User talk:Bongolium500

As an admin, I'm here to help: please feel free to ask me for assistance, particuarly with the more technical aspects of the wiki, here.
Remember to create a new section and sign your message with "~~~~". Bongo50 ☎

Re: The Daft Dimension

A pleasure to see a new user going into such details and minutiae of dabbing policy! It's worth noting that the Daft Dimension naming scheme is identical to the one used for the Quinn & Howett Doctor Who? stories, which is massive enough that even if it isn't currently recorded in policy, the way of translating "Doctor Who? (DWM 103 comic story)" into a "(Doctor Who? 103)" dab term can, by now, be considered "current policy" in th T:BOUND sense of the term.

Beyond that, I'm sure people like User:Borisashton will have an opinion on this issue, so you'd best copy over the text of your message to Talk:The Daft Dimension so that more people can participate. I think the current way is fine, personally — IIRC Doctor Who? strips aren't numbered, although I'm not sure if Daft Dimension ones are, so it's easier for readers wanting to track down the story to have the number of the issue, rather than the number of the story itself within the series, since that number is not present anywhere in the actual stories. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 20:18, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for the speedy response. As I mentioned, I am new here and so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to reply here or on your talk page. I hadn't even thought to put this on Talk: The Daft Dimension so I will do that right away. them you. Bongo50 (aka Bongolium500) ☎ 20:38, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Hm, yeah, usually one should reply on the talk page of the other fellow. Quite alright not to have figured this out on the first try, though, don't worry!Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 20:57, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

T:VS elucidation

Hi! Just spotted User:Bongolium500/Sandbox 3. There are a few points on which you say you are unsure, so let me clarify:

• A work which passes Rules 2 and 3 (commercially licensed by a DWU copyright-holder, and officially released), but fails Rule 1 (being a story) and Rule 4 (being meant to be set in the DWU), would be covered-as-{{invalid}}. A non-narrative parody gamebook, for example. The Universe Marathon may count: it's licensed and released, but it's a parody and has a branching narrative, so it's invalid.
• A work with passes Rules 2 (licensed) and 4 (meant to be set in the DWU), but fails Rule 1 (being a story) and Rule 3 (having been officially released)… Or a work which passes Rule 2 (licensed) but fails the other three little rules… That depends on what you mean by "failing Rule 3". Obviously T:SPOIL applies to these things, as it does to everything. But if we had information about a cancelled licensed, non-narrative Doctor Who work, then I think we would have an {{unprod}} page on that work. I don't know that the case has ever come up, but in theory we could.

Also, although that would in theory be a valid grounding on which to rule it out IMO, Can I Help You? is not currently deemed to be invalid on Rule 1 grounds; after all, we do dab it as a "(short story)" still. Rather, it is provisionally invalid for reasons similar to the Dalek Wars short stories — it's suspected that being too tied in with a "merchandise tie-in" makes it fail Rule 4 for similar reasons to commercials. It was due for a proper inclusion debate when the UCP mishap happened. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 19:27, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Daft Dimension numbering

Please do not change the citations in the (COMIC: The Daft Dimension 477) format. This is used on hundreds of pages, potentially thousands, across the Wiki to efficiently cite individual installments of Doctor Who? and The Daft Dimension, and even if I agreed that these citations aren't really proper, T:BOUND would apply for such a wide-ranging change. Really, this goes hand in hand with the dabbing issue we discussed two months ago (see above). Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 10:50, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

Comments on your Sandboxes

I just wanted to say that your citation template proposal is easily the coolest and most impactful idea I've ever seen proposed on the wiki. I understand it will take significant effort and reformatting to get it working with Template:Infobox Story etc, but I commit myself to doing what I can to facilitate its implementation, if/when it's approved. In the meantime I look forward to watching more of your brainstorming on this topic! – n8 (☎) 16:13, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Template

Yes, certainly, if you need it to continue your excellent work on new templates. But, of course, don't start using it on pages in the main namespace unless it's been approved and renamed to something less "placeholder"y. Thank you for asking first, anyway! Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 18:05, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Connection tree

Hi Bongolium,

I think that your sandbox showing how various series connect is really impressive. I have a suggestion for the Periodic Adventures of Señor 105 section, I think that it would be better to swap out the "Excelis Saga" for the Main Range and then have that part connect to Iris and then The Brenda and Effie Mysteries (series) underneath (as Iris appeared in several Main Range releases and Brenda appeared in The Boy That Time Forgot (audio story)).

Just a suggestion, but I think that you're doing great and I can't wait to see more. RadMatter ☎ 11:27, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the encouragement! I have made a small tree at User:RadMatter/Sandbox 1 using your original template to show how most of Paul Magrs/George Mann's series interact. RadMatter ☎ 23:07, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

I have again expanded my own tree, with help from your own.

It would be good if we were able to somehow incorporate the Virgin New Adventures, as they spun off into both the Bernice Summerfield (series) (which contained a part of the Excelis Saga) and Cwej: The Series (which featured an appearance by Iris in Down the Middle). RadMatter ☎ 11:47, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Which of the placements on my tree do you disagree with, if you don't mind saying? RadMatter ☎ 15:39, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Ah! I didn't realise that the lines had meaning, I've just seen your key. RadMatter ☎ 15:58, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Tree limitations

Bongo, you might be interested in some work I've done at User:NateBumber/Sandbox2 based on your character family trees – I think I've found a pretty good way to represent the ambiguity of Orson Pink's relationship with Danny and Clara, as well as the Doctor's multiple possible parentages – although I've leaned into speculation and invalid sources for that one! Thanks for revitalizing this template, I think we could do really cool things with it. – n8 (☎) 13:11, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words! I've just reorganized the page to more clearly present my two different ideas and their pros and cons. To summarize, one is more rigid and requires extra tiles, and the other is more flexible but would require resurrecting the old-style "VNA: Lungbarrow" prefixes, which were abandoned for a reason.

I've given some thought to mobile users, who (despite T:DESK WINS) make up a majority of wiki readers. But I don't think it's an insurmountable obstacle, as long as each tree is just an alternate way of rendering information already available on the page, so mobile readers aren't actually be missing out on any core info. Thinking ahead … well, you know more about templates than I do: would it be possible to modify {{tree/start}} so it doesn't even try to render the tree in mobile view, or so it adds an indicator that the page should be viewed on desktop? From my naive perspective, this seems more achievable than actually making {{tree}} work for mobile. – n8 (☎) 16:41, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

I definitely hear what you're saying regarding the different versions: a degree of flexibility is definitely necessary, and multiple formats can and should exist and interact, differentiated by their accompanying keys. The fact that even ""serious"" fans don't know the title of every story in each series is definitely why I started using prefixes in the first place (series-less stories just wouldn't get them I guess). I am an remain a superfan of your citation template idea, so incorporating it here seems like it would be a perfect fit.

And wow, you found out how to add shapes very quickly! :) Is it possible to The concept in my charts is that dotted lines can be merged / absorbed into filled lines sometimes, so I think the missing squares in my charts rely on a horizontal dashed line being able to turn solid when it meets a vertical solid line. Is that remotely possible? – n8 (☎) 19:54, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Yes, those are perfect! If I may, I'd also suggest ones where the vertical line stops halfway / doesn't continue through to the bottom. I'd do it myself but ... I have no idea how you're doing it! – n8 (☎) 14:10, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Those are perfect, and as you can see in my newly-updated Sandbox2, they make my "Proposal 1" work effectively. Thank you again! – n8 (☎) 13:04, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification! I've removed my links to your tree sandbox. I also saw that you mentioned at User:Najawin/Sandbox 5 that you'd like a forum debate about using {{tree}} on more pages. Do you really think the forums would be necessary for that change? I don't think there was ever a debate about using <gallery> on story pages; someone just started doing it, and it works great. Maybe getting a thumbs up from an admin would be nice, but as I see it, there isn't anything stopping us from just going ahead and sticking them on pages. – n8 (☎) 16:57, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Some of your recent changes and proposals

Hey there! I see you've been pretty busy around here, and we all thank you for your creativity. Coupla pooints, though. We've been striving around here for years to make the CSS increasinlyh simplified. Your recent effortts in Fandomdesktop.css and .js have therefore been deleted. This created a massively confusing situation whereby the less technically-minded amongst our admin staff wouldn't have been able to easily locate many things that should have been easily presented by the Theme Designer. A good example: the background banner. This should only be inserted via ThemeDesigner, and never by CSS. I appreciate that you might have picked up some bad advice about this, and that you meant no harm, but all backgrounds must be applied by TD only.

Additionally, Fandomdesktop.css, despite its name, is best used for helping historical Gamepedia wikis better align with Fandom ones, since those wikis have long had user-manipulatable css and js that works for the mobile skin, and so those wikis can have different styling.

Obviously, it's possible to use Fandomdesktop on a historically Fandom wiki, but we shouldn't be doing that here. See, what happens is that this would split the CSS tree by having two style sheets at the same load level. That immediately doubles the complexity of the code. And if you start putting the same code on both style sheets, then page load times could be impacted -- much less the fact that you then have a harder time finding the declaration you want to change.

So the idea for the basic structure of the pages is to have everything that could impact every single page of the wiki in MediaWiki:Common.css, and then to have several specific sub style pages linking off from that, such as MediaWiki:Infoboxes.css.

Finally, I do wanna stop you on your development path to the automated User:Bongolium500/Sandbox 5. Over the years we've made several such stabs at this, and this thing you've called merely an "issue" is non-trivial:

According to MediaWiki's website, this can be confusing for users using a screen reader. Every collapsible is open for a short amount of time while the page loads before closing which, on a larger page using this a lot, would cause the page to jump a lot.

We've taken a pretty firm stance here over the years to keep the site as broadly usable as possible, and we fear that this would create chaos on longer pages for people who rely on a screenreader. So we can't do this.

Additionally there's a potentially Fandom-wide issue with this:

For this to work at all, a lot of prior work needs to be done with Semantic MediaWiki annotations. By far the best solution (in terms of future-proofing and best practises) is to update Infobox Story.

