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::: The Expanded Universe wouldn't refer to all the Big Finish, as technically it all is part of the same universe, the Expanded part would refer to them being expanded from the Big Finish monthly series. | ::: The Expanded Universe wouldn't refer to all the Big Finish, as technically it all is part of the same universe, the Expanded part would refer to them being expanded from the Big Finish monthly series. | ||
::: Big Finish does make other stuff other than audios: they publish the Short Trips anthologies, the Bernice Summerfield stories, the 2000ad, Saphire and Steel and Tomorrow People audios as well. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 13:27, 14 April 2007 (UTC) | ::: Big Finish does make other stuff other than audios: they publish the Short Trips anthologies, the Bernice Summerfield stories, the 2000ad, Saphire and Steel and Tomorrow People audios as well. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 13:27, 14 April 2007 (UTC) | ||
===Continuing with this idea=== | |||
I am glad that the idea for separate pages for each of these series has gone forward, in lage measure. However, I think that this page should '''only''' be about the monthly range. Period. Everything else needs to be firmly moved to its own page, with explanatory text added. [[Doctor Who Unbound]], for example, belongs solely on its own page. It's entirely and quite deliberately its own range. Just because the words "Doctor Who" are in the title is no reason to put a range on ''this'' page. Also, the list itself should be on its own list page. For instance, there should be [[Doctor Who monthly series audios]] and [[List of Doctor Who monthly series audios]]. There's a hell of a lot that could be said about just the standard, monthly range, as evidenced by the wikipedia article on the same subject. It's quite unsatisfactory having the series title link in the infoboxes taking you to what's merely a list page, for all intents and purposes. I want to know ''about'' the series, not just the titles in that range. Why the Eighth Doctor Adventures are "New" isn't really addressed by clicking on the link. A new user might be confused by what a "Companion Chronicle" is, or unsatisfied by the one or two lines about what makes something "unbound" or what Gallifrey is all about, or what makes the Sarah Jane series different than its two televised counterparts. We in general need to take a step back and consider that the most basic questions about these series still aren't answered by this wiki. | |||
And we might want to consider whether there needs to be a standard naming convention applied. Here's a sample of how it all looks now: | |||
*[[Doctor Who Unbound]] — I suppose the thinking here is that there's no other ''Doctor Who Unbound'' out there. But aren't there short stories labelled ''Doctor Who Unbound'' stories? I would tend to think there needs to be one page explaining the term "[[unbound]]" (how that's the equivalent to ''Star Wars'' "infinities", or DC's "elseworlds", for instance), and then one page on the series itself. | |||
*[[Dalek Empire (Big Finish)]] is strange, in that it names Big Finish in its title, whereas the majority of these pages just say "audio series" | |||
*[[Cyberman (audio series)]] | |||
*[[I, Davros]] is slightly odd in that it's unmodified. Presumably this is because there's no other ''I, Davros'' out there, but you face a basic arbitrary decision with this one. One wiki "convention" says that if there's nothing else of that name, it doesn't need to be modified. Another says you should name things in an easy-to-find manner. If virtually everything else that's an audio series follows a pattern, isn't it easier-to-find if you make this one follow the same pattern? | |||
*[[Gallifrey (audio series)]] | |||
*[[U.N.I.T. (audio series)]] is slightly awkward as it follows a different spelling of UNIT to the [[UNIT]] page. | |||
*[[Iris Wildthyme (audio series)]] | |||
The basic predeliction seems to be to write [[Series name (audio series)]]. But given how Big Finish have named the main line (namely, "Doctor Who monthly series"), I think a better standard might be the much simpler, ]]Series Name audios]]. So, [[Sarah Jane Smith audios]], [[Companion Chronicles audios]], [[Dalek Empire audios]] etc. '''[[User:CzechOut|<span style="background:blue;color:white">Czech</span><span style="background:red;color:white">Out</span>]]''' [[User talk:CzechOut|☎]] | [[Special:Contributions/CzechOut|<font size="+1">✍</font>]] 09:31, 18 July 2008 (UTC) | |||
