User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-26469787-20151124044912

I think we should all stop and think for a minute. Sure, episodes designated as episodes/parts of a whole are part of the same story. That's why we have them covered on one article. But suddenly treating stories intended to be Part One and Two to each other as separate stories simply because the do not feature such labelling? Again, I ask, why do we want to adopt a system never before imagined? This wouldn't be a problem if it were an internal wiki matter, like citation or linking, but as a format which, in different variations, will be used across all sources covering this particular aspect of the show, why would we make ours completely original and therefore inaccessible to anyone unfamiliar with this particular thread?

Again, I will go back to my original idea: in order to determine whether a story is comprised of more than one part, we first see whether it concludes with a "To Be Continued", then we ensure that the episode following it is written or co-written by the same writer, and then we ensure that they are consecutive in a run of the series (with gaps between series halves being equal to those between series or series and Christmas specials). When this is concluded, we are left with a list of stories which agrees with demarcations of "200th story", "250th story" and so on, one which currently mirrors DWM's classifications, those found on this wiki currently bar one case which is being debated on a separate thread, and numerous other physical sources and on-line sites.