Fandom's version of SMW is no longer available to wikis that don't have it enabled -- and for good cause. Calc-intensive operations like this have an impact across the network, so we really can't do this. This is a minor burden -- typing out the abbreviations for media types -- and we've been doing it fine for years. It's really not worth the expense or load on the whole of SMW across the network.

And finally, we won't be using tooltips around here. While other older wikis, typically covering games, have widespread use of toolips, they aren't trying to install them in 2021 where mobile usage is wwwwaaayyyy higher than it was back in the day. So when you note, correctly, that [tooltips do] not work at all on mobile" -- you're really saying we can't use them at all.

Thanks again for all your work. I hope this doesn't discourage you from contributing other ideas. And I'm really sorry I was out on extended medical leave over the whole summer so that I could have saved you some time.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:23: Sun 31 Oct 2021

Re: Template test

It would be best if you kept an {{inuse}} tag on the pages while you're testing the template on them, until it is certain that what you're trying out does work with no unforeseen side-effects. But with that caveat, unless another admin with more coding knowledge than I has an objection, go ahead! Thank you for asking first. Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 19:55, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Hm, yes, I think that would do it! Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 21:00, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Why not! Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 19:53, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Alright! Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 11:43, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Yes, if you're sure they won't cause issues. Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 15:50, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

User questions

Hi please note that, while you can always answer user questions, please do not present yourself as an experienced editor to whom other users can come for questions. First, you've been here less than a year, and we do have a lot of more experienced editors. Second, it's always better to direct new or inexperienced users to the admins who are more familiar with policy than most of the other users. Thanks Shambala108 ☎ 02:59, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Infobox inquiry

Hey there Bongo, hope you're doing well! I'm again trying to learn how templates work and again running into problems before I even begin, so I figured I'd check if it would only take you three minutes and I could avoid the trouble. The idea should be pretty simple: a sandbox version of {{Infobox Individual}} with "prev" and "next" variables so that, for instance, the Fourth Doctor infobox links to Third Doctor and Fifth Doctor. Feel free to tell me to buzz off, but is this the sort of quick project you'd be willing to tackle? – n8 (☎) 17:09, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Phenomenal: thank you for the speedy assistance! It looks perfect. And I'm doing well, thank you for asking :) – n8 (☎) 14:25, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Terraqueous Distributor annuals

Hi Bomgolium500,

My name is Mark and I am the editor of the Terraqueous Distributor annuals. Please forgive me not being able to find this function sooner, I have aspergers, so some thinga take me a little longer to work out.

Anyway on the subject if the Dr Who annuals, Terraqueous have become very popular and have featured in magazines such as the official Doctor Who magazine, Starburst, and next months Celestial Toyroom magazine published by DWAS.

We also have official elements in our annuals, the 1997 annual has Stacy And Ssard as the resident companions from the 1996 Radio Times strips.

WTHe 1987 annual officailly featured Sil, 1989 officially featured Mags.

On one communication you mentioned "At the most, it should probably just receive a small note at the bottom of the page."

So as it was onnly a small piece of tect, the last I placed it at the bottom.

Would this be ok, can we come to some kind of compromise.

If you would like to talk further my email is: [email protected]

kind regards Mark :-)

Hi. Have you seen my reply on your talk page? Generally, editors reply to talk page messages on the other person's talk page. Bongo50 (aka Bongolium500) ☎ 20:20, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

have i upset you

Hi Bomgolium500,

If I have upset you, it was not my intention and I am sorry.

MArk :)

Hi Mark. You have not upset me at all! If I'm being completely honest, I would quite like the Terraqueous Distributor annuals to be covered here. However, that can only happen if they fall within policy. Generally, people respond to talk page messages on the other person's talk page. However, I feel that you will have a better chance of seeing this message if I place it here. I saw that you provided your email but it is generally better to keep discussions like this on-wiki so that they can be cited in future discussions if needed. It is absolutely vital that you do not remove any of your previous talk page messages. This is why Shambala108 has reverted quite a number of your edits. Please just add any new messages below the original, ideally indented once from the previous message (like this one is). Both me and Scrooge MacDuck left a reply to your original message on your talk page. Have you seen these messages? If not, here is a summary:

• As per Tardis:Don't wikify your own material, if you are the editor of these annuals, you shouldn't have added information about them to the wiki.
• Similarly, we are unable to take your word that the annuals contain licensed elements. Do you have some form of external confirmation that you could provide? A Tweet (or similar) from the license holders would probably suffice (I think).
• Do the licensed elements appear in stories with unlicensed elements? If there are stories featuring only licensed characters and we are able to verify that, those stories would probably be worthy of full coverage.
• Which issue(s) of Doctor Who Magazine have the annuals been featured in?

When you're able, please leave your response under this message, indented twice. Again, I would like to reiterate that I you have not upset me in the slightest. While you have made a few mistakes, these are completely understandable for a new editor to make. Bongo50 (aka Bongolium500) ☎ 18:10, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Continuity

Relevant standards are hardly well formalised, so I don't presently feel a compulsion to hash out better guidelines on any particular talk page, never mind make the undertaking necessary to see such made concrete; all the same, asserting your lack of clarity as justification for an intervention and ensuring your finality before "suggesting" a dialogue is a desperately poor definition of good faith policy enforcement. If you are interested in exploring the relevant aporiae, you are welcome to initiate discussion. 106.68.45.20^{talk to me} 02:43, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

I'm going to be completely honest and state that I do not understand your reasoning for removing the point. Tardis:Format for audio stories#Continuity states that continuity is "tie-ins between this audio story and other stories". The way I see it, that is exactly what the contested point is: it is Big Finish tying one of their stories into another by way of a minor reference. I do not see what chronology has to do with it. Bongo50 ☎ 16:46, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Crew template for BBC Wales behind-the-scenes programmes

Hi Bongolium500, over the past two-ish years I've been adding the crew to all the episodes of Doctor Who Confidential, Totally Doctor Who, Torchwood Declassified, & Doctor Who Greatest Moments.

I was thinking that really, they should all have a crew template like all the other Wales-era shows, perhaps calling it something like WalesBTS. However I'm not well versed in SMW stuff and wouldn't know where to start making one.

Would it be possible for you to give me some pointers?

Thanks Doc77can ☎ 21:22, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Cool, thanks for the reply. I've got a list of all the credited roles already, I put it paste it here if you like. I'll need to double check a few though.

Doc77can ☎ 21:57, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi, I think this is every credit used across the shows (bar some of the awkward credits on Music and Monsters (CON episode)). They are in alphabetical order and the numbers are maximum number of people credited on a single episode.

• Additional Music - 1
• Additional Archive - 1
• Additional Directing - 1
• Additional Editing - 2
• Animation - 1
• Animation Cast - 5
• Artist Contracts - 1
• Assistant Producer(s) - 4
• Aston Operator - 1
• Camera - 13
• Camera Assistant - 1
• Camera Supervisor - 1
• Colourist - 2
• Copyright Contracts - 1
• Countdown Graphics - 1
• Cyfle Trainee - 1
• Directed by - 1
• Director - 1
• Doctor Who Confidential Production Team - 19
• Dubbing - 2
• Dubbing Mixer - 1
• DV Director - 1
• Edit Assistant - 2
• Edit Producer & Additional Editing - 1
• Edit Producer(s) - 2
• Editor(s) - 6
• Executive Producer - 1
• Executive Producer for Dr Who at the Proms - 1
• Executive Producer for BBC Music - 1
• Executive Producer(s) for CBBC - 2
• Executive Producers for Dr Who - 4
• Executive Producers for Torchwood - 2
• Floor Manager - 1
• Graphic Design - 1
• Graphics - 2
• Insert Director(s) - 4
• Insert Editor(s) - 6
• Junior Researcher - 1
• Lighting Director - 1
• Location Camera(s) - 4
• Location Director - 1
• Location Sound - 4
• Make Up - 2
• Narrated by - 1
• New Media Producer - 1
• Off Line Editors - 2
• Offline Editor(s) - 4
• On Line Editor - 1
• Online Editor - 2
• Original Music - 1
• Post Production Co-ordinator - 1
• Presented by - 2
• Produced & Directed by - 1
• Produced by - 2
• Producer & Editor - 1
• Producer and Director - 1
• Producer/Director - 1
• Producer(s) - 2
• Production Accountant - 1
• Production Co-ordinator(s) - 2
• Production Executive - 1
• Production Manager(s) - 2
• Production Runner(s) - 2
• Production Secretary - 1
• Production Team - 3
• Production Team Assistant(s) - 3
• Programme Editor - 1
• Props Assistant(s) - 2
• Researcher(s) - 5
• Runner(s) - 5
• Script Supervisor - 1
• Senior Interactive Producer - 1
• Senior Producer - 1
• Senior Production Co-ordinator - 1
• Series Producer - 1
• Set Design - 1
• Sound - 12
• Sound Supervisor - 1
• Space Images - 1
• Studio Cameras - 4
• Studio Director(s) - 2
• Studio Sound - 3
• Team Assistant - 1
• Technical Project Manager - 1
• Thanks to - 2
• The Eleventh Doctor arriving Spring 2010
• Title Music - 1
• Title Music Arrangement - 2
• Titles & Graphics - 1
• Titles Music - 1
• Titles - 1
• Underwater Camera Assistant - 1
• Underwater Camera Operator - 1
• Vision Mixer - 1
• VT Director(s) - 2
• VT Editors - 3

Hope this makes stuff easier. I'm unsure whether these bits on the credits should go into the template or not.

• © MMV / © MMVI / © MMVII / © BBC MMVIII / © BBC MMIX / © MMX / © MMXI
• CBBC
• BBC Wales / a BBC Wales production for BBC THREE / BBC Cymru Wales

Doc77can ☎ 01:41, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply, the answer to your question is no, not really; as the format of the credits differs between episodes (let alone series), especially on episodes where a crew member is credited for multiple roles. There's not really distinct groups the credits could be put into like the on the {{wales crew}}. My thinking for the template format was for a simple bullet point list but with the SMW properties, I don't know if you were thinking on similar lines.

