User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-4028641-20170306172600/@comment-6032121-20190529175623

Amen to restating the full extent of the validity rules for the benefit of new users; having educated myself in Tardis's policies and politics in part through reading through the Matrix Archives, this practice was of great use to me when I started out.

I think Nate hit the nail on the head regarding the Dimensions in Time/Rescue tangle, at any rate. It has been found that it wasn't licensed properly by our standards, which is the root of its invalidity; and there is that off-the-cuff "it was just a bit of fun" comment from JNT, which can be strenously qualified as evidence of a Rule 4 break, but wasn't deemed solid enough for that in the linked debate, and, for my money, is if anything proof of a Rule 1 break. Therefore, the situation really isn't too different from Big Finish plays referencing Audio Visuals, Vampire Science building off of Time Rift, etc.

Shambala: the assumption, inasmuch as there was one, was more a nebulous feeling, based on the fact that what Imamadmad described of your own argument seemed not to hold when confronted to the testimony of the users who had read the short stories. It certainly wasn't an accusation, at any rate. But if you've read them, great! One more first-hand testimony! Would you support the interpretation given earlier that they are complete stories to the same extent as The Snowmen, Vampire Science, and (very good point of reference!) Assimilation Squared?