Talk:Good dog! (short story)

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)

I've gotta agree with everyone else here, Scrooge. I really cannot see how this is a story in any way. It's an social media site, designed to PROMOTE a product (which would, even if this somehow was a story, classify it as invalid), and it's having fun with a fan.Never Forget The Day The 456 Arrived ☎ 14:41, July 26, 2020 (UTC)

I don't think it's promoting a particular story, as opposed to the K9 brand in general? Not that being a commercial prevents something from having a page. At any rate I don't disagree that this is clearly invalid, and I marked it as such upon creation.

Again, though, if not a story, what do we call this? Okay, so it's a blog post. So… would you be in favour of creating a page for the blog? How do we document this use of the K9 license in a bit of fiction? Because that is what this is. We will be failing as a Wiki if we fail to document, somewhere, that in 2018, and albeit for something we wouldn't call valid in a million years, Bob Baker and Paul Tams did use their ownership of K9 to do something. Such events are pretty thin-on-the-ground and the thing's existence is interesting in its own right to anyone following the K9 franchise. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 14:45, July 26, 2020 (UTC)

We call it nothing, it does not deserve a page. It was fan interaction - nothing more! DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 14:46, July 26, 2020 (UTC)

Then where do we document it? I'm not saying it's valid. And I'm not against covering it as something else than a short story with its own page. But it's a licensed use of the character of K9 and its existence is an interesting footnote in the history of the solo K9 franchise. We should note it somewhere. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 14:48, July 26, 2020 (UTC)

Why on Earth does it need documenting? It’s nothing of any importance, scrolling through the Twitter page there’s hundreds of similar in-character replies. It does not need documenting anywhere! DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 14:49, July 26, 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree with DiSoRiEnTeD1 here. Scrooge, I'm really not seeing what you see in this as a story. It's a manager of the account having fun with a fan. To an extent, I see where you're coming from, given your involvement in the 10,000 Dawns fandom and that Tweet story they did, but I'm 100% sure this was not the intention of the K9 Twitter account. Never Forget The Day The 456 Arrived ☎ 14:50, July 26, 2020 (UTC)

Title

"Good dog!" is not given as a title for this story anywhere. Should this page be renamed? And if so, to what? Surely the TARDIS Data Core has a policy for untitled stories - this can't be the only one to exist in the DWU. PierreDelecto1 ☎ 14:40, July 26, 2020 (UTC)

It has no title, it was an in-character reply to a fan. Nothing more. It should be immediately deleted. DiSoRiEnTeD1 ☎ 14:42, July 26, 2020 (UTC)