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Re: Timeline

Ah, I see. Thanks for the response; it cleared it up.

Epsilon 📯 📂

22:58, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Baker's End

Hello! I saw your message on User:Epsilon the Eternal's talk page. I'll leave him to answer regarding Hoover, but as an administrator, I can confirm that the "crossover" (such as it is) in Mrs Frimbly's Festive Diary very much does count as sufficient evidence to open a new thread on the subject of Baker's End in the forums once they reopen.

Mind you, even setting protocol aside, it would not in and of itself shatter the current invalidity rationale; as noted at T:VS, the conclusion of the original debate was rooted in the notion that the series was explicitly intended to be a complete departure from the DWU. As such, while the more DWU licenses it includes, the more likely it is that we will consider it invalid rather than non-covered, the series would likely remain invalid under Rule 4 unless quotes can be found to outweigh those referred to in the original debate. (Or, indeed, unless the alleged quotes in the original debate turn out to have been spurious or misinterpreted.)

Also be aware that you should be personally familiar with any stories you want to discuss in an inclusion debate, so make sure to listen to at least some Baker's End before you launch into such a thread. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 13:45, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Okay, as for The Christmas Hoover, there doesn't appear to be any mention of servo-furnishings, or anything DWU related. Unfortunately.

Secondly, the "invalidty rationale" of Baker's End was frankly libellous. Former admin Amorkuz, without any form of evidence, claimed that the series was meant to "be a role for Tom Baker to play a role that wasn't the Doctor". It was then determined that the only thing linking the series to the DWU was Vince Cosmos, and for some reason, Amorkuz' wild statement became the invalidity rationale.

I haven't listened to Baker's End yet, but I already have a great deal of evidence, including examples of how the series does use more DWU elements than Vince Cosmos, that will absolutely allow me to open an inclusion debate (once I've listened to the series, of course). Mrs Frimbly's Christmas Diary will definitely strengthen my case.

Epsilon 📯 📂

14:15, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Margaret Rutherford

Done! But in the future, you can user "rename" tags on image file pages, you know. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 13:26, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Re: A Lady Doctor?

Nah — this has in fact been discussed before, I believe. But the short answer is, reread T:VS carefully: stories can be covered-as-invalid if they fail Rule 1 or Rule 4. But something which fails to be a valid source due to failing Rule 2 (that is to say, not being licensed by all the relevant copyright holders) is not to be covered at all. If it were covered it would be as valid, but it's not. The "Whoniverse Wiki" has a page on it, though, as I think could several other "supplement" or "fanon" Wikis existing in the general orbit of ours. And due to it being a use of the Iris license we can mention it at length in the relevant BTS sections, we just don't have a page about it individually. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 02:14, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Re: Homeworld treatment

I saw your message on User talk:Najawin, and I'd just like to point out that splitting the pages would be extremely unlikely, as contradictory accounts can all be housed on one page. You should see something like Mam (Fanboys) for something which is the same concept, but is contradictory between nearly every account.

Epsilon 📯 📂

22:01, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Homeworld/Gallifrey

I mean, there are already nonzero differences between the two, though they're more a product of differences between how the VNAs/EDAs treated Time Lords/Gallifrey and how the show tends to do so. (See, for instance, Anchoring of the thread and how it's largely PROSE works that make up the page, and how very weird it is compared to what the New Series seems to suggest.) The wiki still treats everything as one entity. Najawin ☎ 22:06, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, as Najawin states, different producers with access to a given DWU concept will contradict each other and diverge. Famously, the Big Finish and BBC Books life stories for the Eighth Doctor are hard to reconcile, at least without making very weird timeline assumptions indeed. Indeed, both brands' Eighth-Doctor-era depictions of Gallifrey are largely incompatible unless you bring in cloneworlds and alternate timelines.

We don't separate things based on narrative contradiction then, so there's no particular reason we'd do so just because the contradictory takes happen to represent distinct legal licenses. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 22:41, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Re: Potential vandalism

Thank you for warning me! I have taken steps. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 00:31, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Re: Phoenix Court Iris / Edith Sitwell Iris

Ok, so it's on page three, before the 20th citation, where Paul Magrs describes the "Edith Sitwell" Iris as a "very old, imperious Iris, [...] A sagacious arachnid; a grande-dame glittering in a carapace of ebon pearls." I believe this mirrors the description of the "lesbian novelist" Iris, and while this is tenuous, you do have to remember how the "Katy Manning" Iris was initially intended to be the "Beryl Reid" Iris, so the line between incarnations is muddy.

Epsilon 📯 📂

14:10, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

I don't have the quote to hand right now, but I'll see if I can get it shortly. As for Magrs' depictions of sexuality with his characters... well, Simon, in his first appearance in Exchange, he was straight, through and through, but in Enter Wildthyme, he's gay, which is a weird contradiction with Exchange, as Enter Wildthyme is otherwise very consistent with the novel.

Epsilon 📯 📂

15:03, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Whatever else may be true, @Rad, I think you're misunderstanding a key element: Iris's incarnations don't work like, well, Auteur's; "the Edith Sithwell Iris" is not posited to have been the actual Edith Sithwell, but merely to have looked and sounded like Sithwell — to, in other words, be a version that would have been played by Sithwell on TV if there had been an Iris Wildthyme TV series. As such, the personality (let alone sexual orientation) of the character needn't match that of the real-world person at all. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 15:04, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Again, Epsilon was sort of answering besides the point — saying "the Edith Sithwell Iris" is gay is not alleging Sithwell herself to be gay any more than a story which has the Paul McGann Doctor say he's a bit genderqueer has anything to do with the actual Paul McGann's gender identity. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 15:29, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Oh, I wasn't necessarily arguing that Sithwell was the lesbian novelist, merely that the Sithwell description doesn't prove anything about whether the incarnation may or may not be a lesbian. (I mean, Tom Baker has intentionally blurred the line between his Doctor and himself more than any other Doctor actor, and he got the famous line suggesting the Fourth Doctor was ace, which Baker is definitely not.)

If you want my opinion on this business, all lesbianism questions aside, it would be this: both the "lesbian novelist" and Sithwell occupy the same "spot" in Iris's regenerative history of potentially being "the original", maybe sorta; but that does not mean they are synonymous. Invalidity aside I'd liken it to Hartnell vs. Cushing. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 15:36, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Quickly chiming in here as a huge Marked For Life fan. What's the case in Bafflement and Devotion is that Paul Magrs is elaborating on all Iris-incarnations that had been featured in his Doctor Who novels up to that point, the Edith Sitwell-incarnation being the physically older version of Iris that shows up in The Blue Angel and lives in the Obverse. The way this character is presented in The Blue Angel makes it very clear that she is identical to the Iris featured in Marked for Life. These two passages should provide a good point of comparison: The Blue Angel and Marked for Life (1, 2) There are loads of other parallels and carried over characters between the Phoenix Court series and The Blue Angel, this is just one of them. Much regards! Poseidome ☎ 11:05, 30 January 2021 (UTC)