Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-1506468-20190827123101/@comment-28349479-20190828145858

Amorkuz wrote: Meanwhile, James Wylder offers his copyrighted elements from the 3 stories discussed for free to anyone. Amorkuz, the “slippery slope” argument outlined in your post seems to hinge entirely on this single tweet, which I will quote here in full:"Well, tell ya what, any other folks writing officially licensed Whoniverse works (that is, not fanworks), HMU if you want to use a character, species, planet, etc from those three stories that I created. I'll gladly let you for free."

- James Wylder (emphasis mine)

Based on this tweet, you conclude that “anyone will be able to get their story on the wiki by asking Wylder to borrow his character.” But if you review the text of the tweet, Wylder specifically states that the offer only applies to people who are writing “officially licensed Whoniverse works” — that is, writers of existing Doctor Who universe series, which are already on the wiki! — and not fanworks.

The fact is that none of us want to see the “free for all” that you describe, including Wylder himself, and he’s already taken steps to ensure that something like that won’t happen.

(Besides, even if your reading of the tweet was correct, so what if some random writer uses a random 10,000 Dawns character in some story? As I clarified in my first post here, no one is arguing that the entire 10,000 Dawns series should be valid on the wiki, just these three stories. If Star Trek became public domain tomorrow, would that create some sort of panic here because of Assimilation²? I think not.)

Maybe I’m completely missing the logic of your argument, and if I am, please correct me. But from where I’m standing, I don’t think you’ve presented anything close to a convincing case that this scenario poses any sort of existential threat.