User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1272640-20161223201024/@comment-27280472-20161226043705

Bwburke94 wrote: Given that Shalka will most certainly be found valid, how do we best integrate it into the wiki?

If the Shalka Ninth Doctor is part of the main Ninth Doctor page, it would unnecessarily confuse the readers. Borrowing a guideline from Wikipedia to make a point: "The average reader should not be shocked, surprised, or overwhelmingly confused by your article."

T:VS states that if a story follows the given four rules, it is valid. It does not state that all valid stories take place in the same universe, so we have a completely viable way to shove Shalka into an alternate universe as we did with Sympathy for the Devil. Erm, I'm not sure where you're getting "most certainly [will] be found valid." SOTO seems strongly opposed.

Sympathy for the Devil is slightly (though not hugely) different because it's officially a divergent timeline, where "timeline" is a specific well-defined concept. Shalka is practically the same, and I think there's definitely no reason to combine the two Ninth Doctor pages, but I think where Shalka and the revival contradict we should use "According to one account" language, rather than Sympathy's "In one timeline." I don't think we should emphatically state that Shalka is a different timeline without in-universe proof, but I haven't read The Tomorrow Windows.