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==Doesn't do wood???==
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Just in case people didn't quite catch it, the Doctor's screwdriver DOES do wood, it just can do it if it is jammed from water-logging. He mentions this in BOTH silence in the library and the hungry earth, so why doesn't anyone pick it up???? I've tried to edit it out of most pages that have mentioned it. If someone could delete it from this page (i'm a n00b and don't know how), that would be great.
==Shouldn't the Mark 7 and 8s be switched, seeing as how the mark 8 comes before the mark 7?[[User:Papayaking|Papayaking]] 03:50, October 10, 2009 (UTC)==


Could be worth isolating the River Song screwdriver all together, an anomally, as we have no idea when on the Doctor's timeline it will come in, he could have another 50 before that one crops up.
== Marks ==
I'm starting to see our section headers being used as "official" names for the various iterations.  Other articles are now using terms like "the Mark IV sonic", as if that means something.


Is there ''any'' source for this mark business?  If not, it needs to be stripped from the article, replaced by more defensible, plain English terms like, "the Second Doctor's screwdriver", "the screwdriver that the Tenth Doctor used" and the like. 


We need to resist the fannish urge to number things that actually have no number in any valid source. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 14:49: Sun 14 Apr 2013</span>
:Additionally, the use of numbers has made the article internally incomprehensible, since Big Finish recently retroactively gave the Eighth Doctor a new sonic. This means that what was once the "Mark VI" is now the "Mark VII", and so on.  There's absolutely no narrative reason why Big Finish ''couldn't'' give Five, Six or Seven a temporary sonic in future.  Or why they might not give Eight another ''new'' sonic at some point. So if there is no source for the numbering of these sonics, the article needs to be wholly rewritten so as to use terms that are absolute, rather than numbers which are relative.  {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 15:49: Sun 14 Apr 2013</span>
::Maybe we need to start a forum for changing this to your suggestions. Right now there's something of an edit war between two (or more) IP users who keep changing the "marks" back and forth. [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] [[User talk:Shambala108|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 16:00, May 30, 2013 (UTC)


::In the book [[Seeing I]], The Doctor builds a new sonic screwdriver, and then names it the mark 9! This shows just how inaccurate our attempts at numbering are. I think this wiki (which considers the books canon) needs to give up attempts at numbering the sonic screwdrivers.  [[User:Holmes1963|Holmes1963]]




== Non-canon toys ==


There are a lot of new sonic screwdriver toys hitting the market lately, including some that aren't in the show (the "Build Your Own" and "Trans-temporal" sets, in particular).  Should these be added in, and if so, how? --[[User:King Starscream|King Starscream]] [[User talk:King Starscream|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 17:40, May 29, 2013 (UTC)


According to Weta Studios in Wellington, in an advert for the Sonic Screwdriver LED torch, the 11th Doctor is getting a new Sonic. Something like "The Doctor is regenerating soon, and he's getting a new screwdriver too. So pick up his old one now!" It was the 10th Doctor's Screwdriver, so I'd say it's referring to the End of Time. -Ravrahn
== New uses ==


== 11th Doctor's Screwdriver Sounds ==
The uses from [[The Time of the Doctor]] should be added.  
The Toy for the new Sonic Screwdriver, made by Character Options, has a 'secret sound' that occurs with the right pressing of buttons. Its a kinda laser sound, like what one would think an old-fashioned laser toy would make. Considering its supposed to be sounds from the TV show, perhaps this is a spoiler, maybe the sonic has some use for which it would make such a klaxxon noise [[Special:Contributions/203.100.217.154|203.100.217.154]] 04:56, May 9, 2010 (UTC) James
[[User:Timppali|Timppali]] [[User talk:Timppali|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 15:24, December 27, 2013 (UTC)


== New main pic ==
== Non-Canon Appearances? ==


The new pic of the Doc holding the new series 5 sonic needs changed, imo. it should be an image of the sonic itself, rather the the Doctor. I suggest putting it back to the previous one until we have a better picture. [[User:Excalibur-117|Excalibur-117]] 17:23, April 4, 2010 (UTC)
I notice how in the Sonic Screwdriver Page, we have a list for all the uses which it has throughout the show.
Although, Not sure if this has been suggested before, but should we also inclued a small section in that page that lists the Non-Canon uses that it has?
Examples being stuff like; The Shalka Doctor using it to turn the Tardis Phone into a Door or turning Catherine Tate into a Rose Figure in that Sketch Show?


