Tardis talk:Canon policy

Just thought I would create a page for Cannon Policy so that something can be worked out. Personally I believe that the following would be the best approach to take, what do other people think?

Ordinary Text Entries

 * The Television Series (and TV Movie)

Italics Text Entries

 * The Virgin New Adventures
 * The Virgin Missing Adventures
 * The Decalog Collections
 * The BBC EDA
 * The BBC PDA (Or Classic's or whatever the range is to be called from now on)
 * The Ninth Doctor Novels
 * The Big Finish Audio CD's
 * The Short Trips Anthologies
 * Telos Novellas
 * The Missing Adventures (i.e. The Missing Series)
 * Other Audio products, e.g. Pescatons, Slipback

Non Doctor Who Stories
(Possibly also in Italics but does anyone have any other suggestions?)


 * Bernice Summerfield Range
 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * Other Companions
 * Faction Paradox
 * Dalek Empire
 * Kaldor City
 * Miranda
 * Gallifrey Audios
 * Time Hunter
 * UNIT

Other Stories Which Are Probably Non Considered Cannon But Should Be Included For The Sake Of Completeness

 * Campaign
 * Dimension In Time
 * The Peter Cushing Movies
 * Scream of the Shalka
 * Infinity Doctors

Other Material
Personally with the other material I am undecided as to what I think, I would say no to:


 * Fan Fiction not licenced, e.g. online fiction or anything produced in Fanzines no matter how well written
 * BBV Productions such as the time travellers which was using a Doctor Who concept but not in the same way as the "real show".

I am unsure what I think about the inclusion of:


 * Perfect Trips
 * Missing Pieces
 * The Various Other Charity Anthologies licenced to be produced
 * Brief Encounters
 * The Unbound Series from Big Finish

As for the Comic Strips I really dont know what I think about those. Personally I would go with include the ones which fit in with continuity and exclude the ones which dont (John and Gillian for example) but this doesnt seem a very consistent policy.

See Separately my argument on the use of Novelizations (Its under discussion tab)

--Amxitsa 16:45, 20 Mar 2005 (EST)