User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1272640-20170115234322/@comment-28349479-20170905162154

In summary: The proposal is to move The Doctor (The Infinity Doctors universe) to The Doctor (The Infinity Doctors), following the precedent used for plenty of other stories with Doctors whose incarnation we can't exactly pin down (eg The Doctor (The Cabinet of Light) and The Doctor (The Dalek Factor)). Along with this decision would be a deletion of The Infinity Doctors universe, all the information of which is already redundant to the Behind the scenes sections of The Infinity Doctors (novel).

The reason for this change is that the author Lance Parkin indicated that he intended The Infinity Doctors to be in the main Doctor Who universe not only by referencing it in both his EDAs but also by including it right alongside stories like Cold Fusion and The Gallifrey Chronicles in his AHistory and Whoniverse, facts which render any information about previous drafts completely irrelevant. Not just Parkin but also other authors view it as in the main universe, given the references in Unnatural History, The Taking of Planet 5, Seeing I, and afaik The Ancestor Cell. Yes, the story might contradict some things - frankly, I'm not sure what, since it seems to go along with more than it contradicts - and if we got in the habit of tossing all stories that contradict others into an alternate universe, this wiki would be a very different place.

So far, literally no one in the last nine months has brought up a counterargument. I've called people out on false consensus more times than I can count, but, uhh ... nine months. Not gonna say "Speak now or forever hold your peace", but someone please speak now!