User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20151119211902/@comment-188432-20151230173047

Wikia's search bar/autocomplete feature will return a limited number of responses to terms which start a search. So if you enter series 1 into a search bar, you can just about get what most people are looking for: DW, SJA, TW, K9, CLASS and the dab term Series 1 itself. If we continue on with all these audio things, it's going to make the writing of articles and the searching for them needlessly more complicated. Audio anthology was chosen as a specific way to respond to the realities of the Wikia search system. It reserves the term "series" for the main things people look for.

Is that, technically, an abnegation of our general consensus to treat all forms of DW equally? Superficially, yes, but when you look deeper, I don't think it is. Thing is, there actually are audio anthologies out there. And almost every so-called "series" have some element of "boxed-set-ness" to them. Benny, in particular, goes from seasons where you buy each story individually to things that are consumed at once, in a single boxed set.

Either way, it's one of those things where technical limitation determines our course of action.

At the end of the day, our utility to the casual user of the site should probably outweigh other considerations. It would therefore be wrong to conclude that the "series x" nomenclature was never considered for audios. It was considered, and then positively rejected.

People do tend to think of the television series as having "series" — and thus they'll search for the term "series". It's not a particularly well-known fact that some of the audios have series — and where it's known, it's debated — so it's better to start those articles with not "series" but the name of the range.