Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20151008023030/@comment-6032121-20191104193028

Basically. Not that I'm asking us to outright say this (it is pure speculation that Pratt-as-Crispy-Delgado manages to outright revert the damage to himself in time to regenerate into Beevers), but it is a possibility that should be made room for.

And again, Legacy of the Daleks no less "implies" it shows the origin of the Deadly Assassin Crispy than The Two Masters does. And Legacy also allows for Delgado to be able to regenerate in the general case; there is no conflict on whether he was the 12th Master.

Ultimately, what I'd suggest would be to add a section to the Master page. Or, rather, to dissociate the accounts of not-yet-crispy Thirteenth Master played by Beevers, from the "A body in decay" version. That way, you'd have the Delgado section, which ends with a fork between "maybe this leads directly into Deadly Assassin, maybe he regenerates in Doorway to Hell"; then you'd have the section about non-crispy Beevers, which ends with The Two Masters’s account of him being turned into the Crispy Master; and then you have the "a body in decay" section, now limited to the actual Crispy Master(s) and acknowledging that the timeline is very murky.

I mean, the template as it stands is a mess. A section titled "A body in decay" is saddled with all information about not-yet-decaying Beevers, making its title less than accurate — and what's more, Beevers again plays the shade of the Master post-TV Movie, and yet the “Beevers” template cannot point to both sections at once.

So in terms of the template, we ought to restrict to the non-crispy instances of his Master, and not the various times he plays the decayed wraith. Then a for Pratt/Beevers as such, and a  or something for the post-Roberts reversion to Beevers.

…Although in my opinion it would be so very much easier to just re-split The Master into individual pages. That way we could even have a separate page about the Deadly Assassin Master, acknowledging both of his potential origins.