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Chubby Potato wrote: The interesting thing about the vulture, though, is that he appeared in other Death's Head stories we didn’t cover until the ruling regarding The Incomplete Death's Head, which takes place in the DWU.

Is it possible the vulture was simply overlooked at the time due to his obscurity? Or at least ignored for being non-sentient animal?

Chubby Potato wrote: In the other thread, Amorkuz said "This wiki does not grant validity simply for including a character that appeared or originated in a DWU story." His example was the audio series Vienna. As far as I can tell, that series was stated not to be in the DWU by the producer. With this, it’s a little more vague.

I agree with this notion. Vienna was ruled non-valid as the producer explicitly said it's separate, but I know of no such notion from the writer of this story. We can only glean authorial intent from the comic directly, which includes a name drop of the Doctor and a character that is meant to be the same character from a Doctor Who story.

And for what it's worth, this wiki ruled Imaginary Boys (audio story) a valid story in Thread:206638 because it included not a character but a species from two of Paul Magrs' Doctor Who audio stories.