User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1432718-20200505204802/@comment-27321963-20200505210544

Thanks for starting this thread, I've never actually made a thread myself - I always head straight for the talkpage as I am unfamiliar with which topics have / have not already been discussed.

The intention of the writers was primarily to encourage new people into making their own comics on the BBC website, I do not believe that they were ever intending the stories to be set within the DWU - they were just examples of what other fans could create on the site, and are therefore themselves fan-fiction. Any indication that these stories were valid parts of the DWU would have led fans to believe that their own stories can be considered canon too, this is not the case.

These stories being seen as valid have led to editors picking and choosing what parts are seen as "valid" and assuming the writer's intentions. As I stated above, the miniaturised Platform One could be intended as a different device altogether - but we are not able to make that assumption, so with this story being seen as valid we then have to change Platform One's page to state that it was once shrunk and used by the Moxx of Balhoon (and then even weirder was portrayed as mail for the Doctor).