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: Now, I am glad that the template caught my eye and we have the opportunity to check everything thoroughly. But beyond it, what is the purpose of this template? And why is this template named after Dreyfus rather than Hughes, who, according to you, played the same incarnation. Hughes was much earlier (in all senses). What is the watershed moment separating them? Quite bluntly, why should there be a template to describe just one story? And how is it possible to assign comic and prose stories published much earlier and, hence, without any notion of Dreyfus ever playing this role, to the period supposedly covered by this template. How can an editor of ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'', published in 1997 and featuring material in the same subsection on the Master's page, supposed to know to use this template, which is based on an actor debuting in the role in 2017? What is the connection between Dreyfus and ''[[The Nameless City (short story)|The Nameless City]]'', another story featured in the same subsection? [[User:Amorkuz|Amorkuz]] [[User talk:Amorkuz|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:02, January 7, 2018 (UTC) | : Now, I am glad that the template caught my eye and we have the opportunity to check everything thoroughly. But beyond it, what is the purpose of this template? And why is this template named after Dreyfus rather than Hughes, who, according to you, played the same incarnation. Hughes was much earlier (in all senses). What is the watershed moment separating them? Quite bluntly, why should there be a template to describe just one story? And how is it possible to assign comic and prose stories published much earlier and, hence, without any notion of Dreyfus ever playing this role, to the period supposedly covered by this template. How can an editor of ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'', published in 1997 and featuring material in the same subsection on the Master's page, supposed to know to use this template, which is based on an actor debuting in the role in 2017? What is the connection between Dreyfus and ''[[The Nameless City (short story)|The Nameless City]]'', another story featured in the same subsection? [[User:Amorkuz|Amorkuz]] [[User talk:Amorkuz|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:02, January 7, 2018 (UTC) | ||
:: Forgive me if I am wrong, but is it not stated on pages like [[James Dreyfus]] that he is playing the First Master, and that the Master stories template includes him as "First"? Anyway, I made this template for links to the Renegade Time Lord part of the Master's life before Delgado, and in preparation for any further use Big Finish may have for the Dreyfus Master, like Macqueen and Jacobi, who both received templates after just one outing as the Master. I only added it to the Master stories template because, well, ''Sound of Drums'' is a flashback cameo, ''Dark Path'' is either a nother flashback or a dream manifestation, and ''The Toy'' is set just before the Master flees Gallifrey. For all intend and purposes, ''The Destination Wars'' is the only "Master story" he's truly ''in'', and it is the Dreyfus one. On a personnel note, I too dislike the idea of Dreyfus being the same incarnation as Hughes; if he and the Doctor are both in the same incarnation, and both went to school at the same age (8, maybe?), why is the Master so much younger than the Doctor? I think it would be best if somewhere down the line its revealed Dreyfus is a different incarnation, but that's just me.[[User:BananaClownMan|BananaClownMan]] [[User talk:BananaClownMan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 17:29, January 9, 2018 (UTC) | |||
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Please do not use this template as its scope and usefulness are currently under review and it is quite likely that the template will be deleted. [[User:Amorkuz|Amorkuz]] [[User talk:Amorkuz|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 01:10, January 8, 2018 (UTC) | Please do not use this template as its scope and usefulness are currently under review and it is quite likely that the template will be deleted. [[User:Amorkuz|Amorkuz]] [[User talk:Amorkuz|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 01:10, January 8, 2018 (UTC) | ||
