User:Bongolium500/Sandbox 3

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This page holds a table that should display the results of passing and failing the various four little rules.

Rules Passed Rules Failed Result Examples
1, 2, 3, 4 Valid Series 1, Main Range, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures, The Daleks, Iris Wildthyme, The Klepton Parasites
2, 3, 4 1 Usually invalid or only mentioned in passing Meet the Doctor, PCOM: The End of Time[1]
3, 4 1, 2 Not covered
4 1, 2, 3 Not covered
1, 2, 3, 4 Not covered
2, 4 1, 3 Potentially covered as unreleased[2]
2 1, 3, 4 Potentially covered as unreleased[3]
2, 3 1, 4 Invalid The Universe Marathon
1, 3, 4 2 Not covered (sometimes receiving a series overview in special cases)[4] Fanfiction, Audio Visuals, BBV Productions stories that don't use a license (but technically avoid needing one) (including Cyberon), charity publications, Phoenix Court[5]
1, 4 2, 3 Not covered (but may receive a passing mention if it was planned to be part of a notable unlicensed series) Season 5 of Audio Visuals
1 2, 3, 4 Not covered
1, 3 2, 4 Not covered[6] Most of Star Trek
1, 2, 4 3 Covered as unreleased[7] Leekley Bible stories, The Destroyers[8]
1, 2 3, 4 Covered as unreleased[9]
1, 2, 3 4 Invalid, sometimes not covered (with a series overview) The Daft Dimension, Doctor Whoah!, Doctor Who?, Death Comes to Time, Doctor Who and the Daleks, Ace Returns!, Can I Help You?, Dalek Wars[10], Vienna, The Confessions of Dorian Gray, The Periodic Adventures of Señor 105[11]
  1. A comprehensive list of non-narrative fiction can be found here or here. What counts as a story and what doesn't isn't always clear.
  2. These types of stories are less valid then invalid stories.
  3. These types of stories are less valid then invalid stories.
  4. Dimensions in Time sort of fails rule 2 but is only invalid.
  5. There is some contention on whether stories and series retroactively included into the DWU should count.
  6. May receive a mention on a real world page about a series that has crossed over with Doctor Who or in the behind the scenes section of an in-universe page if the story also exists on the DWU.
  7. These types of stories are less valid then invalid stories.
  8. A complete list can be found here.
  9. These types of stories are less valid then invalid stories.
  10. Commercials and merchanidse tie-ins are a point of contention here.
  11. Cases such as the last 3 occur when an author explicity states that the series is not intended to be any part of the DWU. They are potentially up for debate, especially Vienna.