User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20161230003410/@comment-28349479-20170105151304

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20161230003410/@comment-28349479-20170105151304 Just for posterity's sake, I'd like to remind everyone about the standards we set in Thread:206566 for adding Faction Paradox material to pages. First, a page should use the terminology of the series it belongs to. If a story calls Gallifrey "Gallifrey", call it that in the article; if it calls Gallifrey "the Homeworld", call it the Homeworld. If it's a concept from both (like Cwejen or Celestis), say "the Great Houses of the Time Lords" instead of Time Lords the first time, and then just use the appropriate terminology from the story you're citing for each statement.

Secondly and most importantly, if and only if it's explicitly stated in-text that a Faction Paradox character or concept is a Doctor Who character or concept, then and only then can we put FP information on that article here. Otherwise, a separate page must be made, like War King vs the Master or the Mistress vs Romana. Information about the Imperator does not belong on the page for Morbius.

This is tricky, since the majority of instances are indeed stated in-text! A significant example is that the Great Houses are stated to be Time Lords in The Adventures of the Diogenes Damsel, so it's fine to send links to the Great Houses' timeships to TARDIS, their homeworld to Gallifrey, or their prison planet to Shada. However, this does not let us say that the Master is the War King, or that Morbius is the Imperator, or that Lolita is the Master's TARDIS (she's just the War King's)! Any subtext or insinuation belongs in the "Behind the scenes" section and that section only. I plan on continually updating this list to reflect which references are admissible for our standards; the number of admissible references vastly outnumber the inadmissible, but these exceptions must be noted. Thank you.