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'''Inclusion debates''' are a specific type of Forum thread. They deal in serious, unbiased analysis of stories or sometimes entire series, to check whether they pass the four little rules of [[Tardis:Valid sources]] and all their corollaries, so that we may determine if they should be covered-as-valid, covered-as-invalid, or not covered at all. | '''Inclusion debates''' are a specific type of Forum thread. They deal in serious, unbiased analysis of stories or sometimes entire series, to check whether they pass the four little rules of [[Tardis:Valid sources]] and all their corollaries, so that we may determine if they should be covered-as-valid, covered-as-invalid, or not covered at all. | ||
=== In greater detail == | |||
These threads are fact-finding and policy-reviewing efforts, and also serve to test the community's opinion; in some edge cases, the community's consensus on whether we ''want'' to cover something will serve as a tiebreaker — though even such a decision should be phrased in terms of the good of the Wiki, ''not'' whether you ''like'' a given piece, or whether you believe it to be "[[Tardis:Canon policy|canon]]". | These threads are fact-finding and policy-reviewing efforts, and also serve to test the community's opinion; in some edge cases, the community's consensus on whether we ''want'' to cover something will serve as a tiebreaker — though even such a decision should be phrased in terms of the good of the Wiki, ''not'' whether you ''like'' a given piece, or whether you believe it to be "[[Tardis:Canon policy|canon]]". | ||
