Thread:AnnabellRice/@comment-33695797-20190606044550/@comment-24894325-20190607132411

Not sure what the etiquette is for dropping in on a conversation on somebody else's wall. So apologies if an interjection by a third person is considered a bit rude. However, I feel there is a point that has to be clarified.

Chubby Potato, who is also active on the Tardis wiki, proposed linking to the Tardis wiki among the ways of confirming chronological placement. In my official capacity of an admin at Tardis, I would like to clarify, however, that any user-created link to the Tardis wiki in support of a particular chronological placement would only represent the user's own interpretation of the stories and not the established position of the Tardis wiki. Instead, it has been decided by a community discussion that it is impossible to ascertain relative chronology of Doctor Who stories with sufficient precision. Consequently, all timeline pages on the Tardis wiki have been downgraded to a forum-like status and given their own namespace. These pages are largely ignored by Tardis admin and should not be considered reliable. They are simply a fan project for editors interested in this sort of stuff.

There is, of course, a big difference between ordering all Doctor Who stories from all media, as would have to be done over at Tardis, and ordering only comic stories published by Marvel. The latter task is clearly easier and might even be manageable in a responsible manner. Plus, some comparisons are really not controversial, e.g., the Doctor traveling with only Susan would of course predate the Doctor traveling with Susan, Ian, and Barbara.

In addition, of necessity, rules regarding acceptable evidence differ from wiki to wiki. Thus, the decision to abolish timelines at Tardis may or may not be relevant for Doctor Who stories at the Marvel Database.

However, I feel it necessary to dispel the idea that the Tardis wiki can be used for incontrovertible, or even non-controversial, chronological placement of stories. I myself have nothing against the Marvel Database accepting Chubby Potato's (or any other user's) judgment on these matters, as long as this judgment is not mistaken for the established view of the Tardis community.