User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1317169-20121202170842/@comment-4028641-20130123030309

Mini-mitch wrote: Tangerineduel wrote: To return to Continuity, I will again propose removing it as that is something that is hard to futureproof as it is based on relationships to other stories. Continuity is something we can't futureproof.

Maybe it's something we shouldn't have, or make a rule that Continuity can only reflect on the past and not on the future (which I know as I write it would be hard to enforce).

I tried this once, last year. I removed all the continuity to adventures that had not happened yet. The reactions were a mix of angry and confusion.

The mere handful or pages I did this too (three of them) were reverted and added to, so the work was essentially undone.

It is a way I would be happy to go. I believe that, in the case of Dalek the continuity for 'intru-da-window' reference should be The Poison Sky page, not the Dalek one. It should only be on the Dalek if it has happened before Dalek.

The one problem with doing this is we have stories that we do not know were they come in the Doctor Who timeline, so it would be difficult to do so.

Minaly because that's annoying and pointless. The idea that 'this info should be removed because the definition of continuity is blah-blah-blah" is silly. Once more, it's removing info that belongs on the page for no reason other than "hard to work with" when it's not.

There have been quite a few sections that have been dropped over the years, most for good reason. The "Timeline" section was filled with speculation. That's a good reason for a section to go, not "...", which is basically all I've seen for why this section should go. I'm baffled by the fact that mini is upset by the prospect about removing info on hairdryers from Pages but wants to enforce continuity.

And, yes, it would be hard to enforce. Because no one wants to do that. There is no reason that 'The Ice Warriors' should not reference it's sequels, or 'The Abominable Snowmen' for that matter. Continuity comes in the past and the future, as was noted on 'the Five Doctors' dvd.