User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-31010985-20190928203157/@comment-6032121-20191014215600

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-31010985-20190928203157/@comment-6032121-20191014215600 @Ringo: As User:Amorkuz rightly explained, they would if they could be proven, but we don't have any other proof but OP's recollections on the matter, so we can't make any decisions based on that alone. I mean, we can't just change the status of Death Comes to Time because someone has a dim memory that once at a convention the author said it was DWU. There'd need to be a verifiable source. Same thing.

The good news is, however, that for the reasons I outlined above, in my understanding, this is not required by the current wording of T:VS. Stories need a commercial license, but the release need only be official, not necessarily commercial, so long as the license itself was commercial. (This is why, for example, YouTube minisodes are valid even though the BBC releases them for free.) So we don't actually need to prove there was a commercial release, though certainly it wouldn't hurt if we could.