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Yes there is a lot of information there about a fictional work and often it is well cited in regards to the origin of information, down to the sentence fragment level on places like the Tardis Wiki, but the in-universe perspective trying to tie all the (ridiculously many) official and semi-official Doctor Who works into biographies of characters acts is more about defining the overarching fictional narrative tying all these bodies of works together than providing information about those works.


From the show itself to books that are spinoffs of spinoffs to a promotional My Space blog blog all information is treated as a collection of facts without much regard to theme, production history, context. Who wrote what, when, and why? Those things are probably also on the wiki but they’re trivia, stuck down at the bottom of the page to give some more interesting facts to quote about it.

I am not trying to denigrate this way of writing a wiki! I absolutely see the appeal of trying to create a complete picture of a character and a world. It’s also a very useful tool for anyone who wants to write their own fiction in the those worlds. It’s great if you want a thorough biography of a character from the perspective of the totality of the official fiction around them, but if you want to get an understanding of the evolution of that character and how they were written over time by different writers it’s a much greater endeavour to try and dig through. The information is just not catalogued with that perspective.

It leaves many ways of organising and thinking about fiction by the wayside to pursue something that is more akin to a form of fiction writing itself rather than treating it as providing clear information about fictional works.


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