User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20170121220436/@comment-28349479-20170122061237

I don't have time right now to address this discussion as thoroughly as I'd like, but I wanted to jump in to address this allegation at the end real quick. Thefartydoctor wrote: Can I say, as a sidenote, there was a discussion handling whether or not we can link "Timeship" to "TARDIS". It was never concluded yes or no, yet there was a conflict of interests with me stating that saying yes would be jumping to conclusions, and FP readers/listeners saying yes because "it was obvious". We agreed that the use of "Ship" and "Timeship" most likely referred to TARDISes but whether or not we should jump to these conclusions was where we differed.

Where did this discussion end? It didn't. FP readers went ahead and linked up "Timeship" to "TARDIS" and "Ship" to "The Doctor's TARDIS" without waiting for a conclusion. I'm not really clear what thread you're talking about here. Can you link me? I know that this was quite thoroughly discussed in the FP inclusion debate thread. The conclusion was that, since (per The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel) the Great Houses are explicitly confirmed to be the Time Lords, some things can be crosslinked without being speculation: namely, the Great Houses' Homeworld is Gallifrey, and the Great Houses' timeships are TARDISes. This follows the long-standing precedent already used for series like Bernice Summerfield, where Brax's "timeship" is linked to TARDIS and "his people" are linked to the Time Lords. However, articles should use the terminology used in their source material: eg War King is a "member of the Great Houses", whereas the Doctor is a "Time Lord". Furthermore, when the word "timeship" is used in Faction Paradox outside the explicit context of the Great Houses, it goes to the regular timeship page.

I freely admit that some overenthusiastic editors have gone beyond the bounds of this policy. (And by that I mean "one or two", since there are only about 3 people contributing to Faction Paradox articles right now.) However, I've taken great lengths to double-check their work and try to evenly correct any errors so as to enforce this policy across the wiki. If anyone thinks it's flawed, I eagerly invite criticism!