== Sonic Screwdriver!! ==
Like said, I'm not sure if this hasn't been suggested before, but should there be something for that, if one doesn't exsist already?{{Unsigned|BabClayton}}
:Basically, no, because we are trying to keep non-DWU stuff off the in-universe pages. [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] [[User talk:Shambala108|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:40, December 29, 2013 (UTC)


Lovin the new pic of the sonic it looks awesome i've got the replica of it to so i recomend it to every Doctor Who fan out there!!
==Having been destroyed==
How can the War Doctor's and the Tenth Doctor's and the Eleventh Doctor's screwdrivers be the same? The original blue, owned by the War, Ninth and Tenth (in a part of his life) was destroyed in ''Smith and Jones''. Later Tenth acquired a new identical one that was destroyed by Eleventh's use of it in ''The Eleventh Hour''. Then the TARDIS made a new green one to him. (If I'm not wrong it was also destroyed and replaced with an identical green one (not sure there)) How can the War Doctor's scanning be calculating in Tenth and Eleventh's sonic's?? --[[User:Danniesen|DCLM]] [[User talk:Danniesen|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 13:47, May 5, 2014 (UTC)


-Gallifrey1298
:I believe the idea is that the screwdrivers are the same 'at a software level' i.e the program(s) that the sonic screwdriver runs remains the same and as such the software (which could possibly be located in the TARDIS or something given its abilities to fart out a new sonic for the Doctor in The Eleventh Hour) carried on doing the necessary calculation. Oh, and just a heads up, but I think this kind of thing belongs in the discontinuity guide (if we still use that) rather than the talk page.  [[User:ScotchAutopilot|ScotchAutopilot]] [[User talk:ScotchAutopilot|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 15:12, May 5, 2014 (UTC)


== 4th doctors ss uses ==
::Thanks. Maybe, you're right about that. The Tardis could be the answer. :) --[[User:Danniesen|DCLM]] [[User talk:Danniesen|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:36, May 5, 2014 (UTC)


Didn't he reconnect some wires with it in 'the ark in space'?
== Walther pistols ==


== Sonic Screwdriver Picture ==
The War Doctor doesn't say "water pistols", he says "Walther pistols".


Shouldn't the sonic screwdriver picture be changed as it is not the real sonic just a toy replica. The toy is very good as I have got it and think it is perfect but I just don't think it appropriate that it is used as the main picture on the page. For now, I think the old picture of the screwdriver just after its creation is an OK picture to use for a while until we can get a better picture of it.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_arms


== Sonic Screwdriver Picture!!!!!!!!! ==
Was that supposed to be a joke or did you guys really think that?{{Unsigned-anon|174.112.212.21}}


Do u like the new pic i put on???????????????????????????????
== Removed Flatline example ==


I took it using my webcam its the replica its awesome I recomend it to everyone!!!!!!!!!!!:)
Removed this


== The Sonic Screwdriver picture!!!!!! ==
* Breaking a window. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'')


I've put my pic back on mwahaha =) [[User:Ellisanddavid|Ellisanddavid]] 16:56, May 7, 2010 (UTC)
Because while technically true, it wasn't the sonic that shattered the glass in this scene, it basically released the glass chair thing from its position, and ''that'' broke the window, so Clara and Rigsy could get to safety. I don't know the best way of wording that though. -- [[User:Tybort|Tybort]] ([[User talk:Tybort|talk page]]) 16:52, October 30, 2014 (UTC)


:Images on in-universe articles need to be of an in-universe style, see [[Tardis:Manual of Style#Image use]]. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 17:00, May 7, 2010 (UTC)
== Page protection ==


== Sonic screwdriver toy pictures ==
I don't know or care what the issue is with this article, but I do care about the edit warring. The page has been locked for one week so editors can hash out their disagreement '''here''' without violating [[T:NO WARS]]. [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] [[User talk:Shambala108|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 01:07, December 7, 2015 (UTC)


I would just like to mention that some of the pictures in this article are of toy replicas of the sonic screwdriver and therefore I believe should be removed and replaced with a picture of the actual prop. For instance, the Ninth and Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver pictures on this page are both pictures of the toys made by Character Options.
== Other Matters Section ==


== Green. . ? In Star Wars this means sitting between dark and light. ==
Someone has published the last bit to this page "Other Matters" and not finished the type. It needs to be finished or removed. I made no edit, but assume the author will make a decision poste haste.


