User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26285319-20170104192003/@comment-28349479-20170125163848

This is a really confusing post to me. I honestly don't think that this weird reading of Rule 4 has ever been actually used, unless you're taking every "hey, this author crosses characters over between Doctor Who and this other series pretty very insanely loosely" as not a "this is evidence for the author believing the universes of these stories are the same", as everyone intends it to be read. Can you list to me some stories that have been "considered part of the Doctor Who universe unless specified otherwise"?

So all those authors who just take a character they created for some DWU story and take it on a complete tangent, not caring in the slightest about DWU or continuity This sounds dangerously close to saying that stories should be excluded if they disagree with continuity, which is entirely missing a point.

So to clarify, you think that an author indicating "It's not not set in the Doctor Who universe" isn't enough; they have to say the actual words, "It's set in the Doctor Who universe"?