User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26285319-20170104192003/@comment-24894325-20170126072842

I actually have formulated another even more specific suggestion relating to the recent discussions and my view of co-centric circles. It's a very simple proposal to remove just one letter. In the T:VS, there is a part titled "DWU characters owned by others" that says that a character created for DWU and then used elsewhere normally makes the story valid. However, the text mostly refers to Doctor Who rather than Doctor Who Universe, which may include more and more things as more and more inclusion debates are successful. I strongly believe that the original intent, as evidenced by examples from the text, was to only suggest automatic inclusion of those stories that feature characters who appeared in "Doctor who"-licensed stories, not any story we might eventually think of covering on this Wiki. Hence, my proposal: To replace everywhere in this subsection, DWU with DW.

Here is how it would affect stuff.
 * If Trisha Tomorrow was created by Paul Magrs for Horror of Glam Rock, an audio story published by BF under DW license, and then she appeared in Enter Wildthyme, this is grounds for including Enter Wildthyme as a valid story (among other reasons).
 * If Vince Cosmos was created by Magrs for Enter Wildthyme, not published under DW license, then the appearance of Vince Cosmos in Vince Cosmos: Glam Rock Detective alone is not grounds for including this story as valid. In this case, one needs to argue that the story shares enough elements and commonalities with DWU to be included and a serious debate is required.

This change would prevent fast-tracking of stories only connected to DWU by remote characters.