Saw @AlfieSigma comment about it now. Use @AlfieSigma images!
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The important thing is that there is a demand to get these uploaded to the site 
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So now you have zero excuse not to upload them now!!! /j
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I’m doing it, I’m doing it…
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I’ve using @AlfieSigma’s purely because he sent me every single file, not just the ones not on the Wiki, so this will be easier to use.
No indication which one was better!
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Or we could hold a vote on each of them in the suggested images topic and see which are best. It would only be 65 votes
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Absolutely - how dare people be making backroom decisions without involving me!
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That is great! Just a bit sad that you used the bad images for them 
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@shauny What is your next thing to upload? Daft Dimension?
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Possibly yes, but need to add the new media type for that.
At the moment I’m scheduling future releases.
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But is there a badge?
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Hello! I’m here for a poll - there are some books which are not exactly traditional stories, but are not reference books either, and so there may need to be some discussion around whether these are uploaded as stories, or whether we wait and add them when we do things like reference books.
Some examples of these include The Time Lord Letters, which is an anthology of letters from people in the Doctor’s life/the Doctor himself (some entirely original, others that act as tie-ins to events from specific TV stories, and some that we actually saw in a TV story directly), and A Brief History of Time Lords, which is a sort of in-universe guide to the history of Gallifrey/Time Lord society, exploring theories about their politics and the like (not in a way that follows Gallifrey as seen on screen or anything like; very much a proper history book). I’m sure there are many other books that fall under this argument, but these are the only ones that come to mind/that I am familiar enough with to point to and go, hey, shouldn’t we be talking about this like a story?
So, what do you think? Should they be added as stories? Please do actually at least have a look at the previews or read the wiki pages for these books to see what they’re like if you haven’t read them before voting!
Should things like these be added as stories?
- Yes
- No
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The Time Lord Letters are 128 two-page letters, if we add that then I think it should just be all 1 story, otherwise it’s quite a lot to add (what with them being about 2 pages each and not a ‘short story’ as such).
I think A Brief History of Time Lords could be said to be a story, from what I read. Not a traditional one, but still ‘in-universe’.
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I’ve looked at the examples. I think Brief History probably does fit as it is written as a narrative but I think Time Lord letters is still to disparate. What would we put as characters for each letter - the person writing it? The characters it refers to? What about location? Time? There seem to be little notes as well as letters. Some of them are variations on narratives from the show, some aren’t.
I do think this sort of book is going to have to be a case by case basis. I looked at the Brilliant Books for example which have a few examples of those letter-type items and when trying to put them into the spreadsheet decided it was too difficult to fill in some of the info meaning they would look awfully bare.
Do we put this sort of thing on as one book or each individual entry - this is where it gets tricky.
And yes, we have the Shakespeare Notebooks on the site so there is a precedent, but as I say, I really think it needs to be case by case and not a wholesale because they all have quite different approaches.
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Looks like edge cases. If they were part of an annual, we would not add them. But I could see an argument to add the books as one story.
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What about The Whoniverse? I’ve not heard of A Brief History of Time Lords before but it sounds similar to The Whoniverse – the history of the Doctor Who universe, told as if it were fact (though not, sadly, like a proper history book with references and footnotes and things).
Here’s a page example:
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(Didn’t even mean to choose the Traken page specifically—opened the book at random—but at least I’m staying on brand…)
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Yeah that’s another one. There’s a few of these ‘fictional reference books’ but they often take different approaches which makes them tricky to categorise and to fit into the way story info is presented on the site.
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