User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-20607870-20160108202348/@comment-188432-20160109004904

Thanks for the initiative, but please don't do this.

See, you're kinda not quite getting the status of "invalid" (or NOTVALID) stories on this wiki. Perhaps I haven't been sufficiently clear, so I apologise if I've been ambiguous.

Let me try again.

We don't declare things invalid because of discontinuity. Far too many instances of discontinuity exist in televised Doctor Who alone for that to possibly be an organising principle for this wiki.

Rather, we go by our four little rules.

By wiki convention, an invalid story is wholly valid — or it's not. So if, as in your example, Dalek props are used in a story declared invalid, like Curse, the DWU species known as "the Daleks" aren't deemed to have appeared in any sense that is of use to this wiki. The story is itself invalid, and so the appearance of everything within also is also invalid.

To make this crystal clear, the following things are true, as far as this wiki is concerned:


 * Daleks didn't appear in The Curse of Fatal Death.
 * Neither the Sixth Doctor nor the Brigadier appeared in Dimensions in Time.
 * Dr What is not Dr Who, the Doctor, or indeed the First Doctor
 * Category:Second Doctor stories should not include LEGO Dimensions.

NOTVALID means, well, not valid. There should be a clear, bold, bright red line of division between everything that's in NOTVALID stories and everything that's in valid stories. Please stop trying to find any which way to bring greater prominence to NOTVALID stories by mixing their contents into the larger pool of DWU information.

This wiki is not primarily about NOTVALID stories. Please stop putting so much energy into these kind of stories. And in particular, please stop mixing information about invalid and valid ones by putting them in the same categories, creating lists of appearances, and the like. We are seeking to more definitively separate and de-emphasise information about NOTVALID stories — not make it more prominent.