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:::So don't worry, this isn't the first battle the long campaign to turn this into a TV-only DW wiki. Nor is this an effort to actually delete the page. ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'' will always be on this wiki. It's just that it will not be a valid source for the writing of ''other'' articles. This will force all information about ''The Infinity Doctors'' to be '''on that page''', which will make that page ''much'' better and clearer. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">23:56: Mon 23 Apr 2012 </span> | :::So don't worry, this isn't the first battle the long campaign to turn this into a TV-only DW wiki. Nor is this an effort to actually delete the page. ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'' will always be on this wiki. It's just that it will not be a valid source for the writing of ''other'' articles. This will force all information about ''The Infinity Doctors'' to be '''on that page''', which will make that page ''much'' better and clearer. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">23:56: Mon 23 Apr 2012 </span> | ||
I disagree with this suggestion as well, though perhaps not as vehemently as the anon above. I think that the key phrase in the Parkin quote is "of mainstream continuity". ''The Infinity Doctors'' exists as a sort of side-step from the main EDA range, but it's not parodic and it's just as authorized. | |||
In terms of continuity, I think it's similar to the situation with the Faction Paradox range. Thanks to ''The Ancestor Cell'', pretty much all of the FP-branded fiction — and indeed some of the previous EDAs touched by the War — take place in an "aborted timeline." But we include information from the FP series, with appropriate caveats. Now, we don't know exactly what the relationship between TID and the rest of the Eighth Doctor stories is, but the possibilities include an alternate timeline for the Eighth Doctor, or a young Doctor prior to ''An Unearthly Child''. It could even be the Eighth Doctor of the regular timeline, between ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'' and the Time War. That's sufficiently outside of any established narrative to be apart from mainstream continuity, but it could conceivably still be part of the same timeline. | |||
I think that saying "we don't count this" is too easy. I agree that including it is a challenge, but I don't think it's an insurmountable one. Overall, I think that OS25 has it right when he or she says we have to be "very careful". Rather than excluding TID altogether, we should just decide on a standard phrasing ("according to one account", perhaps?) which allows for TID's ambiguous status, and allows the reader to decide whether and how to fit it in to the larger narrative. —[[User:Josiah Rowe|Josiah Rowe]] <sup>[[User talk:Josiah Rowe|talk to me]]</sup> 15:00, April 24, 2012 (UTC) | |||
