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Well we haven't formally had this discussion yet, but both WC and HOMEVID are likely to soon be deprecated. It's been suggested in discussions that VID will replace TV. Anything audiovisual is a video, or a video story; anything audiovisual attached to a television series, produced by a television crew, is a TV story.

There is no reason to include these stories in the count, though. You will note, if you look more closely at List of Doctor Who television stories, that animated stories like The Infinite Quest and Dreamland, and mini-episodes like Children in Need Special, Time Crash, Music of the Spheres, Space and Time, etc. are already listed in bullet lists in subsections, rather than included in the tables and in the count. Just to look at one specific example, Time Crash most certainly aired on TV, so even by the most precise definition is a TV story. The Night of the Doctor is not included in the count. The Doctor's Meditation isn't part of the count.

And just for the record, I don't think productions like the BBV videos or the Reeltime Pictures videos should ever be considered television stories, nor should Transmission from Mars and Dead and Buried. A prequel produced as part of a TV series but released first online, though? Definitely television, no doubt about it. Again, Torchwood series 1 was aired on BBC Three, which is definitely television, as is BBC Red Button, BBCi, etc.