Talk:Death of the Doctor (TV story)

This is a real story, why is the page being deleted (also when deleting a page you have to explain in your summary why you are deleting the page) Springwood1984 21:40, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

Happy now? The page is barren and the infobox is wrong. There is not much information available at the moment and it is only an infobox with a few rumours. User:Solar Dragon/Signature 21:55, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

Then fix the info box, and let people fill the information in. Deleting it will only lead to someone else making a new page for it, since DWM has announced the name of the episode. Lokiofmidgaard 21:56, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

Typically, in the past, pages have been made for upcoming episodes as soon as the titles of those episodes were revealed. There were pages for "The Vampires of Venice", "Vincent and the Doctor", and "The Big Bang" long before we knew any definite details for those episodes. There really ought to be pages for all the Sarah Jane series 4 episodes now. And even if we wait on those, the Doctor's appearance in "Death of the Doctor" makes it important enough to have a page dedicated to it now. Bluebox444 22:01, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

Prop delete, again

The example cited above of The Vampires of Venice is actually an argument against the existence of this page at this very early stage. Episode names do change, even as late as the date of transmission. Or, as with The Pandorica Opens, there's the possibility that the title might be the name of an actual item in the DWU and we might have to go back and changes lots of pages. For all we know, Death of the Doctor is the name of a book in the DWU. Impatience only creates additional work. I suggest that this, and all SJA series 4 episode pages should be deleted at this stage. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 22:09, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

"The example cited above of The Vampires of Venice is actually an argument against the existence of this page at this very early stage. Episode names do change, even as late as the date of transmission. "

By that logic, there's no point creating a page for any episode until after it has aired. If the episode title changes, set up a redirect, it's not that hard.

"Or, as with The Pandorica Opens, there's the possibility that the title might be the name of an actual item in the DWU and we might have to go back and changes lots of pages."

Though it's highly doubtful a device would have the name "Death of the Doctor", in this kind of case you simply make a disambiguation page, and let people fix links over time - that's the whole advantage of a wiki site. So I don't see the need to delete this page. You talk about creating more work - deleting it will do that, because I guarantee you that again and again different contributors will come in unaware why the old one was deleted and recreate it from scratch. Lokiofmidgaard 22:15, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

• I agree with the deletion. Even the series 5 ones weren't created this early. The episode won't even air until the fall. There is no point speculating who will be in the episode, who won't, and there's only two rumours on the main body of the article (which don't even have sources). There's no point in having it. The Thirteenth Doctor 22:21, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

"By that logic, there's no point creating a page for any episode until after it has aired. If the episode title changes, set up a redirect, it's not that hard."

That is exactly what I'm saying. There's no point creating a page for any episode until after it has aired. You make it sound like all you have to is create a redirect and — voila! —it's all done. But it's much more than that. It's finding every instance of the wrong title on the wiki and changing it. Even with a bot it's a good day's work. Without a bot, it's potentially a much longer job, depending on how many links are made to the wrong title. You say "let people fix links over time", but do you have any idea how truly tedious that is? It's far, far easier to just keep deleting one page than to have links sprouting up all over the place. There were hundreds of links to The Pandorica Opens before they were stopped and reverted. Likewise, there were tons of links to Vampires of Venice and some to Vampires in Venice before we got broadcast confirmation that the actual name of the episode was The Vampires of Venice. Though I'm constantly doing it, I'm honestly not thrilled about cleaning up messes like this which are caused be simple impatience. It is better to be accurate than to be first. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 22:26, June 23, 2010 (UTC)

And I reiterate - all deleting it will do is see it get constantly recreated by one user after another. "You make it sound like all you have to is create a redirect and — voila! —it's all done." Yes, it is, in some respects. Any wrong link will go to the correct page, which sorts the main problem - fixing links can then be done over time. Plus, there should be redirect or disambiguation pages, as the case may be, for working titles or common misnamings. And yes, I do know how tedious fixing links can be - but who said you had to be the only one doing it? You see the creation of this page as impatience. It's not. It's human nature, the desire to be up to date combined with the ease of creating something on a wiki. Once people know the name, people are going to want to start filling in the info, adding in new info as it comes out. Lokiofmidgaard 22:34, June 23, 2010 (UTC)