User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-25421326-20200308132630/@comment-28349479-20200311054032

Great post, and well-argued. I'll add that, along the lines of Tannis in The Gallifrey Chronicles, there are several other inventions from Death Comes to Time that have since been used in real DWU Who: Canisians in Trading Futures, Anima Persis in Relative Dementias and The Tomorrow Windows, and Mount Plutarch in The Three Paths. The Minister of Time himself is also clearly depicted as the "man with a bent nose" in The Tomorrow Windows and The Gallifrey Chronicles.

Because of our current rules against referencing invalid sources in the "Continuity" sections of story pages, these straightforward references and connections to Death Comes to Time cannot be listed alongside all the other references and connections to other stories. The details are instead exiled to the "Notes" section, if they are mentioned at all. I think this is to the detriment of our pages like At Childhood's End, and it absolutely harmfully impacts the coverage of the story on this wiki.

For this reason, and for all the Rule 4 reasons addressed above, I am in favor of the validity of Death Comes to Time.

Edit: For the record's sake, and since Kudos's have a bit of a contentious status in inclusion debates here, it's worth noting that as of 5/6 the following users have left Kudos's on LilPotato's post: Sabovia, Chubby Potato, TheChampionOfTime (who's also commented in support), Danochy, Borisashton (who's also commented in support), LegoK9, and Jack "BtR" Saxon.