Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-31010985-20180428165444/@comment-4028641-20191212213949

I still am going to stand by my position from before.

I think that the idea that there has to be one Doctor Who canon is preposterous, and we should be able to find a way to cover these stories better than this. The idea that we have to cover the one Doctor Who universe supported by TV is totally at odds with our choices to set continuity to the sidelines, and us waiting for some fringe piece of spin-off media to explain each example as "an alternate universe" seems like a tedious practice. If someone wants to write about a specific reboot that didn't take off but decidedly is Doctor Who, they should be able to! If someone has to make another wiki to cover a fully liscensed, competent narrative, which has numerous sequels through the 2000's worth analyzing, then we're doing something wrong.

I do not support the creation of a seperate wiki for this canon, although obviously there's nothing stopping it from happening. I just believe that we can find a solution-in-wiki.

I know that saying "our existing policy in how we treat this certain thing doesn't work" is a taboo, but it's how I feel. I stand by the fact that stories like this shouldn't be invalid just because they fail to match up with the canon of the TV show, we should consider them as just a seperate pocket on valid stories. And doing this really wouldn't change how the site runs, since everything pretty much already runs like this is the case. All this would do is allow up to crack down on, say, pages being made based on non-narrative sources. I am sort of surprised, I must say, to see an admin siding with this position, even if it's a message more than 12 months old.

I mentioned ages ago that there is massive precedent in other wikis for how this can be done. The Power Rangers wiki, for instance, covers the events of both of the one-off reboot films and the recent reboot comics even though they exist outside of all other canon:

https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Tommy_Oliver/Movie https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Tommy_Oliver/2016_comic https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Jason_Scott/2017_movie

And don't get me started on the Sonic wiki https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Eggman_(disambiguation)

It just seems to me there's a practical solution to find here which takes the ticks out of how our policies work and allow our editors to contribute to whatever Doctor Who canon they're invested in that week without putting a big red stop sign in front of them. And literally all the change that would happen on the site is a different system for naming what these stories are called, since these pages already exist and are still edited to this day.

Anyways, that's my take. Thanks for reading.