Moffat grew up with Star Wars, same as most, and I wonder if the shift from blue to green in the sonic is indicative of anything more than just aesthetics. . .
OTHER MATTERS
In the original script for The Husbands of River Song (TV story)


== Series 9 Sonic ==
[[User:RogerAckroydLives|RogerAckroydLives]], I understand the need to make everything fit into your vision of the DWU, but there is nothing that makes it impossible for the Doctor to use his screwdriver in [[Series 9 (Doctor Who 2005)|Series 9]]. Claiming that the DWA comic stories take place in a different order than the release order is pure speculation and does not belong on one of this wiki's most popular pages. [[User:TheChampionOfTime|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT">The Champion of Time</span>]]  [[User talk:TheChampionOfTime|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span> ]] 20:31, May 9, 2016 (UTC)


I'm going to chime in here and state that this page will be fully protected if this incessant edit warring does not stop. I have stressed, till I'm blue in the face, that we '''can't and don't''' try to place events in any kind of order. The writers of the DWU stories don't give a damn about any kind of continuity; as such, it is impossible for us to exactly place every event without indulging in speculation, which is not allowed on this wiki. If you want to play with timelines, go to [[Theory:Timey-wimey detector]]; otherwise, '''keep it off the main namespace'''. [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] [[User talk:Shambala108|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:33, May 9, 2016 (UTC)


In Star Wars, pure Jedi used Blue. Vader used Red. Green is right in between, (RGB), and Luke was using Green when he was tinkering with the Dark Side, doing choke grips and wearing black gloves and all that. (At least, this deliberate color scheme fit before the next series of prequels came out after Lucas' brain had melted and everything went to poop in the Star Wars universe.) I can't help but wonder if Moffat has assigned this same symbolic meaning to the sonic, which, let's be honest, is a geek's light saber. It even sort of looks the same, and certainly performs the same emotional/symbolic function.
:Champion, ''everything'' we write is "speculation" of the sort you describe. My edits have nothing to do with "my vision". They are to do with making a coherent narrative. If in-universe info makes something apparent, I haven't any choice but to edit accordingly, regardless of whether it fits my "canon" or not. However, in cases like this, it is ''entirely'' possible that the story works to complement understood events. Perhaps I am guilty of "making things fit", but only on the same level as any editor on the wiki is when they place a 7 and Ace story on the 7 page in a place when 7 and Ace are travelling together. Popularity of page has no bearing on anything on this wiki, other than maybe when individuals wish to make large structural changes or similar technical edits.


:Shambala, I think both Champion and I already know policy, but we certainly ''do'' try and place things in a kind of order: you'll find it on the page of every multi-appearance character, location, object, etc. Yep, speculation is not on, I know that and have ever since I started editing, and none is going on here. As for an "edit war", I understand a couple of reversions back and forth might not be desirable, but it is far from an ongoing battle.


:P.S. Champion, if you want to address something directly to me, you would be better off using my talk page. [[User:RogerAckroydLives|RogerAckroydLives]] [[User talk:RogerAckroydLives|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 05:30, May 10, 2016 (UTC)


'''''[[Special:Contributions/142.177.66.44|Meddling Fool]]'''''
== Sonic Technology ==


[[Sonic technology]] could not be [[Time Lord]] technology, so [[The Doctor]] could not have engineered it. As stated in the wiki article, in the TV episode [[Partners in Crime]], [[Miss Foster]] ([[Cofelia]]), a woman with no [[Time Lord]] connections, had a [[Sonic device]], namely a [[Sonic pen]]. Also, in the TV episode [[The Sontaran Stratagem]], [[General Staal]] refers to [[The Doctor]]'s actions against the [[Teleport pod]] in [[Luke Rattigan]]'s room as 'Primitive Sonic Trickery'. This would mean that the [[Sontarans]] had encountered sonic technology before, and not from [[The Doctor]] or the [[Time Lords]].


