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Thanks for your edits! We hope you'll keep on editing with us. This is a great time to have joined us, because now you can play the Game of Rassilon with us and win cool stuff! Well, okay, badges. That have no monetary value. And that largely only you can see. But still: they're cool!

We've got a couple of important quirks for a Wikia wiki, so let's get them out of the way first.
British English, please
We generally use British English round these parts, so if you're American, please be sure you set your spell checker to BrEng, and take a gander at our spelling cheat card.
Spoilers aren't cool
We have a strict definition of "spoiler" that you may find a bit unusual. Basically, a spoiler, to us, is anything that comes from a story which has not been released yet. So, even if you've got some info from a BBC press release or official trailer, it basically can't be referenced here. In other words, you gotta wait until the episode has finished its premiere broadcast to start editing about its contents. Please check the spoiler policy for more details.
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Thanks for becoming a member of the TARDIS crew! If you have any questions, see the Help pages, add a question to one of the Forums or ask on my talk page. Mini-mitch ☎ 01:55, December 12, 2013 (UTC)

Actor images

Hi :) Thanks for trying to help us out with illustrating images of actors. However, please do not illustrate actor pages with screenshots from the episodes in which they appear. This is a violation of local image rules. Instead, we're looking for images which depict the actor as themselves, preferably from their agency photos or public events, such as premieres. Thanks again for your help, and please don't be afraid to keep on contributing. You're very welcome on our TARDIS team! :)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:42: Thu 12 Dec 2013

Hi again :) The above weren't the only rules that apply to actor images. Like any other images on our site, the following apply:

• photos and screenshots must be jpgs or pngs — not any other format
• images should be no narrower than 420px
• infobox images must clearly illustrate their subjects at 420px widths
• files must be appropriately licensed

A more complete list can be found at our image cheat sheet. Also, you're invited to read our guide to good images so that you can see some practical illustrations of the kind of images that work best here.

Why do we have all these rules? Because Doctor Who is a fifty year-old subject that has generated images in every format that has existed since the 1960s. It's therefore important that we try to hit a common standard, and doing so requires several rules in order to accommodate all the ways in which images have been captured in that time.

Thanks very much for your continued work; several of your more recent uploads were just fine!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  00:08: Sat 14 Dec 2013

I will look over the rest of the rules to ensure that I am following protocol with my edit's Chaos Locust ☎ 20:34, December 14, 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Please not the last point in the box above: files must be appropriately licensed. Many (if not all) of your uploads don't have licenses on them. This is a very important rule on this wiki. I haven't deleted your images yet because I wanted to give you a chance to put a license on them. If you fail to do so, I will have to delete them. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 03:42, December 16, 2013 (UTC)

Heya :) Really need for you to add the most appropriate of our copyright tags when you upload pictures. It's important to properly source pictures and to make sure we're picking a picture that has a reasonable fair use rationale — or, better, one that's in the public domain or is under a creative commons license. Pictures without a copyright license are regularly deleted by bot, so make sure your pic is licensed.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:56: Mon 16 Dec 2013

Christmas cheer

Happy holidays!

As this fiftieth anniversary year comes to a close, we here at Tardis just want to thank you for being a part of our community — even if you haven't edited here in a while. If you have edited with us this year, then thanks for all your hard work.

This year has seen an impressive amount of growth. We've added about 11,000 pages this year, which is frankly incredible for a wiki this big. November was predictably one of the busiest months we've ever had: over 500 unique editors pitched in. It was the highest number of editors in wiki history for a year in which only one programme in the DWU was active. And our viewing stats have been through the roof. We've averaged well over 2 million page views each week for the last two months, with some weeks seeing over 4 million views!

We've received an unprecedented level of support from Wikia Staff, resulting in all sorts of new goodies and productive new relationships. And we've recently decided to lift almost every block we've ever made so as to allow most everyone a second chance to be part of our community.

2014 promises to build on this year's foundations, especially since we've got a full, unbroken series coming up — something that hasn't happened since 2011. We hope you'll stick with us — or return to the Tardis — so that you can be a part of the fun!