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Hey all :) If you need help with anything, please ask, below. The page tends to fill up quickly, so I've got a lot of archives. I try not to archive discussions that are ongoing, but sometimes it unfortunately happens. Gimme a second shout if I've not answered your question!

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Page Creation

Hi. When I created the pages about stage play cast and crew, I was creating them from red links on the page Doctor Who and the Daleks in The Seven Keys to Doomsday so, I assumed that it wasn't nessessary for me to provide a source since they were already credited on the page. As for the category-less pages, I quickly added categories for most of them when I realised that they should be there, after I had made the pages.

I also wanted to mention that I have cut-down on my pipe-switching for story pages since I have now accepted, as you told me earlier, that it is a waste of my editing time and is against Tardis policy. But is Pipe-switching for articles of real people acceptable? Lego Whovian ☎ 20:37, September 13, 2013 (UTC)

Look on Chat now for my example of pipe-switching people page names. Lego Whovian ☎ 14:45, September 15, 2013 (UTC)

Re: Messages

OK, testing here first. That would certainly be an odd bug, but yet again, this is the first time I've seen the Spotlights not working completely on DWA (they've been blank before, but not totally missing). Just wondering, did you get my message from a few days ago regarding Spotlighting for the 50th? I left it on your talk page here, but it got archived soon after and you made no response. Imamadmad (Contact me) 21:17, September 16, 2013 (UTC)

Uh...

You can delete Doctor Who Prom (2013) again. Not sure how that was overlooked. I moved my relevant edits from my edit history onto Doctor Who at the Proms (2013) ages ago, and the televised version is in fact called at the Proms. -- Tybort (talk page) 20:26, September 18, 2013 (UTC)

Done: …a long time ago.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  09:36: Wed 02 Oct 2013

Fix FixMe

Hey, could you update MediaWiki:FixMe.css, in light of Darwin? The edit button on user pages is no longer in a "better location", but completely off the screen. Thanks.
--SOTO ☎ 00:09, September 21, 2013 (UTC)

Done: ...on September 21.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  18:29: Wed 25 Sep 2013

British Spelling

Hello there! I'm aware that you can use a template to request a rename for a page, but in this case it is a category. I'm not entirely certain a "category" is considered a "page", so I am asking you.

If I recall correctly, I am pretty sure that the British spelling of "license" is "licence." I think both of the titles of these categories need renaming: "Category:Doctor Who licensed food" and "Category:Publications related to Doctor Who licensed food."

Thanks! - Speedysnitch Talk contribs 23:34, September 24, 2013 (UTC)

Done: Thanks for catching this!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  08:35: Wed 02 Oct 2013

Not done: Wow. I really need sleep. Switched it back to original, because of course the original was correct. In its adjectival form, -sed is correct on both sides of the Atlantic.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:46: Wed 02 Oct 2013

Bot page background

Hello, I hail from the ERB Wiki. I would like to know how you got that cool template for the background of your bot's page. {{Subst:User:JPhil2.0/Signature|02:34:42|September 25, 2013}} 02:34, September 25, 2013 (UTC)

Grandma Rani.jpg

One more thing for when you return. You deleted File:Grandma Rani.jpg on the grounds that it goes against T:GTI. Which is perfectly fine unless normal circumstances except...

You used that same image as an example of what not to do on T:GTI itself. We just lost our illustration. I'd consider restoring it, but of course not letting it on any pages.
--SOTO ☎ 18:21, September 25, 2013 (UTC)

Done: Thanks for the heads up
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  18:27: Wed 25 Sep 2013

Thanks. That was quick! --SOTO ☎ 18:29, September 25, 2013 (UTC)

Did you get my messages?

Hey CzechOut, jut following the instructions on your DWA talk page and pestering you here after no response there. Just letting you know I left a reply to all your messages on your talk page there. Could it be that bug again stopping you from seeing them?

Also, another message which seems to have slipped under the radar twice now. Do you want to do any sort of collaboration between TDC and DWA in regards to the 50th? Even if the answer is no, can you please just let me know so I can sort out things over there? And if the answer is yes, do you have any ideas of things we could do? If you still haven't gotten back to me on this point by next weekend (not this one coming but the one after that), I'll message one of the other TDC admins about it. However, I would prefer to talk through you about it since you know both wikis the best. Imamadmad (Contact me) 16:25, September 26, 2013 (UTC)

Are any of these pages necessary. The ones with...

