User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1272640-20170115234322/@comment-1272640-20170118001320

I'll counter each point.

1. The incarnation of the Doctor is uncertain, with different reviewers saying "it's definitely the Eighth Doctor", "it may be the First Doctor prior to leaving Gallifrey", or it may be a future or alternative timeline version of whom we've never heard elsewhere

And...? We have this page, and this one, and this one...

2. The time setting is, by the author's admission, intentionally vague. With no clear setting, how can we possibly speak of any of the events with anything like certainty?

When has that ever stopped us? We know it's in the Doctor's era, so its setting isn't entirely unclear.

3. Reviewers can't seem to agree whether the book even happens in the normal DWU

What do reviewers have to do with this?

4. Lance Parkin said in an interview with the old BBCi that it was meant to be book one of a two book series, with the second book containing a "reset button" that would allow the story to return to the "normal" DWU. Without this reset button, the story languishes in a weird nether world

What the original plan was and what the end result is are very different in this case. Parkin's on record as saying it's not an alternate universe.

5. Because of the vast narrative uncertainties, it is extremely problematic to allow even basic information from this story into our other pages. Basic factual writing requires that we define the who-what-when-why-and-how of situations, but the novel doesn't allow us to precisely know the who, what or when of almost any statement we'd care to craft.

Umm...so? This is really irrelevant. We cover The Dalek Factor, which lacks a "who". We cover Cambridge Previsited, which lacks a "when". And we cover The Comet's Tail, which lacks a "what".