Theory talk:Timeline - Auteur

Identities
A good chunk of this page isn't even about Auteur - rather being about Robin Hood and Santa Claus. I think that it should be mentioned that Auteur took on these identities with a link to their own timelines. There is nothing to suggest that the Auteur version of Robin Hood is the same one that both encountered Iris Wildthyme and later the Twelfth Doctor, or that he was the dream version of Santa that appeared in Last Christmas. Also, there is no link next to the claim that Auteur identified as Robin / Santa to which story these claims came from. RadMatter ☎  23:26, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't see why we can't have the timeline replicated here? Similar to how, in the main namespace, we have the events of the War Chief's life both on The Master and on his own page. Although note that the page does not currently allege that the fake Robin met by Iris was Auteur; read it again more carefully.


 * As for Last Christmas, remember the final shot. The real Santa was very much involved, although it's left somewhat ambiguous whether the scene at the end of Death in Heaven was him or already his artificial dream doppelgänger. Scrooge MacDuck ☎  23:34, 12 January 2021 (UTC)


 * I think that it is ridiculous.


 * To my knowledge we are never told that Auteur actually is Robin Hood, Santa Claus, Zorro, etc, but these are names which have been given to him by others. So even the claim that "[Said character] was an identity taken on by Astrolabus in one of his incarnations" is incorrect, let alone creating a whole false timeline of "Astrolabus regenerates into his "Tom Riley" incarnation". RadMatter ☎  23:41, 12 January 2021 (UTC)


 * True, Astrolabus's claims are never independently verified, but there is a reason this is in the "Theory" namespace. It is all very theoretical and speculative (and by convention, all italicised text is specifically marked out as speculative connective tissue). It made for a more interesting result to take a maximalist approach to which of Auteur's claims of past identities we believe, so that is what I did.


 * Note that so long as we agree to go with Auteur=Astrolabus for the theory-timeline, it is kind of Auteur's gimmick that he observes his own crazed beliefs into existence, so regardless of whether it was "always" true, any given delusion of Astrolabus about his past is arguably valid history for Auteur. Scrooge MacDuck ☎  23:49, 12 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Again... Astrolabus makes no claims. He simply states that people gave him these names. If someone called the Doctor Father Christmas would we also have to insert all of the Santa appearances into his timeline?...


 * I am all for leeway when it comes to speculation on these timelines - and have no problem with Astrolabus / Auteur being identified as one and the same but this is pushing it. Simply state that some referred to the Auteur as these mythical characters and link to those separate pages. RadMatter ☎  23:56, 12 January 2021 (UTC)