Doc77can ☎ 23:20, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi, sorry for not replying straight away; first I just wanna say that the template looks great and thanks for putting in all that hard work. Looking at it on the example pages you've done, the issues I've noticed are:

• I think it needs a {{wales crew}}-style top section for the "heavy hitters", seeing the Execs/Producers/Directors listed with the General production staff just looks odd.
• The variables "Sound" and "Location Sound" should re-direct to Sound recordist.
• The variable "Location Cameras" should re-direct to Camera operator.

Doc77can ☎ 13:35, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Bongo50, I haven't been online for a bit, so I've only just got your message. First of all, congrats on your work with Template:BTS crew ‎& Module:Crew, all that SMW stuff goes way over my head. Secondly looking at it on the test pages, it looks great. The only minor errors I can see are -

• The variable "Camera" should be used for both single & plural situations.
• The variable "Artist Contracts" should be in the "General production staff" column not the "Art department" column; as the Artist part refers to the interviewees - actors, directors, producer etc.
• The variable "Assistant Producer" needs the plural "Assistant Producers".
• The variable "Series Producer" should be in the top "heavy hitters" section; as its a senior position to a Producer; see Marcus Wilson's credit on TV: Closing Time (TV story)#Crew.

And again, thank you for all your hard work.

Doc77can ☎ 15:00, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Blimey, its been nearly a year, I've only just started using the template on more CON pages. But for some reason not all the credits are visible on the finished page. I've noticed that the credits for Sound and Titles don't show. Can you help with this??

Cheers. Doc77can ☎ 15:25, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

I've now added {{BTS crew}} to every CON episode up to S6Ep2. I noted the following issues -

• |SeniorProduce= should be |SeniorProducer= and moved to "heavy hitters" section.
• A credit |WithThanksTo= needs to be added.
• |SpaceImages= should move to the Special and visual effects section.
• How do I get the |EleventhDoctor= credit to show?
• The "heavy hitters" section on CON: Do You Remember the First Time? displays oddly/weird layout bugs.
• Plus general layout bugs/display issues - lots of seemingly random gaps between lines/sections. Is it possible for the bounding boxes to grow/shrink with the content?; at present they seem to be the same size regardless of content.

That's all I can think of, for now. Thanks as always. Doc77can ☎ 22:58, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Oh, another one -

• In the Camera and lighting department section, |UnderwaterCameraOperator= should be above |UnderwaterCameraAssistant=.
• Plus, how do I use the |BBCWales= credit exactly? Doc77can ☎ 02:34, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Oh dear, |SeniorProducer= is now causing layout bugs in the "heavy hitters" section on Series 6 CON episodes now. Doc77can ☎ 20:34, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

|ExecutuveProducerForDrWho2=Julie Gardner isn't displaying on the TDW episodes. Doc77can ☎ 22:37, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Still on the TDW episodes - the |Animation= credit is missing & |AnimationCast= credit is all lower case. Doc77can ☎ 01:53, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

• On Torchwood Declassified episodes the credit |DVDirector= displays as Dv Director instead of DV Director.
• The |BBCWales=/CBBC= credit should be above the |CopyrightYear= credit. Or maybe have all the <!--Bottom section--> credits on the same line.
• Also can you add a |URL= credit here as well, above the |BBCWales=/CBBC= credit.
• Actually, whilst I'm here can you also add |runtime2= & |runtime3= to {{Infobox Doc}}.

Thanks. Doc77can ☎ 15:00, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

• The |SeniorProducer= is again causing layout bugs in the "heavy hitters" section on Series 2 Torchwood Declassified episodes.
• The Special and visual effects still displays even when there are no credits in it.
• Can you also add |series episode number = to {{Infobox Doc}} so it displays the same as on {{Infobox Story}}.

Thanks. Doc77can ☎ 16:47, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Can you add |season number=, |special= & |broadcast date2= to {{Infobox Doc}} so it displays the same as on {{Infobox Story}}.

And a question for you -

• Do you think Music and Monsters (CON episode) & Backstage at the Doctor Who Prom (CON episode) could be handled better with a separate {{Concert crew}} template?

Also, did you see my question about creating a {{IntervieweeCredit}} template?

Cheers. Doc77can ☎ 16:19, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Oh |runtime4= too. Doc77can ☎ 22:28, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Ah, OK hope you're enjoying your holiday; I think your suggestion re: the music-related CON episodes is a good idea, and thanks for adding the {{Infobox Documentary}} stuff to your to-do list. Doc77can ☎ 00:34, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

I've mess up the {{Infobox Documentary}} on Ship Ahoy! (CON episode) by adding a <ref></ref> to the runtime. Can this be fixed? Cheers. Doc77can ☎ 00:36, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. Doc77can ☎ 13:33, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Move

Hey, you're right. I was just about to undo my edit. For some reason I cannot move the page myself (although I can move a lot of other pages?) so thought it might have had something to do with the redirect. I removed the redirect but still couldn't move the page. DrWHOCorrieFan ☎ 16:53, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

I believe the rule about non-admins moving pages has been postponed for the time being due to lack of forums. See; User:NateBumber's comment on User:Jack "BtR" Saxon's talkpage. DrWHOCorrieFan ☎ 17:10, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Other people's user pages

Hi, while I appreciate that your intention was good, it is against our vandalism policy for users to edit other users' pages, whether sandbox or other. If you see something that needs to be changed on someone's page, please ask an admin thanks. Shambala108 ☎ 17:35, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Counterparts template

Hi. You may have noticed some counterpart templates popping up on pages (such as London and Amy Pond) over the last few months. These display parallel or alternate counterparts of individuals, places, organisations, and in a few cases, species. There are currently a number of individual templates for each character/place etc. but I'm looking at creating a general-purpose template which can be used across all pages to save both time and space in the long run. I was pointed your way by User:NateBumber as apparently you're quite good with template coding. I'm thinking something broadly similar to Template:Looks like which can be used across multiple pages, but which can contain the information found on current counterpart templates, such as Template:London counterparts and Template:Rose Tyler counterparts etc. Let me know if this is something you would be able to help with. Thanks. 66 Seconds ☎ 14:58, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

That would be great, thanks. We're thinking of just calling it Template:Counterparts. The current ones say "parallel counterparts of [subject]", but it would probably be better if the general one was headed "alternate counterparts of [subject]" - that way it's suitable for both alternate timelines and parallel universes. Basically, just have a go at it and see what you can create. Any questions give me a shout. 66 Seconds ☎ 07:43, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks so much for doing the template! Great work and very fast! I wouldn't have known where to start with that one. I'll start replacing the old templates with the new design. 66 Seconds ☎ 22:52, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

I've just tested it on both the Twelfth Doctor and Twelfth Doctor (Shadow World) pages, but there seems to be an issue with it. The display name and the syntax 1/d1 appear to work, but appears to mess up the infobox above in preview mode and glitches when I try to save. Further syntaxes (2/d2, 3/d3 etc.) don't show up, so I'm left with just "Alternate counterparts of Twelfth Doctor: The Doctor's universe" and unable to add anything further. I also tried the premade example on Template:Counterparts, but that seems to have the same issue. Hope that makes sense. Wondering if you have any ideas or can take a look? Thanks! 66 Seconds ☎ 23:39, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for your reply. I've switched to the 2010 editor and it's working now. Just updated Rose Tyler with the new template. I'll continue updating the others. Thanks again for all your help with the new template! 66 Seconds ☎ 07:51, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

SMW

I'm loving your SMW Guide, Help:Semantic MediaWiki is now non-existent and the actual website has a somewhat steep learning curve. I'm curious, can I add SMW tags that end users can't see? For instance, if I wanted to say that Cobweb and Ivory had a tag [[TheEnemy::Cernunnos]] that I could query later, distinct from the infobox Enemy field.

Also, you might not be aware, but Eragon has a few Doctor Who references as well, and obviously Transformers robots in disguise has the largest fictional universe. :> Najawin ☎ 08:49, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Quite a few! The most obvious is Angela knitting a hat that says "Raxacori-", but there's a whole page on the Eragon wiki. You've seen our Cultural references to the Doctor Who universe pages, I assume? (And it absolutely does not have a film adaptation. Never happened.) Najawin ☎ 18:28, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Re: BotW template

Yes, feel free! Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 21:06, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

SMW user rights

Hey, so, I dunno if this will work/be useful for you, but I noticed in Special:ListGroupRights there are a bunch of SMW roles that exist that only User:CzechOut actually has access to. I don't know if anyone's ever applied for them, and I don't know if they'll be helpful for you. But I was looking at the different rights (b/c I saw Tangerine did an edit on his user page and then went to his page and was curious about the difference between admin and bureaucrat, but w/e) and thought of you. Najawin ☎ 07:21, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Re: Guestbook

Over on Community Central, many users have guestbooks, so I decided to have one on this Wiki. Although on Community Central, there are more varied signatures... (Oh and I am replying here rather than over on Discord as I want to test out my latest signature on a talk page.)

EPSILON^🔎 |📯|📂|📦|📝

21:31, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

🥳 New template 🎉

Hey there, I'm trying to build a new template and was wondering if you'd kindly take a look! Right now I'm calling it {{NCmaterial}}, and its functionality is … very cobbled together. Here's how it would work in a dream world:

1. It detects if it's on a subpage, and if it is, it modifies the output by (a) adding an extra sentence and (b) linking to the base page instead of the current page (ie Ace instead of Ace/Invalid sources). I believe I have the barest framework for this set up already; thanks to your lovely {{da}}, it might actually be fully implemented? Not sure.
2. The default variable is a wiki-formatted list of sources. So someone can write "Death Comes to Time" or they can write "Combat Colin, Thundercats, and The Real Ghostbusters", and it'll render properly.
3. Less importantly, it should allow manual override of the "name" variable, so you can use |name= to link to a totally different page. Don't really have a use case for this in mind, but I feel like it would be good to have.
4. Most importantly, when people hit "edit" on the templatep age, it's gotta be cool black-and-white code-text, like when you hit "Edit" on {{Counterparts}}. I'd like this for feeling like a cool hacker syntax higlighting purposes.

