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Hello to everyone.
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I'm an admin, so any problems or questions that are vexing chuck them on [[User talk:Tangerineduel|My talk page]], if I can't help I'll try and point you in a direction which can.
I'm an [[Tardis:Administrators|admin]].  


I've been fan for a long while, and this wiki lets me indulge in a slightly obsessive passion.
I've editing this wiki for quite some time (not quite from the start though).  


I can get a bit obsessive and methodical and usually start with one page in a line (of novels/audios/TV stories) and then focus on one portion of it (like the external links or the images), go through a long line and fix just that, and then go and fix the rest. (Which is why the [[Virgin New Adventures]], [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]], [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] and the [[Big Finish Bernice Summerfield Series]] have a hand or two of mine in their (individual page) creation/major work.
I'm not as active as I was when I first started editing, time and all that wears one down a little bit. Since [[Tardis:Forking announcement|the fork]] I've tried to pop in more often.  


I've also been working to make sure that any novels, audios and TV shows all conform to the Manual of Style.
I mostly do admin-y things like going through [[:Category:Maintenance|maintenance categories]], checking articles that have long had the various maintenance tags on them and following up actions on those.


==Favourite Additions==
I make mistakes. I usually fix them. If not tell me.
*One of my favourite recent additions is [[The Doctor Who Cookbook]] which is actually sitting on my shelf, one of the oddest pieces of Doctor Who publishing...with some quite good recipes.
*The [[Alcohol]], [[Tea]], and [[Coffee]] pages which I'm also quite happy with (and all the useless knowledge they bring).
*Also I'm quite pleased with [[The Dark Dimension]], mainly because it's all accurately researched with proper citing of sources and all that jazz. I've gone to some lengths to research [[Black Sheep]] (who produced the covers for all the BBC's [[EDA]] and [[PDA]] novels and I's quite happy with the various authors opinions on that article.


*I've just found another article that I'd forgotten about, [[Teleportaphobia]], this I like just for the information it has, it brings a whole new light to all the matter transmitting that goes on throughout Doctor Who.
If there's an active talk page discussion that I've missed please feel free to point me towards it.


==Other recent work==
==My 'try to do list'==
I have '''finally''' finished updating all the classic series from the standard TV infobox to the ClssicTV infobox, plus clearing up all the articles (from An Unearthly Child to the TVM) to the manual of style, adding in all various links, making sure they're all arranged in the correct and same order, sorting out references and continuity from one another. But it's finally finished!
If I'm looking for stuff to do it's often the [[:Category:Proposed mergers|Proposed mergers category]] that I try to go through. I will often respond to talk pages that may have had merger tags left on them for some time. So check back if you tagged a page for merge occasionally, someone (likely me) may have left a message.  
:*I will at some point soon go back over [[Series 1 (Doctor Who)]] to Series 4 checking over everything again, plus Torchwood as well.


===Recent Work - Additional===
I also try to go through the various other sub-categories of the [[:Category:Maintenance|Maintenance category]], attempting to make my way through backlogs of various maintenance tags that have been added, but not dealt with further. This may involve adding queries to talk pages, and sometimes removing tags without action.
Added all licensing tags to the [[MediaWiki:Licenses]], which is used on the drop down license menu when you upload images, so hopefully no more looking through [[Tardis:Copyright tags]] page for them. Previously there were just the default ones, most of which didn't exist. But now it's all fixed.


==What I'm currently mucking around with==
==Category links==
*Have become motivated (off the back of finishing my now finished work on the TV pages and infoboxes, and not quite ready to go through the new series again) to continue with the DWMs despite the sizeable amount of typing needed for each article (usually around 2,500 characters). Working on filling in the gaps between the issues I've already done.
*[[Special:LonelyPages]]
*[[:Category:Articles in need of major additions]]


