Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20160823233355/@comment-188432-20160824005349

Yes. If a map exists within a DWU story, you can make a page for everything within that map. But you can't go beyond what's there, even if you think that it's "logical" that it would exist there. For instance, if the map showed 5th Avenue, you can't then assume that something you know to be on 5th in the real world, like the New York Public Library, exists in the DWU. That's the very definition of real world creep, something we try as much as possible to avoid.

Another example of real world creep is something like this. You know that the Empire State Building is in the DWU because of The Chase and Daleks in Manhattan. But those stories don't tell you that the building is on 5th. Elsewhere, you have a map that shows 5th Avenue, but doesn't specifically mark the Empire State Building. You can't then take the tiny leap between the two bits of known information and say, "The Empire State Building is on Fifth Avenue." You have to have something else, like a novel, which connects the two bits of knowledge.