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Shambala108 wrote: We don't argue with author intent. … Lawrence Miles says it's not DWU, then it's not DWU.

Well the thing is that he doesn't. I make it clear in the post that the quote you referenced has multiple meanings; that Miles clearly never intended Faction Paradox to be a "fuck you" to Doctor Who; that quite literally everything else Lawrence Miles (and the other authors and publishers, for that matter) has said and or done gives the completely opposite message; and that Graceless and Jago & Litefoot would have to be reconsidered under the same guidelines. Tardis Wiki policy is to not argue with authorial intent, and authorial intent is that Faction Paradox is part of the Doctor Who universe.

I'd like to point out that I'm not arguing with the rules here. I'm not saying that a work being a reaction against Doctor Who should not be relevant to its validity, or that authorial intent doesn't matter. Regardless of my personal opinions about these rules, I respect them, and I'm pitching this argument on its terms: not "does authorial intent matter?" but "I don't think authorial intent is in the assumed direction." This isn't a disagreement with the rules; this is just a disagreement with the facts concerning how they apply to Faction Paradox.