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{{quote|It's [[Lying|possible]] they may have been [[radiation|anti-radiation]] [[glove]]s. But you see, I am not a [[mountain goat]], and I prefer walking to ''any'' day! And I hate climbing.|[[The Book of Rassilon]] (2013)}}{{quote|Everything we were told was [[Canon|a lie]]. We, the [[The Timeless Children (TV story)|whole existence of our species]], we are all in a bottle. One day, the bottle will break; the [[Sylvester McCoy|seventh]] [[head]] will speak; [[Doctor Who (TV story)|the Eye will Open]] and stand in [[the Hybrid|the ruins of Gallifrey]]; and [[The Silence|Silence will fall]].|[[Tussan's cat]] (1962)}}{{Infobox User
|image               = The_Evolution_Episode_Mammoth.jpg
|aka                 = <small>[[Aristide Twain]]<br>Scrooge MacBadger<br>The Oncoming [[France|Frog]]<br>The [[Rep]]-robate</small>
|name                = <small>Administrator</small><br>S<small>crooge</small> M<small>ac</small>D<small>uck</small>
|age                 = <small>'''Born:'''<br>{{CURRENTDATE}},<br>[[Trenzalore]]<br>'''Died:'''<br> 22 April 2011,<br>[[Gallifrey]]</small>
|affiliation          =	<small>[[The Enemy]]<br>[[Tardis (The Zygon Isolation)|Tardis Data Wiki]]<br>[[w:c:scrooge-mcduck:Scrooge McDuck Wiki|$crooge McDuck Wiki]]</small>
|origin              = [[Amazolian system|Amazolia]], [[Dark Times|the Dark Times]]
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|fav episode         = [[TV]]: ''[[Joke|The Terrible Zodin]]''
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|languages           = English<br>French
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"'''Scrooge MacDuck'''", or sometimes "'''Scrooge MacBadger'''", was the chosen alias of '''Aristide Twain''', a [[Renegade Time Lord|Renegade Fandom Lord]]. Originally the Wikimaster of the [[w:c:scrooge-mcduck:Scrooge McDuck Wiki (website)|$crooge McDuck Wiki]], MacDuck was also a fan of the extended [[Doctor Who universe|''Doctor Who'' universe]]. They backed [[the Enemy]] in the [[War in Heaven]], although they did not condone all of its actions (especially its decision to manifest as [[Dalek|a bunch of pepperpots]] at the [[Last Great Time War|eleventh hour]]). 

Despite MacDuck's persistent belief that they were trapped inside a [[confession dial]] whose [[Azbantium]] walls would only shatter when every [[Tardis:Redlinks|redlink]] turned to [[gold]] and the last [[Tardis:Stub templates|stub template]] was [[Extermination|exterminated]], many accounts showed that they could actually be contacted by residents of the outside universe through a [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|user talk page]].

In [[2020]], MacDuck became a [[Tardis:Valid sources|Caretaker]] of the [[Tardis (The Zygon Isolation)|Tardis Data Core]] Wiki, being a digital [[encyclopedia]] at the [[end of the universe]]. This prompted them to redraft their user-page, which they wrote in the third person due to [[Joke|a host]] of [[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|"many… pressing…]] [[wikipedia:Metafiction|reasons]]".

== Profile ==
=== Species ===
In at least one of their [[regeneration]]s, Scrooge MacDuck was occasionally speculated to be a [[Dalek]] ([[REF]]: ''[https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/User:Scrooge_MacDuck?oldid=3053251 Old Revision]'') or one of the [[original Mammoths]]. ([[REF]]: ''[https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/User:Scrooge_MacDuck?oldid=3057767 Current Revision]'') Their user icon depicted a pair of [[w:c:scrooge-mcduck:Terra-Firmians|Terra-Firmians]], a species of underground [[humanoid|semihumanoids]] native to a different universe than [[N-Space]]; this duality sparked widespread speculation{{fact}}  that Scrooge was actually a false identity maintained by two individuals acting in conjunfction. ([[REF]]: ''[https://scrooge-mcduck.fandom.com/wiki/Terra-Firmians Terra-Firmians]'') In truth, however, most scholars{{who}} agreed that Scrooge MacDuck was either a [[posthuman|post-]][[human]] of some kind or a rogue [[artificial intelligence]] accidentally embedded in Wikia's core software matrix.

