User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20151008023030/@comment-6032121-20191105212957

I don't think you realize that Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon and Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons are in fact the work of Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks. They were totally at liberty to use the War Chief, copyright-wise.

And they did! The only way for these books to be more explicit about the link would be to have Delgado hold a big neon sign flashing “I USED TO CALL MYSELF THE WAR CHIEF AND HAVE A WEIRD MUSTACHE JUST SAYING ”.

The only reason they don't do this is that they aren't infected with the fandom superstition that "the War Chief" is a Time Lord name to which the character answered, as opposed to just his rank within the War Lords' army. So all they can do is say in no uncertain terms "remember that Time Lord who allied with the War Lords and whom the Master called the other Time Lords in to try, and then he was supposed to have his TARDIS revoked and timestream erased, but he escaped? now he calls himself the Master".

So all in all, quite a different discussion from the War King, the Man with the Rosette, and Professor Stream, all three of whom are cases of characters coded to be the Master, but who cannot be considered to be the Master by the Wiki because the stories weren't licensed to use the Master.

So I support a separate thread to get the War Chief business cleared up, a thread whose final decision would also influence this one somewhat. But Stream, the War King and Rosette don't belong in that thread.