User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-25117610-20161123164500/@comment-24894325-20170104003038

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-25117610-20161123164500/@comment-24894325-20170104003038 Well, at least someone remembers what was happening in that discussion. That's already something. I was always wondering how it happened.

One thing to note is that BF changed the description of the Dominion story. It used to be UNIT: Dominion, and now it's Doctor Who - UNIT: Dominion (for instance here all the links have been changed but the lead still has no DW prefix; actually here it is even clearer).

Another relevant thing, to my mind, is that at that time Dominion was the pinnacle of the UNIT audio series, so to say. The regular series ended. The box set was a special of a different format. No new stories were forthcoming.

What I don't know (was before my time) is which range Dominion was originally marketed in. It is still in the "Special Releases" range, mind you. Was it in the "UNIT" range from the very beginning is what I don't know. If it wasn't, then "UNIT" was needed to connect the special release to the UNIT range. In such a setting, its description as a special DW release that also concerns UNIT made sense.

But now it is in the UNIT range, so this special note is not needed anymore. We acknowledge this by wedging this story between the last old UNIT story and the first new UNIT story in the infobox. (Note that, unlike the BF website, we do not provide any other navigation in the infobox for this story.) The lead clearly paints it as a UNIT story. It feels like things have changed significantly.

And Gallifrey range mentioned above is a very good example in more ways than one. It also started as single-story CDs named "Gallifrey: " by BF. Then, from Season 4, it switched to multi-story boxsets. Finally, from Season 7, we have single-story boxsets exactly identical to Dominion in composition. And these are also called "Gallifrey: " by BF. We, on the other hand, call all three types of stories in the Gallifrey range " (audio story)", consistently dropping the prefix "Gallifrey".

So why is "Gallifrey" dropped for single-story Gallifrey range boxsets but "UNIT" is not dropped for single story UNIT range boxset? However it was marketed originally, it is now firmly in the UNIT range for both BF and Wikia.