User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26469787-20150726050336/@comment-5918438-20160105221627

Could we not simply regard these as production errors, though? I think if no statements are made to that effect in a DWU source (even retroactively in a novel, for example), we should assume the stories take place in the order as broadcast, as they were intended to be. Any incongruencies can be seen as production errors made as a result of the change of order, but the change of order is definitive.

If a story says it takes place before or after another story from the perspective of at least one of the characters—as for the Eleventh Doctor at the start of series 6—obviously that takes precedence. Otherwise, we do not speculate. We do not piece things together. We write based on what we're given.

As for ATCM and TPOT, I think that might be speculation as well, to put the stories in that order, for example on Rory's page. Is it possible they encountered him twice? Does that montage scene actually show Rory losing his mobile phone? I'd have to rewatch it.