User talk:Skittles the hog/Archive 2

The Reign of Terror episode length

Hi! In an edit you made to The Reign of Terror in June, it looks like you accidentally changed the format from "6 25-minute Episodes" to "6x5-minute Episodes". That is an error, correct? Since I haven't seen the story (and I'm relatively new to Doctor Who), I hesitate to change it back to "25-minute" myself without knowing. --Renophaston 19:59, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi

Hi .. long time yeah Quark16 18:22, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Adminship

I'll point you to Tardis:Questions and guide to requests for adminship rather than repeat the questions on that page.

But (as I said previously I'm still concerned about your motives), your recent edits continued my concern, and downright puzzled me.

Just looking over some of your recent edits:

• The E-Space Trilogy had some good information about a lot of it, which through your edit removed 2000 + characters. I rolled it back as I couldn't see any reasons (other than thinning down the article, but as it was the only content in said article I couldn't see a reason. Partly because you didn't put anything in the summary field.
• Another recent edit of your was Mistfall, quite well written, except in present rather than past tense.

As I've asked previously I'm still not sure why you want to become an admin (amongst the other questions on the above page). --Tangerineduel 17:22, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Ideas/Stuff to do

If you're looking for stuff to do there's always the Tardis:To Do List (it's been there for a while) it lists all the article maintenance categories. There's also the Tardis:Article To Do List which has a variety of things that need doing that don't fit into the predefined categories or stubs etc. --Tangerineduel 00:59, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Which stuff? You mean my suggestions? Or the stuff that's on my talk page? --Tangerineduel 14:29, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Are you asking me for a defined level of article edits that you have to do in order to become an admin or out of curiosity?

The Tardis:Questions and guide to requests for adminship is what will be looked at and applied to those curious about adminship, the fact that you keep requesting for adminship has made me curious from the start. I seem to recall initially you wanted it to be able to block users and delete articles. Now I'm not really sure your motivations. --Tangerineduel 14:42, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Well adminship doesn't raise give you any higher status than any others. There are plenty of editors/users that are integral and part of this wiki (yourself and quark16 seemed to be part of the wiki). All editors are accepted within the wiki. Being an admin means you need to be mediator, be ready to be disliked for things, and basically clean up a lot of the detritus left behind by various random edits (on top of all the things mentions in the '...requests for adminship' article. --Tangerineduel 14:58, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

As I've frequently said I still have concerns. As I've said previously your body of edits are small edits so it's hard to judge your capabilities. Also your note back to me also didn't fill me with confidence (in that it was missing three apostrophes and a capitalisation on I'm). I'm not critising you (I know it looks like that, sorry). There's nothing wrong with being a user/editor. --Tangerineduel 15:17, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Infoboxes

Please come to the forum thread in which a radical proposal has been made to change infoboxes and give your views. Thanks! CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 17:19, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Featured Article template icon

Hey, I see that you are the original creator of the featured spotlight star. I think what you did was quite good, however I have changed the way it displays on an article, from what it was previously to instead showing up on the right of an articles title, for an example see the Tenth Doctor page. I hope you don't mind this alteration, but because you are the original creator and few others have made changes to that page, I thought it would be courteous to tell you about the changes I have made. -- Imperial Emperor - ^Talk 14:46, November 16, 2009 (UTC)

End of Time quote

If you're talking about who is adding the "Narrator" bit, that's "the Mysterious". If you're talking about the random blank spacing, then that's the new Wikia Rich Text Editor. Which, by the way, is a piece of crap. :( -- sulfur 18:56, January 2, 2010 (UTC)

Philip Pullman writing for Series 5?

I note that you added Philip Pullman to the list of confirmed series 5 writers but you didn't provide a source for this confirmation. Is there any chance you could add a source for it, as it's the first time I've heard this.

--MDear 16:24, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

Phillip Pullman

Um. Where did you get this (false) Pullman rumor from? I'm just curious, for...well, I have reasons. --Golden Monkey 19:44, January 10, 2010 (UTC)

New life to an old suggestion

An old suggestion you made at the forums is being discussed again. Please see Forum:Missing Episodes Indicator. Thanks CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 10:25, March 31, 2010 (UTC)

I know you!

Dude, you were on Primeval Wiki. Also, I have done my own Torchwood Wiki! You can see it here. Trikster87, 18:16, 11th April 2010 (UTC)

Quotes

No, generally we've been going for a more professional look (see Tardis:Manual of Style#Quotations) Thanks. --Tangerineduel 17:21, August 19, 2010 (UTC)

hey Skittles, good job with the monkey island wiki and the Dr Who wiki, i was wondering, do you know about "The matrix" franchise, particularly anything about the Matrix Online by any chance? =) Sclera1 08:47, August 21, 2010 (UTC)

Past tense

I noticed that on the Power pack and Vintaric crystal articles you wrote parts in the present tense. Please remember that all in-universe articles should be in the past tense. Thanks. The Thirteenth Doctor 11:03, August 21, 2010 (UTC)

i hope you weren't scared off by launchballer, i know that despite his good service he could be a little bit rough =) Sclera1 12:35, August 24, 2010 (UTC)

Hey!

