Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-753926-20130419155938/@comment-188432-20130426184113

It's not redundant. It's specific out of an abundance of caution. It's worked fine for several years because it's overly clear. Throwing the acronym DWU into any title necessarily means that thing is out-of-universe, because no one in-universe calls the universe where they live "the Doctor Who universe".

If we used "real world television shows" that would easily be confused in the way that Geek Mythology did. By specifying "with DWU connections" we're helpfully emphasising that the article has to be about television shows that actually connect to the production of DWU material, as the category description states.

The only thing that was confusing here is that I didn't finish the very last step of an earlier decision and so there was a third one of these TV categories around, whose proper usage Geek Mythology didn't remember.

Now that it's just a choice between "real world " and " from the real world", it's as clear as the rest of the FTRW stuff.

I am toying with the idea of removing the word "show" and "series" though, so that no one gets hung up on those words, making them:


 * Television from the real world
 * Real world television with DWU connections