User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1506468-20190827123101/@comment-1506468-20190828061425

For full disclosure, my upcoming DWU related story has yet to be published in a Cwej-orientated series, and has nothing to do with this current discussion (in fact, I've purposefully centred my argument on what is already released, to follow our rules here). The assertion of bias here is a funny one to me as, although there are a few users here who have an involvement with Arcbeatle Press, there are others in this discussion who don't.

The rules of the wiki have always stood that if a story is released with the consent of all relevant copyright holders, then it is valid. 10,000 Dawns' link to the DWU has all that. If you don't like that the series has that, then that's your personal opinion, Amorkuz. I myself was resiliant to the Lethbridge-Stewart series at its inception, but never opposed its inclusion on the wiki. That series turned out to be one of the best spinoffs I've read, despite my earlier opposition to it.

Copyright-wise, 10,000 Dawns' use of copyrighted characters such as Miranda Dawkins is no different to how Lethbridge-Stewart has used Adrienne Kramer. One day a new independant publishing press might come along using the rights to Fitz Kriener from Steve Cole in some bloke's series that had no links to Who previously - but it's still going to fall into our rules for us to cover Fitz's appearance. It's going to be hard to police a policy about future "fan-fiction" or "self-published" material when all the bigger companies do the same...