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 Now that jodie's era is over I think it is time to smooth out the remaining kinks in the timeline.
-* 1. Secret in vault 13
+* <s>1. Secret in vault 13
 Can someone please tell me what is even going on with this one? I haven't read it yet. Looking at this talk page it seems to be all over the place.
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 * 3. Dr. Thirteenth
-Yaz's birthday. but the profiles in all of the titan comics say she is 19, so that possibly places it after the timelord victorious stuff? Also she is 20 in "Vault 13".
+Yaz's birthday. but the profiles in all of the titan comics say she is 19, so that possibly places it after the timelord victorious stuff? Also she is 20 in "Vault 13".</s>
 * 4. Old Friends
-Either goes right after mistress of chaos (Going by release date) or right before it (going by grouping the DWM stuff together).
+Either goes right before mistress of chaos (Going by release date) or right after it (going by grouping the DWM stuff together).
 * 5. Day of the Doctor (first segment)
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 :: I wasn’t sure about it.This makes more sense. [[User:Tellymustard|Tellymustard]] [[User talk:Tellymustard|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:09, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
+. The Secret of Vault 13 was one of the first pieces of 13th Doctor media released and was written with only the first Series 11 script and some character sheets for context. There’s quite a few continuity issues in it. For example Team TARDIS know all about the Doctor being a Time Lord from Gallifrey despite this being released before Spyfall. But virtually all pre-Series 12 13th Doctor material has this issue. The story states that Team TARDIS have been travelling with the Doctor for a few months and Ryan calls Graham grandad which suggests a setting towards the end of Series 11. They visit home in 2018, however it is stated that the Doctor returned them to the wrong time so that’s easily explainable.
+. The Maze of Doom picks up immediately from the cliffhanger at the end of The Secret of Vault 13 and references the events of Resolution explicitly. Ryan also states that he’s only been travelling with the Doctor for a short time. So both novels should be placed shortly after the events of Resolution.
+. The Titan comics all use the exact same profiles for the entire run. Yaz is supposed to be 19 at the beginning of Series 11 in 2018. The comics are still saying she’s 19 by the time of the Thirteenth Doctor Year 2 which are explicitly set in Series 12 after Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror, over a year after Series 11. Those profiles shouldn’t be followed, they’re just recycled material that haven’t been adjusted for the passing of time. Dr Thirteenth should go somewhere in Series 11 and before The Secret in Vault 13 where she has explicitly already turned 20.
+. Old Friends should go shortly before Time Out of Mind, as Ryan makes a comment about the Corsair that implies they encountered her recently. Time Out of Mind itself is a Christmas special and Graham and Ryan mention that it’s Christmas back at home and as earlier Titan stories were set in 2019 and had Ryan calling Graham grandad, this must be soon before Spyfall. The first year of Titan comics are difficult because they don’t feel like they take place over a long period of time, but the first one is clearly not set that far away from Series 11 and the last one is shortly before Series 12 so you unavoidably have to spread them out across the year.
+. It should be by the novelisation release date because Thirteen wasn’t in the tv story. I personally think it should be set somewhere around the time of Series 11. At least I don’t think it should be tied into her Series 12 arc at all as it was released years before it.
+. Agreed with Scrooge, and also sometimes there just are contradictions and it’s better for the integrity of the timeline that we present them as intended. It does no one any good to present At Childhood's End as being an alternate timeline for the Doctor specifically because we have no in-universe evidence of that beyond us knowing that there’s some dodgy stuff surrounding Ace’s history. [[User:SarahJaneFan|SarahJaneFan]] [[User talk:SarahJaneFan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:12, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
+:1. It seems like it should be post spyfall.
+:2. The short time statement is more minor and subjective than the knoledge about the Timelords
+:3. K
+:4. This simply does not work. It needs to be before the lion, the glitch, and the war zone.
+:5. If we are going by the novelization date it is good right now. The second segment is simply in the next solo gap.
+[[User:Tellymustard|Tellymustard]] [[User talk:Tellymustard|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 12:18, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
+. Its 100% not after Spyfall. There’s no evidence to suggest it is unless you want to move literally all EU content with 13 to after Spyfall because virtually all of it has the same issues with the Fam knowing about the Doctor’s origins.
+. It does work because The Liar, The Glitch and the Warzone can take place anywhere in the timeline. It was written and released with absolutely no context of Series 11 because they weren’t even supposed to be publishing 13th Doctor stories yet. [[User:SarahJaneFan|SarahJaneFan]] [[User talk:SarahJaneFan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]]
+:1. K, I agree.
+:4. Give me the exact quote from the holiday special.
