User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26845762-20170222025243/@comment-5918438-20170304211433

I'm suggesting that the DWM preview illustrations, and only those, are narratively akin to illustrations within a book/short story. But just because "the BBC" say, however that works, that a character looks like an illustration attached to a DWM review of the story, does not mean that's suddenly valid. That illustration did not find its way into a story, so it's only behind the scenes information that the character resembles that picture. No more in-universe than concept art for TV, even if that concept art ended up being directly translated into a prop which featured on-screen.

You're suggesting we use artwork made for Doctor Who: Legacy, which is deemed invalid here, to illustrate an in-universe article on, in this instance, Cinder. I can't really say I support anything more than the current caption: "Cinder as she appears in Doctor Who: Legacy". Not Cinder as we know from any valid story, but as she is illustrated in that game.

And we're talking about including screenshots from BF trailers as well, now? I mean, T:VALID specifically says no to TV trailers as valid sources, but in the case of BF, you can't make the argument that any of the visuals were cut. That section might need to be updated if we allow trailers for audio stories. The main problem is that those aren't stories, either. Do we count them as some sort of accompanying visual? I know at least one of those trailers contains a bunch of newspaper articles; is that being considered as potentially valid in-text?

I think, by the way, we might need to think up a good prefix for this, instead of a long description, especially if we're at all considering making these valid for information. (I don't personally understand how you could make an argument for "valid as illustration, but not actually valid".) Much like we have ICOM and DCOM, and BFX for BF bonus material, BFI might be the prefix meaning "Big Finish image/illustration". I suppose we'd need to separate the prefixes for cover- and inside-illustrations (considered together) and DWM illustrations, which will not be found on any CD release at all. BFI and DWMI?