackpool]] in extensive detail. The Exhibition was a series of ever-updating dioramas of monsters from the show, half of which would fit into the category of "displaying scenes from the TV show". The other half were quite notable, with there being a talking Dalek voiced by [[Michael Wisher]] and a talking K9 voiced by [[John Leeson]] that would move in a loop between dioramas, as well as a centrepiece exhibit (resembling the one from the BBC tv Special Effects Exhibition) where guests would go into the TARDIS and look out at alien worlds through windows (with there being a routinely updated alien planet scene which sometimes had moving Daleks in it). I'm not sure in what way this would all be split into exhibit pages in the same manner as the similar Cassandra exhibit, but I'm putting in the table as a potential thing to iron out. [[User:TheChampionOfTime|TheChampionOfTime]] [[User talk:TheChampionOfTime|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 15:37, 20 October 2024 (UTC)