User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-27280472-20161222145551/@comment-24894325-20170125144215

For names in Cyrillic, there's T:NON-ENG USER. And the alleged "last name" (like anyone uses their real name on a Wiki) may or may not mean something prohibited by the rules. I guess we will never know.

I can clearly see that many people admire Magrs so much that they would love nothing more than including all of his oeuvre. But, as far as I remember, he already has a separate Wiki, created by Fwhiffahder. That is the rightful place for his works, that's where they can shine. I, of course, will never step foot there, thanks to the welcoming message from its creator. But the important thing is that he has already a shrine to him. There is no reason to turn a Doctor-Who-centred Wiki into a second one.

Apparently, Michael Moorcock at some point opined that the Doctor is just another incarnation of the Eternal Champion. Moorcock also ever only wrote one big series about a huge multiverse with many explicit links. So if only Moorcock wrote a DW story, bam, authorial intent and all that! Oh, wait. *Stops in horror* The Terraphiles are coming. Quick, take cover before we are swamped by pages for Elric, and Korum, and Hawkmoon, and all the thousands (and I mean literally thousands) of Moorcock's characters, and comic book variants, and reprints.

So, with all due respect to Paul Magrs (and I did enjoy some of his works that he produced for Doctor Who rather than as a deconstruction of what Doctor Who is; in fact, exactly Vince Cosmos is something I would have had a soft spot for because of Tomorrow twins), I think he was very clever in exploiting our four little rules. It is certainly a smart move for a writer to latch onto a successful franchise and make sure that its fans are aware of his work. Can't blame him for that. But it does feel like exploitation. And I feel like I'm living through the Invasion from Magrs. I also feel like I'm only given the facts that support the inclusion, with attempts to fast-track the process before anyone notices.