User:CzechOut/Video game policy

Video games licensed by the BBC or other rights-holders are generally considered valid narratives. Thus, if City of the Daleks says that Amy and the Eleventh Doctor were in a Dalek-devastated London in 1963, we accept that. You will therefore find references to that videogame at London, 1963, and other in-universe pages.

However, City is a relatively easy case. You're playing the Doctor and Amy, not a character that you personally have devised. The situation becomes relatively murkier when dealing with role-playing games, whose format practically demands that you not be playing a known character. Thus, the following litmus tests are required for determining what you can use from role-playing games within in-universe articles.


 * 1) Table-top, old-school, pen-and-paper role playing games are completely disallowed. They are in no way canonical, and information from them may not, under any circumstances, be used to write the in-universe portions of articles.
 * 2) You, the player, are not part of the DWU. Thus any element encountered solely by a character that the player has created is not a part of the DWU. If an established character, such as the Doctor or a companion from television, has direct contact with an element, you may reference it.
 * 3) If the character is created and named by the game developer, then his or her actions and encounters are "in-universe". Otherwise that element didn't happen to anyone in the DWU.
 * 4) The element under consideration must not be a creation of the player. Thus, if the player creates a character, that character may not receive a page on this wiki, nor may that character be referenced on this wiki.
 * 5) The element under consideration must have narrative significance, and must occur at the same point(s) in the story, regardless of who is playing the game. NPCs without narrative significance do not deserve an article here.  NPCs who do not appear at the same point in the game for all players do not deserve a page here.
 * 6) In any sort of branching interactive narrative, the outcome which is considered canonical by this wiki is the one in which the player succeeds, unless the game developer has specifically programmed failure as the only option.
 * 7) Real world pages may exist on the wiki even if in-universe ones are disallowed. For instance a List of NPCs in Worlds in Time may be a perfectly valid article, whereas articles about the individual NPCs may not rise to the level of notability described above.