User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-3151908-20121220040818/@comment-43908-20130428205551

A release in the Dorian Gray range crosses over with BF's Sherlock Holmes range. If we accept the continuity of the Dorian Gray range into this wiki's scope, this would also appear to make Nicholas Briggs' Holmes a definitive in-universe portrayal for purposes of the Sherlock Holmes article. That would raise the further issue of bringing in Big Finish's other Nicholas Briggs Holmes stories into the DWU.

This is tricky as on the surface it's not really any different to taking in other BF original guest-character spinoffs like UNIT, Graceless, or Counter Measures which are also produced by BF; the difference being that the rest of those still tacitly take place in the DWU according to their producers. It's probably a similar situation to the non-canon Minister of Chance or Faction Paradox stuff produced by folks who have deliberately severed DWU ties, but without the research-convenient delineator of a different production company/licencing situation.

This wiki may benefit from just pre-emptively drawing a sharp line somewhere and sticking to it, as was done with the Star Trek crossover.