Board Thread:New on Doctor Who Fanon/@comment-4189499-20140119130637/@comment-188432-20140121030532

Indeed what, exactly?


 * By local Tardis policy, Wikia is not a valid source. So how, precisely, could we integrate content from DWA? What are we realistically supposed to do? Link to one of the bazillion questions that are like, "How do I write my name in Gallifreyan" at tardis:Old High Gallifreyan?  Link to — to cite a typically malformed question — "What color iz davie tenant's eyez?" at tardis:David Tennant? C'mon, be realistic. The one kind of linkage that kinda made some sense was the Answers box that appeared in the right rail.  That was obviously not related to the content on the tardis page, and it was Wikia-imposed.  It is not tardis' fault that Wikia have since taken that box down and closed shop on the Answers concept.
 * Fan fiction is explicitly and firmly disallowed at tardis, so how could we possibly link here? (Indeed, under the current regime this wiki isn't at all an encyclopaedic repository of knowledge about fan fiction.  It's a collaborative writing project.  So there's nothing here for us to link to, under our four little rules.)
 * By virtue of discussions held for a reasonable length of time at DWC and Tardis, we decided as a community to continue covering merchandise, as we've done since 2005. So why would we, in most cases, link to DWC, when we have our own article about stuff? It's illogical. OF corse we prefer internal links to external ones.  Any reasonably organised wiki would.

I don't like, and won't accept, this subtle criticism of Tardis for not linking to other wikis. We make a strong effort to link to international versions of our site. And we link to specialised DW wikis where we can by local policy. For instance, we make a strong effort to leverage the Wikia network where it helps to better explain an actor's career, as at tardis:Julian Glover. And we defer to DW wikis within the Games vertical, as you'll find at tardis:Legacy (video game). But you guys have to be realistic and understand that in most cases your content is forbidden or redundant for tardis.

Not trying to be mean about it. It's just policy. But, honestly, we simply cannot link to DWA, DWC or DWF in most instances. The best we can do to link to DWF is as we've done in our rules, at tardis:T:NO FANFIC.