Forum:Metaltron reality

Opening post
Not a lot to say here, just a request that User:MrThermomanPreacher/Sandbox/Metaltron timeline be moved into the main namespace. Feel free to remove some of the headcanony palimpsest universe stuff if deemed necessary. MrThermomanPreacher ☎  11:35, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Discussion
Could you remove some of the "headcanony palimpsest universe stuff" yourself, and then re-present the sandbox to this thread? Once we've established there's no headcanon (intentionally) there, I've no particular issue with this. Although, also, with those bits removed, I don't really see why you wouldn't be able to do the move yourself? Cousin Ettolrahc ☎  12:14, 5 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I'm not convinced. Unless specific valid sources depict them as "universes" in their own right, I don't think we should create pages for every last state of the palimpsest. In theory the palimpsest-universe way of looking at the concept of time being rewritten means that there's a "Universe where little Amelia dropped her ice-cream" that gets overwritten with a "Universe where an adult Amy bought little Amelia a new one" as per Night and the Doctor, but that's just not how the story itself thinks about this. We can't start creating a retroactive palimpsest-universe page for every version of the future that gets overwritten by later TV continuity. And I just don't think any of the quotes provided at your sandbox are framing the Metaltron's state of reality in terms of being a distinct universe from what replaced it. Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 12:57, 5 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I like reality / timeline pages, and I like this page, but the palimpest framing confuses me as well. In particular, I don't think there's a clear implication that Dalek was actually overwritten by the later stories, just that the Metaltron and the Ninth Doctor were isolated and mistaken. Maybe some of the page's contents would be better housed on a "Metaltron incident" page similar to Operation Mannequin etc. – n8 (☎) 17:50, 16 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Well we have a page on the incident already, at (or at least should be at) Van Statten Incident. 17:54, 16 August 2023 (UTC)