User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130201045831/@comment-26975268-20130201055127

Also, in relation to lead, if there are multiple events for one date, what's our rule for what gets priority as the lead? Do we prioritize the TV episodes over everything else? Events over births? Major parts of story arcs over small stories? Newer stories over older ones? We need to establish rules for this, as well.

Take 7 February, for example:


 * 1894 - Tommy Brockless was born in Manchester. (TV: To the Last Man)
 * 1943 - In an alternate timeline, the United States of America conducted the first test of the atom-bomb in order to destroy the ironsides, unwilling to leave the powerful weapons in the sole hands of the British. (DWAN: Doctor Who The Official Annual 2011)
 * 1987 - An elderly Katherine Wainwright, née Nightingale penned a letter for her friend Sally Sparrow to read. The younger version of Kathy would be transported back to 1920 by a Weeping Angel shortly after Kathy's grandson delivered Sally the letter in 2007. (TV: Blink)

The first event's a birth, the second's a rather major event for Earth's history, except it's from a Doctor Who annual, and the third is from a major television episode, except we never even see it happen. The Blink event was in a way only mentioned, although it was narrated and crucial to the story.

So... Which one would we choose as the lead?