Look it up at Wiktionary.

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--QuestionRules 00:42, September 27, 2013 (UTC)

Vandals

Vandals have struck the List of BBC DVD releases page, again. I've cleaned up the mess, but has the page become unprotected?Gallicus ☎ 06:31, October 2, 2013 (UTC)

Done: Returned to protected status. Be aware, though, that although the page is currently "indefinitely" protected, all protection will likely come off once the classic line wraps up next year.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  08:39: Wed 02 Oct 2013

Rotten Tomatoes pics

Yeah, sure. I'm on it.
--SOTO ☎ 01:58, October 3, 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply. I did a bit of a quick job of it (just in case I did it all wrong and I have to redo :P), so if I didn't do it properly, I'll gladly go back and fix things.

I finally discovered Special:MultipleUpload, which is a real gem. Here are the images:

File:RottenGreen.png

File:RottenYellow.png

File:RottenOrange-Purple.png

The fresh ones got all pixelated once shrunk, obviously. Not much I could do about that. If I did something wrong or got the complete wrong idea (wouldn't be the first time), just get back to me.
--SOTO ☎ 02:46, October 3, 2013 (UTC)

Oops, sorry, I just forgot to upload it:

File:FreshYellow.png

--SOTO ☎ 03:07, October 3, 2013 (UTC)

Yay!! ;) --SOTO ☎ 04:03, October 3, 2013 (UTC)

Bot

It's fine, I know you're busy. No, I have not yet created the account — no good names are coming to me. I'm looking for something preferably linked to my main account's name, but otherwise anything Who-related is fine. user:GadgetGadget's open, but perhaps too long. I thought of maybe user:Canine as a backwards pun on K9... but it's taken. Do you have any ideas?

If there's literally nothing else, I'll have go with the rather bland (but direct) SOTObot.

Also, since you think my base name's a bit too long (and I sorta agree), I can always rename myself to the shortened version, SOTO, right? It's already what I sign with and what people call me, and it won't look so huge in edit histories.
--SOTO ☎ 04:03, October 3, 2013 (UTC)

Mediawiki header

Didn't want to interrupt Thread:142564 further, but — while the editing header is admittedly now perfectly readable — there's about two inches of empty space above it. I can barely even see the very top of the box without scrolling down, due to the spoiler warning also taking up space above. I was only getting the problem mentioned by Digifiend on template pages. So it's currently fine in at least namespaces 2, 4, 8, 10, 12... You get the point.

(Therefore the ones that have the empty space are 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11...)

So could you just push it back up a bit? No rush; it's not too much of a hassle.
--SOTO ☎ 01:39, October 9, 2013 (UTC)

Done: …a couple of days ago. Digifiend has a total point, but I need to come back to it later with a more specific approach
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  19:08: Fri 11 Oct 2013

RE:Nav buttons

Hi CzechOut. The links have been updated. The initial links were just what Kate gave me when I asked for them.

It's odd that you wouldn't be able to edit those MediaWiki: pages. The user right that grants that ability is "editinterface", which all admins have. Maybe that right is only specifically for editing MW pages that appear at Special:AllMessages. Anyhoo, if you ever need one of those MediaWiki:Button pages edited in the future, just message me or any Wikia staff member. JoePlay http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/joeplayground/images/a/a5/WikiaStaff2.png (talk) 17:47, October 9, 2013 (UTC)

Regarding the MW pages, yeah I forgot about them being limited to just staff when they contain <a href="">.

As for the other thing, I was given a brief description of how it would ideally work, so I'm not sure I fully understand it. Based on the little info I was given - a large image that moves to the side when hovered, revealing the round buttons - I don't even know where to begin to make that happen. From the quick look at your wiki contributions, it's apparent that you're more experienced than me at coding (CSS, JS). I'm decent at CSS, but when it comes to JS, I have only the most basic knowledge of how it works, so I couldn't write a script from scratch, unless it was simply to prepend or append some HTML to an existing element. Before working on this redesign, I didn't even know that the transition CSS property existed. (Thanks Google!) :) That said, if the level of coding skill to make that happen (assuming it's possible) is beyond yours and mine, there are a couple people we could ask about it. On my team, Mark is somewhat experienced with JS. If he couldn't do it, we could go to Rappy and/or Grunny. JoePlay http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/joeplayground/images/a/a5/WikiaStaff2.png (talk) 18:44, October 9, 2013 (UTC)

