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Okay, so it appears that I was right and the criterion under which the validity of these stories is proposed is this:

If a person obtains rights to use at least one character/concept from any story already valid on this wiki, writes a story about this character, posts this story on their personal blog and describes it as a DWU story, then this posting is considered the official release of the story according to T:VS and the story becomes automatically valid according to our four rules.

I mentioned earlier the tweet, but actually that is redundant. According to the rule above, Gareth Roberts can start posting stories on his personal blog, and we will have to cover them. For those who missed it, Gareth Roberts has recently been dropped from a BBC anthology for "trans-misogynistic" posts online, according to our own description. If he turns these posts into stories, complete with transphobic slurs he used, and posts it on his blog using some of his multiple DWU creations, the rule above would mandate us to cover these stories.

After 50+ years, many of the original writers are not with us anymore. Hannah Hatt, the granddaughter of Mervyn Haisman, entrusted the rights to the Brig to Candy Jar Books (where the already mentioned AndyFA writes a lot of stories but is not the owner). Another grandchild may not be that careful. In fact, with the sheer amount of writers involved, there are statistically good chances that one of the grandchildren is a racist, white supremacist, or belongs to any other deplorable creed. Having inherited some rights from his/her grandparent, they can open a blog, say, on 8chan and post any vile stories there. The rule proposed above would force us to cover these stories, link to 8chan and all.

I talked about guardrails before. If any of those hypothetic vile stories is proposed for publication in a publishing house, no matter small or big, like Candy Jar Books, like Obverse, etc., there would be editors to stop it, and there would be owners to veto it. As an example of such sanity control, here is a pitch that Andrew Hickey had to submit to Candy Jar before starting to write Head of State.

I am frankly surprised that people are still so trusting of everything posted on the Internet after Cambridge Analytica, after Sri Lanka had to block Facebook to stem the violence, after all the recent manifestos.

And no, I am not saying that James Wylder's writing is in any way comparable to all of the above. I am saying that the Internet does not have a filter to separate the Wylders from extremists of all vile ideologies. The requirement to obtain rights for at least one of the DW elements is woefully inadequate as such a filter.

The already mentioned BBV Productions already "blessed" us with adult-only Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough. If the rule above is approved, we will see much much worse, and in large quantities.