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| {{Welcome|[[User:Mini-mitch]]|''--[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 14:35, 10 April 2009 (UTC)''}}
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| ==Discontinuity==
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| It's a direction we could go, but I think much like the current discontinuity section it would be hard to decide what is a 'major' discontinuity and to stop the page from becoming a huge article of arguments. Looking at the page as it is we'd likely either need to make several pages for each Doctor or have that 'Discontinuity in Doctor Who' page with several sub-pages spun off it. Also as the title stands it could refer to ''all'' of Doctor Who (TV, book, audios, comics etc), while in theory this isn't a bad thing (as I'm sure editors could find a bit of discontinuity for every single story) it presents an issue of too much information which may turn into just one large discussion.
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| Having it all in one place would also probably make editing harder, because people could just go through the page responding to every single thing in one edit (rather than the 500 or so they'd need to do otherwise).
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| On a side note, the semi-protect tag is just that, it's a tag and doesn't do anything, it's to alert people that a page has been semi-protected, but an admin actually needs to protect the page first. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 15:43, March 21, 2010 (UTC)
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| ===User Changing Stuff===
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| I've seen it. I will go through and hit 'rollback' on his edits, but I do want to give the user a chance to continue the discussion on the forum page as after this (and a warning) my only options will be to block the user (and I'd rather go the diplomatic route first). Thanks for leaving me a message. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 16:03, March 26, 2010 (UTC)
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| :That would have the effect of just moving the discussions (not a huge problem on the classic series pages) but on the new series pages it'd likely have the result of encouraging people to go to town with the debating. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 16:16, March 26, 2010 (UTC)
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| ===[[Forum:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes]]===
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| I wanted to get this page up and ready by the time ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' was broadcast. It's not pretty (probably it should eventually go to a tabular format one of these days), but every story (and episode, if you wanna be picky about the [[BBC Wales]] era) now has an appropriate redlink just waiting for information to be dumped onto it from the mainspace article page. Though uglier, I decided to make the backslash visible in the links so as to visually confirm for people that they'd be creating an article at the right place. '''[[User:CzechOut|<span style="background:blue;color:white">Czech</span><span style="background:red;color:white">Out</span>]]''' [[User talk:CzechOut|☎]] | [[Special:Contributions/CzechOut|<font size="+1">✍</font>]] 00:55, April 3, 2010 (UTC)
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| == Production Error Stuff ==
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| Thanks for your help in switching over to production error paradigm, but please see [[Talk:Lost Souls#Production error removal]]. '''[[User:CzechOut|<span style="background:blue;color:white">Czech</span><span style="background:red;color:white">Out</span>]]''' [[User talk:CzechOut|☎]] | [[Special:Contributions/CzechOut|<font size="+1">✍</font>]] 21:07, March 29, 2010 (UTC)
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| ===Is There Something I'm Missing? ===
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| Are "Production Errors" not the same thing as "Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors", 'cos I thought they were? I must admit I agree with removing the rebuttals. Every single plot hole was given a rebuttal, a lot of which were a little far-fetched... [[User talk:Drophyd167b|<b><span style="color: Blue">The b-Unit's</span></b>]][[User:Drophyd167b|<b><span style="color: Orange">167th Drophyd</span></b>]] 12:19, April 5, 2010 (UTC)
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| :Well that's not what "Tangerineduel" said, 'cos according to him it's been simplified to Production Errors. Anyway, it's good that they've been removed... [[User talk:Drophyd167b|<b><span style="color: Blue">The b-Unit's</span></b>]][[User:Drophyd167b|<b><span style="color: Orange">167th Drophyd</span></b>]] 13:00, April 5, 2010 (UTC)
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| ==Actors Pages==
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| Thank you very much for your efforts to create pages for several ''Doctor Who'' guest actors. There are a few things that the three or so pages you've most recently created lack that would help them be even '''more''' useful. I know you've already made about 3000 edits, and therefore you're one of our more senior editors, but I nevertheless encourage you to read (or, possibly, re-read) our [[Tardis:Manual of style|Manual of style]] at some point in the near future. It'll give you some pointers about how to format articles. However, here are some key things that you might want to keep in mind for the future.
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| *All actor pages should be flagged as an "article about the real world" '''as near the top of the page as possible''', the name of the person must be '''bolded''', and you should link as many words as can be linked to articles on this wiki. So, the article [[David Ajala]] should begin:
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| {{real world}}'''David Ajala''' played [[Peter]] . . .
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| *All pages, related to actors or not, '''should be put into a category when the article is first created'''. This can be accomplished several ways, but the easiest is just to click "Add category" and start typing. The software will match your text as you type it, so you don't even have to type out the whole category. The category for ''Doctor Who'' guest actors is exactly that: [[:category:Doctor Who guest actors|Doctor Who guest actors]]. By the time you've typed "Doctor Who g", the software will already be presenting you with that category, so click on its suggestion, press enter, and you're done. Again, I'm probably telling you something you already know, but as none of your recently-created articles are categorized, I just wanted to be sure you knew ''how'' to do it.
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| *All articles about people should ideally be sorted in categories by the last name of the person. The recommended way of making this happen is to use a thing called "DEFAULTSORT". (DEFAULTSORT is preferred over adding a manual sort key to each category, because pages sometimes later get put into automatically-applied categories. Without a DEFAULTSORT, auto-cats will not properly alphabetize people's names.) Add the following to the bottom of your articles, and the system will tidy away the article without you having to think about it:
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:Ajala, David}}
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| *Actors pages should have an external link to the relevant IMdb page, which can be accomplished easily through the use of one of two templates.
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| {{imdb|name/nm2916966/|David Ajala}}
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| *As regards this specific article, you might want to note that [[Peter]] is a huge disambig page, and not a specific link to the character in question. Generally first-name-only links are discouraged, because it's very likely there will be other articles that could potentially have that name. Very common English language first names, like Peter and Mandy, should almost never be used to title an article, because there will be other people, both in-universe and out-, who will share the same first name.
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| Again, I know you're one of our more experienced editors, so I hope you don't take offense at these suggestions. It just worried me to see three articles with the same basic editing errors. '''[[User:CzechOut|<span style="background:blue;color:white">Czech</span><span style="background:red;color:white">Out</span>]]''' [[User talk:CzechOut|☎]] | [[Special:Contributions/CzechOut|<font size="+1">✍</font>]] 15:03, April 9, 2010 (UTC)
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