User talk:The Librarian

Hi,

Just to let anyone know I've currently started on Doctor Who Magazine related pages which I hope will be comprehensive (I promise I'll catch up soon).I had to start somewhere but if anyone has suggestions or requests for details they would find useful / interesting or both, please let me know.Hope I can help! The Librarian 01:36, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Update: because of the number of links within the magazine pages I've also turned my attention to;

• Other related releases (including specials, graphic novels, poster mags, American comics, etc.)
• Listings and coverage of the Doctors comic strip stories (including DW Classic Comics and TV Comic)
• Doctor Who Annuals and Yearbooks
• Target novels (which are extensively reviewed and included in features)

I've still a lot to learn and will be revisiting the pages later at some point to fill in some of the gaps so please bare with me, unless you get there first! and thats before I get to the In-Universe stuff!! Enjoy The Librarian 20:02, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh and big thanks to Tangerineduel

My Useful Links

Tardis:Publication Index List

Category:Prose stories

Category:Novel series

Category:Reference Books

Category:Target Novels

Reminders to Myself (following clean-up) The Librarian 20:02, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

• Brackets after everything look messy
• Include ==External links== at the end of every page
• Have a look at similar pages first!
• Sets of pages (e.g. TV, Books, CD. Audio and Anthology pages) have an established look
• Bullet points(*) VS short indentations(:)
• Dont use too many indentations
• (` `) italics
• (` ` `) bold
• `br` in greater/less than brackets is used to create a new line of the same formatted text
• REFERENCES relate to in-universe comments and observations.
• CONTINUITY relates to mainly out of universe comments.
• Previous/Next boxes in the infoboxes relate to publication order if not sequentially part of a set.
  Additional terms used could include OCCURS BEFORE / AFTER
• MINOR EDITS should only be ticked when there is no new or additional information added to a page.
• Regarding WORD editing:

"..." does not translate well!

• Use the `what links here` on the top left column to explore the topic.
• Do a search for variants of a missing link (e.g. early episode titles)
• Article> history> compare edits. Use the compare option to see changes made in the history and pick up tips on punctuation etc.
• | is used to separate the linking page to what actually appears as text
• keep the brackets tight!
• ? little reference numbers
• {{proposed deletion}} (? start and end bit)

with a nowiki /nowiki to conceal it!

• Its probably easier to do than I think!

Ongoing

Comic Infobox

Hey, well I decided to update the current comic infobox, rather than create a whole new one. Take a look at The Power of Thoueris! (as that was the most recent one I created or thereabouts) and has the new infobox layout implemented in there. --Tangerineduel 04:38, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Additional (Red) Links

Hi Librarian. The reason to why I have put red links in pages you've written is: I don't know very much about the early Doctor Who stories, but I thought that if I create links to characters mentioned on pages it's more likely that someone who knows more then me will write some info...

By the way I think you're doing a great job! Keep on going! Rufus

Hey Rufus...there's a conversation between me and the Librarian lurking...somewhere, either on my talk page or his or in the forum. The gist is (or my argument at least) is that I left the creation of character pages up to the Librarian (as he does in fact have the Magazines in front of him) and so he would know whether or not there is enough information to create a character page for the characters mentioned (as in many cases the information such as it is can be answered in the comic's own page rather than a one line page). --Tangerineduel 15:21, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Novelisations

I think that it might be best not to have Doctor Who at the start of all these novelisation covers. As this is the Doctor Who wiki, it's pretty much self evident that it's a Doctor Who story. It may also be best to follow the links laid out on Target Novelisation, which have a much cleaner (and in some cases shorter) titles than your listing. I may start to re-name some of the titles soon. --Tangerineduel 08:15, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

not all the novelisation titles have to have (novelisation) written after them, especially the ones entitled 'Doctor Who and the' they definatley do not need novelisation after them.--Tangerineduel 08:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Just a small...thing

It's the very nature of the wiki that there's going to be thing that need to be improved on, you don't really need to put a 'not much info' note in each of the articles where you don't know everything (as there's always going to be things people can add to it), instead mark it out (at the bottom of the article, above the category with a {{stub}} which will mark it out as something needing more attention. --Tangerineduel 17:55, 8 September 2007 (UTC)