Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-39450671-20200330222925/@comment-6032121-20200606134502

Oh, the same way we always handle these sorts of conflicts. There would be separate pages for the Tzun Master ("The Master (First Frontier)") and the Old Master ("Old Master"/"Old Master (Doctor Who"), per the end credits of the TV Movie, to separate from Roberts who'd get "The Master (Doctor Who)"), and without being explicit about this, we'd put, at the end of the biography of the First Frontier Master, something like:

"When receiving a psychic call from a Master who was placed on trial by the Daleks, the Seventh Doctor reminisced that this "saturnine-looking" bearded man had recently extended his life using alien biomass, (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) much as this Master had done. (PROSE: First Frontier)"

And leave it at that.

If we can have Template:WhichDoctor, we can have a sentence explaining that maybe it was the Ainley Master who got executed instead of the Tipple Master and/or Rathbone Master, y'know? This doesn't feel like an insurmountable problem, let alone one that requires speculation to solve.