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Given the distinction between primary and secondary resources, describing the reference books with the Wikipedia jargon "primary sources" is potentially very misleading (especially as a justification for why they're secondary resources). --[[User:Falcotron|Falcotron]] 12:07, June 13, 2010 (UTC) | Given the distinction between primary and secondary resources, describing the reference books with the Wikipedia jargon "primary sources" is potentially very misleading (especially as a justification for why they're secondary resources). --[[User:Falcotron|Falcotron]] 12:07, June 13, 2010 (UTC) | ||
:It does need some...updating and re-defining, other parts of the wiki have re-defined things like Curse of the Fatal Death etc, but the Canon policy has been somewhat neglected. I think we've moved beyond Wikipedia style terminology (that and the page's layout is just one of the many left-overs from when this wiki was first formed). | |||
:I think we may need to merge some bits of the Secondary Resources section into [[Tardis:Resources]] and restructure things a bit. | |||
:The Unbound audios are canon, but within their own universe, the same goes for the 1960s Dalek movies and other things, so we should definitely define how those fit in. | |||
:I'm still uncertain about the validity of novelisations (I rather dislike having terms like 'possibly apocryphal account' used in articles when applying info from novelisations). | |||
:But I think we really need to settle if we should use the info or not (for example the first name of a lot of secondary/minor characters is revealed in the novelisations, but we don't use that name individuals articles (often instead disambigging them, but a note is often added that their first/last name is listed in the novelisations). | |||
:The policy regarding novelisations as it stands is a little...messy. 'Until it contradicts the TV story' (I know I wrote it!), but it was a concession to what was discussed on the [[Tardis Talk:Canon policy#Novelisations]]. The last comments made by 23skidoo concerning the novelisations' effects on continuity are valid (which is mostly why it has the statement 'until it contradicts the TV story'). I'd like to have a policy that can be applied right across the wiki which isn't so vague with regards to how this information is used. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 14:07, June 15, 2010 (UTC) | |||
