User talk:TheOtherJenny
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Hi, I do not want you to think that I am ignoring you, so I'm leaving this short note that I do not have time this week for the wiki at all. I'll provide a real reply hopefully soon. Amorkuz ☎ 11:17, August 6, 2018 (UTC)
- To cut the long story short. The reason I undid your edits was that you removed information from the page. One can try to untangle a narrative, yes. But one should not ignore any valid information that does not fit into this narrative. DW has many continuity holes. This wiki would be very much incomplete, if we only allow consistent narrative. For instance, you removed the following passage "As the Doctor was already dying from chronal starvation" sourced to Spiral Scratch, but this wiki treats all media as equal. As for McCoy playing the Sixth Doctor, it is a well-established fact that Colin Baker did not want to return for filming the regeneration scene, and McCoy had to put on a wig and lie there instead. I'm not entirely sure how a correct fact can be hair-splitting. When Tom Baker returned as the Curator, thus, becoming an actor who played two incarnations of the Doctor, it is McCoy he was compared to. This is part of Doctor Who lore. We have no right to remove this information from the wiki.
- To summarise, I do not mind you "cleaning up", as you say, the section about the Sixth Doctor regeneration. But it must be done in such a way that no (correct) information currently present is lost in the process and so that all valid sources are taken into account and given equal weight, see Tardis:Neutral point of view.
- And, finally, it is not the case that every event in Doctor Who universe can be cleaned up. Some are inherently contradictory. Doctor Who is not a coherent universe, not by a long shot. In case of doubt, better to state all things as alternative accounts, close to the text than to interpret and massage facts until they fit. Amorkuz ☎ 22:37, August 12, 2018 (UTC)