=== Identity ===
Scrooge MacDuck was often claimed by [[Truth|disreputable parties]] to be the same individual as [[Aristide Twain]], a [[writer]], [[artist]] and [[blog]]ger who alleged that he came from [[France]]. Unsupported rumours claimed that Twain had [http://aristidetwain.tumblr.com an official Tumblr blog] and [https://twitter.com/AristideTwain Twitter profile], although Twain always maintained that these were slanders put about by the [[Shobogan|Shabogans]].

Twain's [[gender identity]] was a matter of considerable scholarly controversy. Although official reports in [[the Matrix]] most often depicted Twain as principally [[male crewmember|male]], fragmentary evidence in the [[fossil|fossil record]] suggested that their [[pronoun]]s were actually somewhat more diverse, displaying inarguable okayness with "They/Them" as well as "He/Him".
{{quote|"People assume that [[gender]] is a strict binary of male to female, but actually — from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint — it's more like a big ball of queerily-quibbly... gendery-wondery... stuff."|[[Dr Oho]], probably}}
=== As a writer ===
[[File:Auteur.jpg|thumb|left|[[Godparent (rank)|Godfather]] [[Auteur]] claimed not to have been in [[Auteur's Abecedarium (short story)|a story edited by Twain]], instead alleging that ''he'' had edited the story of Twain.]]Some accounts suggested that the Wiki user Scrooge MacDuck was a re[[loom]]ed form of the same [[Aristide Twain]] who created the non-DWU-related fictional franchise ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (series)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'' and later served in an advisory capacity on two [[Tardis:Valid sources|valid sources]], [[WC]]: ''[[Shadows of Doubt (webcast)|Shadows of Doubt]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Auteur's Abecedarium (short story)|Auteur's Abecedarium]]''. 

This [[conspiracy theory]] was originally advanced by [[LINDA]] [[detective]]s in the [[2060s]], and gained widespread popularity in the [[City of the Saved]], where neither Scrooge MacDuck/Aristide Twain the Wiki user nor Aristide Twain the writer could be found — although many who knew either Twain in life were known to gravitate around a mysterious figured known as [[Grandfather Halfling|Grandfather Invalid]]. 

The conspiracy theory that Grandfather Invalid, Twain the Author, and Twain the Editor were one and the same was known in the relevant circles as the [[Cartmel Masterplan|Caramel Masterplan]]. In the 3D movies where he was played by [[Christopher Lee]], Twain was purported to be the same individual as [[Auteur|Godfather Auteur]] and to have invented [[Tardis (The Zygon Isolation)|the Tardis Wiki]] in his [[backyard]], but these movies were widely considered to be [[canon|non-canonical]].
=== Editing style ===
As an editor of the Tardis Data Core Wiki, and even before obtaining [[Tardis:Administrators|adminship]], Scrooge MacDuck could often be found lurking on the Forums prior to their [https://tardis.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000082913 cyberconversion] by the [[Cyberon]]s. MacDuck often weighed in on matters of policy or inclusion debates. Although much concerned with the facts and due process, MacDuck could generally be relied upon to argue for inclusion rather than exclusion, if there was indeed room within policy for that argument to be made in good faith. 
{{quote|There is nothing you can do to stop the catharsis of spurious non-canonicity.|[[The Valeyard|The Validyard]]}}

However, he was also a diligent editor of the actual body of the Wiki, with a [[User:Scrooge_MacDuck/Created_Pages|large number of created pages on record]]. Twain once described themselves as "fascinated" by the furthest boundaries of ''Doctor Who''-ness and the oddest odds-and-ends that are to be found, just as much as by the great televised masterpieces; as such, while you could certainly find them [http://tardis.fandom.com/wiki|Orphan_55_(TV_story)?diff=next&oldid=2832685 adding synopses to recent ''Doctor Who'' episodes' pages] and suchlike, he was more often engaged in coverage of less prominent, but, in their view, equally important, works — for the simple reason that there were fewer other people who'd do it if they didn't, whereas you could generally trust the, in his words, "amazing community" of Tardis to yield fantastic TV story pages very quickly. 

