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Thanks very much for filling in the plot summary for the first episode of The Crusade. However, there was a technical fault to your editing. According to this report from the page history at The Crusade, you inserted a lot of raw HTML into The Crusade#The Lion (1). Please do not do this. Thanks :)

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:24: Mon 31 Oct 2011 

Ahh, so there was a pesky li'l intervening edit. Thanks for pointing that out! Helped me uncover the source of a number of similar edits without having to laboriously check back through every edit history.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 00:30: Tue 01 Nov 2011 

Your input is needed!

You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Can we disable visual editor please?.

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 22:44: Tue 20 Dec 2011 

Your input is needed!

You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Reference books - what do we cover?. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:21, January 16, 2012 (UTC)

Request

Can I make a request. One actor pages instead of putting DW can you write the show out in full, i.e

X actor played person in the Doctor Who story name of story.

Thanks.MM/Want to talk? 02:02, February 6, 2012 (UTC)

Colony in Space

I'm not seeing anything like you're describing. And there's nothing alarming in the page history. Please clear your cache, reload that page, and tell me if you're still experiencing problems with the page. Thanks :)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 04:54: Fri 02 Mar 2012 

Vanddalism and edit button

Your vandal has been dealt with, hopefully. He/She was using a number of different IP addresses, so hopefully I've implemented a range block that will effectively bar him/her.

I'm a little more concerned about the report you're giving about your edit button. Could you please describe the circumstances under which you're unable to use it?

• What browser and version is giving you issues?
• Is it only on user pages, or every page?
• Is the drop down menu not working or is it the whole button? That is, are you only barred from looking at history and move, or does pressing the edit button do nothing?

Yours is the first report I've heard of this little loss of functionality, so I'm very eager to nip it in the bud before lots of users start having issues.

(As a short term solution, I suggest you install the skin changing button and edit in Monobook on those occasions when you need access to buttons you can't get to in Wikia. See Forum:Monobook users: please install this code for instructions.)

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:37: Sun 15 Apr 2012 

Well, there's your problem. We don't support IE. Please install Safari, Firefox, or Chrome. Our of curiosity, though, what's the exact version number of IE that you're using?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 01:57: Mon 16 Apr 2012 

Also, please make sure that you have cleared your cache. Work is ongoing with restyling the wiki, so you may not be looking at the most current version of the code. Even so, you are strongly urged to abandon IE for a Mozilla or webkit browser. As IE's position in the marketplace continues to dwindle — and it's currenly under 20% — we've felt increasingly confident in just abandoning support for it. It's simply more trouble than it's worth trying to maintain its peculiarities.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 02:16: Mon 16 Apr 2012 

Thank you for the advice, I appreciate it. --Cyruptsaram ^{talk to me} 06:41, July 15, 2012 (UTC)

Edits

Yes sorry about that. My computer can be very faulty sometimes and I can get chucked out of the edit page, so sometimes it takes 5 times to write a sentence.

I think when I made an edit on one page and then took it away is because I made a mistake. I though a piece of information wasn't visible on the page, but it actually was. --Cyruptsaram ☎ 16:41, August 2, 2012 (UTC)

Is there a way of stopping it somehow? Have you done something to stop it before (as you'd probably believe, it's very frustrating, it takes 10 minutes to write a paragraph)? --Cyruptsaram ☎ 17:00, August 2, 2012 (UTC)

Infobox only taking one actor

Just saw several of your recent edits. What you've said in the edit summary is not actually true. I've made an edit to the Second Doctor article to illustrate this. There are three actor fields, see {{Infobox Individual}} for more info. Thanks. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:32, August 14, 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, my mistake, read the edit summary too quickly. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:34, August 14, 2012 (UTC)

Please use only, not appearances

When creating an infobox on the page of a person who has only one appearance, please use the variable {{{only}}}, not {{{appearances}}}. Thanks :)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 04:29: Fri 24 Aug 2012 

Documentary categorisation

Hey, please familiarise yourself with the subcategories Documentaries. All documentaries should go into one of the more specific categories there. There's no way you could have known this, of course, but the reason category:Doctor Who DVD documentaries was kept around was because this category was going to facilitate an editing track in the Game of Rassilon. Because of Wikia's protracted problems in trying fix the achievement badges, however, we've had to put all new tracks on hold. So this "mega" category is just sorta sittin' there doin' nothin' useful. Any category that has over about a hundred entries is little too big for a human to digest. So documentaries should be in more specific categories like Production spotlight documentaries, Writing spotlight documentaries, Real history spotlight documentaries and the like.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:29: Tue 04 Sep 2012

Nah, you're not causing trouble at all. You're just pointing out things we need to explain better. Good thing I'm rewriting all the policies and tutorials at the moment. :) There's a big new tutorial on categories coming soon.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:36: Tue 04 Sep 2012

Here's a good list for you.

The useful categories for DVD documentaries are:

• Doctor Who documentaries
• Documentaries about missing episodes
• BBV documentaries
• Torchwood documentaries
• Doctor Who punditry documentaries
• Species spotlight documentaries
• Character spotlight documentaries
• History of Doctor Who documentaries
• Thematic spotlight documentaries
• Location spotlight documentaries
• Merchandise spotlight documentaries
• Real history spotlight documentaries
• Music spotlight documentaries
• Production spotlight documentaries
• Fandom spotlight documentaries
• Science spotlight documentaries
• Documentary series
• Audio production spotlight documentaries
• Documentaries by year of release
• Untitled (1963 trailer)
• Big Finish documentaries
• Trials and Tribulations (documentary)
• Going Underground: The Making of The Web of Fear (documentary)
• Doctor Who Am I
• Children in Need documentaries
• Imagine... Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me (documentary)

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:50: Tue 04 Sep 2012

Publication --> Anthology

Hey, thanks for doing the switches, but if you're noticing a pattern, just let me know what the pattern is, and I can fire up the bot and do it in a flash. :) Also no need to type out that whole, long forum title in the summary. It's not really from a forum decision. It's actually just a part of the template instructions, directly stated at {{Infobox Story/doc/short story}}, so your edit summary doesn't have to be anything more than "upholding temp doc" or something equally brief.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:27: Sat 08 Sep 2012

Kudos for finding a job for the bot then. Feel free to go on to more fun work. Can you just give me a link or three for stories which are mistakenly using publication instead of anthology? It'll help me make the bot coding a little more foolproof.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:44: Sat 08 Sep 2012

Talking About

Thanks for reporting this issue. I've passed it on to the people at w:c:vstf, who will handle it from here. This will probably be resolved within 48 hours. In the meantime, please create your page offline so that it's ready for eventual uploading.

Alternately, I can suggest that you create it at a near title match that the spam filter will allow — maybe Talkin About Regeneration (documentary), and then we'll move it to the proper place once the phrase "Talking About" gets struck from the list.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  01:56: Mon 17 Sep 2012

You can follow the case by clicking here.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  01:59: Mon 17 Sep 2012

the Editor

Noticed your recent edit and got me thinking, would there be a way for us to incorporate something like Wikipedia:Template:lowercase title for pages like this? Like for example how Wikipedia:De Moivre's formula displays a lowercase D. +Yc 04:35, September 26, 2012 (UTC)

Eh well I think it would be cool if we could make the title reflect is as otherwise people may only look at the top or the first bolded word as a guide for whether or not to capitalize the definite article. +Yc 05:20, September 26, 2012 (UTC)