User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-9435571-20151118033620/@comment-26469787-20151202050252

I'm not asking how it could be done, I'm explaining that our precedent isn't to work from authorial intention, and regard any alterations to "canon" as wrong, our stance is to treat all as equal, and seek to find the "most right" order, not "the right" order. I know where and when the TV movie is set, I'm talking about the countless stories, beginning with Lungbarrow, which "lead into" it. If we assumed that, because events are set up in one source, they must be consecutive, we are giving way to much leeway for speculation. But if one can be determined to be more definite (ie. one source states "He left, alone and afraid. Perhaps he should return home, now.", while another states "He set the course for Gallifrey."), we place it as such. Ergo, if World Game said something like "those nasty, brutish and short aliens he would soon have to face", and The Black Hole stated "He's just come back from SS Chimera.", we could follow the account which seemingly confirms that T2D occurs in one place, and only detail the implied information for the other, rather than assuming that WG is definitely referring to T2D.

What I'm trying to express is our levels of "priority": in-universe will always go before authorial intent. It's what retconning means. So if somebody had stated that WG only implies a particular chronology, we could arrange our articles as such, as implication and explanation are very different things.