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Revision as of 13:50, 16 March 2024
Welcome to the Tardis Wiki! We have have several help pages to help you with various tasks on this wiki.
Getting started
The following are help pages explain some of the most basic aspects of editing articles of wiki editing in general:
Going deeper
These tutorials examine some more advanced topics, with special emphasis on things specific to this particular wiki. All editors, regardless of their familiarity with wiki editing, are encouraged to read these articles.
Policies, guidelines and information for contributors
If you're going to edit here — and we hope that you do! — you need to understand the formatting rules and guidelines we've stablished. These rules may be fiddly, but they greatly help the site have a uniform and more professional look. One of your first stops as an editor should be our Manual of Style, followed swiftly by a visit to our layout guides.
Information for contributors
- Forking announcement (editors)
- What Tardis Wiki is not
- Point of view
- Copyrights
- Copyright tags
- List of prefixes
- Recent changes - List of edits made to this wiki.
- Resources
- Templates
Nominations pages
Some features of the site — typically elements seen on the front page are put up for specific discussion at one of several nominations pages. Here's a list of them, so you can get in on the conversation!
Help pages
- Prefixes
- Preloadable formats
- Spell checking
- Spelling cheat card
- Redirect
- Disambiguation term
- Tables
- Spell checking with a Mac
- Spell checking with Firefox
- Spell checking with Chrome
- Spell checking with Opera
- Editing
- I'm blocked
- Signatures
- Namespace
- Logging in
- Magic words
- New page
- Files
- Pipe switch
- Interlanguage links
- Toolbar
- Notifications
- Special pages
- User access levels
- Global CSS and JS
- Archiving talk pages
- Changing your username
- Edit conflict
- Clear your cache
- Spam
- Page history
- Chat
- Moving pages
- Image cheat card
- ISBN
- Math
- Supported browsers
- HTML
- Preferences
- Followed pages
- Talk pages
- User rights
- Assuming good faith
- Template classification
- Source editor
- Username policy
- Reclaiming your account
- Account help
- Interwiki shortcuts
- MyTools
- Facebook Connect
- Maps
- Help archives
- User pages
- Why create an account?
- HotCat
- Tardis account
- Orphaned pages
- Galleries
Policies
- Canon policy
- Copyright tags
- Tardis Manual
- Point of view
- Vandalism policy
- Plagiarism
- User pages
- User images
- Protection policy
- Video policy
- What Tardis Wiki is not
- No personal attacks
- Blocking policy
- Discussion policy
- User rights
- Disambiguation
- Username policy
- Deletion policy
- Edit wars are good for absolutely nothing
- Spelling
- Signature policy
- Outdated/Chat policy
- Archiving policy
- Interlanguage links
- Shortcuts
- Image use policy
- Valid sources
- Manual of style
- Wikipedia policy
- Edit summary
- Neutral point of view
- Images and perspective
- Changing policy
- Spelling we've agreed by discussion
- Image policies
- Desktop is definitive
- Infobox policies
- Editing policies
- Spoiler policies
- Merging policy
- Don't wikify your own material
- Guidelines for administrators
- Subpage policy
- Outdated policies
- User rename policy
- User pages
- Bots
- Username and signature policies
- We're Wikipedia's evil twin
- Colour spectrum policy
Index lists
Fora (or, if you like, forums)
Spoiler free
- The Cloisters (forum index)
- Advice and Assistance - Ask us anything!
- Reference Desk - Question-and-answer forum about narrative or behind-the-scenes elements. Our version of the Doctor Who Answers wiki.
- Panopticon - Policy and procedure relating to the maintenance and development of the Tardis Wiki.
- Discontinuity Index - A collection of discussions specifically related to the discontinuous narrative elements in individual stories. Got a plot hole? This is the place for you.
Spoilers allowed
- The Howling - A place to freely discuss and speculate, without having to worry about the restrictions of our spoiler policy.
