User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-31010985-20180428165444/@comment-28349479-20191213173919

My feelings are very mixed on whether the Cushing films are best treated as an alternate universe or as adaptations. That said, there are a few side discussions which I can comment on.

I'm still very much in support of the general principle presented by User:Amorkuz and User:OttselSpy25 above, that stories which are non-DWU for narrative reasons are better presented as separate continuities, whether that involves "parallel universes" or "parallel validities", than as invalid. I am extremely eager to see this idea discussed and enacted. (Although I also agree that more discussion should be dedicated to how this changes the validity rules before we delete Vorgenson.)

I am also strongly opposed to the deportation of any Cushing movies content to another wiki, for exactly the same reasons that I opposed the separate existence of w:c:factionparadox. Yes, the FP wiki can cover relevant charity publications in a way that Tardis cannot allow, but this material can still be fully incorporated onto the wiki via BtS sections on relevant pages: see Last Contact#Behind the scenes for a particularly lengthy example of this. The same precedent can easily apppy to Now on the Big Screen in Colour! and the Obverse charity novelizations.

Can a parallel wiki be developed, dedicated to the Cushing 'verse, and treating the charity books as canon? Absolutely! Can Tardis link to those articles in our "External links" section? For sure! Should any topic be covered less thoroughly on Tardis because readers can be sent to another wiki instead? Absolutely not. That's my opinion.