Board Thread:New on Doctor Who Fanon/@comment-4189499-20140119130637/@comment-188432-20140121033927

Imamadmad wrote: But I can understand your (DWC) frustrations with the mutual content ... and I guess they are unlikely to bring up the discussion of getting rid of their merchandise content to give it solely over to you in light of their discussion to make separate home media pages. Stop guessing, please. You're subtly casting aspersions against Tardis by agreeing with Lego Whovian's allegations. I reiterate that we have already had such a discussion. I refer to you to:
 * w:c:doctor-who-collectors:Forum:Should the TARDIS Index File/Doctor Who Wiki stop covering merchandise?, a thread started in July 2012 that remains the very latest discussion at DWC.
 * tardis:forum:Should we still be trying to cover merchandise?

There was very much an attempt to divest tardis of its merchandise pages and thereby help DWC have a stronger "brand". But even Lego Whovian himself argued against the proposal. The most he wanted was for tardis to stop covering DVD and VHS. Well, that's not a vote for changing policy, obviously. Either tardis covers merchandise or it doesn't. It can't cover only some merchandise. And as for this "copy-catting" allegation, even LW agreed in 2012 that the information on our pages was different than that at the DWCW. Our information on home media releases is our own. It's crappy, but it's definitely our own.

I think, too, that Lego Whovian has broadly misinterpreted the aim of the home media project at tardis. It isn't to build up pages that rival DWC's. Rather, it's mostly an effort to move it off the story page. It's meant to make sure that the pages are about a single thing — the TV story itself, rather than a hodgepodge of information about the several different things related to the TV story.

But I digress.