I've also rewritten adding more relevant and up to date content to the [[Tardis:To Do List]], which actually has existed since this wiki's foundation, but hadn't had any ''real'' additions since 2005.
==Various subpages and other work==
*[[User talk:Tangerineduel/Archive - Wiki formatting]] - Mostly information relating to formatting issues, all other responses removed.
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Test page]] - Old citation policy 2010
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox]] - Old reference books policy WIP-2012 
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 2]] - Style guide working
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 3]] - Where all pages lead to
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 4]] - [[:Category:Stubs]] rework / [[Tardis:Stub]]
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 5]] - Template testing
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 6]] - New stub testing
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 7]] -
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 8]] - Novel layout page testing with category links in reference section
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 9]] - Dalek TV story - Story notes restructure into paragraphs / sentences instead of bullet points
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 10]] - Terror of the Autons home media releases
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 11]] -
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 12]] -
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 13]] - Concept for references section category linking
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 14]] - Tardis manual additions page writing
*[[User:Tangerineduel/Sandbox 15]]


*I just created an article [[I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek]] (building upon my odd articles) this and [[Who is Dr Who?]] are music related.
==Research reminders==
*[[:Category:Numbers]] - check layout / formatting of pages
*[[:Category:Number plates]] - check and do something meaningful / properly link all these.
*[[:Category:Cooking appliances]]
*[[:Category:Concepts]] - needs diffusion, needs checking - many pages that are stubs, not tagged
*[[:Category:Emotions]] - pages need reformatting, separating out info.
*[[:Category:Fashion and clothing from the real world]] - pages need checking for layout adding dates etc, category needs diffusion.


==Other to do things, needing adding to various lists at a later date==
===Articles to research===
===Specific articles and pages===
*[[Art]]
*[[Doctor Who Magazine comic strips]], the specific pages on this page, several of them have the 'Published In' field in the infobox listing the publication as [[Doctor Who Monthly]], only issues [[DWM Issue 44|44]] through to [[DWM Issue 84|84]] are known commonly as 'Doctor Who Monthly', (issues [[DWM Issue 1|1]] to [[DWM Issue 43|43]] are known as [[Doctor Who Weekly]]). Each of the comic strips on this page must be checked to be sure it conforms with the magazine it was in. There are additional comic strip stories listed in [[:Category:Doctor Who Magazine comics stories]] also requiring checking.
*[[Bag]]
*[[Service station]]
*[[Trainer]]


==Other Info==
===Tidy up, maybe big edit===
*I don't care that much about rumours, supposition or any wanderings on the net and elsewhere.
*[[Alcohol]]
*Articles need to be written from ''actual'' sources, Rumours don't count as "sources".
:*Supposition or 'stuff that will probably happen based on these sheep entrails' (or alternatively stuff that hasn't been released for general media consumption) doesn't count either.
*I'm no great fan of copying huge chunks from wikipedia, the point (as I see it) is to be creating something unique here, not just a copy of any given Wikipedia entry.
*I'm usually around a lot of the time, I'm also an admin.


===Stubs===
*[[:Category:Character stubs]] needs diffusion and maybe separate stub template or something? Modify character stub tag to target further sub-categories?


==Seemed like a good idea==
==Cleanup and update reminders==
:''I wrote this and it seemed a good idea at the time, but a lot of the information is implied and some of it is sort of contradictory, so I'm chucking it here for now, I've got the nowikis in place just so there's not a lot of articles pointing to my page''
*[[:Category:The Hub]]
*[[:Category:Stub templates]] - thin down some of the underused ones


<nowiki>
==Categories==
Throughout the audio dramas and novels of the [[Faction Paradox (series)]] various pseudonyms and alternate names are used for planets, people, objects and other elements of the Doctor Who universe. This method has additionally been used in the past in several of the [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] (mostly [[Dead Romance]] by [[Lawrence Miles]]) and many of those alternate names etc were carried through to the Faction Paradox series but were also fed from or adapted from Miles' other ''Doctor Who'' novels (''[[Alien Bodies]]'' and ''[[Interference]]'' especially).
*[[:Category:Vehicles]] - needs to be checked and organised into sub-categories
*[[:Category:Categories requiring diffusion]]
*[[:Category:Layout guides]]