[[Special:Contributions/82.14.15.128|82.14.15.128]]<sup>[[User talk:82.14.15.128#top|talk to me]]</sup> 14:29, June 4, 2016 (UTC) 82.14.15.128
: Even if there were conflict there I don't see what you would have us make of it. That would hardly be the only example of conflict on whether technology X or Y is common, or the privilege of a particular advanced species.


: Are you sure that's what they meant. I'm sure the colours meant [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0TheIWPkgg different things]. Besides, Moffat wrote Silence in the Library, and the sonic screwdriver in that had red settings as well as blue. [[User:Mc hammark|Mc hammark]] 15:27, May 11, 2010 (UTC)
: But beyond that, I don't see any conflict there. The Time Lords don't need to be the ''only'' ones to use sonic technology, just among the people who do; I mean, just to pick one example, the Time Lords are clearly familiar with the craft of weaving textiles, since they have robes and clothes of all kinds; I'm sure you could find a source where some other alien race is familiar with weaving and considers it rather primitive; that doesn't prove it's not part of "Time Lord technology".
: What? The color of the blade doesn't represent Force alignment( cept Red); It represents the Jedi's "class": Blue for Guardian, Green for Consular, and Yellow for Sentinel. If anything, I'd say purple was the "tinkering with the Dark Side" colour. The screwdriver is green because it's green. Leave it at that.- '' <span style ="color:midnightblue">I. Am. [[User: Excalibur-117| Excalibur-117]]</span>''-<sup>([[User talk:Excalibur-117|talk]] • [[Special: Contributions/ Excalibur-117|contribs]])</sup> 19:07, June 27, 2010 (UTC)


== New picture ==
: Even further, just because something isn't widespread or even particularly representative of Gallifreyan Time Lords is no reason for the Doctor to be unaware of it. Time Lords also don't usually go for bowties back home, yet here we are. --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:55, December 18, 2019 (UTC)


I've got a new screen shot of the sonic screwdriver. What do you guys think? I know that the present one is unliked by some. [[User:Mc hammark|Mc hammark]] 19:19, May 22, 2010 (UTC)
== Bloated uses ==


The uses lists are too long and bloated. Perhaps it may be prudent to keep the uses general and less detailed and specific. For example, instead of using "Trying to set off multiple technological resources on Earth to draw the attention of the Atraxi; however, due to the damage it had sustained from Prisoner Zero and continued abuse, this action overtaxed the screwdriver and caused its components to fail, which ultimately led to it burning up and exploding with a large burst of sparks." it may be better to say "Interfering with technological resources". A further article could be devoted to the uses. I say this due to the article being a chore to read and repetitive.


Duke of Skibbington 07:19, September 3, 2017 (UTC)
:I've also said that a looong time ago, but no one (including myself) never got around to reducing these sections. I'm against a separate page for the uses, but definitely agree that they should be written in a less specific manner. [[User:OncomingStorm12th|OncomingStorm12th]] [[User talk:OncomingStorm12th|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:44, December 18, 2019 (UTC)
::..... somehow I missed that this was a post from two years ago. [[User:OncomingStorm12th|OncomingStorm12th]] [[User talk:OncomingStorm12th|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:45, December 18, 2019 (UTC)


Its good. Go for it. [[User:Fan555|Fan555]] 19:34, May 22, 2010 (UTC)[[File:Sonic_screwdriver.jpg|thumb|110px]]
== Displaying Information ==
Hey, I have just spent an hour scrutinizing the entire wiki looking for a point I personally find very crucial. To my tremendous suprise, the matter was never discussed or even mentioned.


