User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-44988386-20200526182739

So, this is gonna be a bit controversial, but I'd like to put forward the following proposition: Delete all of the unmade stories pages.

There's a few reasons for this that I'll list below:

Most were eventually adapted
A lot of the Lost Stories, and a few novelisations and/or scripts, already exist for these, meaning that there are TWO pages for these stories, sometimes even three. And on the actual released stories page, there exists the Behind the Scenes headings. We could just as easily transfer the info on how it was never made there.

They're not stories
But for those that weren't adapted into any form, they weren't made and released. They weren't and won't, unless a future adaptation happens, ever be a story. So why do we include them?

The Outsiders problem
Not everyone who edits the wiki has that deep knowledge of Doctor Who that we do, and may stumble across one of these unmade stories, some of which use photographs from actually broadcast/released media, and may not notice the "unmade" tag at the top, and think that this was actually broadcast. As such, they'll eventually find out that it isn't and wonder why it's here.

Conclusion
I'm not saying, "Never mention any unmade media", since that would be foolish. I'm just wondering why they need articles of their own, when you can easily put them in a Behind the Scenes section if they were adapted. And if they weren't, there's not really much of a reason to give it it's own page.

Perhaps we could just make one page, so those who are interested can see, or make another wiki dedicated to these stories.

Thoughts?