One thing to note about Twain's editing style is that when they covered something, they generally covered it ''thoroughly''. Twas another man than he who would leave a page like [[Doctor Why's TARDIS]] a stub or a redlink, if he set his mind to boosting coverage of ''[[Hallo My Dalek]]'' — no matter if it didn't exactly seem like a priority as a whole.

===Contacting Scrooge MacDuck===
Scrooge MacDuck was usually "pretty quick" to reply to messages; he invited users old and new to "feel free to ask me anything on my talk page"; they could expect an answer within a week or so (probably less, but one could never know when a horribly busy week might kick in). MacDuc was always happy to talk things out in case of editing disagreements, or to explain policy to new users who didn't quite grasp its many subtlety and idiosyncrasies.

== Biography ==
{{quote|I’ve lived a long Wiki-life… and I have seen a few things. I walked away from the Last Great [[10,000 Dawns (series)|Dawns War]]. I marked the passing of [[User:Amorkuz|Amorkuz]]. I saw the birth of the [[Doctor Who? (comic series)|''Doctor Who?'' coverage project]], and I watched as time ran out for ''[[Doctor Who: Lockdown!#The Fan Gallery|The Fan Gallery]]'', moment by moment, until nothing remained. No pages, no links. Just [[w:c:lockdown:The Lockdown Fan Gallery|another Wiki]]! I walked in [[Forum:Panopticon archives|forum archives]] where the laws of [[Tardis:Valid sources|validity]] were governed by the [[Canon|Word]] of the [[Rassilon|Madman]]! And I watched [[Special:Forum]] freeze, and [[Tardis:User rights nominations/Archive#Borisashton|nominations]] burn! I have [[The Doctor in popular culture and mythology|seen things]] you wouldn’t believe! I have [https://tardis.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000732357 lost things] you will never ''understand''!|Scrooge MacDuck in "The Threads of Akhaten"}}
=== Notable editing ===
Scrooge MacDuck was credited with the overhauling of the [[Dalek]] and [[Thousand Year War]] pages with more information from [[The Daleks (comic series)|the TV Century 21 ''The Daleks'' comic series]], and boosting coverage of the [[Dalek annual]]s, with the creation of such pages as ''[[Inside a Skaro Saucer]]'' and ''[[The Dalek Dictionary]]'' (which "took a while"). As part of the same effort, MacDuck was instrumental to the merges that allowed the inception of the pages [[Dalek Prime]] and [[Black Dalek Leader]].

MacDuck also pioneered improved coverage of the contents of [[Tim Quinn]] and [[Dicky Howett]]'s ''[[The Doctor Who Fun Book]]'' and its fellows — not only filling out the "non-DWU" category tree by some margin, but also identifying a few ''non''-parodical, full-length comic stories (most notably ''[[The Test of Time (comic story)|The Test of Time]]'') which had thus far been overlooked on our Wiki, despite being duly documented at the likes of ''Altered Vistas''.

MacDuck was also engaged, as late as {{CURRENTDATE}}, in the creation of pages for all episodes of ''[[The Fan Show]]'' and about the characters & concepts who appeared in the skits it contained, from [[Estellebalhoonarkedo|Lady Estellebalhoonarkedo]] to [[Terry (The Old Doctor Who Monsters' Home)|Terry the Cyberman]] to [[Steven's ball of wibby wobby timey wimey stuff]].

