Talk:Distant past

Some of these are in US dating and some are in UK dating... can't we chose a neutral cos it's confusing. In the '60s it would have been a Billion as 1,000,0002 (1,000,000,000,000).

But now the last 4 seasons are going with US dating with a billion being 1,000,000,000.

Which should we use?Forerunner 16:30, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Well...The dating is what is used in whichever Doctor Who media it comes from and since it's an in-universe article we kinda need to stick to that dating/number system. There could be a note placed in a 'behind the scenes' section in the article clarifying what is meant by billion, million etc. --Tangerineduel 16:45, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Not in universe article
I question whether this phrase, "distant past" has any actual basis anywhere in any story. What would be the "distant" past to a time traveler? Perhaps it's a phrase we can source from a companion? Even so, I really doubt we're gonna get a companion agreeing with the date range we've used in the timeline. So, I've added a conjecture title, attempted to at least make it look like an in-universe lead, and added notes here. Dunno what a good solution is in this case. i mean, all the events are in-universe, the spirit of the article is to chronicle the DWU, but the article itself isn't. Maybe the real solution is that there just shouldn't be this page at all. I mean, there's an argument to be made that this topic doesn't rise to the notability necessary for the inclusion of an article on this wiki. It's a useful page, though, and I really don't want to see it devolved to individual pages, cause that would be hell to code the timeline template for. Maybe we should have a little template at the top that somehow excuses this page from being a strictly DWU topic. Working like, "This page organizes events in the DWU, but the phrase, "Distant past" has never been used in a DWU story to mean what is implied below", or something like that?  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍  19:58, April 23, 2010 (UTC)