User:CzechOut/Sandbox8

The canon policy of this wiki exists to help both readers and editors identify the scope of our project. It does not reflect either an "official" statement by the British Broadcasting Corporation, nor any one fan's opinion. It is a practical, and in some instances, arbitrary, restriction on the items we will cover on this wiki. Although Doctor Who luminaries like Russell T Davies, Paul Cornell, Steven Moffat and others have all opined that there can't be such a thing as canon in a show about a time-traveller, we have to note that they have the luxury of such opinions. They aren't writing an encyclopedia about the Doctor Who universe. We are. So we have to establish some kind of boundaries for what we will and won't include — or we'll be forced to cover some fan's Rose/Vicki lesbian love story on LiveJournal. And we're just not going to do that. Therefore, we believe that the main determinant of whether a story "counts" is whether it was officially licensed by the BBC. Thus, the vast majority of Doctor Who-branded material counts, with the following provisos:
 * 1) Since they have no official BBC sanction, fan fiction, charity publications, and other amateur or unlicensed products are disallowed. Clearly, stories found on LiveJournal or in fanzines are well outside our scope.
 * 2) We allow some products that are not BBC copyright, but these items must have initially appeared in a BBC-licensed product. Examples would include the K9 series, which flows from the Bob Baker/Dave Martin copyright on the character of K9, but is allowed here because K9 initially appeared on Doctor Who, a BBC product.  Likewise the Bernice Summerfield stories published by both Virgin Books and Big Finish are allowed because the character originated in the Virgin New Adventures line, at the time a BBC-licensed product.  We therefore allow material which is sanctioned by a copyright holder other than the BBC, so long as the character or situations debuted within an official range of Doctor Who stories.
 * See list of approved spin-offs [This list below will be snipped and put into own article, for ease of reading the highlights here. Also, this page is generally telling readers what we don't allow.  It's awkward to include this list of things we do allow.]''


 * 1) Abslom Daak stories published by Marvel Comics
 * 2) Bernice Summerfield stories, published by Big Finish and Virgin Books
 * 3) Kaldor City audio series, as licensed by Chris Boucher, writer of The Robots of Death
 * 4) Faction Paradox stories sanctioned by copyright holder, Lawrence Miles
 * 5) The Time Hunter series which resulted from the BBC-licensed, TN: The Cabinet of Light
 * 6) The Miranda comic book, which arose from Lance Parkin's work on the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
 * 7) The Dalek Annuals, which resulted from Terry Nation's partial copyright on the Daleks
 * 8) Selected parts of the BBV Productions/Reeltime Pictures back-catalogue, strictly limited to that which had the assent of the character copyright holders. Thus the following are allowed:
 * 9) P.R.O.B.E.
 * 10) The Zero Imperative
 * 11) The Devil of Winterborne
 * 12) Unnatural Selection
 * 13) Ghosts of Winterborne
 * 14) Guy de Carnac, a character who appeared in Sanctuary, a BBC-licensed product
 * 15) The Quality of Mercy
 * 16) The "Auton Trilogy"
 * 17) Auton
 * 18) Auton 2: Sentinel
 * 19) Auton 3: Awakening
 * 20) Faction Paradox
 * 21) BBV: The Eleven Day Empire
 * 22) The Shadow Play
 * 23) Sabbath Dei
 * 24) In the Year of the Cat
 * 25) Movers
 * 26) A Labyrinth of Histories
 * 27) MB: Coming to Dust
 * 28) The Ship of a Billion Years
 * 29) Body Politic
 * 30) Words from Nine Divinities
 * 31) Ozymandias
 * 32) The Judgment of Sutekh
 * 33) Novels: The Book of the War
 * 34) This Town Will Never Let Us Go
 * 35) Of the City of the Saved...
 * 36) Warlords of Utopia
 * 37) Warring States
 * 38) Erasing Sherlock
 * 39) Newtons Sleep
 * 40) Comics: Political Animals
 * 41) Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses
 * 42) . . . and anything else which might be published with the consent of Lawrence Miles, unless it directly uses elements copyrighted by the BBC, and is published without the BBC's permission.
 * 43) Rutans
 * 44) In 2 Minds
 * 45) The Shakedown duology
 * 46) Shakedown
 * 47) Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
 * 48) The Krynoid duology
 * 49) Krynoids: The Root of All Evil
 * 50) Krynoids: The Green Man
 * 51) The I
 * 52) I Scream
 * 53) The Rani
 * 54) The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind
 * 55) Wirrn
 * 56) Wirrn: Race Memory
 * 57) Adventures in a Pocket Universe - these are complicated to assess, because the producers had the assent of the K9 copyright holders, but not the BBC, who own Romana. Thus, although Lalla Ward was the co-star of the series, she cannot be judged to be playing Romana II.  She is herein referred to only as "The Mistress".  The K9 herein is not K9 Mark II, who went with Romana II into E-Space, but another model of K9 altogether. Therefore, we allow coverage of these stories, but in a careful way that never refers back to either the characters of K9 Mark II or Romana II.
 * 58) The Choice
 * 59) The Search
 * 60) Conversely, we disallow a few things that were produced under BBC license. Note that the presence of a BBC license, however, gives these items a "special" status. Articles about these items may be included on the wiki, so long as they are clearly marked with an nc tag, and placed in a non-canonical cateogry.  However, these items may not be referred to within an in-universe article. For instance, nothing in the article, Twelfth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death), should find its way into the article about the Doctor, as these are wholly different characters.   Generally, such items are confined to obvious parody or obviously discontinuous storylines.  Such things include:
 * 61) Any BBC parody, including, but not limited to, The Curse of Fatal Death.
 * 62) Dimensions in Time, which sits awkwardly in both Doctor Who and EastEnders continuity.
 * 63) The Peter Cushing movies of the 1960s
 * Doctor Who role-playing games, regardless of manufacturer or license