Forum:The land of Fiction's Dr. Who and the Doctor Who Annuals

I've recently been working on updating pages relating to the stories in the Doctor Who Annual 1966. IN doing so, I've also been editing the related stories (such as DW: The Web Planet to reference back to the material from the annual. Then tonight I read the entry Dr. Who (Land of Fiction) which states:
 * "The character of Dr. Who first appeared in the New Adventures novel Conundrum as a way to rationalize away the difference between the Doctor as seen in the Doctor Who television series with the version seen in early comics and the Doctor Who Annuals and comics who acted, at times, very out of character, and often called himself "Dr. Who"."

So now I wonder, do the stories from the old Annuals belong to the continuity of the Doctor or should they be considered non-continuity stories tied to Dr. Who... and how and when should that decision be made? --Raukodraug 04:47, 27 March 2009 (UTC)