Talk:List of Doctor Who novelisations

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Torchwood?

Why are the Sarah Jane novelisations listed here, while the Torchwood novelisations are not only not listed, there isn't even a link to the List of Torchwood novels and audio books page? This seems completely inconsistent. EJSawyer (talk) 17:11, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Torchwood books are not novelisations of TV episodes like the SJA books are. As for a link to the page, I wouldn't be adverse to it, but there is one in the infobox at the bottom Etron81 (talk) 17:31, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There's no link to the Torchwood novelisations in the infobox; that's strictly DW novel info. I'd be glad to add a link to the article, but for your ham-fisted approach to reverts. EJSawyer (talk) 15:28, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"elements from the New Adventures do not belong in this article"

Etron81: I am quite baffled by your your revert of an edit of mine, on 4/12.

Your comment was "elements from the New Adventures do not belong in this article". Well, that's fine and all, except that there are several other mentions of the VNA novels in this article, which you didn't remove. So either my edits on the VNA elements (which I see as quite germane to the paragraph where I placed them) should remain, or you should undertake a purging of all of the VNA/non-television material, and work to establish guidelines for maintaining the purity of this article. You can't have it both ways.

But even more odd is that you also reverted other portions of my edit that had nothing to do with the VNA stuff, and were attempts to add further information/clarification to the article as a whole. Is there a reason you decided to revert this material as well? EJSawyer (talk) 15:25, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies - I have reinstated the clarification that have nothing to do with the NAs. I feel the statement you added about elements from the New Adventures used in the new series was not appropiate for this article as it is mainly about novelisations of dramatic works from Doctor Who and its spinoffs. The section that this statement was in is about the couple times when televised Doctor Who was adapted from a print source, not just using elements from them.

I agree it could be debateable if the Adaptations section should be here, but I coudl see it being useful if someone thought that the NA Human Nature was a novelisation of the TV story.Etron81 (talk) 17:44, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kindle

It seems that BBC Worldwide have reprinted some paperback editions of these books in recent years, and these are also available in Kindle editions. Is this worth noting in the article? (Well, I'd say it is, cos I want to know which ones are indeed on Kindle ;) --feline1 (talk) 09:12, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Breakdown by Doctor

I notice that recently the list was broken down by Doctor. This breaks most of the sorting functions, as now - unless I'm missing something - reducing the utility of the list. What do people think about about removing the sub-headings? Nfitz (talk) 23:59, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It appears the change was made to be more consistent with the lists of home video and VHS releases. I'm not sure how sorting the entire set of tables is particularly useful besides release order; it certainly looked pretty messy. – Rhain ☔ 02:30, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say the table has the wrong arrangement in the first instance. This is a list of books and should be book title in publication order with whichever serial/season as subsequent columns in the list nor split by Doctor. GraemeLeggett (talk) 07:17, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have to say I think this rearrangement is supremely unhelpful, yeah. I just came here to try to answer the question “how many books did Terrence Dicks write a year,” which used to be extremely easy to find because this list was sorted to describe what it’s about—the arc of Doctor Who novelizations. Having them reconfigured into the order of the medium they adapted adds nothing except making individual books slightly easier to find without using ctrl-f, while obscures useful information, and I’d really love to see it undone, especially as it seems to have been done without any real consensus. El Sandifer (talk) 02:33, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'd have to agree, the current sorting and breaking up of the lists is ridiculously unhelpful Cousin zagreus (talk) 00:51, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dr Who: Secret in Vault 13

This BBC book is missing. It's from 2018 I believe. I think it's the first to feature the 13th doctor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.205.56.144 (talk) 03:46, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That book is not a novelisation of a TV story so it doesn't fall under this list's purview - it is covered in the New Series Adventures page Etron81 (talk) 02:48, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]