Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20130423043051

''This is an administrator-only area. If you are not an administrator of the Marvel Database Project, please do not post here.''

So, before starting on the topic at hand, I want to be sure that everyone is caught up on a few things, in case anyone was out of the loop. Our admin pool has shrunk a little bit; Bill is no longer active at the Marvel Database Project. There's not much else to say on the subject, really because that's all he said.

However, on that note, I'm going to also bring up Edkaufman and Robert Alvarez. I think we can safely assume them both to be inactive at this point. Ed dropped off the face of the Earth months ago. As for Robert, he is around, but is focused on building Wikis that he started up for publishers like CrossGen and Malibu. Neither one makes content edits, they both have multiple messages on their pages that are unanswered, and they are largely absent from policy our discussions. If anyone else feels differently, bring it up below, but otherwise I think we can stop listing them as "Active Administrators".

Moving on to the reason I've asked you all here. I would like to get opinions from you all on giving the Dr. Who universe a TRN. Now, I realize that this goes against our stance on no realities for licensed properties, but I feel that the Dr. Who universe and its connections to established canon material would qualify it for inclusion.

As it stands now: Certain alternate realities from Doctor Who related material have already received reality designations from Marvel, namely Earth-5 and Earth-5556; the 'mainstream" Who reality has not. At some point, our site started lumping all Dr. Who characters into Earth-5556; this is false info. The Doctor, and all the other characters from his home world, are not from Earth-5556; Earth-5556 is only a reality that the Doctor was asked to visit by King Arthur and Merlyn.

Seeing as the Doctor has interacted with these established realities, as well as the well known interactions between himself and the Original Death's Head (and Captain Britain for some reason) in Doctor Who Magazine #173, I think it would put him in the realm of those characters like Red Sonja, Tarzan, Godzilla, Fu Manchu and the like that have interacted with established characters during their time with Marvel.

So, thoughts? 