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[[File:Editor.jpg|250px|right|thumb|All we know passes through '''Floor 500''']][[:Category:Floor 500|Floor 500]] is the top-level category for the [[Tardis:About|Tardis | [[File:Editor.jpg|250px|right|thumb|All we know passes through '''Floor 500'''.]][[:Category:Floor 500|Floor 500]] is the top-level category for the [[Tardis:About|Tardis]]. Like [[Floor 500|its namesake]] from [[TV]]: ''[[The Long Game]]'', our Floor 500 is a central hub for information. All pages are ultimately linked to this one. The category is divided into four major kinds of information: stuff within the fictional ''Doctor Who'' universe, fictional stuff that's '''not''' in the ''Doctor Who'' universe, behind-the-scenes production information, and stuff that helps the wiki itself run. | ||
'''No individual article pages should | '''No individual article pages should be in here, or indeed any type of page except for the [[Doctor Who Wiki|main page]] and four subcategories.''' | ||
== Four on the floor == | == Four on the floor == | ||
'''[[:Category:Time-Space Visualiser]]''' is by far the largest of the subcategories. It contains the vast majority of articles present on this wiki. All categories and pages within it contain information written from an [[Tardis:point of view|in-universe perspective]]. That is, they are written on topics that have to do with the ''narrative "reality"'' of ''Doctor Who'' | '''[[:Category:Time-Space Visualiser]]''' is by far the largest of the subcategories. It contains the vast majority of articles present on this wiki. All categories and pages within it contain information written from an [[Tardis:point of view|in-universe perspective]]. That is, they are written on topics that have to do with the ''narrative "reality"'' of anything that this Wiki defines as being part of the [[Doctor Who universe|''Doctor Who'' multiverse]], from [[Doctor Who|the television series]] to ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]''. Such articles are easy to spot, because they're written in the past tense and tend to treat their subjects as "real" things that once existed. | ||
Still, there are some works of fiction that are not within | Still, there are some works of fiction that are not within our definition ''Doctor Who'' universe for one reason or another. Articles about such fiction can be found in '''[[:Category:Non-DWU material]]'''. A word of caution: please make sure you read [[T:CAN]] and [[T:VS]] before adding any of these categories to articles. There are actually very ''few'' works of fiction which can be classed, according to our rules, as truly "non-DWU". However, this does not mean that those stories not ''intended by their authors'' to be set in the DWU, it is merely our way of working with a system to classify sources so that we can efficiently write high-quality articles. | ||
Next comes '''[[:Category:Real world]]'''. This category contains information about the production of ''Doctor Who'' universe stories. Its articles and subcategories are all written from the "real world perspective", usually in the present tense. It, too, includes production information from the above shows, along with information about the producers of both licensed and unlicensed material in other media | Next comes '''[[:Category:Real world]]'''. This category contains information about the production of ''Doctor Who'' universe stories. Its articles and subcategories are all written from the "real world perspective", usually in the present tense. It, too, includes production information from the above shows, along with information about the producers of both licensed and unlicensed material in other media. | ||
Finally, there's '''[[:Category:The Hub]]''', which is an administrative category for things that help the wiki function. Most of the things that get put in this category do so automatically, because a little piece of code makes it happen. Unless you really start editing the structure of this wiki, though, chances are you'll never peek inside this folder. | Finally, there's '''[[:Category:The Hub]]''', which is an administrative category for things that help the wiki function. Most of the things that get put in this category do so automatically, because a little piece of code makes it happen. Unless you really start editing the structure of this wiki, though, chances are you'll never peek inside this folder. | ||
== Keep 'em separate == | == Keep 'em separate == | ||
No article should be tagged as being in more than one of these four main categories. An article can — theoretically — belong to an unlimited number of subcategories, but all these subcategories must be a part of only one of the four main categories. For instance, | No article should be tagged as being in more than one of these four main categories. An article can — theoretically — belong to an unlimited number of subcategories, but all these subcategories must be a part of only one of the four main categories. For instance, an article cannot combine both [[T:VS|valid]] and [[T:VS|invalid sources]] in the main "body" of text. Nor can it be written from both the real world and in-universe perspectives. | ||
Any invalid or real world information on valid pages ''must'' be placed in the "behind the scenes" section. | |||
This last assertion may be harder to grasp. If you have a category like [[:category:People from the real world]] — which tags real-life people like [[Charles Dickens]] who have appeared in ''Doctor Who'' — you may believe that such a category belongs both within [[:Category:Real world]] and [[:Category:Time-Space Visualiser]]. In fact, though, the article [[Charles Dickens]] is written from an in-universe perspective. That is, it's about Dickens' relevance to the history of ''that'' universe, not our own. Thus, the category '''only''' belongs in [[:Category:Time-Space Visualiser]]. Such cases, though, are rare. Most of the time, it's perfectly obvious which main category should house an article. | This last assertion may be harder to grasp. If you have a category like [[:category:People from the real world]] — which tags real-life people like [[Charles Dickens]] who have appeared in ''Doctor Who'' — you may believe that such a category belongs both within [[:Category:Real world]] and [[:Category:Time-Space Visualiser]]. In fact, though, the article [[Charles Dickens]] is written from an in-universe perspective. That is, it's about Dickens' relevance to the history of ''that'' universe, not our own. Thus, the category '''only''' belongs in [[:Category:Time-Space Visualiser]]. Such cases, though, are rare. Most of the time, it's perfectly obvious which main category should house an article. | ||
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Despite the general desire to keep things only in one of the four categories, there are a couple of very specific exceptions, both having to do with [[:Category:Merchandise]]: | Despite the general desire to keep things only in one of the four categories, there are a couple of very specific exceptions, both having to do with [[:Category:Merchandise]]: | ||
* It is possible for an article or category to be in both [[:Category:Real world]] and [[:Category:The Hub]], because they're both real world categories. So far, the only category to cross over in this way is [[:Category:Galleries]], because galleries are created by a specific feature of wiki markup code, and because all the galleries in the category were displaying ''Doctor Who'' merchandise, organized under [[:Category:Merchandise]]. | * It is possible for an article or category to be in both [[:Category:Real world]] and [[:Category:The Hub]], because they're both real world categories. So far, the only category to cross over in this way is [[:Category:Galleries]], because galleries are created by a specific feature of wiki markup code, and because all the galleries in the category were displaying ''Doctor Who'' merchandise, organized under [[:Category:Merchandise]]. | ||
== Nomenclature == | == Nomenclature == | ||