Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130201045831/@comment-188432-20130202162742

SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: Czech (it seems) brings up a good point. It's only according to Tardis policy. In the same way that we need to have Dalek and Dalek (TV story) (since one's a species and one's an episode, but both have the same name), but still have Closing Time (TV story) rather than Closing Time. That's just the way we do things, and it makes sense. Well, you're looking at something similar and coming to the wrong conclusion about how we got to those titles. You're basically saying, "These titles have dab terms in parentheses, so therefore the reason they do must be the same." There are many reasons why something might get a dab term — or, perhaps more to the point, there are many reasons why an un-dabbed term might be a redlink.

Closing Time is just about the only example you'll find of a redlinked name of a televised story, so don't use it as your guideline. All stories are dabbed by rule. But stories are allowed to keep their undabbed name as a redirect, as long as it doesn't conflict with any in-universe term. The only reason "Closing Time" remains a redlink is because it's believed that the common term "closing time" must exist in the DWU and that, therefore, the undabbed term should remain open for the use of a potential in-universe article.

However, you'll find that just about every other story name doesn't behave like this. Colony in Space, Pyramids of Mars, The Caves of Androzani, The Gunfighters — they're all redirects to the dabbed term. Story titles are universally dabbed because the normal application of T:DAB left us with some stories that were dabbed and some that weren't, which was a) confusing to new users (evidenced by the huge number of wrong links — Castrovalva, I'm lookin' at you) and b) a bitch to program around.

So, in effect, the reason that the serial Castrovalva is at Castrovalva (TV story) is because in-universe terms get precedence. The reason that Four to Doomsday is at Four to Dooomsday (TV story) is because Castrovalva is at Castrovalva (TV story) and it overall makes better sense to have all stories follow the same pattern.

Only the reasoning behind the Castrovalva move applies to the day of the week situation.