User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-45692830-20200723133026/@comment-6032121-20200724165404

Well I mean, I feel like precedent is broadly in favour of listening to the official sources when we wonder how to define a story. If the author says it's a story, it's a story — emphasis on a — even if the "how" isn't immediately obvious to us. For a much less extreme example, War of the Daleks contains interludes set in other points of Dalek history and featuring different characters — such as a notorious Daleks vs. Mechnonoids rematch — and despite the lack of any kind of direct connection between it and the main storyline, no one's ever questioned the fact that it's all a novel, because that's how it's always been presented to us.