Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-31010985-20190928203157/@comment-1827503-20191011012504

The dictionary definition of "fan fiction" is overly broad, because it doesn't take into account the possibility of fans obtaining the proper licenses. (Under your proposal, almost the entirety of prose Doctor Who would be considered fan fiction, with the early novelisations the main exception.)

In reality, the term "fan fiction" implies "unlicensed", as can be evidenced by the cited rule on T:VS being Rule 2. The three Dawns stories in question were licensed, and have more or less been shown to pass Rule 2.