User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-28349479-20161216221639/@comment-1272640-20161218190543

SOTO wrote: Andrew, I thoroughly enjoyed your blog post, and I do agree with it from a philosophical and literary point of view. In case you haven't been updated, since then, we've asserted that there is no Doctor Who canon, for much the reasons you described.

So I do want to make it clear that, however we're read, we do not, at Tardis, assert rules for how things "should" be read, or how fans "should" define their own personal canons. But we do need some rules for us, as an encyclopedia, to make any sense. That's why we have T:VALID and our four little rules to determine what effectively "counts" in the writing of in-universe articles. In general, if something considered an invalid source is still properly licensed, it still gets its own page here, and often pages for its elements and characters as well, with a tag at the top to mark them as separate.

Onto Faction Paradox specifically, I must admit that a lot seems to have happened since the initial decision. I should also state that I was not myself around for the initial decision. So I'm not specifically defending it. I was not part of it. Enough new evidence has certainly been brought up in this thread for this discussion to continue once more.

I would very much like some of the editors who participated in the initial discussions to come around here, and respond to these new points. I personally definitely sympathise with the view that the FP series and the DWU are deeply interconnected, now more than before, and hard to truly separate. I can see with my own eyes that the FP Wiki has been failing ever since it first set sail. I would like to know, however, what the real proposal is here. Is what's being put forward here that the entire Faction Paradox series be considered part of the "main" Doctor Who universe? I think so, yes. This would mean merging the wikis, more than likely.