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Permission to try something out on your talk with page version? I think it would work a lot better with all mini-episodes in small text.

Anyway, bringing this back to the discussion at hand, specifically—how do you think we should approach the nav with a broader definition of television in mind?

Keep in mind that we can always add another nav if it helps things. For example, Doctor Who television stories could include all stories deemed television, splitting apart even some two-parters if Tardisodes are deemed to count—and then series 2, which would be the regular episodes only, starting from New Earth and ending with Doomsday. In other words, the second nav would be for the run of episodes, usually one a week during the time Doctor Who's on air. Series 6 and 7 would thus be split up into parts 1 and 2. Once you hit AGMGTW or TWORS, you have to use the main TV nav to find your way to the following run of episodes.

Only issue with that treatment is that for some series the nav will just be redundant. And series 3 could be confusing with episodes of The Infinite Quest airing through the same period of time as series 3 proper. So does TIQ get mentioned in between each and every episode? Even if it links to the appropriate plot section, that can get annoying, and it would necessitate us adding some sort of nav template resembling the infobox but more horizontal, at the top of each episode of The Infinite Quest, seeing as they don't have individual names. Or do we just list TIQ after Smith and Jones in the main nav, and then after Last of the Time Lords in the series 3 nav? I like that solution better.

(On a side note, even if we ever decided that non-broadcast stories—released straight away to home media such as DVD and iTunes—those would not be considered webcasts and/or homevids. They'd be video storiee, in league with BBV, etc. And I'm not totally against this. I just think it's much simoler with the other definition which includes everything ubder the Doctor Who banner. But again, I'm not opposed to maybe considering any video produced with no intent of broadcast juet a videi/video story.)