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:This prefix is also ''not'' intended for use on DVD-exclusive material presented with a [[Tardis:Point of view|real-world point of view]], such as documentaries, commentaries, or info text. For the correct prefixes for those items and others, see [[Tardis:List of prefixes]]. | :This prefix is also ''not'' intended for use on DVD-exclusive material presented with a [[Tardis:Point of view|real-world point of view]], such as documentaries, commentaries, or info text. For the correct prefixes for those items and others, see [[Tardis:List of prefixes]]. | ||
Okay, so un-broadcast in-universe material. But not deleted scenes. Don't know why not, actually. I'm not sure we've ever definitively ruled on the question of the canonicity of deleted scenes, have we? And would this mean the in-universe thing about Davros on the re-issued ''Remembrance'' would get this prefix? Or would it be [[DOC]]? Would the in-universe docos on ''[[Planet of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Frontier in Space]] be [[DOC]] or [[DWDVD]]? Is the Jaggeroth bit on ''City of Death'' BBCDVD or not? Any time a documentary producer gets a little creative about the perspective of his or her work, it's gonna cause questions about whether a certain thing fits under DOC or DWDVD. See, this prefix highlights a problem area I'd rather just stay away from. If there's no prefix, there's no definition. If there's no definition, there's less chance of awkward, essentially unanswerable, questions about pseudo-in-universe material that litters DVD releases. | Okay, so un-broadcast in-universe material. But not deleted scenes. Don't know why not, actually. I'm not sure we've ever definitively ruled on the question of the canonicity of deleted scenes, have we? And would this mean the in-universe thing about Davros on the re-issued ''Remembrance'' would get this prefix? Or would it be [[DOC]]? Would the in-universe docos on ''[[Planet of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Frontier in Space]]'' be [[DOC]] or [[DWDVD]]? Is the Jaggeroth bit on ''City of Death'' BBCDVD or not? Any time a documentary producer gets a little creative about the perspective of his or her work, it's gonna cause questions about whether a certain thing fits under DOC or DWDVD. See, this prefix highlights a problem area I'd rather just stay away from. If there's no prefix, there's no definition. If there's no definition, there's less chance of awkward, essentially unanswerable, questions about pseudo-in-universe material that litters DVD releases. | ||
I think it's ''far'' better to Just let ''Meanwhile'' be a part of the overall content of series 5, as it was intended to be. There's no question ''at all'' that it's meant to be a part of the overall narrative of the season, is there? I mean instinctively we just ''know'' it's every bit as much DW as the episodes that got broadcast. This attempt to make it a separate kind of DW is a false division that's only going to take us down the primrose path to a lot of questions about ''other' DVD content. | I think it's ''far'' better to Just let ''Meanwhile'' be a part of the overall content of series 5, as it was intended to be. There's no question ''at all'' that it's meant to be a part of the overall narrative of the season, is there? I mean instinctively we just ''know'' it's every bit as much DW as the episodes that got broadcast. This attempt to make it a separate kind of DW is a false division that's only going to take us down the primrose path to a lot of questions about ''other'' DVD content. | ||
More than that, I think the prefix will be harmful to the useful organisation of ''other'' information from the DVDs. Most of what Rob wrote is explaining what the prefix is ''not''. That's problematic. Cause that means people are '''certainly''' going to mistake it for those things. The most natural thing this prefix ''seems'' to describe are the documentaries on the DVDs. If we allow this prefix, we're going to start seeing slow "prefix creep" from DOC and DCOM to DWDVD. | More than that, I think the prefix will be harmful to the useful organisation of ''other'' information from the DVDs. Most of what Rob wrote is explaining what the prefix is ''not''. That's problematic. Cause that means people are '''certainly''' going to mistake it for those things. The most natural thing this prefix ''seems'' to describe are the documentaries on the DVDs. If we allow this prefix, we're going to start seeing slow "prefix creep" from DOC and DCOM to DWDVD. | ||
In my mind, I can't work out why there's a need for this new prefix whatsoever, and I think it'll do more harm than good. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">'''04:13:08 Sat '''11 Jun 2011 </span> | In my mind, I can't work out why there's a need for this new prefix whatsoever, and I think it'll do more harm than good. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">'''04:13:08 Sat '''11 Jun 2011 </span> | ||
