Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-1506468-20190827123101/@comment-6032121-20190830094408

I agree with Niki and Revan that the possibility that stories you find ideologically horrid might end up valid is neither here nor there. No one's asking you to approve of all valid stories, just to document them.

If Roberts ends up taking Wylder's offer to borrow a character from one of the three crossover stories (but are there even any new characters or concepts in these stories that this could happen to? can someone who's read all of 10,000 Dawns chime in there? I'm only halfway through the first novel, myself, so I can't be sure), and in the improbable event that he includes offensive statements in them, it won't be any harder to cover than The Talons of Weng-Chiang, The Celestial Toymaker, or, for that matter, A Town Called Mercy.

Nor is it a certainty that writers who have said some offensive thing off-DW will always stop being published by the BBC; it seems to have happened with Roberts for once (and even then I have my doubts; according to our covering of the events, it seems that his short story was cut because other writers threatened to pull out of the project if it wasn't; whether the BBC itself remains willing to print novels by him and him alone remains to be seen), but need I remind you of Mark Gatiss and the whole League of Gentlemen thing, which didn't stop him from continuing to write Doctor Who stories?