User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-1827503-20170530194545

Judging from the LKH thread, CzechOut appears to be in favour of taking the Wikipedia count for story numbering.

There is one major problem here: Wikipedia is also a wiki! Because Wikipedia has no clear policy for numbering DW stories, anyone can edit their count to whatever they want it to be, so I see no reasonable way "align with Wikipedia" is a workable policy in the long run.

I've seen this very argument as applied to other episodic works, and it's been judged Wikipedia is unreliable because Wikia and Wikipedia would inevitably end up citing each other, either directly or indirectly.

By the way, because this discussion is still open and active, I believe T:BOUND still applies for the time being. It seems best to wait until Series 10 concludes before officially closing the thread, because the "Wikipedia count" proposal does absolutely nothing to solve the situation beyond the creation of a vague policy.