User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-28743561-20180811034304/@comment-28349479-20180823151357

Flattered that someone's finally noticed this! My main points, in summary from the talk page:

1. The given explanation for this separation (which remained on Virgin New Adventures until just last year) is that "the series concluded with the Eighth Doctor novel The Dying Days" and "the books continued with Bernice as the principal character in a new series of novels which were officially dubbed 'The New Adventures'." This argument doesn't seem to be based in reality: the novels had been officially dubbed "The New Adventures" since Happy Endings, a year before The Dying Days. If we were basing the page name solely on the names given on the logo, we'd actually need three pages: Virgin New Doctor Who Adventures, Virgin Doctor Who New Adventures, and Virgin New Adventures, the last of which would include all the Benny-focused novels!

2. There's no denying that there was a major shift in the New Adventures in 1997: namely, the focus of the series changed from the adventures of the Doctor to the adventures of his companions (primarily Bernice, but also Chris, Roz, and Jason). But Doctor Who underwent a much more dramatic shift in 2010: But we don't split NuWho into BBC Doctor Who and BBC Eleventh Doctor Doctor Who. In fact, we don't even split NuWho from Classic! So why do we separate Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures from Virgin New Adventures?
 * Doctor Who, like the New Adventures, got a new logo.
 * It got an entirely new production crew – unlike the post-Dying Days New Adventures, which kept their editor and, with the exception of a handful of new co-authors, were only written by pre-Dying Days veterans.
 * With very rare exception, post-2010 Doctor Who didn't feature any returning characters from the 2005-2010 series – completely unlike the post-Dying Days NAs, which featured tons of characters from the pre-Dying Days NAs in recurring roles.

3. As LegoK9 mentioned, I merged the pages at User:NateBumber/Sandbox4, and I think it's a definite improvement. I'm eager to hear any feedback.