User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190914173756/@comment-31010985-20191126174141

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190914173756/@comment-31010985-20191126174141 I guess that's a good compromise. While it would be easier to ignore Genesis of Evil for the wiki to cover Dalek history, it probably isn't in the spirit of treating all media equally.

Something your example showed that I'm happy about is just how similar the two accounts are to each other and therefore how understandable it is that somebody after the fact could get facts such as the Daleks' ancestors being blue and them not being called Kaleds wrong. Obviously we can't say that they're wrong but The Dalek Tapes stands as further proof if there need be any that Genesis and Genesis are not completely irreconcilable.

More to the point though, I'd make a slight alteration to that draft because we need to remember that as far as I can see The Dalek Tapes does not actually contradict anything. It can exist in a world where Genesis of Evil is "true" as an accurate recollection of events but it can also exist in a world where Genesis of the Daleks (or even We Are the Daleks) are "true" as a corrupted or just wrong (on the part of the narrator) version of events.

So instead of what you have above we'd have:

According to some accounts, the Daleks were created as a result of a similar catastrophe but without Davros's influence, mutating from an ancestral Thal-opposing race of blue humanoids. (COMIC: Genesis of Evil) In an ancient library on a twilight world, the Doctor discovered a retelling of this history of the Daleks in the Dalek Tapes. The Tapes were either found or created by a different individual sometime after they had become a major galactic power in their quest for universal domination, long after their creation was ancient history itself. (COMIC: The Dalek Tapes)