Forum:Non-valid Continuity sections, categories, and prefixes

Intro
''here I will talk about editing ideology and how we need to, and are, restructuring the Non-Valid space to be something on "equal but opposite" footing. A key reason for this is that we are soon going to run into stories which should remain invalid but some people still want to wikify for fun. Something not being valid for the mainspace should not be a death sentance, and we should be able to tell people "edit any corner of the wiki you want."

The following three topics are minor issues in our rules which I believe stop the non-valid subspace from functioning correctly.

Continuity sections
''This will set-up that not-valid stories should have continuity sections. This does not mean valid stories will link to not-valid stories in the continuity section. I will discuss the history and why I disagree with our rule here.''

examples of issues: Some invalid stories have continuity to each-other. Invalid stories do not all fail Rule 4. Many readers come to our wiki to research general topics, and don't really care about if they pass some arbitrary four little rules. Someone wanting to know about a stage play doesn't care about the politics of the wiki.

Game of Rassilon categories
''This topic will be mainly just for the principal of the thing. Discussing why subpages and invalid pages should retain key Game of Rassilon pages, because officially we should never be discouraging anyone from editing. As invalid pages were literally excluded from Game of Rassilon categories under the hopes that it would discourage editing, this should be turned back.''

As is the case with the entire system of over-using the GoR categories, if the Wiki badge system died tomorrow so would this proposal.

PREFIX change
''Discussing how, specifically on INVALID subspace pages, we do not need to use the NOTVALID prefix. All stories cited on Ninth Doctor/Non-valid sources are presumed to be Non-valid, with few discrepancies. We should be able to say TV: Blue Peter special 2005 and PROSE: Dalek: Spoof Scenes. This is a little more complex for something that isn't a subspace but is invalid, like Ghost of Christmas Future. But subspaces specifically I feel strongly about.

NCmaterial
This is just a bonus. Sorry if it's an annoying sub-clause... I love Template:NCmaterial. It's a great idea, great template. Can we please pick literally any other name for it. I just hate NC as an acronym. It looks like it stands for non-canon. I'm sorry, that's how I read it every time. It's just a bad template name.

I'd like to move it to Template:NOT COVERED or Template:NON COVERED.

With that, those are my... 3.5 minute policy changes I'd like to see to help easy the "valid/invalid" battle which seems to never end on this website. Please tell me your thoughts! OS25🤙☎️ 23:58, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Discussion
etc