== Sound Effect ==
Sonic screwdrivers and similar devices can be used as to scan things, but they don't visually display the scanned information. So how exactly the user receives the scanned information? [[User:Maiovez|Maiovez]] [[User talk:Maiovez|<span title="Talk to me"></span>]] 19:16, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
 
:Well, they're activated by "point and think", as per several [[Eleventh Doctor]]-era sources. It's not much of a stretch to suggest that the device's telepathic abilities work in both directions and it beams the data right back into the user's mind. Although I don't think this has ever been specifically spelled out. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me"></span>]] 19:47, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
I was recently watching an episode of [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4 (Revived)]] with commentary, I can't actually remember what episode otherwise I'd just check, and they mentioned what was used to make the original sound effect of the sonic screwdriver. I can't for the life of me remember what it was though! I thought if someone with a better memory than me could add it as a point of interest to the article's 'Behind the Scenes' section, like I'm sure it's mentioned on the TARDIS page that the sound effect for when it dematerializes/materializes is made by moving a key on a string up and down inside the pipe of an organ, though I could be wrong. <span style="color:green;">'''Lyco'''</span> 02:21, June 5, 2010 (UTC)
::I have consdiered it; it does explain it very well. Though technically, it isn't outright telepathy, rather a neural interface, the cybernetic equivalent of telepathy. [[User:Maiovez|Maiovez]] [[User talk:Maiovez|<span title="Talk to me"></span>]] 21:45, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
 
 
 
It was 'Silence in the Library' S4's commentary, David Tennant, Steven Moffat and Julie Gardener mentioned that the sound effect for the Sonic Screwdriver is made using a Cork Screw. Julie Gardener said she knew because she'd seen it on Doctor Who Cofidential, so it must have been in an episode of that also. I'm about to add it to the article as a little fun fact. <span style="color:green;">'''Lyco'''</span> 01:36, July 11, 2010 (UTC)
 
==Origin==
 
In the Doctor Dances, doesn't the Doctor essentially admit to getting his screwdriver at the weapons factories at Villengard or something? Jack's blaster came from there, anyway. It seems possible that the Doctor's started to have the TARDIS generate them because he destroyed the factories (there's a banana grove there, now. I like bananas).
 
[[Special:Contributions/68.102.227.79|68.102.227.79]] 21:46, July 2, 2010 (UTC)
 
No, it's just the Sonic Blasters that come from Villengrad, the Screwdrivers came from the Doctor's own hand (or the TARDIS, more likely). - '' <span style ="color:midnightblue">I. Am. [[User: Excalibur-117| Excalibur-117]]</span>''-<sup>([[User talk:Excalibur-117|talk]] • [[Special: Contributions/ Excalibur-117|contribs]])</sup> 15:16, July 5, 2010 (UTC)

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Marks[[edit source]]

I'm starting to see our section headers being used as "official" names for the various iterations. Other articles are now using terms like "the Mark IV sonic", as if that means something.

Is there any source for this mark business? If not, it needs to be stripped from the article, replaced by more defensible, plain English terms like, "the Second Doctor's screwdriver", "the screwdriver that the Tenth Doctor used" and the like.

We need to resist the fannish urge to number things that actually have no number in any valid source.
czechout<staff />    14:49: Sun 14 Apr 2013

Additionally, the use of numbers has made the article internally incomprehensible, since Big Finish recently retroactively gave the Eighth Doctor a new sonic. This means that what was once the "Mark VI" is now the "Mark VII", and so on. There's absolutely no narrative reason why Big Finish couldn't give Five, Six or Seven a temporary sonic in future. Or why they might not give Eight another new sonic at some point. So if there is no source for the numbering of these sonics, the article needs to be wholly rewritten so as to use terms that are absolute, rather than numbers which are relative.
czechout<staff />    15:49: Sun 14 Apr 2013
Maybe we need to start a forum for changing this to your suggestions. Right now there's something of an edit war between two (or more) IP users who keep changing the "marks" back and forth. Shambala108 16:00, May 30, 2013 (UTC)
In the book Seeing I, The Doctor builds a new sonic screwdriver, and then names it the mark 9! This shows just how inaccurate our attempts at numbering are. I think this wiki (which considers the books canon) needs to give up attempts at numbering the sonic screwdrivers. Holmes1963


Non-canon toys[[edit source]]

There are a lot of new sonic screwdriver toys hitting the market lately, including some that aren't in the show (the "Build Your Own" and "Trans-temporal" sets, in particular). Should these be added in, and if so, how? --King Starscream 17:40, May 29, 2013 (UTC)

New uses[[edit source]]

The uses from The Time of the Doctor should be added. Timppali 15:24, December 27, 2013 (UTC)

Non-Canon Appearances?[[edit source]]

I notice how in the Sonic Screwdriver Page, we have a list for all the uses which it has throughout the show. Although, Not sure if this has been suggested before, but should we also inclued a small section in that page that lists the Non-Canon uses that it has? Examples being stuff like; The Shalka Doctor using it to turn the Tardis Phone into a Door or turning Catherine Tate into a Rose Figure in that Sketch Show?

