Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-4139960-20130620161202/@comment-4139960-20130620181547

Another point Czech made there seems rather close to what I'm trying to say, however.


 * Is it the O2 Arena and Canada Tower we see at the top of The Eleventh Hour? It's irrelevant to the story.


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 * I'm not sure I've answered every example of yours, but this post is growing long and I think you should be able to see where I'm going with this. I would spend less time on writing articles about things that are in the periphery of action, and much more time on articles that are about things which have some level of interaction with the characters.  If we start down the road of filling in details about everything that is the background of every shot, we quickly descend to a very, very dangerous place: the first shot of Rose.  The first thing we see in S1E1 is Earth.  So, according to the logic you're pushing, everything on Earth is deserving of an article here.  And that viewpoint would quickly turn this wiki into a nonsense.   20:44: Sat 29 Dec 2012

As I've said before, Big Ben is nearly interacted with; from what I can recall, the TARDIS swerves near it in its crashlanding before the Doctor rights her course. So I do understand that that example could be an exception to London passing by in the background.