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::: I would say you have a fairly accurate description there. Hm, I wasn't familiar with ''The Book of the War'' but I think with it in mind, we could be able to cover the bible and these brief descriptions in a similar manner... [[User:JDPManjoume|JDPManjoume]] [[User talk:JDPManjoume|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 19:32, 9 April 2021 (UTC) | ::: I would say you have a fairly accurate description there. Hm, I wasn't familiar with ''The Book of the War'' but I think with it in mind, we could be able to cover the bible and these brief descriptions in a similar manner... [[User:JDPManjoume|JDPManjoume]] [[User talk:JDPManjoume|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 19:32, 9 April 2021 (UTC) | ||
== Unproduced vs unreleased? == | == Unproduced vs produced-but-unreleased? == | ||
Does a story count as "unproduced" even if it has been fully made and withheld from release for whatever reason (e.g. Gareth Roberts' Target Storybook entry)? [[User:WaltK|WaltK]] [[User talk:WaltK|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 01:58, 15 May 2021 (UTC) | Does a story count as "unproduced" even if it has been fully made and withheld from release for whatever reason (e.g. Gareth Roberts' Target Storybook entry)? [[User:WaltK|WaltK]] [[User talk:WaltK|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 01:58, 15 May 2021 (UTC) | ||
:: I'm actually unsure whether Roberts' infamous ''Storybook'' story was finished by the time the plug was pulled. Do we have any certainty on that? | |||
:: This factual quibble aside, the question is a good one, and one which doesn't really have an answer yet because the situation is so rare. It seems clearly incorrect to call “unproduced” something which, materially, ''was'' produced (and in a licensed context, too), but was merely withheld from the public for one reason or another. | |||
:: ''[[The Pilot Episode]]'', for example, is considered an {{tl|invalid}} source, not {{tl|unprod}}, despite everyone involved in 1963 having agreed not to release it; although of course, ''it'' eventually ''did'' make its way to a public release, albeit presented more as an episode-length "deleted scene". The second-oldest example of the "it was ready to go but they decided not to broadcast" situation, ''[[Journey into Time (audio story)|Journey into Time]]'', is also an invalid source, not an “unproduced” one. But for that one, while the audio remains unavailable, we do have the script. | |||
:: Much as it is problematic to call “unproduced” what is actually a finished product, however, there can be some difficulty in calling an “invalid story” a work which none of our editors could possibly have access to. Invalid sources are meant to be ''sources'' — things which can be used as sources for non-DWU pages. | |||
:: It's a very peculiar. Perhaps the creation of a new tag, something like {{tl|withheld}}, is what we need. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 02:08, 15 May 2021 (UTC) | |||
