User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1272640-20170106043421/@comment-28349479-20170106045231

Now this is an inclusion debate I can get behind!

A note on the previous inclusion debates on this topic, which can be found here and here: these debates specifically did not mention the evidence Pluto2 has presented in the OP, making the existence of these crossovers completely new information, despite being obvious in the stories themselves.

I'd like to note that this is nothing like Death's Head or Kaldor City, where select elements crossed over between the Doctor Who universe and that of Marvel or Blake's 7. Phoenix Court isn't a multi-author franchise where only one author believes them to be the same: all three stories were written by Paul Magrs, who also wrote The Blue Angel, which directly and definitively places the trilogy within Doctor Who continuity. This smashes the four little rules right out of the water.

Oddly enough, the original decision to exclude Phoenix Court appears to have been done in a complete absence of anyone who'd actually read the trilogy, meaning the series was judged based on cobbled-together online reviews instead of any real familiarity with the source material. I think that's a pretty funny way to decide inclusion debates, especially when it's a matter as small as three books involving a character who's mostly doing her own thing nowadays anyway. I see no reason for Phoenix Court to be invalid.