User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26285319-20170104192003/@comment-28349479-20170306052809

As one of the people who (I suppose) contributed to this winter's excessive inclusion debating, I begrudgingly agree with the consensus of this thread that something Must Be Done. In response to OttelSpy25: the definition of "proven by default" vs "unproven by default" should be, as Amorkuz and ChampionOfTime have proposed, degrees of in-universe separation from a story with the Doctor Who logo (or, better-defined, with the license for the character of the Doctor). If a story's connected through a character (like Iris Wildthyme) or setting (like Kaldor City), it's (as Amorkuz ingeniously put it) "valid at first sight"; if its only connection is that it references a character from a Faction Paradox short story, it's going to require a discussion as to whether it was meant to be in the Doctor Who universe. (Therefore, this would be a modification to rule 4, not 2.)

The really interesting point to me isn't where a story crosses from invalid to and valid, but where a series with multiple tangential crossovers in individual stories can be determined to be valid. I'm still gonna mostly stick to my self-imposed exile, but I look forward to seeing the outcome of this discussion.