Any bump you can give {{NCmaterial}} in the direction of that ideal, or any pointers you can give me for where I can learn to do it myself, would be hugely appreciated. If it ever gets annoying being the resident code wizard, btw, please feel free to point me to whatever documentation/etc you used to learn, and I'll do my best on my own. I feel a little twinge of guilt every time I hit you with a help request like this, since it seems I get so few opportunities to help you out in return! – n8 (☎) 21:49, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the help and the detailed explanation! Your explanation of how fields are called is particularly appreciated, as is the "magic words" page; I'll get over my crushing disappointment about the code editor :")

Regarding #2, I was thinking the editor should provide a simple pre-linked/formatted list, since it will vary whether they want links to pages on Tardis, links to Wikipedia or other wikis, or no links at all. There's a sample implementation on T:SUBPAGE: {{NCmaterial|''[[Death Comes to Time (webcast)|Death Comes to Time]]''|link=Ace}}. To test my understanding of what you wrote, I tried implementing a call to {{{1}}}, but I can't quite figure out how to format it nicely in the context of the sentence: is something like {{{: 1|.}}} possible?

That aside, I think it's looking pretty good – with the exception of the fact that the message is outgrowing the bounds of the input box by a fair bit! – n8 (☎) 14:10, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

What a simple and elegant fix! Thank you, and thank you for taking a look tomorrow or whenever you get around to it :) – n8 (☎) 18:20, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Twitter

You're running the twitter account, right? Given the news today, this page might be topical. Najawin ☎ 20:08, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

That's the one. People are already making Doctor Who/Marvel crossover jokes. Najawin ☎ 22:22, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Pleasant dreams. Najawin ☎ 22:34, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Weird wiki list comprehension thing

Hey, I remembered this old discussions post from a while ago and was wondering if you knew of a way to make the project being discussed feasible. (Though we'd have to have a thread about it still.) I don't know anywhere near enough about wiki backend to know if the process can be easily automated and figured you might. My guess is that SMW is probably strong enough, but there might be some nuances to the issue that would make it a headache. Hence the question. Najawin ☎ 07:38, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Admin - Welcome!

Welcome to being an admin! Following your nomination on the Tardis:User rights nominations page and a rather long wait for someone to action this (apologies for that, while I might not edit as frequently as I once did, I try to pop in and 'check my messages'). You can add your name to the Tardis:Administrators and carry the mop and bucket that is the admin thing to carry happily. Sorry it's been a while since I welcomed an admin. --Tangerineduel / talk 13:17, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Deletion of Naomi and Harry Nemesis 1.jpg

Hi, there. Yeah, it's a duplicate of File:Harry and Naomi.jpg. Jack "BtR" Saxon ☎ 23:27, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Feedback page

Hi Bongo! Would you give me permission to edit User:Bongolium500/cite source/reader feedback a bit? I'd love to share it on my socials, but there are a few tweaks I'd like to make first. In particular, I'm hoping we can show the examples in a way that would also show how it moves text around the page, since if that's too disruptive, that would be the main existential threat to this format IMO. I thought about just doing it in my own userspace, but I thought it would be best to keep things consolidated. No hard feelings if you think my edits are rubbish and decide to revert them, of course; and I won't touch "My aims and reasoning", since those are your aims and your reasoning :) Let me know! – n8 (☎) 17:08, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

"The wide and varied DWU"

Hey Bongo, I've recently noticed that, frankly, epic image on your main profile that links the DWU to all those other universes; I love this kind of stuff because I love the whole concept of fictional multiverses. What I want to know if you have any kind of documentation that details exactly how all of these universes are connected. Don't worry it you don't: writing up such a thing would be a gigantic ask, but if you happen to have one knocking around… WaltK ☎ 17:26, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Vandalism + Lock page

Hey, AUDIO keeps being vandalized, and it's supposed to be locked. (Not sure why it's not, but it's supposed to be.) The IP address doing this should be blocked as well, the person has been doing similar stuff to other articles over the span of months and we have to keep reverting the changes and asking admins to protect pages as a result. Cheers. Najawin ☎ 09:12, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

For some reason DWAN is also unprotected. I'm not sure how those two particular prefix pages became unlocked. But they seem to be the only ones. Najawin ☎ 12:01, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Vandal

Hi there is a user 92.11.61.155 who is constantly vandalizing pages Valeyard12.5 ☎ 10:33, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Omnipotence

Hello I was wondering if you could answer something for me, are the timelords considered omnipotent in the whoverse and if not are there any being considered more powerful than them?Freddy1428 ☎ 13:05, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice I think I will open a discussion. Do I need to ask people to join or do they just show up on the discussion?Freddy1428 ☎ 09:45, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Epsilon

Hi, Bongolium. I'm messaging you because you're the most recently active admin and wonder if you could help. User:Epsilon the Eternal keeps reverting File:Rafe Wallbank.jpg because he disagrees with current policy and has accused me of acting only to prove a point (when I have no point to prove, having no issue with current policy) and made a number of unkind, presumptive and arguable ableist remarks including:

• "Learn photography composition plz"
• "and do you have eyes? Why do you like weird ass croppings that look like the contents of an early 2000s fangirl website for David Tennant?"
• "You're doing malicious compliance, which part of the spirit of T:POINT even if it isn't specified"
• "You care more about complying with the policy than actually caring about what the policy is supposed to be instructing us upon."
• "I didn't know you're blind. My condolences."
• "here's the number for the NHS to speak to about your blindness: 0300 311 22 33"
• "Please, your blindness is getting really bad"
• "A square image doesn't break any policies, but then, you wouldn't know that as you're blind"

I have attempted to engage him in conversation on his talk page, but he seems to prefer to communicate via edit summaries. I'd consider his edits to be in violation of T:ICC and T:BOUND but, more importantly, in breach of assuming good faith and T:NPA. - Jack "BtR" Saxon ☎ 14:25, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

I must express my own outrage that only one user got in trouble for this. While I am aware that Epsilon went further and delved into personal attacks, it was a case of pure edit warring on both sides (with Jack Saxon reverting up to 14 times!) so to see one party not even be warned about their involvement (unless I am missing something) is extremely frustrating. It appears some users get away with far greater than others. DrWHOCorrieFan ☎ 22:17, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Ah, I see. That's ridiculous and should be changed in my opinion. Allowing those types of edit wars can just lead to extremely petty instances like this one which only causes disruption. DrWHOCorrieFan ☎ 22:29, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Bongolium. I understand that there are set periods for users to be blocked, but I wonder if you have any leeway. As the subject of Epsilon's personal attacks, I'd like to ask for clemency and if his block might be shortened, but I understand if that's not possible. Jack "BtR" Saxon ☎ 16:19, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Lawrence Miles on Youtube

It's real! He mentioned in October that he was interested in starting a Youtube channel but would need to buy a camera first. And he has a camera now, so that's one step forward! – n8 (☎) 15:16, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

In general, everything I say is a joke, be it pejorative or humorous. But as Nate stated, this is legit. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased! It's just like old times! Najawin ☎ 18:02, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Re:Custom namespace

Ahhh, just saw this.

That's not the issue. The issue is I was trying to figure out if there was a way to have a set of users with perms that could edit the namespace aside from the admins, and from what I can tell it would require active monitoring at the FANDOM level, unless we attached those perms to an already existing role and handed that out. But that would then require us to choose a role to give to these users, which opens up a different can of worms. Najawin ☎ 05:19, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Maybe we could ask FANDOM to add it to "Editors (Semantic MediaWiki)", since that role seems to be effectively harmless and used by nobody, but I'm not sure who can grant that role. Nobody has it, not even Czech. Special:ListGroupRights is primarily FANDOM wide, but there are at least three that this wiki can use that we just refuse to use. The problem is that they all grant perms that we might not want to give to people. The SMW ones are probably harmless to the vast majority of people, but I'm not sure if they can be granted at the wiki level. Najawin ☎ 09:57, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

WikiChron

Dear lord, the tool just is close to collapsing under the weight now, isn't it? I've been sitting here for like 20 minutes and it's just a slog. I hope to see some interesting stuff, so thank you for that! But I almost feel bad for the owners of the project, they clearly didn't expect for a wiki as big as ours to be added. Najawin ☎ 22:44, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Alright, working now. Hmmmm. Interesting stuff to play with. Currently going through what we might call the "middle period" of the wiki based on current history, and it's very Iron Law-y, though early on much less so. Najawin ☎ 23:10, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Hmmm. Did you try to get around the bug that was mentioned in the documentation? Because I think the data is only like 6% of our actual wiki. Still interesting to analyze! (And absolutely no criticism here!) I was just really confused by some of the numbers it was giving me. Najawin ☎ 04:01, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Good luck! The poor website. Even the 1gb version was interesting though! If anyone besides the three of us are interested it might be worth contacting the site manager. He's still been publishing papers on the subject, so he might be interested in going deep rather than wide, if we let him play around with our data or even change our policies for studies. But we'd have to get a lot of buy in from other users. Najawin ☎ 08:04, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Dr. Who? Question help

Hey, sorry to bother you. I have a topic suggestion in in T:TF about an old infamous deleted page of ours, The "Doctor Who?" running joke. The topic is about seeking to have the page restored.

I might write an OP soon, but I have a problem as I can't access the content of the page. So I was hoping an admin could "Restore" the contents over to User:OttselSpy25/SANDBOX Dr. Who? joke. Thanks! OS25🤙☎️ 23:03, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

New stub image

Not completely thrilled with it, not entirely sure the font is right, and the word is so big that the size isn't ideal, but I had an attempt at what you asked for in Tardis:Temporary forums/Archive/Dab terms for unproduced stories. See File:UnprodTab.png. Najawin ☎ 01:52, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

I happened to see this as I was passing by, and I took my own crack at it. See File:Unproduced Tag.jpg and File:Unreleased tag.jpg. OS25🤙☎️ 03:33, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Bot

Have you glanced at User talk:Sulfur? It has a lot of conversation between Czech and Sulfur about setting up the original bot for this wiki. Not sure how outdated it is. Najawin ☎ 21:40, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

That's probably a better place to go. I unfortunately I don't know the process for a bot creation, beyond that if you want it to be able to do admin-level things that'll need to be applied to it.

