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In your argument that Thief of Sherwood is NOTDWU, which rule does it break?

The credits are not OOU because they're not real credits, they're not real articles. There's no such tv story as The Thief of Sherwood. It's just a storytelling method, a chance for Jonathan Morris to get creative. The Short Trips anthologies are littered with stories told in non-traditional fashion.

The notes section doesn't say it's a collection of articles, it says, "This story is written in the form of various summaries, reviews, and commentaries". There's a difference.

There's also the fact that many of the stories in Past Tense, Thief included, form a part of the last story, That Time I Nearly Destroyed the World Whilst Looking for a Dress, in which Polly travels to various settings in other Past Tense stories, changing events. Thief is meant to be a real story, just like the other ones that are referenced in That Time.

One last point is that Marion (spelled with an "o") also appears in That Time as the exact same character under the exact same circumstances as in Thief.