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== Temporary forums validity debates == | == Temporary forums validity debates == | ||
Hey — this may be unorthodox, so apologies, but — I notice that you supported several proposed validity debates in the [[Tardis:Temporary forums]]. Via my now-live [[User:Scrooge_MacDuck/Sandbox_Eta|"Rule 4 by proxy"]] proposal, I hope to cut through the need for individual threads on multiple such candidates including ''Shalka'' and the Cushing movies. ''If'' my proposal seems viable to you, I think it would be productive of you not only to add your signature to that proposal, but to withdraw it from the individual inclusion debate proposals, to ensure that my wider proposal is discussed first. (If it fails, of course, you can re-add your signature to the individual inclusion debates so that they can be had independently after all.) It's up to you, though, of course. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']] [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]] 18:42, 11 January 2023 (UTC) | Hey — this may be unorthodox, so apologies, but — I notice that you supported several proposed validity debates in the [[Tardis:Temporary forums]]. Via my now-live [[User:Scrooge_MacDuck/Sandbox_Eta|"Rule 4 by proxy"]] proposal, I hope to cut through the need for individual threads on multiple such candidates including ''Shalka'' and the Cushing movies. ''If'' my proposal seems viable to you, I think it would be productive of you not only to add your signature to that proposal, but to withdraw it from the individual inclusion debate proposals, to ensure that my wider proposal is discussed first. (If it fails, of course, you can re-add your signature to the individual inclusion debates so that they can be had independently after all.) It's up to you, though, of course. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']] [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]] 18:42, 11 January 2023 (UTC) | ||
== Re: Merlin Master == | |||
Glad you like the idea. I'm afraid I can tell of you of no legal avenue to get these stories, other than secondhand copies of the Annuals or, of course, in the case of ''Creation of Camelot'', BF's ''[[The Planet of Dust & Other Stories]]''. Naturally, if you make yourself contactable off-Wiki, something less cumbersome could be arranged, but as you must know by now, that sort of thing is frowned upon on-Wiki (even from one fan to another rather than anything larger-scale). | |||
As concerns his psychological profile — well, he's just a very straightforward Generic Classic Master, is the thing, which makes it somewhat tricky to write without feeling like I'm over-extrapolating from a few incidents. (But it also means that he's "somewhere between Delgado and Ainley" in a literary sense, which is why I think it's elegant to suppose that this is also where he is in a timeline sense.) Other than the obvious, we could make a note of the fact that he was good at setting up exit strategies in advance (as seen in ''Camelot'' and ''Radio Waves''), that he was somewhat presumptuous (seemingly not accounting for the possibility that [[Quan]] ''wouldn't'' obey him on principle), that he was good at social manipulation/sowing dissent (as seen in his role as "the Merlin"), and perhaps more amusingly that he had some artistic inclination (if we take seriously the mention that "the Merlin"'s duties at court include being a bard, as well as a magician and advisor). But as I said, overly-general statements on this sort based on this little evidence just feel to me like reading tea-leaves. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']] [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]] 12:41, 16 January 2023 (UTC) | |||