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Wait, why’s this invalid? Which of the four little rules does it fail? – [[User:NateBumber|N8]] [[User_talk:NateBumber|☎]] 03:29, August 10, 2019 (UTC) | Wait, why’s this invalid? Which of the four little rules does it fail? – [[User:NateBumber|N8]] [[User_talk:NateBumber|☎]] 03:29, August 10, 2019 (UTC) | ||
:The tag was placed by [[user:Revanvolatrelundar]] back in December. My guess would be this was done because this looks a lot like a charity publication. That said, it only features original characters created and owned by Candy Jar and/or the writers involved, as far as I'm aware. So it's not an ''unlicensed'' work. And we do consider ''[[Death Is the Only Answer (TV story)|Death Is the Only Answer]]'' to be valid, by [[the Children of Oakley Junior School]], and even ''[[Good as Gold (TV story)|Good as Gold]]'', by [[the Children of Ashdene School]].{{User:SOTO/sig}} 04:22, August 11, 2019 (UTC) | :The tag was placed by [[user:Revanvolatrelundar]] back in December. My guess would be this was done because this looks a lot like a charity publication. That said, it only features original characters created and owned by Candy Jar and/or the writers involved, as far as I'm aware. So it's not an ''unlicensed'' work. And we do consider ''[[Death Is the Only Answer (TV story)|Death Is the Only Answer]]'' to be valid, by [[the Children of Oakley Junior School]], and even ''[[Good as Gold (TV story)|Good as Gold]]'', by [[the Children of Ashdene School]].{{User:SOTO/sig}} 04:22, August 11, 2019 (UTC) | ||
::I'm not sure about the status of this particular one, but remember that [[Thread:199045]] and [[Thread:240280]] saw the admins establish (though I don't personally agree with this decision) that there are stories that don't use any elements not owned by their authors, yet are still considered "charity works" by Tardis. | |||
::That being said, that is no excuse for this being ''invalid'' per se. Stories deemed pure charity works by Tardis aren't usually ''covered'' at all, ''[[Dimensions in Time (TV story)]]'' being the only counter-example of which I am aware, where the lack of proper licensing means we don't cover it, but we nevertheless have a page about it. | |||
::All that said it doesn't look much like a charity publication to me. It's not actually promoting any charity — nor are the profits from it given to one, because there aren't any: ''School Children'' was a free promotional giveaway — it just happens to have been written by kids, and have been released for free as a publicity stunt of sorts. Both situations are represented among stories which precedent deems valid (i.e. ''Death Is the Only Answer'' was written by children; and, of course, most every prequel, ''The Night of the Doctor'' included, was released for free on the Internet). So in the absence of evidence that this ''is'' a "charity publication" in any concrete sense, I see no argument against this anthology's validity. | |||
::Assuming we do continue to ''cover'' it (where as valid or as invalid), though, is there any reason the individual short stories shouldn't get pages? The titles aren't links (red or otherwise) at all at the moment. --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 08:29, August 11, 2019 (UTC) | |||
