Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-188432-20130514042227/@comment-26975268-20130531024306

Gallifrey102 wrote: This is the way I see it: it's been marketed as a prequel. Which gives at least the intention of it being canon. However, TV stories can over-rule anything and everything about what's canon. So it's the "responsibility" of the "prequel" to be connected somehow to the main episode. And since nothing in the episode is connected to it, that's the essence of The Name of the Doctor, if it were a person, telling us it isn't canon. If this were an actual narrative, with no question of its story status, that might not matter as much, and if it does, it doesn't here. But as there's absolutely nothing in the episode that says it is, then it can't be. That's just my two credits.

That was a bit hard to follow. Nevertheless, we do treat all media as equal on this wiki, so TV stories most definitely cannot "over-rule anything". Also noteworthy is that there is no canon.

A so-called "prequel" is a story in its own right, and is given just as much weight here. I do agree that its marketing as a prequel means that it was intended to be in-universe.

Once again, we cannot knock down stories simply because they are discontinuous with others. The Strax Field Reports are in-character advertisements, but SS, HS is meant to be an in-universe story.