User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1317169-20121202170842/@comment-1317169-20130122235947

Tangerineduel wrote: To return to Continuity, I will again propose removing it as that is something that is hard to futureproof as it is based on relationships to other stories. Continuity is something we can't futureproof.

Maybe it's something we shouldn't have, or make a rule that Continuity can only reflect on the past and not on the future (which I know as I write it would be hard to enforce).

I tried this once, last year. I removed all the continuity to adventures that had not happened yet. The reactions were a mix of angry and confusion.

The mere handful or pages I did this too (three of them) were reverted and added to, so the work was essentially undone.

It is a way I would be happy to go. I believe that, in the case of Dalek the continuity for 'intru-da-window' reference should be The Poison Sky page, not the Dalek one. It should only be on the Dalek if it has happened before Dalek.

The one problem with doing this is we have stories that we do not know were they come in the Doctor Who timeline, so it would be difficult to do so.