Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130201045831/@comment-188432-20130207023102

Okay, what's going on with 26 May and then 1703. Are you sure that Planet of the Spiders actually gives Samuel Pepys' date of death? I mean, can you tell me precisely where in POTS this mention occurs?

I think it's a red herring, and a violation of T:NO RW. See, what you don't know is that there was a time when all these date pages were riddled with information that came from a conflation of real world and in-universe facts.

A typical scenario was: Leonardo da Vinci is mentioned in The City of Death. We know from history that he was born on 15 April 1452. (Ah! Add 15 April to your remove TV list.) Therefore, 15 April would then bear the line "1452 - Leonard da Vinci was born. (TV: The City of Death)

But of course City had said no such damned thing. I got a lot of these buggers outta the system, but you may have just unintentionally resurrected one.

So unless you can tell me exactly where we get Pepys' death date from, we need to delete 1703 and your line from 26 May.