User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1317169-20121202170842/@comment-188432-20130116144244

Let's cut to the chase here. People use "references" for things they believe occurred solely in that one story. People use "continuity" for things they believe are relevant across stories.

But everyone's knowledge about the totality of licensed Doctor Who fiction is incomplete. And since about a hundred news stories are published every year, our knowledge of DW fiction is quickly obsolete as well.

If we were a TV-only wiki, then I'd be more willing to support the notion of a section for one-off references versus a section for continuous elements.

But we're not. We believe that all forms of DW fiction are equal. Combining the sections into one, paragraph-formatted section:
 * futureproofs us
 * is more more intellectually honest, since it doesn't suggest in any way that we've found all the connections
 * forces people to obey T:FULL SENT
 * gets rid of those awful, linked subsection heads, which are a violation of T:HEAD
 * works on wikiamobile in a way the current bulleted lists really don't
 * forces people to write, not just create lists