Ack, I should never try to reply too early in the morning. I think that last reply splintered into two things, which are:
1. Your definition of RPF is much narrower than the AO3's, and while you#'re entitled to that, the AO3 is entitled to its wider definition as well. (My vampire Richard III would totally count! ;-p)
2. You're right about Five(ish) Doctors, because it occupies a grey area where there are valid arguments on both sides and precedents both ways about how the archive handles such things. FiD itself would be RPF had Peter Davison published it there instead of via the BBC, but when it exists itself as a fictional source, what that makes your fanfic for it is arguable (although it is some sort of RPF, really).
So, depending on how you feel about it, you can either shrug and move on; go back and insist that while Peter Davison may have written RPF, you wrote fic for his TV episode and it should be counted as such, just as if you wrote fic for a historical TV series or novel, though given the wrangler will have had to justify their stance in some depth to respond to your original complaint, it probably won't get you far. Or, you could ask if it can at least be made its own sub-fandom of DW RPF, and then it will show up as itself in the Yuletide collection and can be found more easily when searching or going through the whole fandoms. Again, there may be other reasons, but I don't see why a wrangler shouldn't agree to that much.
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1. Your definition of RPF is much narrower than the AO3's, and while you#'re entitled to that, the AO3 is entitled to its wider definition as well. (My vampire Richard III would totally count! ;-p)
2. You're right about Five(ish) Doctors, because it occupies a grey area where there are valid arguments on both sides and precedents both ways about how the archive handles such things. FiD itself would be RPF had Peter Davison published it there instead of via the BBC, but when it exists itself as a fictional source, what that makes your fanfic for it is arguable (although it is some sort of RPF, really).
So, depending on how you feel about it, you can either shrug and move on; go back and insist that while Peter Davison may have written RPF, you wrote fic for his TV episode and it should be counted as such, just as if you wrote fic for a historical TV series or novel, though given the wrangler will have had to justify their stance in some depth to respond to your original complaint, it probably won't get you far. Or, you could ask if it can at least be made its own sub-fandom of DW RPF, and then it will show up as itself in the Yuletide collection and can be found more easily when searching or going through the whole fandoms. Again, there may be other reasons, but I don't see why a wrangler shouldn't agree to that much.
It's a tricky one, basically.