User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26845762-20161029213412/@comment-26845762-20161107030116

From what I understand, the purpose of categories is to sort pages. At the moment there are at least 950 DWU years covered by this wiki. Categories sorting these years by the Doctors' visits would help with improving the picture of what happened in each year.

It's also a bit of an exaggeration to say that most of the classic run was foggy about years. Most Earth stories of the Hartnell, late Tom Baker, Davison, and Mccoy eras were given exact years (In fact, every single one of Mcgann's TV stories was given an exact year). The modern series has given a year for almost all of its Earth stories. The majority of Earth stories in other media also usually have an exact year or even give years to TV stories.

Besides, if someone wants to date a story using real world knowledge, there's nothing stopping them from just altering the story page. Do "stories set in xxxx" categories encourage real world creep? If a category is added to page, there must be evidence on the page that there is a reason the page has that category. One could argue that the mere presence of year pages encourages real world creep. These proposed categories would invite no more poor readings of sources than we already have, instead they would sort year pages in a different and useful way to what is available now.