I seen you around on the Primeval Wikia and I believe you are the creator of that wikia? How come you never edit on that Wikia? Have you retired? Kabilan29 13:31, September 6, 2010 (UTC)

oh ok! I still watch Primeval! I also like Doctor Who but I really liked it with the 10th Doctor and Rose! After David Tennant left, the show sucks! You gonna watch Primeval Series 4? Do you work on any other Wikia? If you do can you tell me cos I might help you out! Thanks! Kabilan29 16:42, September 6, 2010 (UTC)

Categories

Hi, please remember when creating categories that it should all be lower case, except names (and the first word). --Tangerineduel 15:53, September 17, 2010 (UTC)

It's correct, if in doubt look to Wikipedia's pages (ours and Wikipedia's don't usually line up exactly but you often can get the idea).

However, some the things listed in Natural disasters aren't. Pompeii is a location, the eruption of Mt Vesuvius was the disaster element, Mistfall was the instigator of an evolutionary process not a disaster of any sort.

Krakatoa is correct though it was a natural disaster, it along with Mr Vesuvius could/can be placed in the natural disasters category. Though there should be 3 articles in a category to create the category.

I'm going to get rid of Man-made disaster's as there's currently only one thing in the category (there should be at least 3 for the category to be created). Thanks. --Tangerineduel 16:05, September 17, 2010 (UTC)

Contents Box

Hi sorry do disturb you but do you know how to make a conetnts info box beacause i am making a new page so I need one. Thanks. Ghastly9090 17:03, September 22, 2010 (UTC)

HELLO!? Are you there? Ghastly9090 15:25, September 23, 2010 (UTC)

Adding naming to categories on articles

Hi, I've noticed some of your recent edits have involved adding correct naming to articles so they categorise correctly.

To save some typing just add at the top of the categories {{DEFAULTSORT:}} (which is below the text box in the the Wiki markup section) and add the name that you want the category to sort by after the colon so it would look like this categories {{DEFAULTSORT:Last name, First name}}, I've changed Mitra Ashkanzai so you can see how it works.

There's nothing wrong with the method you're using at the moment (It's the way I used to do it for a while!), but using the default sort means any categories that are added or for pages with a lot of categories you only need to fill in this info once rather than however many times for lots of categories or whatever. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 17:16, September 23, 2010 (UTC)

TV stub

Please leave it as TV stub. Its is easier for User to see when they look through the Section stub category, and also it means it will appear on 'Article that need updating...'in the proper section. Its also the correct tag for a television stub, as many of the pages also have missing info in the Counitunity, or Story notes sections.. Mini-mitch 19:36, September 25, 2010 (UTC)

Please still leave it as a TV stub, it is easier to find under the category of TV stub for when User are going to edit the stub pages. Mini-mitch 19:39, September 25, 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough, but both templates on. That way people will now what bit of the page is a stub. That actually seems a much better way to do it... Mini-mitch 19:43, September 25, 2010 (UTC)

DVD covers

Please before uploading new DVD covers check Doctor Who DVD covers (or more specifically Doctor Who DVD covers/Region 2 if you're just uploading UK covers) to see if there's already an image of the DVD cover uploaded. Most of the DVD covers uploaded end up appearing on those pages (or related pages). Thanks. --Tangerineduel 13:48, October 3, 2010 (UTC)

Already done, I've in fact not deleted, I've moved the image for the Key to Time as it was a higher res image than the previous image (if you check your contributions you'll see the file name for the image you've uploaded has changed, but it now links to several other articles, I then changed the Key to Time DVD article page to link to the newly moved image, which is the one you uploaded) and I've left the Dalek War image as it's a different angle. Also I always check what links to files before I delete. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 13:58, October 3, 2010 (UTC)

Images

BBC screenshot should be able to be used for that, the the wording on the Template:Screenshot is "This image is a screenshot of a television programme, movie, video game, web broadcast or DVD feature over which the BBC have some level of ownership.". The screenshot template should suffice for the DVD features (of which the BBC has copyright of). --Tangerineduel 11:54, October 9, 2010 (UTC)

Title cards

Sure go for it. There already exists Title cards/Doctor Who so maybe use that as inspiration rather than the DVD covers gallery. --Tangerineduel 15:43, October 9, 2010 (UTC)

I would have thought Doctor Who documentary title cards would have been the most logical thing to call it. With sections for Doctor Who, Torchwood, SJA etc. Or alternatively you could go the DVD cover's route and go with sub-pages for each of the series'. But I'd suggest Documentary title cards with it all on the one page for now and we can see if we need to complicate things (and in what way to complicate it). --Tangerineduel 16:35, October 9, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Canon

I can understand why you did it because it wasn't even made canon in the first place. I, The Thirteenth Doctor and Tangerineduel had a long discussion about it and the Tomorrow Windows does show the Curse of Fatal Death Doctor's as being part of a possible future for the Doctor, so it pulls it back into canon. Revanvolatrelundar 18:27, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

Behind the scenes

In some cases it's about the information leading the way, with some Behind the scenes sections being big, and some small and those sizes leading the way for certain formats. Big articles like the Doctor and the Master don't have bullet points to display their information, but smaller articles do, Bad Wolf (entity) has a couple of points of info in bullet points.

In the case of Atraxi 3 I think it looks better with a bullet point because it's a small amount of information and it's less likely to look like the info is 'wandering the page'. There isn't a rule written to say this is the way to do it or not do it, it's more about how the information lends itself. Do you think it needs to be noted in the manual of style or elsewhere? With things like this it's very determinate on what information there is then working from there. --Tangerineduel 11:23, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

Another benefit of it is that new or occasional editors also would also use a bullet point instead of taking a few lines to make sure their post is separate from the one above. Then it wouldn't require other users to fix this and would thus save some time. --The Thirteenth Doctor 21:13, October 14, 2010 (UTC)