Like said, I'm not sure if this hasn't been suggested before, but should there be something for that, if one doesn't exsist already?The preceding unsigned comment was added by BabClayton (talk • contribs) .

Basically, no, because we are trying to keep non-DWU stuff off the in-universe pages. Shambala108 21:40, December 29, 2013 (UTC)

Having been destroyed[[edit source]]

How can the War Doctor's and the Tenth Doctor's and the Eleventh Doctor's screwdrivers be the same? The original blue, owned by the War, Ninth and Tenth (in a part of his life) was destroyed in Smith and Jones. Later Tenth acquired a new identical one that was destroyed by Eleventh's use of it in The Eleventh Hour. Then the TARDIS made a new green one to him. (If I'm not wrong it was also destroyed and replaced with an identical green one (not sure there)) How can the War Doctor's scanning be calculating in Tenth and Eleventh's sonic's?? --DCLM 13:47, May 5, 2014 (UTC)

I believe the idea is that the screwdrivers are the same 'at a software level' i.e the program(s) that the sonic screwdriver runs remains the same and as such the software (which could possibly be located in the TARDIS or something given its abilities to fart out a new sonic for the Doctor in The Eleventh Hour) carried on doing the necessary calculation. Oh, and just a heads up, but I think this kind of thing belongs in the discontinuity guide (if we still use that) rather than the talk page. ScotchAutopilot 15:12, May 5, 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. Maybe, you're right about that. The Tardis could be the answer. :) --DCLM 22:36, May 5, 2014 (UTC)

Walther pistols[[edit source]]

The War Doctor doesn't say "water pistols", he says "Walther pistols".

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_arms

Was that supposed to be a joke or did you guys really think that?The preceding unsigned comment was added by 174.112.212.21 (talk).

Removed Flatline example[[edit source]]

Removed this

Because while technically true, it wasn't the sonic that shattered the glass in this scene, it basically released the glass chair thing from its position, and that broke the window, so Clara and Rigsy could get to safety. I don't know the best way of wording that though. -- Tybort (talk page) 16:52, October 30, 2014 (UTC)

Page protection[[edit source]]

I don't know or care what the issue is with this article, but I do care about the edit warring. The page has been locked for one week so editors can hash out their disagreement here without violating T:NO WARS. Shambala108 01:07, December 7, 2015 (UTC)

Other Matters Section[[edit source]]

Someone has published the last bit to this page "Other Matters" and not finished the type. It needs to be finished or removed. I made no edit, but assume the author will make a decision poste haste.

OTHER MATTERS In the original script for The Husbands of River Song (TV story)

Series 9 Sonic[[edit source]]

RogerAckroydLives, I understand the need to make everything fit into your vision of the DWU, but there is nothing that makes it impossible for the Doctor to use his screwdriver in Series 9. Claiming that the DWA comic stories take place in a different order than the release order is pure speculation and does not belong on one of this wiki's most popular pages. The Champion of Time 20:31, May 9, 2016 (UTC)

I'm going to chime in here and state that this page will be fully protected if this incessant edit warring does not stop. I have stressed, till I'm blue in the face, that we can't and don't try to place events in any kind of order. The writers of the DWU stories don't give a damn about any kind of continuity; as such, it is impossible for us to exactly place every event without indulging in speculation, which is not allowed on this wiki. If you want to play with timelines, go to Theory:Timey-wimey detector; otherwise, keep it off the main namespace. Shambala108 23:33, May 9, 2016 (UTC)

