Talk:Distant past

Some of these are in US dating and some are in UK dating... can't we chose a neutral cos it's confusing. In the '60s it would have been a Billion as 1,000,0002 (1,000,000,000,000).

But now the last 4 seasons are going with US dating with a billion being 1,000,000,000.

Which should we use?Forerunner 16:30, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Well...The dating is what is used in whichever Doctor Who media it comes from and since it's an in-universe article we kinda need to stick to that dating/number system. There could be a note placed in a 'behind the scenes' section in the article clarifying what is meant by billion, million etc. --Tangerineduel 16:45, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Not in universe article
I question whether this phrase, "distant past" has any actual basis anywhere in any story. What would be the "distant" past to a time traveler? Perhaps it's a phrase we can source from a companion? Even so, I really doubt we're gonna get a companion agreeing with the date range we've used in the timeline. So, I've added a conjecture title, attempted to at least make it look like an in-universe lead, and added notes here. Dunno what a good solution is in this case. i mean, all the events are in-universe, the spirit of the article is to chronicle the DWU, but the article itself isn't. Maybe the real solution is that there just shouldn't be this page at all. I mean, there's an argument to be made that this topic doesn't rise to the notability necessary for the inclusion of an article on this wiki. It's a useful page, though, and I really don't want to see it devolved to individual pages, cause that would be hell to code the timeline template for. Maybe we should have a little template at the top that somehow excuses this page from being a strictly DWU topic. Working like, "This page organizes events in the DWU, but the phrase, "Distant past" has never been used in a DWU story to mean what is implied below", or something like that?  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍  19:58, April 23, 2010 (UTC)

"The dialogue in the show states "400 million years" several times, but this is clearly wrong."
"The dialogue in the show states "400 million years" several times, but this is clearly wrong." (An indented note from within the article) why is this wrong? If it's in the story unless million and billion are used interchangeably? --Tangerineduel 12:24, August 11, 2010 (UTC)