Because I had to abandon the fading buttons method, what's being used at the moment is a simple <imagemap>. Those MediaWiki:Button pages are no longer being used, so no worries about you not being able to edit them. Tomorrow morning I'll upload a new image to be used on the image map that contains buttons that are 25% smaller and top-aligned instead of staggered. JoePlay http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/joeplayground/images/a/a5/WikiaStaff2.png (talk) 23:22, October 9, 2013 (UTC)

Production days

Okay, the following production day articles are blank. It looks like it might be majority at this point, but — as I mentioned in chat — I will get to production days early in the coming week. The amount is embarrassing!

Preloads

Was this definitely on the talk page, or was it a forum post? Because there's User:SmallerOnTheOutside's Thread:142372 on the Panopticon which concerns {{audio story/preload}}. -- Tybort (talk page) 13:20, October 12, 2013 (UTC)

Help

Don't currently have access to series 7 episodes, I'm afraid. The Name of the Doctor is on iPlayer this evening, so I suppose I could get the list for that, but not much else. -- Tybort (talk page) 15:23, October 12, 2013 (UTC)

Chat

Hey. Could you please come by chat? I put a few questions there for you just over a half an hour ago, but my computer unfortunately crashed when I tried to copy the entire text. So if possible, do not reload — check out the messages there, and please respond. If you already have reloaded, then I guess I'll have to re-explain once you get there.
--SOTO ☎ 17:01, October 12, 2013 (UTC)

Oh. Well, whenever you have the time, just let me know on my talk page, and I'll ask my question again. There's no rush. :)
--SOTO ☎ 17:36, October 12, 2013 (UTC)

Sequel Stories

Why the hell did you just delete my page on sequel stories, you've just wasted hours of my work! James Vick ☎ 21:56, October 12, 2013 (UTC)

The word Sequel is used often here

The word sequel is quite common on this site actual, why else do you think I made the page in the first place (certainly not for someone to bloody delete it!) Snakedance (TV story), The Monster of Peladon (TV story), The Guardians of Prophecy and Corpse Marker (novel) all use the word Sequel on them! James Vick ☎ 22:32, October 12, 2013 (UTC)

Chat

Sure I'll be right there. Shambala108 ☎ 04:41, October 14, 2013 (UTC)

I'm 2 days late but I am in chat now... --Tangerineduel / talk 14:30, October 15, 2013 (UTC)

Hi. If you are not too busy, then could you please join chat now? Lego Whovian ☎ 22:46, October 15, 2013 (UTC)

So sorry about that. I'm on chat again now. Lego Whovian ☎ 00:36, October 16, 2013 (UTC)

Bernice Summerfield Audio Story Bug

Hi, as I've been editing and creating pages related to the Big Finish Bernice Summerfield range and when searching for stories or linking to stories when referencing, the options with the (audio story) dab isn't automatically there, for example if searching for The Secret of Cassandra just The Secret of Cassandra appears, not The Secret of Cassandra (audio story). This occurred pre and post site redesigned. AdricLovesNyssa 11:09, October 16, 2013 (UTC)

Licensed Videos

Hey CzechOut,

Thanks for your attention to the matter of the licensed video content (and Shambala's attention as well!). Obviously there is no problem with you all governing your own community to make sure that it meets your standards. I'm glad that you are so receptive to our help, and that you are able to distinguish us and appreciate our efforts. I will make sure to follow infobox guidelines for videos in the future, or pass along related content to the admins and allow you to add it to the articles that you see fit.

It was a pleasure having you in the office the other week! Hope all is well.

