Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-28349479-20190924134633/@comment-6032121-20190924140603

While I support a "(prose series)" dab term, I don't think the proposal to rename Virgin New Adventures as New Adventures (prose series) or anything like that is in any way a good idea. Yes, that's technically not what they're called, but everyone calls them the VNAs, including, I'm sure, a lot of licensed reference material like Doctor Who Magazine. There is a precedent for going with the retrospectively-agreed-upon title rather than time of release when it comes to series: The Dalek Chronicles was only ever called that in retrospect, none of the actual comics ever bore that name as their logo (the series was actually known as The Daleks, but you can plainly see why fandom generated a more distinctive name than that).

Also, concerning the main policy proposal, you say "(prose series)" in the title of the thread but your example reads New Adventures (novel series) and you also mention the term "book series". So which is it to be? "(novel series)" doesn't look very good to me because we also want to be able to cover series of short stories collections, and it's best to have as few dab terms as possible for bot purposes IIRC. But between "prose series" and "book series", it's a purely aesthetic matter. "Prose series" has the advantage of fitting with the PROSE prefix, but "book series" has the advantage of actually sounding like a thing humans say. (I'd favor the latter, if you can't tell.)