User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-5532276-20121230175132/@comment-6433721-20130311190746

I didn't really get the Croyden/Aberdeen joke, except through context. The ability to tell that a location is a representation of a real place vs a fictional location, especially for viewers outside of the UK, is important. (For that matter, it'd be valuable for UK viewers when the Doctor goes to another country!)

I think it's also important to recognise that, until the DWU narratively gives an indication that something is different from the real world, it MUST BE PRESUMED to be the same in the DWU as it is the real world. Any other interpretation is logistically insane. What we do in this wiki is give a catalogue of the information which has been demonstrated to be different in the DWU. When we cite things, we are showing what has been shown to be different than the real world due to the presence of the Doctor.

The problem is, to show what is different, you need to give context to some lesser-known facts as well. That's why we need real-world references. Maybe they hadn't bothered to tell us what a toilet is, but we were pretty sure they existed and at least some of the characters were using them even before we saw them in Boomtown.

I think that we could do with an alternate wording, perhaps, but some small bit of labelled real world information and even the map link is appropriate. If they demonstrate a difference, we can always update it.