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My recent attempts to add stories from things like ''[[The Daft Dimension]]'' and ''[[Doctor Whoah!]]'' have been rebutted at every turn on the grounds that "parody stories deliberately fall out of continuity and therefore don't count". | My recent attempts to add stories from things like ''[[The Daft Dimension]]'' and ''[[Doctor Whoah!]]'' have been rebutted at every turn on the grounds that "parody stories deliberately fall out of continuity and therefore don't count". | ||
Putting aside the fact, for a moment, that that's a very pick-and-choose way of doing things (the whole point of these timelines is that they are entirely theoretical, so what point is there in deeming some invalid stories as "more invalid than others"), I must also point out that the rule has not even been that well enforced. In the Tenth Doctor's timeline, for example, we have stories like ''[[The Invasion of Bash Street (comic story)|The Invasion of Bash Street]]'' and the ''[[Comic Relief 2007 (TV story)|Comic Relief 2007]]'' skit, even though both stories are in the parodies and pastiches category. | Putting aside the fact, for a moment, that that's a very pick-and-choose way of doing things (the whole point of these timelines is that they are entirely theoretical, so what point is there in deeming some invalid stories as "more invalid than others"?), I must also point out that the rule has not even been that well enforced. In the Tenth Doctor's timeline, for example, we have stories like ''[[The Invasion of Bash Street (comic story)|The Invasion of Bash Street]]'' and the ''[[Comic Relief 2007 (TV story)|Comic Relief 2007]]'' skit, even though both stories are in the parodies and pastiches category. | ||
As I've established, I'm personally against the practice of omitting parodies to begin with, but if we are going to omit them anyway, we should really try to be consistent. [[User:WaltK|WaltK]] [[User talk:WaltK|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 00:33, November 24, 2020 (UTC) | As I've established, I'm personally against the practice of omitting parodies to begin with, but if we are going to omit them anyway, we should really try to be consistent. [[User:WaltK|WaltK]] [[User talk:WaltK|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 00:33, November 24, 2020 (UTC) | ||
