User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-88790-20121208143712/@comment-4028641-20170722043721

What we have here is a debate that's been slightly tainted by the fact that's it's bled onto the commercial atmosphere of the story that we're discussing. If you search "Senor 105," the top results are all pages having to do with this debate. To someone writing the series, this is probably annoying. When you want people to look into your work, you probably don't want to have the top result be a page where a bunch of people online call your word non-credible because you don't work for Big Finish.

Thus I honestly find the words of the author upon the question of "should your series be covered by some random wiki that has absorbed the coverage of your writing" to be somewhat irrelevant.

"Set in the DWU" has a very specific meaning that I think many people see differently than I do. It isn't literally asking "Hey, is this set in the same canon (if you're using a word that can be switched out for canon without changing the meaning of your statement, you're using the wrong word) as other DW fiction?" Instead, I think it's a question of "Was this story meant to be connected to other instances of DW fiction?"

It's not enough just to prove that two stories are set in the same universe.

That's why when it's come to stories such as  we have decided not to cover all of their stories other similar situations were meant to be covered in such a way. Even if the two brothers presented in COMIC: Follow That TARDIS! were used in DWM first, their following adventures were meant to have nothing to do with the strip itself.

To me meanwhile, it seems that Senor 105 is obviously meant to serve as a parallel and a companion piece to both Doctor Who and Iris Wildthyme (another spin-off).

Honestly I think Obverse Books has proven itself to be a very credible source in terms of their publishing, on the same level of DWM and Big Finish. I think we can all agree that it is far from the most questionable secondary-publishing group that we currently are trying to cover (that's some shade at Candy Jar Books, if it wasn't clear). The fact that the book series is being sold on the same webpage as their other reputable publications about both DW history and stories with characters like Iris (and, incidentally, Faction Paradox) proves them to be a reputable source for these sorts of things. They wouldn't publish any amazon.com self-published nonsense without knowing that they were in a legally sound area.