Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130309221950/@comment-188432-20130310030353

SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: Number one, I'm still not seeing the conjecture. November 23rd, 1963 is officially called the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who not only by the BBC, but by everyone else involved or not in the celebrations. It cannot refer to anything else. Technically, there are other possibilities, but that's not how it's ever used. In fact, more often than not, in the context, it's simply called "the Anniversary."

The page isn't only there for spoilers, anyways. Answer me this: why do we have series pages at all? Why not just have Category:Doctor Who Series 7 TV stories and be done with it? Okay so by this definition — and again you keep changing your definitions — the anniversary is only things that happen on 23 November 2013. So what happens if, as happened with the 10th and 20th anniversaries, the so-called "anniversary story" doesn't air on BBC One on 23 November? Is it not a part of the celebration unless it happens on 23 November 2013?

And, obviously, other things that are marked as celebratory are not happening on 23 November. So clearly the "marriage anniversary definition" does not apply.

Things that are commemorative are happening throughout the year — yet clearly not everything that happens in the year is a part of the 50th anniversary.

And that's precisely why you'd have a hard time writing the page to an acceptable standard. We simply don't know the definition of "the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who" because we don't know in full how the BBC are planning to mark it. And we really won't know until 2014.