Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26845762-20170222025243/@comment-26845762-20170305023238

Actually, you can have a one-sentence story. But that's not important.

Audio and prose are fundamentally different mediums than TV and comic. It doesn't do us any good to claim we treat them the same. We would never use an illustration from the cover of a CD case or the cover of a comic in the main section of an in-universe page. What's the difference between Gabby Gonzalez being given an actor and Hargreaves being given an image?

The cover of a comic is not part of the story.


 * The CD booklet for The Scorchies contains a little fake reminiscence of James Goss' memories of watching The Scorchies Show as a child. It's told in the context of the main story, does this mean gets a page on tardis?

Are audio covers more in-universe than comic covers? I don't think so. We use audio covers because they're the only images we've got of the things inside the story.

"None of those, individually, are stories, but they're not meant to be..."

- SOTO

I'm glad we can agree on that, but aren't they all just illustrating an element of the story?

Hold the phone!
Forget all that stuff above! The answers been hiding under our noses the entire time! Here's some quotes:
 * "When you write an article on our wiki, you need to cite your statements. Knowing which sources are valid is therefore crucial to the writing"


 * "For in-universe articles, images must come from an in-universe source..."

Stories. Context with stories. Tardis:Valid sources is specifically about the writing of articles; never once are images mentioned in it! Tardis:Images and perspective never once mentions valid sources!

We're no longer in the archaic days of "canon".  "Valid" =/= "in-universe"

Technically, "when actors pose in costume for a picture are specifically disallowed" would stop us from using Big Finish covers... But illustrations that are meant to be characters from Doctor Who and not actors portraying characters from Doctor Who, on the other hand!

Context matters, but I think it's a very different sort of context that matters.

''For in-universe articles, images must come from an in-universe source, such as a screenshot of a televised episode, a scan of a comic strip, or an illustration within a novelisation or short story. The covers of novels and audio stories, illustrations within DWM, and screenshots of stories considered invalid for having uncertain plots may also be potential sources for in-universe imagery, but only when no other source has an image to offer.

Waddaya think?