Forum:Doctor Who Magazine page update

Forums → Archive index → Panopticon archives → Doctor Who Magazine page update

This thread has been archived.

Please create a new thread on the new forums if you want to talk about this topic some more.
Please DO NOT add to this discussion.

Ok, the first thing I want to say is the the Doctor Who Magazine page really needs updating regularly. Not only are the covers released monthly, but pages need to be made as soon as the issue is realeased.

Secondly, the covers of diiferent magazines are split up into 3 different sections:

1. Doctor Who Magazine (Issues 107 - 163)
2. Doctor Who Magazine (Issues 164 - 237)
3. Doctor Who Magazine (Issues 237 - Present)

As some of you may have noticed, 2 and 3 finish and begin with DWM Issue 237 while 3 should begin with DWM Issue 238. Also, the gap between DWM Issue 107 and DWM Issue 163 is 56 issues, the gap between DWM Issue 164 and DWM Issue 237 is 73 issues and the gap between what should be DWM Issue 238 and the current issue, DWM Issue 431, is 193 issues. That's 120 issues more than the gap between 164 and 237. If you ask me, a new page needs to be created by next issue, named Doctor Who Magazine (Issues 432 - Present) and Doctor Who Magazine (Issues 237 - Present) needs to be re-named Doctor Who Magazine (Issues 238 - 431).

I think that this has been over-looked over the last few years and we need to do the above as soon as possible. This is just my opinion, and some of you may think we should wait until Issue 438 and make the gap a round 200. Please may and admin have a look at this. Thanks. Ghastly9090 16:36, February 14, 2011 (UTC)

I think we really need to look wider as to why these pages exist at all.

If they're just a page of the covers, much like the Doctor Who video covers (and the DVD and Blu-ray) pages, then they should just be named like that. Have one main page called "Doctor Who Magazines covers" and then have a sub-page off this main article for every year of DWM, that would keep the naming and numbering system simple. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:21, February 15, 2011 (UTC)

That's a good idea, but think about how long DWM has been running for, 31 years. That makes 31 pages of magazine covers? Couldn't there be an easier solution such as creating it for every era of Doctor Who, so from 1974 to 1981 etc if you get what I mean. Really, creating and moving a new page isn't that hard so I don't get why we can't just carry on with the current system instead of doing the above? I mean, the system already is simple, there aren't any flaws. Thanks. Ghastly9090 15:48, February 15, 2011 (UTC)

From a "flow" standpoint, yeah, I like the notion of one main page and other pages branching off from it. On the top of the subpages, you'd have a link back to the main page and to every other page so it's always easy to go back and forth between the subpages and the parent. So that's a done deal, in my mind.

The question, to me, is what should be on the subpages? How do we divide the history of the mag appropriately? I'd argue for something between TD and G9090. I think it should be done by indicia name of the magazine until it finally and fully becomes Doctor Who Magazine, and then it should be done by year. Like, all the Weekly-s on one page, then all the Monthly-s, then The Official Magazine-s etc. But by the time you hit the 1990s, then it's done 13 at a time.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 

I like that, broken up by Weekly, Monthly, The Official Doctor Who Magazine and then by year when it hit the common Doctor Who Magazine format.

Linking wise, would a template at the top of each page to link back and forth, on top of the back-link to the main sub-page work?

On the sub-pages would be all the covers and a short lead explaining what's there, we really don't have a "cover page" that covers each era of the the Magazine. Through its different editors and styles, I think these sub-pages would be a good place for that. Though this sort of idea does slip slightly away from the idea of 'Doctor Who Magazine covers', so maybe have them as sub-pages off of Doctor Who Magazine, so that way the subpage for 2010 would just be Doctor Who Magazine/2010. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:37, February 16, 2011 (UTC)

I've moved and created a lead for the Doctor Who Weekly gallery as a proof of concept sort of thing: Doctor Who Magazine/Doctor Who Weekly. I've sourced a bit of an intro and the rest came from the DWM article and the DWM 1 article. I think there could be more on it dealing with the choice of comics and articles, but it's a start. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:40, February 17, 2011 (UTC)