Also SOTO also has the User:SV7 bot, they may also be able to assist in your bot creation. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:58, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

No, there isn't any procedure. Create the account, and then point me towards it, I'll implement the changes you need. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:28, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Just went to change yours and your bot's user rights and realised I was mistaken above regarding the user rights management / bot creation, so I'd like to apologise on that front. I checked back through the history of user rights for bots and I indeed made an error, the higher ups need to make the bot change and did so for CzechOut and SOTO's bots. And then I'd need to change it to admin.

It seems to create bots, and I also expect adding you as an administrator for the samantic wiki, you need to contact Fandom Support (info here). --Tangerineduel / talk 06:11, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

I can certainly help with setting things up. Just came me here to note that we generally (read: the only time it's been relevant) do a probationary period first, before bestowing adminship. This is to make sure the user is comfortable enough with running it not to accidentally cause any damage.

For future reference, this can probably be waived in the case that the user in question has prior PWB experience on other wikis.
× SOTO (☎/✍/↯) 07:32, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

The megeve Experiment and doctor at sea

These films were both made by Reeltime productions, but I don't know why this is a problem because things such as 'Downtime' are on the wiki fandom. Additionally, I have bought the film, watched the film, and there is a section towards the end where Sophie Aldred and Deborah Watling are in character, Victoria and Ace, in a 6 minute sketch called 'Crossed Lines'. This is where they meet and talk about defeating the Yeti. Again this should not be a problem, because Deborah Watling and Frazer Hines were in 'Emperor of the Daleks' which again is on the wiki fandom. So yes, Victoria Waterfield does appear in The Megeve Experiment. (The Megeve Experiment is a documentary that follows them making the film which they show in full towards the end). If there was a problem with the layout of the page, then instead of saying there is, maybe you could change it, seeing as I'm the only one who has edited a page of The Megeve Experiment since its release 20 years ago. My third point, is on my bio. What problem does that have? I made an account a few years ago where I was an avid editor of the wiki fandom. One day I could not access this and found it completely gone from everything. So I made a new one and put that in my bio. I do not know why this is a problem. So instead of getting so busy, maybe do some better research next time and actually watch the film before you comment like you know everything about others who have actually watched the film.

Vandalism

If you're around, can you lock Leo Tang? Rampant vandalism. Najawin ☎ 21:54, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Forums

Hey hey! Chris tells me you've been working with SOTO to restore the Forums. Since the regular Forums have now been reopened, this might alter your plans to create a whole new namespafce. I've befriended you on Discord in the hopes that we might have a quick chat over the next few days. See you there!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  02:59: Thu 11 May 2023

Unavailable videos?

Hi, I was just flicking through some TV story pages and noticed all the videos that were in infoboxes (under 'memorable moments' etc) on the side have suddenly vanished or are no longer available. "This item is no longer available, but now that you're here, explore the Tardis!" Has something gone wibbly? — Fractal Doctor @ 15:40, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

When you've the time

Talk:Series 14 (Doctor Who) could use some admin attention. The user involved has made it very clear that they're uninterested in discussing the issue and went right back to editing the page without trying to resolve the disagreement. I tried to resolve this with them.

I've had my discussion, I've said my piece and stated the very definition of assumptions and logic, it's on you if you don't like it.

How you deal with it is your own choice, but they've explicitly said that they're going to keep doing this each time that the page stops being protected. Najawin ☎ 03:47, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Perhaps it is time to take action on this issue. It seems like the user in question doesn’t seem to get the hint. Danniesen ☎ 06:39, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi again. The user is still at it, I’m afraid. Even after your last action against them. Danniesen ☎ 11:13, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

All’s good. You were probably busy at the time. Danniesen ☎ 16:56, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Oh, right. Well that’s okay too. Hope you got what you needed. :) Danniesen ☎ 17:19, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Idea floating - status?

Hello.

I work with a friend in writing a series that ties in with the franchise. The main characters are the contemporary (present-day) children/grandchildren of various past companions, some of whom we've seen already (Sarah Jane Smith's children and their three friends (and supercomputer and robot dog), Jo Grant/Jones' oldest grandson Santiago (and her OC estranged youngest son Logan), Harry Sullivan's grandson Harry III) and some of whom are new to this (Mike Bates' OC grandchildren twins Alex (m) and Rachel, etc.)

Can I ask: if yours truly was to put posts up here asking around as to who fans would like to see represented (OC names, personalities, special skills, etc.), would that be breaking the rules of the site?

Many thanks,

Kevin 'Chalky' Kaiba ☎ 19:58, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Infobox Linking

Hi there, I was just wondering if it was possible to link to one thing in an infobox, and say another. Like if I wanted to link to the Doctor, but write Dr Who, (as in Dr Who), how could I do that in an infobox, because the | doesn't work in templates, and infoboxes automatically link. Much thanks, Aquanafrahudy 📢 11:50, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

Great, thanks! Aquanafrahudy 📢 20:22, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

Spin-off circles

I made an extra historical spin-off circle, it's at File:Adventure Games landing.png and depicts The Adventure Games. OS25🤙☎️ 21:25, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Series 14 (Doctor Who)

Can you show me where this is sourced in the article at all? Thanks. Aw21212121 ☎ 01:49, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Tardis weekly summary - 2023-07-02

Here is your automated weekly summary for 2023-07-02, showing changes since 2023-06-25:

New forums threads

• Forum:Conversations across two user talk pages by User:Starkidsoph in Forum:Advice and Assistance
• Forum:The Periodic Adventures of Señor 105 by User:Cgl1999 in Forum:Inclusion debates
• Forum:Real world franchises with DWU connections: Qualification speedround by User:WaltK in Forum:The Panopticon
• Forum:Charity Stories that are TECHNICALLY licensed... by User:OttselSpy25 in Forum:The Panopticon
• Forum:BBC-produced shows and episodes that make extensive use of DWU elements by User:WaltK in Forum:Inclusion debates

Closed forum threads

• Forum:The new transmats
• Forum:Consolidating all of the 'How The Monk Got His Habit' pages.
• Forum:Relaxing our fan works policy (within reason)

Signup! - Botgo50 (my talk, operator's talk) 20:33, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Forums site announcement

Hi, I don't know if this falls under your jurisdiction, but the little site announcement box on web still says only The Panopticon is open, "with other boards to follow shortly" – this should maybe be changed to reflect all the current boards now being open? (Also, any joy with Template:Wales crew?) Starkidsoph ☎ 00:12, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Fair enough, I would want to be sure about that too! I think the only evidence I had for assuming they were all open is Forum:The Cloisters#The Index calling them "the five currently active Forum Boards," which could have been written in advance. And I completely understand about {{Wales crew}} – you're busy, and it's really not that urgent in the scheme of things! Starkidsoph ☎ 07:00, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Re: my initial question here, I think it's fair to say Forum:Inclusion debates and Forum:Advice and Assistance at the very least are well and truly up and running. Admins have been answering questions in both without any mention of the boards not technically being open yet – certainly nothing like Scrooge's note here back in May (which I think had to do with outright technical limitations). Starkidsoph ☎ 03:52, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Tardis Data Core change to Tardis Wiki

With the change in logo (which looks great), the name change however does leave a lot of detritus around the wiki, even on the Forum main page, which I'd presume a lot of us have just not even seen as we make for the discussions themselves. I think a lot of the places where 'Tardis Data Core' appears is likely places that we as regular users won't even notice, but may be confusing for new users. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:19, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

I think we may need a forum thread make this official. I know from the logo change the idea was that it was just the logo being changed, but it does imply a change of name to the wiki. I also look at it from the perspective of a new user. The logo says 'Tardis Wiki' the name of the wiki is 'Tardis'. It's only when you deep dive on our documentation does it actually reveal what the wiki's name is and that requires a bit of an explanation to get there. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:59, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and created a forum topic for this, upon researching it realised I've led this discussion in the past. Forum:Change name of wiki to Tardis Wiki. --Tangerineduel / talk 03:20, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Tardis weekly summary - 2023-07-09

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There have been 2368 edits in the last week, including 229 new pages.

New forums threads

• Forum:Validity:The universe's greatest assassin(...) by User:Najawin in Forum:Inclusion debates
• Forum:Validating non-fiction by User:PintlessMan in Forum:The Panopticon

Closed forum threads

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• Forum:Relaxing our fan works policy (within reason)
• Forum:Validity: The Book of the Enemy's Biographies of Authors

Talk page activity

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• Talk:Queen of the Mechonoids (audio story)
• Talk:Sontaran
• Talk:Omega
• Talk:War Doctor
• Talk:Truth
• Template talk:Companions of the War Doctor
• Talk:Doctor Who Wiki
• Talk:The universe's greatest assassin has just 24 hours to escape Death and find the Doctor - where will Doom's Day take her next? (webcast)
• Talk:Karlton (The Daleks' Master Plan)
• Talk:Operation Mannequin
• Talk:Paedophilia
• Template talk:Wales crew
• Talk:Time Lord
• Talk:DWM illustrated previews
• Talk:The Master
• Talk:The Giants of Kaptar (comic story)
• Talk:The Airzone Solution (novelisation)
• Talk:Second Morbius

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Tardis weekly summary - 2023-07-16

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There have been 2599 edits in the last week, including 185 new pages.

New forums threads

• Forum:Validating non-fiction by User:PintlessMan in Forum:The Panopticon
• Forum:Change name of wiki to Tardis Wiki by User:Tangerineduel in Forum:The Panopticon
• Forum:A change to templates used on invalid pages by User:Cgl1999 in Forum:The Panopticon
• Forum:Image copyright templates by User:Doc77can in Forum:Advice and Assistance
• Forum:A Fix with Sontarans: Fixing Fix's Validity by User:Epsilon the Eternal in Forum:Inclusion debates

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• Forum:Subpage tabs
• Forum:Revisiting fiction with branching elements and historical policy therein (closing post pending)

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• Talk:Time Lord
• Talk:DWM illustrated previews
• Talk:The Master
• Talk:The Giants of Kaptar (comic story)
• Talk:The Airzone Solution (novelisation)
• Talk:Second Morbius
• Template talk:Companions of the War Doctor
• Talk:Ann Kelso
• Tardis talk:Valid sources/Detailed list
• Talk:TARDIS Wiki (in-universe)
• Talk:Truth
• Talk:Karlton (The Daleks' Master Plan)
• Talk:The Master (The Curse of Fatal Death)
• Talk:Saxon Master
• Talk:Come on TARDIS, let's go party (illustration)
• Talk:Have You Seen This Man? (short story)
• Tardis talk:Guidelines for administrators
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CrewCredit style template for Property:Interviewee ????

