User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-5791028-20150117172224/@comment-184.147.8.78-20150605032133

This really doesn't seem too difficult to sort out.

Sherlock in this release is a divergence from the main BF line due to David Warner playing Mycroft.

I can't see why vienna is specifically singled out as not DWU as Graceless is essentially in the same situation (both originated in the Main range, spun off into their own range, and both are stated to be outside the DWU by their line producers) yet Graceless is in and Vienna is out?

Likewise, this particular version of Dorian distinguished himself in Benny's range, but the stories of his past are somehow in another universe?

This isn't the Star Trek and Fantastic Four issue, Dorian and Sherlock, these are new adaptations of the characters, distinct and separate from our real world ones. Their stories wildly diverge from the originals by their original authors.

Vienna and Graceless are from the DWU yet have been shunted out on this wiki because the producers wanted to do something different with them?

The wiki doesn't discard everything already established just because a new DW producer changes things in the show. We didn't delete the Stolen Earth page when Moffat retcon'd it away.

These characters and ranges add a wonderful touch of depth and diversity in the DWU, there's something for everyone with these characters, and to exclude them because of one persons opinion, (which their actions had contradicted by setting them in the DWU in the first place) frankly robs this wiki of another opportunity to grow and better itself.