=== Sandboxes ===
Over his millennia of activity on the human Internet, Scrooge MacDuck created [[pocket dimension]]s over which he held [[god]]like [[power]].

These included:
# '''[[User:Scrooge_MacDuck/Sandbox_Alpha]]'''<br>   (<small>'''Currently occupied by''': rewritten [[Creation of the Daleks]] page</small>)
# '''[[User:Scrooge_MacDuck/Sandbox_Beta]]'''<br>   (<small>'''Currently occupied by''': policy draft</small>)
# '''[[User:Scrooge_MacDuck/Sandbox_Gamma]]'''<br>  (<small>'''Currently occupied by:''' proposed incarnations of the Doctor navbox, propsoed redux of Master stories navbox</small>)
# '''[[User:Scrooge_MacDuck/Sandbox_Delta]]'''<br> (<small>'''Currently occupied by:''' revamped [[Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks)]]</small>)
# '''[[User:Scrooge MacDuck/Sandbox Epsilon]]'''<br> (<small>'''Currently occupied by:''' dated Dalek timeline</small>)
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Also notable was a [[Matrix data slice]] known as [[User:Scrooge MacDuck/The Lost Closing Post|"the Lost Closing Post"]], being a reconstitution of the Closing Post to the historic thread which ruled [[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'' valid, and which had been lost to a technical incident some time after implementation.

=== Far future ===
{{main|Far future}}
A few trillion years into the future of the time frame most accounts dealt with, MacDuck was planning to create Panopticon threads proposing a series of change to the Wiki's policies, which could only be done on the Wiki through community discussions. 
* The [[Tardis:Guide to images|restriction on images over 100 kilo-octets large]] made sense when the Wiki started, but in this day and age, I think it's become downright archaic for most intents and purposes. MacDuck did not not argue that the Wiki should start uploading high-def 10 Mo image at every corner, but being something like 600 ko should no longer be a "delete-on-sight"-type offence.
* If [[The Power of the Daleks (TV story)|animated recons]] and [[Macra|"special editions" with added CGI]] of TV stories are considered valid sources for screenshots, it was, in MacDuck's own word, "frankly unfair" that colourised reprints of comics were still exiled to BTS sections.
* [[The Master]] should be split into different pages for each new body. MacDuck justified himself thusly:
{{quote|No, we sometimes don't know what order these bodies go into exactly, or by what exact mechanism the Master went from one to the other. And? We don't know when and how the Doctor regenerates into [[Curator (The Day of the Doctor)|the Curator]], that never bothered us. If anything, these uncertainties seem to pose more difficulties with trying to write a single, linear biography of the Master than they would with separate pages.|"The Book of the Master" (2613)}}
* [[Tardis:Valid sources]] should have a clause that allows for a specific community discussion to let a story with no licensed DW elements at all in, so as to accommodate those stories which started out as not officially DW-related, but which were always meant as DW-''adjacent'' and have since seen their concepts and characters become parts of ''Doctor Who''. Prime candidates would be:
** BBV's ''Cyberon'' <small>(the protagonist [[Lauren Anderson]] and the villains [[Cyberon|the Cyberons]] both already have pages on the Wiki — and to boot, it started production as a ''DW'' spin-off even if they'd lost their license by the time they finished things up)</small>
** Paul Magrs' ''Phoenix Court'' books <small>(the first appearance of [[Iris Wildthyme]], [[Forum:Iris Wildthyme: should she stay or should she go?|all of whose further appearances have been ruled DWU]], and explicitly shown in ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'' to still be valid history for this DWU Iris)</smalL>. 
* [[Tardis:No personal attacks]] should be dependent on the supposed victim's opinion: if the accused editor claims they meant no offence, ''and none was taken'', there shouldn't need to be any sanctions.
== Behind the scenes ==
In case anybody was wondering, this page's framing device fails Rule 2 and 4 of [[T:VS]] and should not be considered a [[T:VS|valid in-universe source]] on the Data Core Wiki. 
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