Champion, everything we write is "speculation" of the sort you describe. My edits have nothing to do with "my vision". They are to do with making a coherent narrative. If in-universe info makes something apparent, I haven't any choice but to edit accordingly, regardless of whether it fits my "canon" or not. However, in cases like this, it is entirely possible that the story works to complement understood events. Perhaps I am guilty of "making things fit", but only on the same level as any editor on the wiki is when they place a 7 and Ace story on the 7 page in a place when 7 and Ace are travelling together. Popularity of page has no bearing on anything on this wiki, other than maybe when individuals wish to make large structural changes or similar technical edits.
Shambala, I think both Champion and I already know policy, but we certainly do try and place things in a kind of order: you'll find it on the page of every multi-appearance character, location, object, etc. Yep, speculation is not on, I know that and have ever since I started editing, and none is going on here. As for an "edit war", I understand a couple of reversions back and forth might not be desirable, but it is far from an ongoing battle.
P.S. Champion, if you want to address something directly to me, you would be better off using my talk page. RogerAckroydLives 05:30, May 10, 2016 (UTC)

Sonic Technology[[edit source]]

Sonic technology could not be Time Lord technology, so The Doctor could not have engineered it. As stated in the wiki article, in the TV episode Partners in Crime, Miss Foster (Cofelia), a woman with no Time Lord connections, had a Sonic device, namely a Sonic pen. Also, in the TV episode The Sontaran Stratagem, General Staal refers to The Doctor's actions against the Teleport pod in Luke Rattigan's room as 'Primitive Sonic Trickery'. This would mean that the Sontarans had encountered sonic technology before, and not from The Doctor or the Time Lords.

82.14.15.128talk to me 14:29, June 4, 2016 (UTC) 82.14.15.128

Even if there were conflict there I don't see what you would have us make of it. That would hardly be the only example of conflict on whether technology X or Y is common, or the privilege of a particular advanced species.
But beyond that, I don't see any conflict there. The Time Lords don't need to be the only ones to use sonic technology, just among the people who do; I mean, just to pick one example, the Time Lords are clearly familiar with the craft of weaving textiles, since they have robes and clothes of all kinds; I'm sure you could find a source where some other alien race is familiar with weaving and considers it rather primitive; that doesn't prove it's not part of "Time Lord technology".
Even further, just because something isn't widespread or even particularly representative of Gallifreyan Time Lords is no reason for the Doctor to be unaware of it. Time Lords also don't usually go for bowties back home, yet here we are. --Scrooge MacDuck 22:55, December 18, 2019 (UTC)

Bloated uses[[edit source]]

The uses lists are too long and bloated. Perhaps it may be prudent to keep the uses general and less detailed and specific. For example, instead of using "Trying to set off multiple technological resources on Earth to draw the attention of the Atraxi; however, due to the damage it had sustained from Prisoner Zero and continued abuse, this action overtaxed the screwdriver and caused its components to fail, which ultimately led to it burning up and exploding with a large burst of sparks." it may be better to say "Interfering with technological resources". A further article could be devoted to the uses. I say this due to the article being a chore to read and repetitive.

Duke of Skibbington 07:19, September 3, 2017 (UTC)

I've also said that a looong time ago, but no one (including myself) never got around to reducing these sections. I'm against a separate page for the uses, but definitely agree that they should be written in a less specific manner. OncomingStorm12th 21:44, December 18, 2019 (UTC)
..... somehow I missed that this was a post from two years ago. OncomingStorm12th 21:45, December 18, 2019 (UTC)

Displaying Information[[edit source]]

Hey, I have just spent an hour scrutinizing the entire wiki looking for a point I personally find very crucial. To my tremendous suprise, the matter was never discussed or even mentioned.

Sonic screwdrivers and similar devices can be used as to scan things, but they don't visually display the scanned information. So how exactly the user receives the scanned information? Maiovez 19:16, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Well, they're activated by "point and think", as per several Eleventh Doctor-era sources. It's not much of a stretch to suggest that the device's telepathic abilities work in both directions and it beams the data right back into the user's mind. Although I don't think this has ever been specifically spelled out. Scrooge MacDuck 19:47, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
I have consdiered it; it does explain it very well. Though technically, it isn't outright telepathy, rather a neural interface, the cybernetic equivalent of telepathy. Maiovez 21:45, 28 July 2021 (UTC)