User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20161219001033/@comment-188432-20180224234333

The template {{NS}} shall be deleted, as "New Series" is not a genuine range so much as a marketing term by Big Finish. And it's only a marketing exercise for their website, because none of the goods actually bear a "New Series" logo or inscription on their covers.

"New Series" is antiquated because -- as DWM and even fan outlets like Radio Free Skaro have pointed out on diverse occasions -- "new series" is an unusual term to apply to something that is now well over a decade old. There are people alive today, indeed a substantial portion of the fanbase, who have known nothing but BBC Wales Doctor Who.

So the term "new series" creates an artificial barrier between 20th and 21st century Doctor Who that's hard to justify.

Moreover, the term wasn't strongly pushed by the BBC and has never been -- in even a loose way -- the official name of the programme as produced by BBC Wales.

It's all just Doctor Who.

So a navbox which tries to perpetuate some kind of brand identity around the term "new series" is disallowed.

This decision does not preclude the possibility of users creating navboxes for the individual ranges comprised under Big Finish's awkward "New Series" heading. But those ranges should not be combined in an act of effectively false navigation.

Nor does this ruling stop someone from creating an article about Big Finish's attempt to lump stuff together -- so long as it does not treat "New Series" as a genuine range, but rather an umbrella term which includes selections from several other ranges.