User talk:Batguy01
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Re: Nicholas II[[edit source]]
I'm no User:Amorkuz, but I saw your comment on his talk page, and I think I'll be able to help. Basically, there are a ton of tiny details from the history of our world that just doesn't hold true in the Doctor Who universe. For instance, according to Marco Polo, Marco was born in 1252, not 1254! So unless information comes straight from a Doctor Who story, it's not allowed on the wiki (outside of "Behind the scenes" sections, at least). There's a longer explanation over at Tardis:Valid sources#The real world doesn't count. – N8 ☎ 20:21, August 11, 2018 (UTC)
- Yeah, NateBumber is absolutely right. Knowledge of history is very good and it is always useful to compare what the story states with how the history recorded an event, but only "Behind the scenes". Unlike many other fan communities, where reality is treated as given unless contradicted by some story, this wiki treats the reality as non-existent. This is largely due to the non-linear, timey-wimey structure of the show where no historical figure or fact is immune from Doctor-y ret-conning. In fact, if you listen to interviews with authors, they complain that there are few famous historical characters left whom the Doctor has not met yet. To give you just a couple of examples, Isabel de Bobadilla, whose page is not created yet, but should be is a historical person. But according to Young Winston, she did not die in 1543 but continued living till the 20th century and had a romance with Winston Churchill. And Peter Cushing played in Star Wars after his death because the Doctor took him to the future. And on top of that, historical figures are often involved in alternative realities and/or timelines, where they have a different fate. For instance, in DWU, Jeremy Thorpe became a prime minister instead of Harold Wilson.
- The information about 1917 is based on the story The Clockwise Man. It is not historically accurate, but it has to stay. This is the timing in DWU. And even if another story will state 1918 correctly, it will only result in "according to one account"/"according to another account" fork representing both dates as possible. The rule of thumb is: only narrative information from valid stories counts. Please keep that in mind. Amorkuz ☎ 22:07, August 12, 2018 (UTC)
