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Re your message on my page

Hello Catkind Thank you for asking me my opinion about your idea. A slight modification, I would make sure there is protection on the individual pages. Bigshowbower 12:41, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

n/a on individual infoboxes

I've been altering many of the infoboxes on this wiki so if you don't put something in a field on an infobox it won't appear. So for individual infoboxes that don't have an actor, don't put anything and the actor field won't appear. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 06:04, October 14, 2009 (UTC)

Actors who have appeared in Eastenders

That should be fine, my general rule for categories is as long as there's more than 3 things within that category than it's okay to exist (anything less than three they can usually be classified elsewhere). --Tangerineduel 14:41, November 4, 2009 (UTC)

Feature Article

Hi. I've been in the slow process of trying to work out a way to make the Feature Article process get some sort of results. As such I've just implemented a new Feature Article process, see Feature Article policy (now obsoleted) and Feature Article nominations. I've added your nomination of The Trickster to the December nomination, if you'd like it to be for a different month feel free to move it. I'm hoping this system will give us actual results rather than the stalled system that's current in place. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 13:17, November 7, 2009 (UTC)

Templates for every Doctor

I'm fine with it in theory (I haven't really worked on any of those specific novel boxes).

The only issue I see ahead is that dealing with other Doctors (other than the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors) is that Doctors One - Seven have all been in novels across at least two ranges; the Virgin New/Missing Adventures and the BBC Books Past Doctor/Eighth Doctor ranges. (There's also the Telos Novella range to consider)

Would these Doctor novel templates be going on the individual Doctor pages or the various novel pages? I'm just worried about the size and focus of the template as these templates would cover 2-3 ranges, unlike the current novel templates that just cover the NSAs.

If all this information's going to be contained on within the template it's going to need to be clearly marked out. Though this would create quite a long list to cram into the template especially for the Seventh and Eighth Doctors.

The Torchwood novel range is actually quite simple and straight forward much like the Ninth/Tenth/Eleventh Doctor novel templates. --Tangerineduel 13:06, January 4, 2010 (UTC)

DeltonMenace

I like that you stand up to him. As I read the Howling before the last specials, he seemed to go insane! Someone needed to stand up to him, and you do a great job returning everything to the rational. I'm on your side. Zach Schmidt 23:49, January 8, 2010 (UTC)

I don't think it is about sides but he dos go of on rants. --Catkind121 09:47, January 9, 2010 (UTC)

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A wiki is by definition an open and editable by anyone, so forcing new users to read the MoS is tricky.

If there was a way to make them look at the MoS when they clicked an edit button it would need to be applied across the whole wiki and for all users (in theory anyways).

Any new users you come across you can always add the Template:Welcome IP template to their page: {{Welcome IP|}} (you can leave your signature after the | like this {{Welcome IP|--~~~~}}, or just leave it as this {{Welcome IP|}}. This adds template with links off to the help page and other pages that may be of use to new users. Thanks, I and the other admins will continue to keep and eye out for vandalism. --Tangerineduel 13:44, February 18, 2010 (UTC)

Cleanup

For the Time Field page, what exactly is it that needs cleaning up? The Thirteenth Doctor 13:13, May 31, 2010 (UTC)

• Just now it can actually be in present tense as the cracks are an ongoing thing. See here. Other than that, I can't see anything that's outwith the Manual of style. The Thirteenth Doctor 13:24, May 31, 2010 (UTC)
  • But I'm not wrong. Even if you think I am. The manual of style clearly states that ongoing events are not in the past tense. The cracks are presently ongoing, so should be in the present tense. The Thirteenth Doctor 13:35, May 31, 2010 (UTC)

Assistance with a discussion on the forums

Hi, I'd value your input/discussion on this topic in the forums Forum:Italics or Quotation marks?, I'm not comfortable making a ruling solely based on a running conversation between myself and CzechOut and would value other regular editors' points of view on this issue. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 06:36, June 24, 2010 (UTC)

sooo ^_^

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so you like the cheetah people and catkind too

uh. its good to know im not the only one who liked them Kingdomcode 20:18, September 20, 2010 (UTC)

Your input is needed!

You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Can we disable visual editor please?.

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 04:48: Tue 20 Dec 2011 

Your input is needed!

You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Can we disable visual editor please?.

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:50: Thu 22 Dec 2011 

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