Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-44988386-20200430183515/@comment-72.194.244.165-20200430191606

As inclined as I am to think the wiki should be inclusive, rather than exclusive, I don't think the two situations are comparable. The former was, to my knowledge, done entirely by Barrowman on his own, for his own reasons. I don't want to say self promoting, but it was published on a commercial album, and effectively just takes "The Wizard and I" and swaps out the bare minimum of words to make it Doctor Who related.

The latter was on a charity album with multiple people from the cast explicitly about the show's history intended to promote the show in the public eye, an important part of recording the history of the show.

Now, if we want to open up the wiki to be a broader historical record of events surrounding the show, since there really isn't one, and you sort of have to piece it together like patchwork, I think that including facts about how Barrowman has acted in relation to the show would be kosher. But that would be a massive change to how the wiki operates, and a massive undertaking, especially to events that took place in the wilderness years, since a lot of that is very poorly documented.