Talk:Good dog! (short story)
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Does this really need a page. It’s just a tweet. Does anytime any Doctor Who alumnus makes an in-character joke now need one too? NightmareofEden ☎ 14:22, July 26, 2020 (UTC)
- Calling this a short story does seem a tad overblown. -- Saxon (✉️) 14:27, July 26, 2020 (UTC)
- It certainly doesn't set a precedent for covering "every in-character joke by a Doctor Who alumnus". The uniqueness of this is that short as it is, it was released on the official K9 blog, not on the personal blog of John Leeson or something.
- Not only is it commercially licensed (unlike Sylvester McCoy answering a tweet as the Doctor, or what-have-you), but it wasn't released on a personal blog at all, but rather on the official online outlet of the K9 franchise, such as it is. It's also the first use of the independent Bob Baker license for writing K9 fiction in years, and notable on that basis. It's all in all a very unique situation.
- I'd say it's a "(short story)" in about the same sense that Dr. Twelfth is a "(novel)" — a literary critic would look at us oddly, but we only have so many dab terms. And Vrs is a well-established precedent for even very very short prose fiction being called a "short story" on this Wiki.
- All in all it doesn't, I think, set any dangerous precedent to cover this as a short story. My other option to note it on the Wiki (which it really should be in some shape or form for the aforementioned reasons — it's a licensed use of K9) was to create a page for the K9Official blog, but it seemed, if anything, a more dangerous precedent to create a page for a single Twitter page than it did to treat this as a short story. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 14:31, July 26, 2020 (UTC)
- There’s no justifying this creation at all, Scrooge. I’m sure you’ve created this in good faith, but I think you need to be spoken to about what counts as a story - because it is getting absolutely ridiculous. Earlier in the year you created a story page for literally two words and a picture at Breaking Isolation - and now this. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 14:37, July 26, 2020 (UTC)
- All in all it doesn't, I think, set any dangerous precedent to cover this as a short story. My other option to note it on the Wiki (which it really should be in some shape or form for the aforementioned reasons — it's a licensed use of K9) was to create a page for the K9Official blog, but it seemed, if anything, a more dangerous precedent to create a page for a single Twitter page than it did to treat this as a short story. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 14:31, July 26, 2020 (UTC)
