User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26469787-20151013042811/@comment-1827503-20151108031655

I agree with OS25 on not referring to stories as being erased unless in exceptional circumstances. We treat narratively discontinuitous (is that a word?) stories as valid to each other, so there is no reason we should consider stories to be erased in the vast majority of cases.

In the specific case of the Series 5 cracks, they do not erase events, they erase physical objects, usually beings of some kind. All beings erased by the cracks were returned to existence when the universe was rebooted, so no events were erased by the cracks in the rebooted timeline.