+[[User:Tellymustard|Tellymustard]] [[User talk:Tellymustard|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:18, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
+:: A "please" wouldn't go amiss. [[User:BananaClownMan|BananaClownMan]] [[User talk:BananaClownMan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:47, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
+== ''The Good Doctor'' ==
+When it first came out, it was noted that, in ''The Good Doctor'', Ryan nearly calls Graham his granddad, thus it being placed with the other BBC Books around ''It Takes You Away''. Now that notes been removed. I don't have the book, since I wasn't in a good financial place when it came out, so I can't check it myself, and I'm not sure if it was removed because of a miscommunication with the Granddad line that's just come to light, or it was removed by mistake. If someone with the book could please clear the air for me, I will would be most grateful. [[User:BananaClownMan|BananaClownMan]] [[User talk:BananaClownMan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:47, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
+Mistake, sorry about that. I got it back where it was with the info restored (Sadly after a lot of edit warring with an user that was in a bad mood. [[User:Tellymustard|Tellymustard]] [[User talk:Tellymustard|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:13, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
+:: Yes in The Good Doctor, Ryan calls out to Graham at one point when he’s in danger and begins to shout “grandad”, but cuts himself off and corrects to “Graham”. I interpreted this as meaning it’s later in  Series 11 when he’s beginning to accept Graham as his grandfather but hasn’t quite admitted it yet like he does in It Takes You Away. [[User:SarahJaneFan|SarahJaneFan]] [[User talk:SarahJaneFan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:03, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
+== Edit thing ==
+What exactly are the problems with the edits that have been reversed by bananaclownman? Like I know I have done some iffy edits on other pages, but here I just further sorted it by releease order, added a missing story and put and introducing in a place that makes more sense. [[User:Tellymustard|Tellymustard]] [[User talk:Tellymustard|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 06:38, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
+: Release order was for arbitrary placements ''only'', and the edits are precisely why I argued against such a thing with User:SarahJaneFan all those years ago; because I knew one day someone would come along and just use the release dates when the timelines require so much more insight. ''And Introducing...'' is just one page, so it can easily slip into a subheading where the TARDIS crew are heading back to Sheffield, which is why only a select few stories are there; you'd think one of the companiond would mention trying to get home like they do in ''Rosa''. ''Coming soon...'' was a causality of undoing counterproductive edits that have done more harm than good to this page, such as the likes of ''John Smith's Google Maps reviews'' being paced before a story that is explicitly stated to referencing astory that is now later in the timeline. Also, the subheadings keep DWM stories together for omnibuses and story arcs, and some stories are placed ahead of stories released later to keep "recent" events close, like keeping ''The Tsuranga Conundrum'' as close to ''The Ghost Monument'' as possible. . Finally, you've brought back some poor grammer that was fixed on ''The Good Doctor''.
+: This will the last time you hear from me, on talk pages and edit summaries. I've decided that, with your counterproductive edits that lean to far to the extreme, your harassment of myself and other editors, use of racially insensitive comments to the albino community, derogative use of "American", foul language and refusal to listen to seasoned editors' advice, that you are simply no longer worth the time. Sincerely, [[User:BananaClownMan|BananaClownMan]] [[User talk:BananaClownMan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 07:05, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
+: The thing with release order is that we really just use it for stories with a more arbitrary placement, because yes it would be messy and chaotic if we placed them in any random jumbled order without reasoning. However that doesn’t really happen on these timelines nowadays. We narrow down evidence as best as we can from each story, and we also take into account other things such as authorial intent or when it was released in order to place each story in the most accurate context. Realistically, EU stories aren’t written to take place in release order with televised stories unless it’s in a season gap. Particularly with Series 11, the EU writers were given very little information to work with and therefore that’s resulted in stories scattered all over the S11 timeline mainly due to intricacies in Graham & Ryan's relationship.
+: When we talk about release order here, it’s usually referring to release order within a specific gap, rather than in general because there’s very little content that’s actually going to be released while each series is airing and ultimately the timeline will consist primarily of content released after Power of the Doctor. Also when it comes to comics, release order is basically useless because it’s serialised, and it’s better to look at the full run of stories in its own individual context rather than trying to intersperse it with stories or even comics from a different publisher being released around the same time. For example, Mistress of Chaos finished releasing around the same time Spyfall was released and A Little Help from My Friends started being released. However these three stories don’t take place close together. Mistress of Chaos takes place a few months into the Fam's travels, Spyfall is over a year in and then A Little Help from My Friends ended up taking place after Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror despite the fact it’s first issue dropped before that story even aired.
+: Release order works as a rule for an instance like this: A short story with 13 and Yaz is released in January, and then a comic featuring that pair is later released in October. We can immediately narrow down that both stories take place between Series 12 and 13. However there might not be any evidence to suggest which way around those two stories take place within that gap, so we defer to release order because it’s tidier. This isn’t the answer to placing every story however and we should really work things out on a case by case basis.
+: The way I approach placing a story is to use all the evidence the story gives you to narrow it down to as close a placement as you possibly can with the evidence directly from the story itself. Then if you haven’t got a solid placement from that, it’s when you explore things like covers, authors notes and release orders. It’s sort of a balancing act, trying to find the most accurate placement that makes sense alongside other stories and also allows the timeline itself to flow nicely with the subheadings.
+: These timelines have been worked on for years and although they’re not perfect, they’re constantly being adjusted and the placements we currently have aren’t random, we’re always scrutinising and re-evaluating things in order to improve it, even if it may not seem that way to the immediate observer. [[User:SarahJaneFan|SarahJaneFan]] [[User talk:SarahJaneFan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:36, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
+== Titan Comics Year 1 ==
+I’ve been wondering if this run might fit better before ''[[Resolution (TV story)|Resolution]]''. Currently the only evidence to suggest a placement afterwards is a brief visit to 2019 in ''[[Hidden Human History (comic story)|Hidden Human History]]'' but it’s not stated that this is a visit to the precise present day for the Fam. The first two stories are certainly supposed to be roughly Series 11 adjacent. The latter two are a bit more ambiguous but it doesn’t really feel like they take place nearly a full year after the first two. I think placing the full run of stories between ''[[The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos (TV story)|The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos]]'' and ''[[Resolution (TV story)|Resolution]]'' could work quite well, it’s just a case of whether the visit to 2019 is seen as an intentional indication of placement or if it’s a case of the present day for the comic just being the same for the reader if not necessarily for the characters like ''[[The Clockwise War (comic story)|The Clockwise War]]'' taking place in 2018 instead of 2017 for example. [[User:SarahJaneFan|SarahJaneFan]] [[User talk:SarahJaneFan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 02:49, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
+: That was the case until ''Time Lapse'' had Team TARDIS first hear of the Time Agency in [[2019]].[[User:BananaClownMan|BananaClownMan]] [[User talk:BananaClownMan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 02:15, 20 November 2022 (UTC)