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(Created page with "{{first pic|Disclaimer-bg.png|''This smug bastard knows exactly what he's doing...'' (PROSE: ''Disclaimer'')}} On this site, tie-in websites have recently seen a great increase in coverage, especially with non-narratives being validated, so long as they comply with the updated rules (being fiction, etc.). However, with these sites, there's one...") Tag: 2017 source edit |
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...Oddly enough, the word "here" doesn't appear to actually link to anything in later versions of the site, but that's not the focus of this debate. Now, most of the text above is quite clearly out-of-universe, as any rational [[human]] (or, incidentally, [[mole]]) being could probably figure out without much thought. However, the beginning text, "Obviously we are completely [[fiction]]al.", seems to present itself ''simultaneously'' as in-universe and out-of-universe, [[GeoComTex]] themselves commenting on their own fictionality. | ...Oddly enough, the word "here" doesn't appear to actually link to anything in later versions of the site, but that's not the focus of this debate. Now, most of the text above is quite clearly out-of-universe, as any rational [[human]] (or, incidentally, [[mole]]) being could probably figure out without much thought. However, the beginning text, "Obviously we are completely [[fiction]]al.", seems to present itself ''simultaneously'' as in-universe and out-of-universe, [[GeoComTex]] themselves commenting on their own fictionality. | ||
My main proposal is this: We create pages for these sources as valid, and '''''remove the clearly fourth- | My main proposal is this: We create pages for these sources as valid, and '''''remove the clearly fourth wall-breaking content''''', leaving only some notes on the source page. In most cases, taking every part of the text in a source is fine, even if meta, but for these, I feel that "intent" is there for the start of these pages, but goes away as soon as they start rambling about how they're fictional, and how you should go check out ''Doctor Who''. This will allow in-depth documentation of corporations such as [[GeoComTex]] and [[Millingdale]], without too much yammering on about ''[[Doctor Who (in-universe)|Doctor Who]]'' and the [[BBC (in-universe)|BBC]]. | ||
== Discussion == | == Discussion == | ||
