Forum:Charity anthology short stories
Why are we writing articles about stories that appeared in a charity publication, and are, therefore, no better than fan fiction? Isn't one of our sacrosanct rules that the BBC has to have licensed something for us to care about it? Shouldn't we be shunting all this info over to the fanon wiki instead? I'm especially troubled to note that some of these stories are slipping over into firmly real world cats like Fifth Doctor stories. The twain should never meet. Either something is real world or it is non-canonical. I can kind of understand the utility of an article about the charity anthology — you need it there to say that we don't cover it — but we should resolve now to abolish the articles about the individual stories, and refer people to the articles at one of our sister wikis instead.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 05:18:35 Mon 28 Feb 2011
- I think the idea was that the stories (written by authors related to DW) included information that may not be elsewhere. But reading your comments and thinking back to other discussions concerning this and the discussion concerning [[Time's Champion] I think yes we should remove the Charity publications stories' references from in-universe articles and real world categories. All the stories can be moved over to DW Expanded.
- I've some mixed feelings regarding the actual articles on the anthologies, I think Campaign and Time's Champion should definitely be kept as while they're unofficial they have a somewhat stronger connection than others.
- But on the flip side do we need individual articles about the anthologies? Would it perhaps be better to push all the charity anthologies articles off to DW Expanded and have 1 article here about the charity anthologies? Of all the articles in the Unofficial prose fiction category only about half have publisher's summaries, then aside from a list of stories there's between 1 and 3 notes concerning each book. All of this could easily be incorporated into a concise and interesting article about charity anthologies. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:45, February 28, 2011 (UTC)
My opinion is that chariy publications should not be included on the wikia. The case of now official stories such as Toy Story and The Wings of a Butterfly should mention their origins as charity stories but nothing more than that. On the case of Campaign and Time's Champion, I believe that they should be kept as they would have been official stories if things would have gone better. --Revan\Talk 09:42, June 3, 2011 (UTC)
