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By "intended viewing order", Czech, do you mean overall narrative order or more order in which the stories were released? As a more complicated example, where might we place The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later? It's more of a sequel to A Good Man Goes to War, certainly arguably a prequel to The Snowmen, and yet it was released in the lead-in to The Bells of Saint John, and therefore after Snowmen.

To Thunderush' idea, I'm sorry, but I can only offer you an outright no. We decided a while back to get rid of "timeline" sections which purported to tell readers what came before and afterwards from the perspective of the Doctor and/or other characters — we cannot definitively state this especially taking into account the different, often conflicting media. Certainly not with the Eighth Doctor as you suggested, whose history and even more so the order in which it all took place is so incredibly convoluted. Speculative timelines for the Doctors are housed at Theory:Timey-wimey detector, but this kind of thing can never be in the main (or content) namespace.

We do not or at least should not currently "jump from the TV Movie to The Night of the Doctor", because The Night of the Doctor, while, sure, the next television story narratively for the Eighth Doctor, is most definitely not the next Doctor Who television story. With timeline navigation certainly out of the way, the only navigations we should have at the bottoms of infoboxes are release order for specific series, and production order. There should not be an "Eighth Doctor television stories" navigation, again per Forum:Timeline sections on pages.

And I'm not seeing language like "broadcast order" anywhere either, Czech. It's just "Doctor Who television stories", or "Torchwood television stories", or "DWM comic stories", and then possibly "Production order". And at the moment, whether or not prequels "count" as DW television stories is completely inconsistent: sometimes the prequels are linked to, sometimes they aren't but yet the prequel pages themselves still link out to main run television-broadcast stories, and sometimes prequels are totally excluded. Seemingly randomly. I don't have a problem with, in addition to working the prequels into the "Doctor Who television stories" run, also having a "Doctor Who prequels" run, same as we have one for things like "Christmas specials".