User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190914173756/@comment-6032121-20190915193027

Well, I could create the Dalek Prime (The Four Doctors) page on my own, but I understand merging is the privilege of admins around here. Also, the issue of how (or whether) to dab the main Dalek Prime page remains.

Concerning Creation of the Daleks, the thing is that the splitting into different parts, as though "Davros's account" (what does that even mean? Davros isn't the narrator of Genesis of the Daleks!) was wholly different from, and irreconcilable with, the "Yarvelling and the Dalek Emperor" account, and both separate from, and irreconcilable with, the "historical account" presented in The Daleks. And it is frankly ridiculous that "the Seventh Doctor's account" gets a whole paragraph to itself as though it were a full parallel account on part with the two Geneses.

For a demo of what a more linear page taking into account War’s explanation of both timelines 'coexisting', simply see the way I rewrote the "Origins" section of the History section on the page "Dalek" a short while ago when I completely overhauled said "History" section. What I have in mind would be something like this, but longer and more detailed — moving chronologically through 1960's Dalek history, then introducing Davros through a citation of War about his meddling in Dalek destiny, and putting all details about Davros's creation of the Daleks there. I confess I don't know quite where We Are The Daleks would go in this scheme — I think that situation is most comparable to the utterly conflicting Cybermen origins, and we should take inspiration from however we'll handle the "parallel evolution" stuff once the dust settles on the merged Cyberman page.