User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20200517150418

A bit of a situation is emerging at Talk:Doctor Who: Lockdown!. Namely, User:DiSoRiEnTeD1 believes that the COVID-19-era releases not strictly part of the Doctor Who: Lockdown! watchalong event should not be listed in the #Associated_releases tab.

As near as I can tell, this includes Things She Thought While Falling, Message from the Doctor, Incoming Message, Press Play, Breaking Isolation, The Terror of the Umpty Ums, United we stand, 2m apart, The Shadow Passes, The Simple Things and How The Monk Got His Habit. (Also The Castellan has returned and has brought a message from Gallifrey!, but there is a strong possibility that page will be deleted altogether, so it's not super-relevant.)

I personally believe that this would be wholly detrimental to the Wiki. The list is called "Associated releases", not "Doctor Who: Lockdown-branded stories". Lockdown! basically invented the format of these things, and the public consciousness as well as authorial intent is clearly that these are facets of the same phenomenon. Note how Paul Cornell's loose "Shadow trilogy" begins with The Shadow Passes (not Lockdown-branded) to continue with two explicitly Lockdown! stories, Shadow of a Doubt and The Shadow in the Mirror.

It was decided at Talk:COVID-19 not to keep a RW page about the broader COVID-19 phenomenon. Fair enough, but that leaves us with no better place to list the lockdown-era releases than Doctor Who: Lockdown! at the moment. And it is a list that most people coming to the Wiki will expect to find somewhere here. Currently we house the "list of licensed web-original Doctor Who produced during lockdown" on the page Doctor Who: Lockdown!, which is pretty intuitive but not exactly true to what the specific, italicised Lockdown! event is. Is there a better way?

So… if DiSoRiEnTeD1 thinks the current setup is detrimental — what else could we do?