User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-28743561-20180811034304/@comment-28349479-20190625185304

While we're here, a brief summary of new developments on the talk page.

• While the editor's note (pictured right) says that the New Adventures was a series, and that The Dying Days was "the last" of this series, they also made it very clear that the New Adventures were not ending with The Dying Days but were continuing, perhaps "forever", with Oh No It Isn't! and the rest of the "new New Adventures"; and

• Meanwhile, the back cover of Oh No It Isn't! says that "New Adventures" is an imprint rather than a series, although as Amorkuz noted, the fine print still says the book was published by Virgin, not "New Adventures" as you'd expect if it was really an imprint; so

• My best-yet-painfully-incomplete attempt at an explanation, which I believe is roughly shared by SOTO, is that Virgin viewed "New Adventures" as not a series (despite saying it was) but an imprint (despite not actually treating it as such) that included two series, both called "New Adventures", one featuring the Doctor, and the other focusing on Benny.

Frankly, I don't think this absolute mess of terminology has much effect on the merger idea, since in terms of "what kind of coverage on the wiki will provide the best factual accuracy" I don't see a practical difference between "one series" and "two series published under an imprint, which is also a series, all of which share the same name". I've updated my Sandbox to try to reflect the verbiage, and I would welcome any comments or correction.