This is a list to assist in deciphering many of the ''implied'' names used throughout the series.
===Templates to categories===
*[[Template:Suscept conject cat]]
*[[Template:Diff cat]]


*Great Houses - [[Time Lords]]
==Other to do==
*Homeworld - [[Gallifrey]]
*Create a top category template: examples of to include:
:*[[Nine Homeworlds]] - Nine Gallifreys (first mentioned in [[EDA]]: ''[[Alien Bodies]]'')
:*[[:Category:Planets]]


*[[House Military]] - Were the [[Chancellery Guard]]
:Planets is a top-level category.  It should not contain, via subcategories, information about the culture, society or geography of planets.  Rather, it should be strictly about the planets themselves. Individual '''''pages''''' that are in this category are those which cannot be placed into this category's subpages. 
:For more information on the various planets in this category and how planets are categorised within them see [[Tardis:Guide to planets categories|guide to planets categories]].


*The Imperator - [[Morbius]]
*Images for all the random stub tags
*Lesser species - [[Human]]s, [[Earth]]
*Timeships - [[TARDIS]]es
*The [[Celestis]] (First seen in [[EDA]]: ''[[Alien Bodies]]'') are explained in that novel as the future of the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]]


==Other implied names==
==Other projects==
*[[Yssgaroth]] - ''May'' be the [[Great Vampire]]s
I've also done some work on the {{resize|110%|[[w:c:blakes7|Blake's 7 Wiki]]}} fixing it up to a point where it's got all the basics in place. Please go and make some edits. It's all there, more or less, or was the last time I visited.
*[[Grandfather Halfling]] - Is implied to be [[the Doctor]]. ([[FP]]: ''[[Of the City of the Saved]]'')
 
</nowiki>
==Other wikis==
I occasionally stop in at the:
*[http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The Babylon Project Wiki]
*[http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Hitchhikers Wiki]


[[Category:Users]]
[[Category:Users]]

Latest revision as of 12:58, 3 November 2024

Welcome, and hello.

I'm an admin.

I've editing this wiki for quite some time (not quite from the start though).

I'm not as active as I was when I first started editing, time and all that wears one down a little bit. Since the fork I've tried to pop in more often.

I mostly do admin-y things like going through maintenance categories, checking articles that have long had the various maintenance tags on them and following up actions on those.

I make mistakes. I usually fix them. If not tell me.

If there's an active talk page discussion that I've missed please feel free to point me towards it.

My 'try to do list'[[edit] | [edit source]]

If I'm looking for stuff to do it's often the Proposed mergers category that I try to go through. I will often respond to talk pages that may have had merger tags left on them for some time. So check back if you tagged a page for merge occasionally, someone (likely me) may have left a message.

I also try to go through the various other sub-categories of the Maintenance category, attempting to make my way through backlogs of various maintenance tags that have been added, but not dealt with further. This may involve adding queries to talk pages, and sometimes removing tags without action.

Category links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Various subpages and other work[[edit] | [edit source]]

Research reminders[[edit] | [edit source]]

Articles to research[[edit] | [edit source]]

Tidy up, maybe big edit[[edit] | [edit source]]

Stubs[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Category:Character stubs needs diffusion and maybe separate stub template or something? Modify character stub tag to target further sub-categories?

Cleanup and update reminders[[edit] | [edit source]]

Categories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Templates to categories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Other to do[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Create a top category template: examples of to include:
Planets is a top-level category. It should not contain, via subcategories, information about the culture, society or geography of planets. Rather, it should be strictly about the planets themselves. Individual pages that are in this category are those which cannot be placed into this category's subpages.
For more information on the various planets in this category and how planets are categorised within them see guide to planets categories.
  • Images for all the random stub tags

Other projects[[edit] | [edit source]]

I've also done some work on the Blake's 7 Wiki fixing it up to a point where it's got all the basics in place. Please go and make some edits. It's all there, more or less, or was the last time I visited.

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