Nick<staff /> 16:03, October 23, 2013 (UTC)

Parental Filter

Hey man, you could handle ratings in the way that games handle them - by breaking them out a bit. You could tweak the template to accommodate multiple ratings systems. OR to keep it really simple (since you have ratings by episode), you could also give a range of ratings, so the reader gets a sense of the worst-case scenario for the show. So could be like "Rating: TVPG-TV14". Or something like that. Does that help? --Acardwell415 ☎ 22:23, October 23, 2013 (UTC)Acardwell415

Yes, it's meant to be a very quick snapshot for parents about what they can expect from the show. If we want to provide more detail, we should link them deeper into the wikia, not provide too much detail on this page. It's more about making parents feel comfortable (or not) with what their child would be exposed to if they choose to let their child watch. We provide this template for sample fields to help guide you in creating the page. We know that it's hard to do this with a show that's as expansive as Dr. Who, but look at as an outline of the basics that can drill down into more detail linking deeper into article pages.

--Acardwell415 ☎ 23:46, October 23, 2013 (UTC)Acardwell415

This looks amazing! Great job. Only thing I would recommend is to move the Television content up, only because it's the content that this type of user is going to look for first. Also it's the meatiest. I notice that it's listed in alphabetical order, but it may be worth moving it up. Up to you! Otherwise, love it!

--Acardwell415 ☎ 18:26, October 24, 2013 (UTC)Acardwell415

I'm working on getting this included as a link to this page in the nav bar so parents can find it easily. I'd like to have it added on in the "On the wiki" section, so let me get back to you on this. Stay tuned! And thanks for the great work on this page. You guys are always leading the way on stuff like this.

--Acardwell415 ☎ 18:49, October 25, 2013 (UTC)Acardwell415

Tenth Doctor lead-in

I have a question, although I feel that I may be bothersome or nitpicking in bringing it to your attention. It concerns the first sentence that's currently on the page for Tenth Doctor. While I was going through pages yesterday I noticed that the first sentence reads something like "This person was, according to UNIT Australia Captain Kath Braxton, the tenth incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor." (I'm not looking at the page directly right now so I'm paraphrasing.)

My thinking was this: from a literary standpoint (former lit major here, I'm apologizing in advance), it looks like the article is placing the burden of identifying the Doctor on an incredibly minor character from a comic that probably not a lot of people have read. The character doesn't even have a page - the first thing people see when they're going to the page for, arguably, the most popular Doctor is a red link. I didn't feel that it was necessary to the article to include this minor citation, so I removed it.

It was added back on by user:Tybort within a couple minutes, stating that the character of Braxton did, in fact, refer to this Doctor as the Tenth Doctor. I posted on his talk page (I hope I didn't come across as rude) stating exactly what I just said - I don't understand why, in the first sentence of the article, we're hinging his identification on a guy that nobody's heard of and doesn't even have a page. I haven't yet received a response; I was just curious what your opinion was on the matter. TARDIStraveler ☎ 15:59, October 24, 2013 (UTC)

End Game

Hi CzechOut - whose been a busy boy then?! Thanks it looks good.

I did send you the frame for 'End Game' before

That was before I dropped the capitals :) -and yes it is two words if that answers your question.

btw thanks for thinking about me for the wiki invite but it was short notice and a bit far - besides not really sure how much input I would have been able to make unless it was as a guinea pig for wiki thickos lol The Librarian ☎ 12:26, October 27, 2013 (UTC)

Licensed Videos 2

Hey CzechOut,

Thanks for the feedback about the videos! I watched them and they're all pretty interesting tid bits about the history of the Doctor. I passed your message along to Marketing, and we'll see if some Sarah Jane stuff can be found.

Cheers! Nick<staff /> 21:10, October 31, 2013 (UTC)

Reply

Ah, OK then. just got a little bit confused when you announced that your big awards celebratory thing was being pushed back. Anyway, can't wait to see how the trivia thing goes! Although, there isn't much time left in the year for your last announcement, unless you're going to make it coincide with the big Christmas episode.

Anyway, sorry for breaking T:FORUM. I didn't mean to try to derail the conversation, especially since the thread was still titled to suggest that these were a big 50th anniversary celebration.

Also, while I'm here (and I don't think there's anything against going off topic in a user talk conversation), I was wondering how you put the Twitter widget in the siderail of pages here, and was wondering if that was also possible to do the same with a Facebook widget. Just thinking of maybe doing it over at DWA for its Twitter and Facebook pages and thought you're probably the best person to ask about it.

Thanks! Imamadmad (Contact me) 07:09, November 2, 2013 (UTC)

British Language

So I like just joined the wiki (at this time like 10/15 minutes ago) and I'm still just getting used to the wiki template, not like your normal wiki.

