User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-5692737-20161217154911/@comment-26845762-20170713195746

TheChampionOfTime wrote: If this story were to be declared invalid, I'd like to know why it's different from these ones.

At the time of The Root of All Evil's release, the Krynoids had only appeared in two Doctor Who stories. Same thing with the I in I Scream.

Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling!, The Quality of Mercy, Miranda, and The Winning Side all feature characters who had only appeared once in a Doctor Who story at the times when they were released. Also, if this is written off as a "author uses his own character in a probably non-DWU story" case, I'd like to know why it's different from Enter Wildthyme, a novel by Paul Magrs which brings together many characters/locations/species from his fiction, many of them just happening to be from his Dr Who novels. If you were to do that, you'd probably need "Extraordinary non-narrative evidence — such as the story's author directly saying that the story doesn't happen in the normal DWU".