Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-1432718-20190809230204/@comment-6032121-20190810205643

Picking up where the last sentence by OncomingStorm12th left off, I'd say the difference is that the BBC page is simply stating facts about the character, without any in-universe context for that, whereas Who Is The Master? shows us new events in the DWU during which all that information about the Master happens to come out — namely, the TARDIS playing all these files.

It's similar to Case File, which also mostly consists of restated information, but also established new in-universe events — "At some point following her adventure fighting the Morax, Yasmin Khan created a Case File about them, where she recorded herself explaining that they (…)", and to the earlier Monster Files, which I'm fairly sure were ruled valid somewhere but I can't find the discussion again at the moment for whatever reason.

Of course, one can doubt how seriously this "gimmick" of an in-universe framing for the info is to be taken, but instances of clear additional in-universe narrative outside of the documentation, such as Missy's earlier-cited interference, would, I think, serve to establish that yes, we are meant to see this as the actual TARDIS scanner actually pulling up these actual files.