Hi Bongo,

How easy would it be for you to make a Template:CrewCredit style template for the Property:Interviewee?

I was thinking it would look something like this -

{{Interviewee |Interviewee=PersonA|Role (with no link) |Interviewee2=PersonB|[[Role (with link)]] }}

to show this -

• PersonA, Role (with no link)
• PersonB, Role (with link)

Is this practical? or am I misunderstanding how SMW works? Just an idea.

Thanks. Doc77can ☎ 20:44, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Cool, thanks for the answer, I'm in no rush at the moment, so again enjoy your hols.

I'm not sure what you mean re: Do you want to store the role alongside the name of the interviewee?

If you mean in the property section at the bottom of the page, I don't think that's necessary. The Role (with link)/Role (with no link) part is just because I know some users link the Roles and others don't. Doc77can ☎ 00:41, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi Bongo, I've been slowly added your template to CON pages; I've got 2 questions:

• Can the template be used multiple times on the same page?
• How do we handle interviewees' who are interviewed and credited together? Example from Monsters Inc. (CON episode) -
  • Reggie Yates & Adjoa Andoh, Leo & Francine Jones

Cheers. Doc77can ☎ 15:33, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Also Bongo, what should be the policy for interviewees who aren't credited, i.e. no caption appears onscreen saying their name/role?

Thanks. Doc77can ☎ 18:48, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

OK, cool. Have you got any further with the combined interviewee credits? Doc77can ☎ 20:24, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Tardis weekly summary - 2023-07-23

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There have been 2994 edits in the last week, including 172 new pages.

New forums threads

• Forum:A Fix with Sontarans: Fixing Fix's Validity by User:Epsilon the Eternal in Forum:Inclusion debates
• Forum:Move protection of source pages by User:Epsilon the Eternal in Forum:The Panopticon

Closed forum threads

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• Forum:Material from "Sightings" page on BBC viral website

Talk page activity

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• Talk:The Hub
• Talk:Twelfth Doctor
• Talk:Doctor Who Farted (TV story)
• Talk:Anastasia Romanov
• Talk:Leeds
• Talk:Second Doctor
• Talk:A Fix with Sontarans (home video)
• Talk:The Minister of Chance (series)
• Talk:Earth
• Talk:Adolf Hitler
• Talk:Peking
• Talk:Series 14 (Doctor Who)
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There have been 3845 edits in the last week, including 209 new pages.

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• Forum:Why are infobox fields so inconsistent? by User:WaltK in Forum:Advice and Assistance

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• Forum:Revisiting fiction with branching elements and historical policy therein
• Forum:Relaxing T:HONOUR (closing post pending)

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• Talk:Gallifrey Original
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• Talk:Dalek Time Strategist (The Shadow Vortex)
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• Talk:Doctor Who Wiki
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• Talk:BBC New Series Adventures
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Spanish book plagiarises the Tardis Wiki

Hello! Not sure if this is the place where I can talk to you abour this, but hope Tardis Wiki admins see this. In September, the Spanish publisher Dolmen is bringing out a Doctor Who chapter guide book and we fans have realised that they are shamelessly plagiarising your website, taking advantage of the fact that in Spanish-speaking countries we hardly have any material from the series. Today they showed a couple of examples with two chapters and one of my friends saw how much of the data was a copy of yours. (https://twitter.com/XiscoLozano/status/1687099103195631617) We think it's very unfair that your work is being taken advantage of to extract money from fans, so we decided to let you know to see if you could do something about it. This is the link to their shop: https://dolmeneditorial.com/tienda/doctor-who-cinco-doctores/ Kind regards. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Naikiara (talk • contribs) .

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There have been 4016 edits in the last week, including 350 new pages.

New forums threads

• Forum:Idea: Ongoing validity debate template by User:WaltK in Forum:The Old Workshops
• Forum:Validity: The Sleeze Brothers by User:Aquanafrahudy in Forum:Inclusion debates

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• Forum:Skirmish at TARDIS Wiki

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• Talk:Wild Thymes on the 22 (illustration)
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Abuse filter

Hi there Bongo, I noted that you recently implemented a new abuse filter labelled "Stop twitter vadalism", and now it won't let me add {{facts}} to List of future releases. I was just wondering what the reason for this was? Aquanafrahudy 📢 20:02, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

I keep getting the same error message no matter what I add to any page. — Fractal Doctor @ 20:03, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Sorry to jump on to Aquanafrahudy's post btw. But it seems to have gone away now. I can edit again. A glitch in the matrix? — Fractal Doctor @ 20:04, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

I think he edited it again, and now it's fixed. Aquanafrahudy 📢 20:06, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Earned badges

Speaking of glitches in the matrix, when I view my profile (or indeed anyone's profile), I can see the 'earned badges' and all the icons, but it doesn't say what they actually are. A while back, hover-text would appear to explain each badge. Not sure if it's just on my end, or what, but that hover text no longer shows up so I can't find out what each badge actually represents! Just thought I'd mention it. — Fractal Doctor @ 20:12, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Report page

I’d like to report this page. Not only does it have nothing to do with Doctor Who, but given that the one who most recently edited (and likely created it) has the same name, I assume it was created purely as a bizarre attempt at self-promotion. - User:Axalotl09 @ 22:32, 31st August 2023 (GMT)]]

Bot admin request

Apologies for the delay in responding / acting on the request, have done so now. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:02, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Do you think these pages should be merged?

I think all of the sex related pages should be merged. I feel like the topic isn't big enough in the whoniverse for it to need seperate pages. It would be more organized if all sex related things were on the "Sex" page. Sliderhostmimic ☎ 17:09, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Bot run

Hiya, next time you do a bot run with @Botgo50, can you please shift the contents of Category:Bernice Summerfield stories to Category:Bernice Summerfield sources reflect the inclusion of non-narrative sources?

EPSILON^🔎 |📯|📂|📦|📝

18:49, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Admin+

Hey there! I’m reaching out to introduce the Admin+ program (if you haven’t heard about it already!) & let you know I’m here if you have any questions about it. Take a look at the details here & feel free to send over any questions you have. pikushi ✧.* <staff /> 20:25, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Thread closures

Hey, is there any movement on Forum:10 Years on, Amnesty Once More and Forum:(SPOILER: The start of RtD2) Quickstart Guides? I'd ask Scrooge, but I think he'd consider himself to have a conflict of interest on the first one. (You might as well. But Scrooge seems more likely to.) Najawin ☎ 20:05, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

No worries. Those two are just somewhat time sensitive. Najawin ☎ 19:06, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Just a gentle reminder. Najawin ☎ 19:19, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

When you've the time. I know things are still hectic. Najawin ☎ 11:26, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Perfectly fair! Najawin ☎ 11:56, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Why is Doctor Who?

pls – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 157.231.131.58 (talk).

Editing on Davros

Hello, messaging you to let you know that there is an edit war that has been going on for quite a bit at Davros where User:Greenarcher190 keeps adding new images. I and other users have attempted to direct them to the talk page, but they have continually ignored this and have said they'll keep adding it regardless. BlueSupergiant ☎ 22:19, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Apologies for contributing to the 'war'. I have repeatedly tried to explain, on the user's talk page and in edit notes why we have made undo edits, but to no avail. — Fractal Doctor @ 22:20, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Now the user has just resorted to vandalism, trying to delete whole paragraphs from the Talk page. — Fractal Doctor @ 22:40, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Bongo. Thank you for resolving the edit conflict. I just wanted to jump back in here quickly to apologise if any of my wording or actions were unacceptable. Had a long day and realised I should've just reported this to an admin sooner, rather than engage in the war/with the user further than I did. For that, I unreservedly apologise. — Fractal Doctor @ 22:57, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

(I note the user is still vandalising and edit warring. I'll leave this to you. Again, apologies for my misplaced conduct.) — Fractal Doctor @ 23:00, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Can you help?

Hello,

I have run into a problem with this site.

For most of the past year, I have been trying to get the "contribute for a year" badge. However, yesterday, it appears that my progress counter had been reset.

Is there any way I can somehow regain my progress on this? Other than having to start all over again?

Many thanks,

Kevin 'Chalky' Kaiba ☎ 12:03, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Twice adapted

Why, hello, there, User:Bongolium500.

I wanted to ask something about the "Adapted into" section on story templates. Now that we are getting stories that have been adapted twice to separate platforms, The Daleks and Doctor Who and the Star Beast to be exact, I tried to add "adapted into2" in the same vain as "novelisation2", but it doesn't show up. I wanted to ask if you had any admin specific abilities that could add "adapted into2" to the story template?

