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Thanks for becoming a member of the TARDIS crew! If you have any questions, see the Help pages, add a question to one of the Forums or ask on my talk page. Skittles the hog ☎ 11:43, October 12, 2014 (UTC)

Real world info

Hi! I realize you probably spent hours of work on the English towns and counties, but I've had to undo most of your work. There are a couple of issues here:

• All in-universe articles on people, places, and things that also exist in the real world are tagged with {{Wikipediainfo}}, which leads anyone interested to the wikipedia page. Therefore, there is no need for us to include any non-DWU details in our articles. In particular, we never allow speculation in our articles, so phrases like "it may be" or "it is possible" are not allowed.
• In addition, T:NO RW tells us that we are only to use info from DWU stories in our in-universe articles. No matter what we know about a subject in real life, it is not added unless it can be sourced to a DWU story. (However, keep in mind that there may be examples of this on pages that haven't been caught and removed yet.)

A couple of things to keep in mind while you edit: make sure any headings you add conform to Tardis:Use sentence case, and be careful not to add content within the list of categories and templates, which must always be located at the bottom of an article beneath all the content. The edits you've been making today were inserted between the wikipedia template tag and the categories.

Thanks for reading this! Shambala108 ☎ 15:16, October 20, 2014 (UTC)

Noted. No problem. --66 Seconds ☎ 15:30, October 21, 2014 (UTC)

Honorifics

Hi! I was searching through some edits on Skarosa and noted that you had added periods after the abbreviation "Dr". Per Tardis:Honourifics, we follow the British method of not putting periods after certain words. Please check the policy to see which words do and don't have a period. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 18:28, November 3, 2014 (UTC)

New categories

Can you please explain your choice of "Individuals copied by the Zygons" as a category name? Also, how you you define a host?--Skittles the hog - talk 15:56, November 10, 2014 (UTC)

"Individuals copied by the Zygons" is for any individual, whether it be an animal or alien, who was used as a body-print by a member of the Zygon race. A host is a person whose body was possessed by or used by another lifeform against their will. 66 Seconds ☎ 16:04, November 10, 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the prompt reply. So, your saying they're not copied. The name is incorrect - they're using their likeness, not duplicating them. The OED defines host as: "An animal or plant on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives." I fail to see how using someone's skin makes you a host, or taking their body print either. You really should consult at least one other user before implementing categories that would be so widely used, at least per your definition. Also, you should reply to user talk page messages on the other correspondents talk page.--Skittles the hog - talk 16:15, November 10, 2014 (UTC)

Blink

Hi! What is your DWU source for Hull being in Yorkshire? We don't use the real world as a source, per T:NO RW. Thanks. Shambala108 ☎ 22:50, November 15, 2014 (UTC)

Infobox

Hi! Please remove the "Infobox Individual" template from your user page, as that template is only meant for story characters. On user pages it messes up the system in ways I don't quite understand but am willing to believe.

We do have an infobox for users, if you'd like to replace it with that. It's called "Infobox User". Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 15:51, November 18, 2014 (UTC)

Redundant categories

Hi! Please be careful when adding new categories to pages. When you add a more-specific category, such as Category:Stories set in Norfolk, to a page that has Category:Stories set in England, you must remove the broader category. Because our categories are nested (for example, the Norfolk stories category is located within the England stories category), including the two on the same page causes a redundancy that interferes with bot work. You can read more at Tardis:Beware recursion (the first paragraph is the one that applies here). Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 16:42, November 26, 2014 (UTC)