Talk:ACT

Delete

Why do we need this? It suggests that Activity books are valid resources of information for articles. How could they be? Could someone please suggest a solid piece of information that could ever be sited using this prefix?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:31:28 Tue 12 Jul 2011 

Stories from activity books. User:BroadcastCorp. requested a prefix for these stories and I check Tardis:List of prefixes. As nothing seemed to fit, I created this. Suddenly in a Graveyard is one such story.--Skittles the hog - talk 17:36, July 12, 2011 (UTC)

Are these stories actually complete, non-interactive stories? Or do they have a game element to them? I'm really quite worried about the precedent that this might set. I mean there are bits of, for example, the Dalek annuals where a game is set in the fictional world of the ADF. I wouldn't say that the people mentioned in these lil gamey elements count. For instance, there's a character named in one of the 70s annuals who is trying to figure out how to make his supply of cigarettes last longer. So kids have to do a bit of math to figure out the answer. But I wouldn't put that guy forward as an in-universe character, even though the puzzle is told in a sorta in-universe way. Is that the kind of thing these "stories" are, or are they full-on proper short stories?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:43:40 Tue 12 Jul 2011 

I have no idea as I don't own any activity books. By interactive, your including video games and Decide Your Destiny books. So are you saying they're all non-canon?--Skittles the hog - talk 17:47, July 12, 2011 (UTC)

Oh...the 70s...teaching children how to make their cigarettes last longer, isn't maths such fun!

Terry Nation's Dalek Special book does include a story, the article names it; Daleks: The Secret Invasion, though given this book is published by Target I think we could shove that story under one of our Target related prefixed.

The other books listed that I'm familiar with don't have stories; the Cookbook, Pattern book and Build a TARDIS.

I've flipped through the various sticker books in bookshops and they are what they say on the cover, a book of stickers. Where are the cigarette themed puzzles in these books? --Tangerineduel / talk 15:16, July 13, 2011 (UTC)