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Pluto2 wrote: Here is my proposal:

Given that Paul Cornell has referred to this little corner of the franchise as being "unbound", the following changes would be made:

1. Scream of the Shalka, its novelization, and The Feast of the Stone are to be treated as valid sources, albeit ones in a different universe to the 2005 series. The first eight incarnations of the Doctor are certainly the same ones as the revived series has.

2. No change is to be made to the title of the article Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka), given that the novelization unambiguously states the Doctor is in his ninth incarnation.

3. We likewise treat the adroid Master like we do the one Mark Gatiss plays.

Essentially, we would follow the ruling given for Unbound - the three Shalka Doctor stories are in a separate universe to the revived series, but still valid sources. In my own personal "cannon", I always fitted Shalka as an alternate universe. But since Cornell refers to the story as "unbound", I can agree with deeming it as an alternate timeline here as well. The Doctor Who Unbound page itself says " term has been adopted as a general descriptor of out-of-continuity stories." and uses Shalka as an example, actually.