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User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190917111635/@comment-6032121-20190917144845 Revanvolatrelundar wrote: The emergence of these new type of trailers does warrant a change in policy. They're obviously intended to be canon (used as a term of how the BBC views them). The BBC wouldn't have made them otherwise. Current policy says trailers aren't stories and therefore fail the Four Little Rules. Shambala just closed three threads on the basis of the text of that policy. So the text of that policy should be changed, even if I agree with you the change would remain in the spirit the policy was originally written in.

(Also, what the BBC considers "canon" and what we consider "valid" doesn't always overlap; they obviously intend for the content of non-narrative fiction, i.e. the details about River Song's World in The Brilliant Book, to be as DWU as anything. Yet since Tardis long ago decided it would only use narratives as sources, we cannot.)