User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26285319-20170104192003/@comment-4028641-20170311203339

Since we're discussing changing the text of rule 4, can I suggest a single word be swapped out? Or, more likely, clarified in some way.

I think that instead of constantly referring to the DWU (Doctor Who Universe), we should call it the "Doctor Who Multi-Verse." Or, again, we should explain what the "DWU" less badly.

Too many editors seem to strongly believe that if the story isn't set in the Doctor's main universe (5556?) then it isn't valid. Thus, anything like the Unbound series would be totally invalid.

The actual point of the DWU rule is discovering if the story was meant to "not count." If the story was meant to be set in another canon ("canon" as in a collection of texts) and that canon has never been called an alternative timeline or universe, then we call it invalid. But in a similar situation where we have evidence that it was meant to be an alternate universe, it becomes valid. If it's set in the DWU or not.

This aspect isn't even mentioned on T:VS. The only mention of this seems to be on the section describing The Infinity Doctors.