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Noted. No problem. --[[User:66 Seconds|66 Seconds]] [[User talk:66 Seconds#top|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 15:30, October 21, 2014 (UTC)
Noted. No problem. --[[User:66 Seconds|66 Seconds]] [[User talk:66 Seconds#top|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 15:30, October 21, 2014 (UTC)
== Honorifics ==
Hi! I was searching through some edits on [[Skarosa]] and noted that you had added periods after the abbreviation "Dr". Per [[Tardis:Honourifics]], we follow the British method of not putting periods after certain words. Please check the policy to see which words do and don't have a period. Thanks! [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] [[User talk:Shambala108|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:28, November 3, 2014 (UTC)

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Real world info

Hi! I realize you probably spent hours of work on the English towns and counties, but I've had to undo most of your work. There are a couple of issues here:

  • All in-universe articles on people, places, and things that also exist in the real world are tagged with {{Wikipediainfo}}, which leads anyone interested to the wikipedia page. Therefore, there is no need for us to include any non-DWU details in our articles. In particular, we never allow speculation in our articles, so phrases like "it may be" or "it is possible" are not allowed.
  • In addition, T:NO RW tells us that we are only to use info from DWU stories in our in-universe articles. No matter what we know about a subject in real life, it is not added unless it can be sourced to a DWU story. (However, keep in mind that there may be examples of this on pages that haven't been caught and removed yet.)

A couple of things to keep in mind while you edit: make sure any headings you add conform to Tardis:Use sentence case, and be careful not to add content within the list of categories and templates, which must always be located at the bottom of an article beneath all the content. The edits you've been making today were inserted between the wikipedia template tag and the categories.

Thanks for reading this! Shambala108 15:16, October 20, 2014 (UTC)

Noted. No problem. --66 Seconds 15:30, October 21, 2014 (UTC)

Honorifics

Hi! I was searching through some edits on Skarosa and noted that you had added periods after the abbreviation "Dr". Per Tardis:Honourifics, we follow the British method of not putting periods after certain words. Please check the policy to see which words do and don't have a period. Thanks! Shambala108 18:28, November 3, 2014 (UTC)