Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-31010985-20180428165444/@comment-6032121-20200620161853

Again, @197, no one is trying to define the Cushing movies using the novelisation. There appear to be three broad proposals:


 * 1) The Cushing movies stay invalid; a separate page for Dr.Who-the-in-universe-character is created, purging all valid content from Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks).
 * 2) A separate Dalek Movies Wiki is created, covering the movies in their own right but as a separate universe; a separate page for Dr.Who-the-in-universe-character is created, purging all valid content from Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks).
 * 3) The Cushing Movies are revalidated, on the basis that they never actually broke Rule 4, they just conflict with most modern viewers' personal beliefs about DW "canon". Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks) is brought in line with this sandbox.

(Not included in this list is a potential #0 of just sticking with the status-quo, because the status-quo is absolutely ghastly, with tons of valid information being linked to, and linking from, a page marked .)

Of these, I think #3 is the preferred option at this point, and #1 is the least-well-liked. But as you can see, none of them involve validating the movies as just in-universe fiction, which would, as you say, be extremely ill-advised. Not to mention it wouldn't actually fit all the valid sources which reference the Cushing Doctor — The Five O'Clock Shadow is a very different beast.