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I guess we also need to figure out how far in the past a story has to be set before it counts as "historical". Lots of stories published in a given year are supposed to take place a couple of years prior: surely that doesn't count. They're "present-day" stories. But where's the cutoff? Five years, ten, fifteen, fifty? We have {{cs|The Bells of Saint John: A Prequel (webcast)}} listed, a 2010s story set in the 1990s. And I mean… yeah? I guess? But it surprised me. Feels like a gray area worth discussing. --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 19:34, 23 October 2024 (UTC) | I guess we also need to figure out how far in the past a story has to be set before it counts as "historical". Lots of stories published in a given year are supposed to take place a couple of years prior: surely that doesn't count. They're "present-day" stories. But where's the cutoff? Five years, ten, fifteen, fifty? We have {{cs|The Bells of Saint John: A Prequel (webcast)}} listed, a 2010s story set in the 1990s. And I mean… yeah? I guess? But it surprised me. Feels like a gray area worth discussing. --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 19:34, 23 October 2024 (UTC) | ||
: To begin to address just one of those questions: if we draw the line at 15 years, which I think is sensible — as a length of time commonly understood to represent a generation — then {{cs|Father's Day (TV story)}} is a pseudo-historical, and {{cs|The Eleventh Hour (TV story)}} (just barely) isn't. | |||
: Also, what do we do with stories like {{cs|The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)}}? It has extended flashbacks in the distant enough past, but none of that is the ''main action'' of the story. It can't be a pure historical and also have an A-plot involving ''dozens'' of alien species, not to mention a sentient star, surely.{{User:SOTO/sig}} 01:59, 24 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
