User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20121212231649/@comment-4189499-20121214112650

Although I agree with most I you here that these articles should not have a continuity section, I do agree with OS that it would be a good idea to have a references section. Please hear me out on this one.

It's all to do with how the stories are linked. The nondwu articles shouldn't have a continuity section because no other story is connected with it. However, it should have a references section because although no other story is connected with it, it is connected to other stories. This may sound like a contradiction, but when you think about it it's true. Going back to your examples of curse of fatal death vs great expectations vs unquiet dead, you can see the three different ways the stories are linked. Unquiet dead is linked in both directions, both from and to other stories, making it coverable on this wiki and let's it have a continuity section. It references other stories by the fact it stars a time lord called the Doctor in a tardis shaped like a police box who is traveling with a companion called Rose. Other stories link to it as the story is referenced in other episodes, and the next episode is a continuation of the story of Doctor Who including Unquiet Dead. Curse of Fatal Death is different as it only links one way, giving it a notdwu tag and not giving it a continuity section. However, because it is linked in one direction it can still be covered on this wiki and I think should e given a references section. How is it linked one way, you might be asking. Well, it refers to other stories by featuring a time lord called the Doctor who travels through time in a tardis shaped like a police box with a companion. (It's also licensed.) However, it doesn't link in the other direction as other stories show that the ninth doctor doesn't die on Terserus and neither does the tenth (amount other things). Therefore, it deserves a reference section as it refers to other episodes, however it doesn't fit into continuity. Great Expectations doesn't deserve either continuity or references sections, and can't be covered in universe on this wiki, as it doesn't link either way. It does not reference other Doctor Who Universe stories and Doctor Who Universe stories do not reference the events of Great Expectations.

TL;DR, notdwu stories shouldn't have a continuity section, but should have a references section.