User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20170114064228

First off, if this isn't a rule anymore I apologies, as I have been gone for a while.

So on this site we have a long-standing rule that we don't allow images from colour reprintings of previously-black-and-white stories. The reason for this was that, for various reasons, only the first version was truly valid.

But then arises the problem of Thread:149385, where it was pretty strongly agreed amoung users that special editions of stories are all equally-valid, including in this case both versions of The Five Doctors. The Five Doctors has large narrative differences between its two main versions, let alone visual differences, and we all agreed to simply count them as two equal but opposite sources.

Furthermore, we also allow images from official BBC reconstructions of lost serials. Then there's comics that were originally Second or Third Doctor stories which were then reprinted as Fourth Doctor stories -- we consider both takes to be valid.

This seems to me to be a big contradiction. While it's one thing to prefer black-and-white first-edition images to colour comic, to out-right ban them is going against further precedent. I think we need to either agree that Special Editions and official reconstructions aren't valid, or we need to loosen the rules on comic reprints which were in effect last time I was here.