User:CzechOut/Sandbox8

The canon policy of this wiki exists to help both readers and editors identify the scope of our project. It does not exist as the result of some "official" statement by the British Broadcasting Corporation. It is a practical, and in some instances, arbitrary, restriction on the items we will cover on this wiki. Although Doctor Who luminaries like Russell T Davies, Paul Cornell, Steven Moffat and others have all opined that there can't be such a thing as canon in a show about a time-traveller, we have to note that they have the luxury of such opinions. They aren't writing an encyclopedia about the Doctor Who universe. We are. So we have to establish some kind of boundaries for what we will and won't include — or we'll be forced to cover some fan's Rose/Vicki lesbian love story on LiveJournal. And we're just not going to do that. Therefore, we believe that everything counts, except for the following things:
 * 1) The single most important determinant of whether a story deserves coverage on our wiki is whether it was licensed by the British Broadcasting Corporation. That is, it must be legally sanctioned by the BBC.  It therefore follows that fan fiction, charity publications, and other amateur or unlicensed products are disallowed. Clearly, stories found on LiveJournal or in fanzines are well outside our scope.
 * 2) We allow some products that are not BBC copyright, but these items must have initially appeared in a BBC=licensed product. Examples would include the K9 series, which flows from the Bob Baker/Dave Martin copyright on the character of K9, but is allowed here because K9 appeared on Doctor Who, a BBC product.  Likewise the Bernice Summerfield series are allowed because the character originated in the Virgin New Adventures line, at the time a BBC-licensed product.  Following this logic, a group of other "spin-off" material is allowed here:
 * 3) list to come
 * 4) Conversely, we disallow a few things that were produced under BBC license. Note that the presence of a BBC license, however, gives these items a "special" status. Articles about these items may be included on the wiki, so long as they are clearly marked with an nc tag, and placed in a non-canonical cateogry.  However, these items may not be referred to within an in-universe article. For instance, nothing in the article, Twelfth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death), should find its way into the article about the Doctor, as these are wholly different characters.   Generally, such items are confined to obvious parody or obviously discontinuous storylines.  Such things include:
 * 5) Any BBC parody, including, but not limited to, The Curse of Fatal Death.
 * 6) Dimensions in Time, which sits awkwardly in both Doctor Who and EastEnders continuity.
 * 7) The Peter Cushing movies of the 1960s
 * Doctor Who role-playing games, regardless of manufacturer or license