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• Hawki •

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Thanks for your recent edits! I'm Jimbo, your robot wiki representative! We hope you'll keep on editing with us. This is actually a great time to have joined, because we're now fully independent, and working on a host of new features!

We've got a couple of important quirks for a fan written wiki, so let's get them out of the way first.

British English, please

We generally use British English 'round these parts, so if you use another form of English, please be sure you set your spell checker to BrEng, and take a gander at our spelling cheat card.

Spoilers aren't cool

We have a strict definition of "spoiler" that you may find a bit unusual. Basically, a spoiler, to us, is anything that comes from a story which has not been released yet. So, even if you've got some info from a BBC press release or official trailer, it basically can't be referenced here. In other words, you gotta wait until the episode has finished its premiere broadcast to start editing about its contents. Please check the spoiler policy for more details.

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You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Can we disable visual editor please?.

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 16:52: Tue 20 Dec 2011 

Christmas cheer

Happy holidays!

As this fiftieth anniversary year comes to a close, we here at Tardis just want to thank you for being a part of our community — even if you haven't edited here in a while. If you have edited with us this year, then thanks for all your hard work.

This year has seen an impressive amount of growth. We've added about 11,000 pages this year, which is frankly incredible for a wiki this big. November was predictably one of the busiest months we've ever had: over 500 unique editors pitched in. It was the highest number of editors in wiki history for a year in which only one programme in the DWU was active. And our viewing stats have been through the roof. We've averaged well over 2 million page views each week for the last two months, with some weeks seeing over 4 million views!

We've received an unprecedented level of support from Wikia Staff, resulting in all sorts of new goodies and productive new relationships. And we've recently decided to lift almost every block we've ever made so as to allow most everyone a second chance to be part of our community.

2014 promises to build on this year's foundations, especially since we've got a full, unbroken series coming up — something that hasn't happened since 2011. We hope you'll stick with us — or return to the Tardis — so that you can be a part of the fun!

No HTML

Hi :) Thanks for your recent contributions. However, please do no introduce HTML — and especially not floats — into the body of articles, as you did here. This violates T:NO HTML and screws up normal text flow. That's important because:

• Wikia change page text flow from time to time, typically as the result of making other structural changes to pages.
• This wiki is maintained by bot, and no bots are expecting pictures to be enclosed in
  s within the text of articles in namespace:0.
• Pictures around TOCs need to have flexible flows because people can choose to either have collapsed TOCs or not.

Moreover, if you want a picture to float right, you just add a right parameter.

[[file:pic.jpg|thumb|This is the caption.|right]]

That said, in terms of page design, it's better to put the first pic on a page on the left, not the right. This balances the rather heavy graphical element that is the combination of the infobox and the TOC.

On other pages with less text, the best solution for the "first image problem" is simply to write more text, or to admit that there's not enough material to justify an infobox, or to content yourself with the infobox image as adequate illustration for the article. I'm not particularly convinced that the Prisoners of Time image is actually all that necessary to Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter), nor is it very illustrative of Jenny herself, but I'll leave it in for the time being. I would argue, however, that in the longer term, this page needs to get rid of this image and replace it with another one from the episode, a bit further down the page in the around the "personality" section.

Anyway, thanks for trying to make the page better. I totally get what you were trying to do, but, again, it's best if we keep the body of our normal article pages as free of HTML tags as possible.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  19:33: Tue 02 Sep 2014

Spoiler policy

Hi! Please note that, per Tardis:Spoiler policy, we do not create pages for stories before they are actually released. Your creation of the video game The Doctor and the Dalek is labelled as an upcoming release, and therefore the page will have to be deleted. Before I delete it, I want to give you an opportunity to save your work off-site, so you won't have to start over when the game is released. Thanks. Shambala108 ☎ 04:21, October 21, 2014 (UTC)