Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-88790-20121208143712/@comment-27280472-20161219194516

SOTO wrote: Sure, but Big Finish and DWM have some credibility. You tend to assume they've got all their licenses unless we know otherwise. We only have this one writer's word that his own story was properly licensed. That blog post's our only source. And, hey, I don't think he's lying. also claims that Paul Leonard licensed it, but offers no source.

Cody Quijano-Schell asserts the same thing in this interview on Paul Magrs' blog, and Schell wrote Iris Wildthyme y Señor Cientocinco contra Los Monstruos del Fiesta. Specifically he says:
 * Oh no, he’s an Obverse Books original character, like the Manleigh Halt Irregulars or Theo Possible. But I love Doctor Who books and Paul Leonard was kind enough to allow Blair Bidmead the use of his literary property in his Senor 105 novella "By the Time I Get to Venus".

(No mention of a continuing license on further stories.) It doesn't seem like anyone here disbelieves Obverse, and nobody disbelieves Big Finish or DWM, but Big Finish and DWM still have an unquantifiable credibility that isn't defined by any policy and Obverse doesn't have?

SOTO wrote: He also says:
 * Yes, when 105 crosses over with Iris, [the Clockworks have] been mentioned. But generally, 105’s universe is his universe, and hers is hers. They meet up occasionally.

Are you saying that's evidence it doesn't pass Rule 4? Because it isn't. All it means is that Señor 105 and Iris Wildthyme have different series with different characteristics and characters. Iris's "universe" would have to consist of the entire multiverse. The fact that they're able to "meet up" proves that by the definition of universe used in the term "DWU," they're in the same universe.