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Bwburke94 wrote: "According to one account" would unnecessarily complicate the Ninth Doctor page. We've done it with the Master in his various post-Survival states, but applying the same principle to the Doctor is a step too far.

The Ninth Doctor seen in Shalka is most certainly not the same incarnation as the Ninth Doctor seen in Rose. If Shalka isn't an alternate universe of some sort, what is it? I don't think anyone's saying that they're the same incarnation, and should be merged into one page. Just that Richard E. Grant's Doctor and John Hurt's Doctor are both the successor to Paul McGann's Doctor. Which is a contradiction, just like (as you said) whether Stop the Pigeon or First Frontier follows Survival for the Master. In the cases where that is relevant, it should be "one account"/"another account." But on their individual pages, they don't need more than a minor note mentioning each other, if even that.