Thank you for your time, Sincerely, BananaClownMan ☎ 09:11, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

TV Comic's Counter Game

Hello, is it possible for you to use your bot to move links to TV Comic's Counter Game (game) to TV Comic's Counter Game (1968 game), as well as moving all files in Category:TV Comic's Counter Game 1968 game images to Category:TV Comic's Counter Game game images please? Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 17:56, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 20:48, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

SMW problem with future story pages

The SMW on unreleased stories' pages and the changing of story infobox templates (not to mention the already existing matter of {{wales crew}} in crew sections) will mean that, in the most blatant example, Russell T Davies will inevitably have named-but-unreleased stories mentioned for weeks or months here. What's the solution around that that isn't just leaving the spoiler header on his mainspace page until next year's season finale? -- Tybort (talk page) 17:06, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

A somewhat tangential matter is that, as the infobox thing has changed about how writer credits are dealt with in {{pcred}}, RTD has what are nominally TV production credits also include novel and short story credits because writing is writing. Hence the two Roses in the aforementioned section. -- Tybort (talk page) 17:09, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

New logo idea

Thought you'd appreciate File:Bernard Logo test.png, in case we wanted to swap out the Meep. OS25🤙☎️ 00:23, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Random vandalism

Hi Bongo. I've noticed that User: "119.111.176.39" keeps adding a massive dump of random information / vandalism to pages - see "AudioGO", "Logo" and "Series 16 (Doctor Who)" page histories prior to reverts for recent examples. He did the same to another page as I posted this. He keeps just adding a huge copy/paste dump to random pages. Just a heads up. — Fractal Doctor @ 10:41, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Updates about the Chinese DW wiki

Hello, Bongo! I'm an admin on the Chinese DW wiki. Just FYI, we Chinese DW wiki have migrated to a Chinese wiki farm, so the Chinese wiki on Fandom may be unmaintained for some time to come. It's all up to you whether to remove Chinese interlanguage links here or not. 胡大夫 ☎ 09:28, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Shoes a Character wears trivia.

Is it okay if we add what model of shoe a character is wearing in the trivia section? Elijah Palmer(talk) 15:27, 9 December 2023 (EST)

Re: Category renames and merges

Thanks Bongo! That's a lot of help. That was my plan, however now I think about it, perhaps Category:Creatures should be moved to Category:Non-sapient species instead. Good catch. My concern is how we deal with all the items in Category:Species, which under the old system should just contain items for Category:Sapient species, but seems to be a bit of an eclectic mix at the moment. Maybe we move them all to the sapient species category for now? The problem is there are 933 items... Danochy ☎ 05:03, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Ok, if you're happy to do that, then that would be the way to go. Take your time though, it seems very time consuming. You should be able to save some time by moving all pages which are in both Category:Humanoid species and Category:Species into Category:Sapient humanoid species. Maybe there are some other intersections like that which could speed things up. This works heuristically under the assumption that most articles are placed in Category:Species correctly and that most misuse of that category would be editors adding species as the only category for a particular article. Danochy ☎ 23:09, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Toymaker logo

At File:Toymaker.png, you'll find my pitch for a toymaker logo for the site. OS25🤙☎️ 21:00, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Re: Trying to locate a missing thread

Hey! Cheers for sending me the links. I'll give them a thorough read tomorrow and see what the intentions are for the Doctor's articles. Thank you again for the assist. Snivy ✦ The coolest Pokemon ever ✦ 00:22, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Using Talk pages as forums

Hi Bongo,

I've noticed more and more now that various members are using Talk pages as forums for opinions and other stuff. User '81.151.252.93' is creating lots of these. I tried replying to one of his comments but to no avail. Thanks. — Fractal Doctor @ 12:59, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Was literally about to message with the same thing! I've noticed this editor is also fixating on clothing pages a lot across the wiki too. Link to contribs: https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/81.151.252.93

Snivy ✦ The coolest Pokemon ever ✦ 13:24, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Happy to help! Yeah, subpages can create this kind of bother. Its a big reason myself and other staff members across the other wikis I edit on have never dared dabble with them; always seem so messy. But, with articles as large as on TARDIS, subpages may be the only way. Snivy ✦ The coolest Pokemon ever ✦ 14:41, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Hmm, maybe so. It does mean more people see the option for it and can generate confusion over its user - especially among new editors yet to familiarise themselves with policy. Snivy ✦ The coolest Pokemon ever ✦ 10:32, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

On this topic, couldn't there just be a notice at the top of all talk pages explaining their purpose? (Perhaps with some way for people who understand to hide it? But that's probably not important) Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 23:19, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Seeking clarification

Hello! Hope you're well. I am wondering if you can clarify two things for me:

1) Regarding unsigned comments on talk pages, my understanding is that, if we see a message unsigned, then it is courteous to go in and use the "unsigned" template to help editors see who left the message that was unsigned. However, if said editor who left the unsigned comment then returns, removes the "unsigned" template and inserts the four ~ symbols in to the sign the comment, which one should be kept? The "unsigned" template or the belated ~ signature? (For case in point, see here: https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Talk:Donna_Noble?type=revision&diff=3687795&oldid=3687704 )

2) Concerning the shortening of the Doctor articles, is it a wise move for me to do it on a sandbox first and seek admin approval that how I have shortened it is correct or am I better gradually chipping away at the page over a series of edits on the article, similar to how I have been doing the CS link conversions? Furthermore, the "Bio" subpage is simply a straight "copy-paste" of the article as it currently is, then allowing the main page to be shortened down from there?

I look forward to your reply! Snivy ✦ The coolest Pokemon ever ✦ 10:32, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Apologies for the double message, but there was also this:

3) Discussion over The Giggle (TV story)'s infobox image appears to have stalled/reached a conclusion. I say this given no users, bar myself have really touched it since it was realised #5 should be the article's primary image. Does it need to remain open? Can the selected image be implemented. Snivy ✦ The coolest Pokemon ever ✦ 23:41, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. Sorry to hear you have been ill. Hope all is better now.

1. Ah, fair enough then. in future, I shall leave those sort of comments alone then if someone comes in and removes the unsigned one. As long as that isn't then vandalism on my edit, all is well.

1. I'll focus on chipping away at it then. My plan is to convert all of the links on the page to CS versions (for all the Doctor pages) then mass transfer that to the /Bio sub page, then get to trimming them down. To check, does this also apply to Fourteenth Doctor and Fifteenth Doctor as well? I ask particularly for 14's given the Liberation of the Daleks (comic story) is still really long on their page, and (to be fair) The Giggle (TV story) is also extensively included there too.

1. Great! Just saw you have updated it. Per the remark, it still proves my point though; the point systems functionally achieve the same result, hence don't actually warrant bothering with. Seems like a complex way to get the same result the simpler 1 vote system achieved. But still, that's concluded now.

Thank you once again! Snivy ✦ The coolest Pokemon ever ✦ 21:34, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Ah, well at least you are on the mend!

1. Fair do.

1. I'll keep an eye on it then and turn the focus to the other 13 first then.

1. Indeed. Perhaps there's official guidance on this? Multiple votes does have a way of working (something akin to a Supplementary Voting System) but, as said, it all gets overly complicated, especially if editors aren't clued in on it. That does remind me: is the Fourteenth Doctor discussion done now? That one appears to have trended into inactivity too. Come to think of it, I think The Church on Ruby Road (TV story) is similarly neglected now too. A result of "editing hype" dying down now the specials have concluded I reckon. Snivy ✦ The coolest Pokemon ever ✦ 22:35, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea. I get what you mean; I came on today intent on starting cutting down those CS links, but again it would only let me open the entirety of the Doctor articles, rather than a section, hence it would not load for me at all, making editing nigh-unbearable. As such, I ended up creating pages for red links instead - least smaller articles work fine for me at present!

As for the ranking bit. I suppose my main point is that: it is not needed - it gave the same result anyway. It is the kind of thing that works if we were choosing to have two images, but since the story infobox only needs one, then each ranking system (as happened) results in the first choice being picked on all three anyway, hence isn't needed. It certainly has its use, but from my viewpoint, it seemed to needlessly extend the discussion which, as you say, is already one of many in a back log that really are better to be implemented rather than delayed. Snivy ✦ The coolest Pokemon ever ✦ 23:06, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Cite Source edge case/problem

Hi, I can't find the main page which discusses problems with the cite source so apologies for going to your directly for help, other please link to the page I am trying to find if it exist.

I recently updated the infobox for Renaissance of the Daleks so that it is on the SMW so that the cite source links properly. However, there isn't an exact writer for this story as it's only credited as from a story by Christopher H. Bidmead, so then the infobox tries to link to that non-existing page. As a work around I have edited it as From a story by, Christopher H. Bidmead so there is a link to his page, but I'm not sure if that should be kept in the long run. Do you have any suggestions that would work as you know the underlying coding to the template and I do not. Thanks Adric♥Nyssa∩Talk? 22:04, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Character templates addition

Hello, there.

I'm sorry to have to bother you again, but I wanted to ask if would be possible to use your admin exclusive abilities to add |great-grandparent = & |great-grandchildren = to the character templates regarding family relations.

User:Epsilon the Eternal and I have been disagreeing on having Rose Noble have Wilfred Mott and Eileen Mott listed as her grandparents when they are actually her great-grandparents, and I thought the best way to resolve it was to add great-grandparent/child added to the templates. But their protected to admit editing only like the story templates, so I thought I'd ask again.

Thank you for your time, Sincerely, BananaClownMan ☎ 10:38, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Quick Answers

Hey, have you been keeping up with the rumblings from Fandom about Quick Answers? I actually find them... pretty worrying for this wiki in particular. If it's going to be a feature we're forced into, the rules they currently have set up for it are pretty horrendous, and I don't trust the capability of the AI to write these answers on this wiki in particular. Najawin ☎ 21:05, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Changing your name

Hi, Bongolium. Tardis:Reclaiming your account mentions that you can have your name changed once your account's been restored. Would you happen to know how? Jack "BtR" Saxon ☎ 13:41, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Okay, perfect. Thanks! Jack "BtR" Saxon ☎ 13:51, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

WHy do you hate fun?

Skibidi toilet – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 13 and on are fake Doctors (talk • contribs) .

Default gallery tabs?

