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Knowing his enthusiasm for this sort of thing, I suspected Scrooge would have something to say; I did not know he had already started on a draft. For the purposes of this discussion, I will provide what he wrote in that thread: Scrooge MacDuck wrote: (For your personal information, the actual origins of Rule 1 are, as best I can fathom, a series of admin decisions at Forum:Canonicity of Dalek Annuals and Forum:Canon policy: Items on which policy is unclear; the former by User:Trak Nar, who acknowledge that "features" in Dalek annuals were something different from reference works but unilaterally decided they shouldn't be covered as "canon" because the information in them was too silly by modern standards… which surely runs afoul of T:NPOV; and the latter by User:CzechOut who "explains" his reasoning with "I can't see the rationale for including the Technical Manual's ideas of what makes the sonic screwdriver tick in the main body of sonic screwdriver. Primacy must be given to narrative works on in-universe pages.", which is circular reasoning at its finest. Only stories count because… only stoires count??…

I don’t mean any insult towards any of the participants in those early conversations, but surely, in hindsight, we can all see that this isn’t exactly sensible policymaking behaviour. This isn’t a solid base on which to write the first of the four most important rules’’ of this Wiki’s validity policies! But again, that is a thread for another day.) Well, I guess that's this thread.