Talk:Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories: Difference between revisions

Put Sarah Jane Smith and UNIT together as...'''Big Finish - Earth Based Audio Dramas''' or something like that.

I am glad that the idea for separate pages for each of these series has gone forward, in lage measure. However, I think that this page should '''only''' be about the monthly range. Period. Everything else needs to be firmly moved to its own page, with explanatory text added. [[Doctor Who Unbound]], for example, belongs solely on its own page. It's entirely and quite deliberately its own range. Just because the words "Doctor Who" are in the title is no reason to put a range on ''this'' page. Also, the list itself should be on its own list page. For instance, there should be [[Doctor Who monthly series audios]] and [[List of Doctor Who monthly series audios]]. There's a hell of a lot that could be said about just the standard, monthly range, as evidenced by the wikipedia article on the same subject.   It's quite unsatisfactory having the series title link in the infoboxes taking you to what's merely a list page, for all intents and purposes. I want to know ''about'' the series, not just the titles in that range. Why the Eighth Doctor Adventures are "New" isn't really addressed by clicking on the link. A new user might be confused by what a "Companion Chronicle" is, or unsatisfied by the one or two lines about what makes something "unbound" or what Gallifrey is all about, or what makes the Sarah Jane series different than its two televised counterparts. We in general need to take a step back and consider that the most basic questions about these series still aren't answered by this wiki.

And we might want to consider whether there needs to be a standard naming convention applied. Here's a sample of how it all looks now:

*[[Doctor Who Unbound]] — I suppose the thinking here is that there's no other ''Doctor Who Unbound'' out there. But aren't there short stories labelled ''Doctor Who Unbound'' stories? I would tend to think there needs to be one page explaining the term "[[unbound]]" (how that's the equivalent to ''Star Wars'' "infinities", or DC's "elseworlds", for instance), and then one page on the series itself.

*[[I, Davros]] is slightly odd in that it's unmodified. Presumably this is because there's no other ''I, Davros'' out there, but you face a basic arbitrary decision with this one. One wiki "convention" says that if there's nothing else of that name, it doesn't need to be modified. Another says you should name things in an easy-to-find manner. If virtually everything else that's an audio series follows a pattern, isn't it easier-to-find if you make this one follow the same pattern?

*[[U.N.I.T. (audio series)]] is slightly awkward as it follows a different spelling of UNIT to the [[UNIT]] page.  

The basic predeliction seems to be to write [[Series name (audio series)]]. But given how Big Finish have named the main line (namely, "Doctor Who monthly series"), I think a better standard might be the much simpler, ]]Series Name audios]]. So, [[Sarah Jane Smith audios]], [[Companion Chronicles audios]], [[Dalek Empire audios]] etc. '''[[User:CzechOut|<span style="background:blue;color:white">Czech</span><span style="background:red;color:white">Out</span>]]''' [[User talk:CzechOut|☎]] | [[Special:Contributions/CzechOut|<font size="+1">✍</font>]] 09:31, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

:::Given that the Iris Wildthyme stuff has its own page, and it's only got two releases — or that K9 and Company never went beyond a pilot but is still considered a series — I don't think size of series is really a factor when determining whether it gets its own page. The NEDAs are definitionally a new vision for the character which has its own internal continuity. Far as I can see, there's only the most oblique reference from the NEDAs to the previous 8th Doctor stories by BF, in the form of [[Vortisaur]]s. '''[[User:CzechOut|<span style="background:blue;color:white">Czech</span><span style="background:red;color:white">Out</span>]]''' [[User talk:CzechOut|☎]] | [[Special:Contributions/CzechOut|<font size="+1">✍</font>]] 08:48, 24 July 2008 (UTC)