Hi Bongolium. Congratulations on the work you've done with new site. It looks great! I was just wondering, do you know if it's possible to have a default gallery tab in an infobox? As an example, if you look at the infobox for London, we currently have separate images for each century. Would there be any way of keeping the centuries in order (say we were to have images for all centuries from the 16th to the 23rd century) but have the default image be the 21st century? 66 Seconds ☎ 17:08, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Username change

Hi Bongo, as per the notice here, I believe you may be able to assist - if possible, I'd like to change my username to simply "Fractal". It doesn't appear to be registered, so I'm hopeful it can be done. I chose my original username based on old fanfiction, and no longer wish to be associated with it, but I would like to keep the "Fractal" element of it (which will also help with regards to people still recognising who I am). Please could you let me know if this is possible? Thank you. — Fractal Doctor • 20:12, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Ah, thanks! It confused me because on the page I linked to, it said "please contact a bureaucrat" and "bureaucrat" linked to Tardis:Administrators which listed all admins and no mention of bureaucrats. — Fractal Doctor • 20:48, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Transfer my edits

Hmm hello... Sorry to bother ^^' I received few hours ago a message to say that the Wikia moved here so I transfered my old account here and in the same message, and also that I have to contact an admin so that my edits can be transferred ^^' Well I don't think it's that important (I'm french so my english isn't perfect at all so I'm scared to write...) but I made some additions in Multi-Doctor Stories page, and add some pictures (especially Titan Comics ones) and tried to fill some galleries ^^' By the way I hope it's the right place to ask for that... Sorry again... Just in case, here is my old page : https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/User:KaradegRara KaradegRara ☎ 18:12, 28 March 2024 (UTC)KaradegRara

Re:April 2024

What were you testing, just out of curiosity? WaltK ☎ 18:40, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! This little "project" has been keeping my mind more than occupied for the last few months, even if I do occasionally get that niggling feeling of "you need to reel it in" or "nobody cares about this stuff", so I really appreciate hearing that. WaltK ☎ 18:51, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Wrongly Marked as Bot

Hi Bongo, I've been working on reducing the number of missing categories by adding as many as I can with relevant information, such as Category:Remembrance of the Daleks VHS covers, but I've now been marked as a bot for deletion after a chat-gpt nonsense spamwave. Could this be removed, as I'd like to continue expanding on the wiki, and if these wanted categories aren't allowed, could you let me know? Thanks. Gingerfool ☎ 08:22, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

(Bongo, they misunderstood a comment I made on their talk page. I clarified.) Najawin ☎ 08:29, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Spam

The spam did stop earlier for like, idk, 40min, something like that. So I dunno if we're out of the woods yet. But it's obviously something that requires a slightly more robust solution. Najawin ☎ 08:57, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Case in point, User:WallaceMasel591 is an awfully suspicious new user just created. Najawin ☎ 09:14, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Rename image file name

Hi, I recently uploaded a promotional image for The War Master boxset Rogue Encounters (audio anthology) featuring Bilis Manger, and accidentally named it Escape from Reality (audio anthology) Bilis Manger.jpg https://tardis.wiki/wiki/File:Escape_from_Reality_(audio_anthology)_Bilis_Manger.jpg. Is it possible to change the file name to Rogue Encounters (audio anthology) Bilis Manger.jpg, or should I delete the image altogether and start again? User:Mister Mavity ☎ 10:20, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Unable to log in and email not sending to my email address to allow me to change my password.

I am unable to log into my account on here and whenever I request an email it is not sending to my email address, so I cannot log in. Help please? --HarryPotterRules1

Personal request

Hello, I've only just seen that the wiki has been forked from Fandom. On Fandom, my account name that I used to edit this wiki is RedWizard98. When I saw this new wiki, I believed I probably needed a new account, so I just created one called ShadowProclamation98, without seeing that a user page for my account exists on this new wiki. I registered this new account with the same email address; will my Fandom log in details be the same for my RedWizard98 account on this new wiki? I also do not want to operate multiple accounts, so I would appreciate it if you decactivated the ShadowProclamation98 account so I can continue to use my old account.

I have to say, good on you all for separating from Fandom, I think they have gone massively downhill and are nothing but unhelpful and self-interested. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Regards. 92.27.180.7^{talk to me} 21:45, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello, if you could ban or disable the new account on my request, I would appreciate it. I will set up my RedWizard98 account so I can edit with that, as I want my old edit history. I also definitely think the Fandom DW wiki should be archived, so people know to come here, along with annoying Fandom. 92.27.180.7^{talk to me} 22:57, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I've successfully migrated my account, which I shall continue to use. RedWizard98 ☎ 23:05, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Potentially, if everyone stops editing it, Fandom could decide to close/archive it, but then, they would have to admit defeat. I would at least have some large notice put on the wiki homepage telling people to come here. Someone told me the old wiki is apparently "dead". RedWizard98 ☎ 23:48, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Could you change the Chinese interlanguage again

Hello! Congratulations on the forking to this new independent site! I've noticed you changed the Chinese interlanguage to our site on Huijiwiki, which is very considerate. However, unfortunately, we had to migrate again to Miraheze recently due to some changes on Huijiwiki this year. Therefore, I would be grateful if you could change the Chinese interlanguage to https://zhtardis.miraheze.org --胡大夫 ☎ 09:13, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

It’s very generous of you to set up your subdomain zh.tardis.wiki for us to use! I’ve shared this great news with our community, and they have decided to accept your kind proposal. Thank you so much! 胡大夫 ☎ 09:44, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

They've completed the request. It's set up now! Thank you again for all your help and your kindness! 胡大夫 ☎ 09:04, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

It's very well known in the sci-fi fan community, though not too well known among the general public. Some in the entertainment industry are big fans of it, so they occasionally make references to it in their TV shows and movies. Online streaming services have been getting the license from BBC since about 13 years ago, one of them even got an exclusive contract several years ago. Publishers have been selling licensed Chinese novels for a decade. It seems they can make good profit from it. Considering people's interest in sci-fi got boosted by Liu Cixin's works like Three Body Problem and Wandering Earth in recent years, I think it gets more attention nowadays. 胡大夫 ☎ 06:34, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

BTW, you might want to change the interlanguage again, since zh.tardis.wiki is already set up. 胡大夫 ☎ 08:23, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Sunsetting Wales crew

Would you consider temporarily lifting the page protection on {{Wales crew}}? I think the documentation page could use some cleanup – it's quite out of date – and I know you're very busy; I'm not proposing anything that needs your level of coding expertise, so I thought I'd ask if I could have a go at it myself. Also, regarding the talk page, the whole last section is basically redundant, as it's just me listing variables until you suggest we should make a new template instead. Would it be appropriate to delete that or collapse it, perhaps with an explanatory note on the state of things?

And as a completely separate aside, I was looking at {{cite source}} and noticed one of the optional parameters is called notital, which I think should be notitle? I don't know how much of a hassle that might be to change, though. Starkidsoph ☎ 08:00, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Done. Extremely not a priority, but when you have time, there's still the "Colourist" thing (plural displays with a colon instead of a dash) and a typo ProstheticsTechnican preventing technicians 3–6 from being displayed. Starkidsoph ☎ 08:00, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Ack, forgot about TechnicalAvisualdvisor3, which is a fun one. (I found these going through the 900 auto-detected parameters in TemplateData, which was a fun activity that I wouldn't recommend to anyone sane.) Starkidsoph ☎ 00:55, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

An alternative to Interactive maps

Hi, I learnt from your forking announcement that you're looking for alternatives to Interactive maps, and there is actually an alternative on our former host. You could look into it. 胡大夫 ☎ 09:52, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Maintenance Categories

Hi Bongo, I was just trying to clear out the uncategorised templates list, and for a lot of the more technical templates, Maintenance was the only category that I could find that seemed like a "safe bet" to put them in. No Idea as to why it broke the cite source though... SID'gingerfool'RAT - ☎^🔎 |📂|📝 10:48, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Re: The updating T:OOU discussion

Ah. I suppose I still feel bad about badgering admins for stuff. Speaking of — how many forum threads and talk page discussions should I open? Because there's probably more than a dozen typoes, outdated references to Fandom, etc. across all of namespace 4 and other protected pages… and that's not counting areas where policy or the Manual of Style are unclear or underspecify, which I could analyse the current practice of and lay out the options for somewhere in the forums, probably.

And all the while the admins have actual decisions to make.

This is a genuine question. I truly have no idea. And if it's not all the discussions right away, which pages and types of issues have priority? And which would have priority, except they're things the admins already know about without the badgering? Thank you.

jsmith5504^{talk to me} 23:34, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Fallout Wiki interwiki linking is broken

The URL pattern for setting up fallout.wiki's prefix doesn't have the $1, so all the links point to that wiki's homepage instead. It's not urgent, since the one link I found on Tardis Wiki that uses the prefix links to their homepage on purpose anyway… but it's a thing.

jsmith5504^{talk to me} 22:05, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Re: Signature Template

Hi Bongo,

Thanks for the help :)

SID'gingerfool'RAT - ☎^🔎 |📂|📝 16:00, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Mass Categorisation?

Just found the 700+ blank categories created by IP users, is there any way to mass add categories, such as by using User:Botgo50, or will there be a manual project to tidy up the page? SID'gingerfool'RAT - ☎^🔎 |📂|📝 20:44, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Navboxes at Star Cops Wiki

Hello there,
I was directed to you and made aware that you're very busy. I've been fiddling about over at the Star Cops Wiki with Navboxes and even tried my hand at the CSS with the help of the official Fandom help articles. But even that did nothing, and I have literally no idea where to go next. I just require some basic Navboxes - such as a side one like "Template:Jennies" and the expandable bottom one, such as "Template:BF_10DA" to navigate episodes.

If you ever find just a tiny amount of time in your day, could you please pop on over and help me out since you're apparently the expert when it comes to this stuff? Once I have a couple set up, I can then just make more and copy the code over, such as for locations and the like. If not, don't worry, I understand you're very busy. I just can't get my noggin over the CSS stuff.

Thanks for your time,
Matthew / Thefartydoctor ☎ 18:29, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for getting back to me. I totally understand, I just thought it was worth the ask just in case. One quick thing you may be able to help me with: I've got my hands on a magazine article (an interview with Chris Boucher regarding his time at Star Cops). How much of that article am I allowed to place in a Fandom article? So far it summarises (but doesn't plagiarise) the content and has the front cover on the article.

In your understanding of the rules that Fandom has/had, does it break the rules to include any of the actual article outside of the occasional quote to add context? It sounds like a really stupid question but I just wondered if you could enlighten me specifically with your expert opinion on what can by done versus what can't be done. Neither Fandom nor Google are any use to me (and I know we're no longer Fandom).

Thanks in advance.

Matthew / Thefartydoctor ☎ 00:21, 20 November 2024 (UTC)