Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-28349479-20161216221639/@comment-5465689-20161221155411

Well that certainly proves identity... I never doubted it but rules be rules.

Authorial intent is that it's set within DWU but is it a valid source?

Note: Valid source is a story like The Three Doctors or Survival.

And invalid source is a story like The Curse of Fatal Death and Dimensions in Time.

They're both invalid sources because the authors have explicitly stated they're not meant to be "canon" though. We're all stating the opposite. And certainly elements from FP stories have been used in Big Finish stories (Diogenes Damsel and the recentish BF Osirians story both explicitly reference things from FP stories).

As far as I'm concerned, there's no difference at all in type (as opposed to style, genre, and so on) between a Bernice Summerfield story, an Iris Wildthyme one, and a Faction Paradox story, and I think that's true for everyone else I know who has worked on any of those series.

If it helps clarify intent (though *obviously* this is not a valid source in any way) I've been meaning for about two years to pitch a Bernice Summerfield story to BF. That story would feature at least two characters from my FP works.