Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-4028641-20200302001631

The latest episode of Doctor Who is very likely to be controversial, due to its extending the lore of the show past a point previously known, but I think there's a bigger discussion to be had about our site-wide policies.

On this site, we have had a long history of invalidating stories based on if the Doctors they present are... "correct." that is, we have a selection of 13 Doctors we consider... "Correct." And if a story contradicts that lineage, then we consider it non-valid. For instance, if a Doctor ever mentions having an incarnation number, it doesn't count to us, and is seen as invalid.

The recent stories introduction of at least 20 incarnations of the Doctor before William Hartnell brings this into question. It seems like the direction that the BBC is taking the program is the opposite of where we've stood on the issue of "Dcotors that count," and that it might be worth doing to reconsider the stories we've thrown in the bin. Does anyone have any general thoughts?  