When I was about to write an opening for my Talk Page, it said here we'd be using British English, I'm just inquisitive to what this means and why we can't use our local tongue's here. Thank you --CornettoFan450 ☎ 19:55, November 3, 2013 (UTC)

Poll Posts

On other wikias, polls are common. If we're allowed to do so, what should we be posting them under. I know the code for making a poll, it will be on theme songs and what the majority thought the best was, I just need to know where to post them under, thanks --CornettoFan450 ☎ 21:12, November 3, 2013 (UTC)

Editing Windows

Sorry, me again, just curious, do we edit character or episode pages while the episode is running? Like, American Dad wiki has a lock where you can only edit that episode during, that's another wikia, but how does it work here, or do we have to wait until the next day or until the episode is concluded --CornettoFan450 ☎ 01:37, November 4, 2013 (UTC)

Spotlight Request

Hi. I can't answer all your questions as I do not know what the community development team has planned for Doctor Who later this month. The Doctor Who Answers spotlight is approved to be up for the full month so it will cover the appropriate time period. As far as I know there is no difficulty with having both wikis spotlighted at the same time; in fact it seems to me that it would work well to have both types of wiki highlighted.

I've gone ahead and approved Tardis Wiki for a spotlight. Spotlights go up at the beginning and middle of the month, so if it is included in the next batch it would be up for the week before and after the 23rd as you wanted; however I cannot guarantee the timing... there is a chance it may slip to the December 1st slot. -- Wendy (talk)<staff /> 04:29, November 6, 2013 (UTC)

I'm so sorry - I forgot to tell Imamadmad that they had agreed to leave it up for a month. I left her a message. -- Wendy (talk)<staff /> 00:25, November 7, 2013 (UTC)

Food Fiction: Doctor Who is live!

Hey CzechOut, Wanted to make sure you saw that we're starting to solicit entries for our Food Fiction Doctor Who party. Can you help feature it to get some awareness for it? Thanks! --Acardwell415 ☎ 05:16, November 6, 2013 (UTC)Acardwell415

Thanks! We'll also be posting promotion around Wikia - house ads, promotion on the hubs, etc. So let's hope for quality entries! Also, apologies on using an improper image. We can remove it if you would rather. I was just using it to give it some fun color. BTW do you think it would be worth promoting through social? We're going to get it into the Wikia social feeds shortly.

--Acardwell415 ☎ 00:41, November 7, 2013 (UTC)Acardwell415

BTW, I have various versions of this image available if you'd like to use. We have wide ones like this and taller, narrow ones as well. If you like the look, I can email you a few to look at.--Acardwell415 ☎ 02:17, November 7, 2013 (UTC)Acardwell415

Looks lovely! I should've sent them to you sooner. But I love the way you made it. Thanks!--Acardwell415 ☎ 03:06, November 7, 2013 (UTC)Acardwell415

Amazing! I'm seeing them now, and they look fantastic. Thanks for all your help this month! You guys are the best.

--Acardwell415 ☎ 00:49, November 9, 2013 (UTC)Acardwell415

Hello CzechOut!

Greetings, I have started editing on this wiki, and am also a moderator on WoWWiki. I thought I'd say hi. While reading your user profile I noticed there was an error after 'No, seriously, I need to get out more', that's just me being nit picky. Tankingmage ☎ 05:26, November 6, 2013 (UTC)

Fly TAM, not TAP

Hello! I don't if you're the right person to go to but I don't know where else I could put this message. I noticed that when you go to an article and there's a link for the portuguese version of it, there's this little image of a flag. I wonder if it could perhaps be changed to the Brazilian flag, since the portuguese version of the DW Wikia is being contructed by brazilians (and therefore we're using brazilian portuguese instead of european portuguese)? If there are others I should have contacted instead of you could you please direct me to them? Thank you very much! – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Manyu13 (talk • contribs) .

Hi Czech, I was wondering how you got the first three letters of the month and the other components in your timestamp? If you could tell me what goes into the special preferences that would be helpful, Thank You. {{Subst:User:JPhil2.0/Signature}}{{Subst:User:JPhil2.0/TimeFormat}}23:56:13 Wed 11 06 2013

Doctor Who Expert Showcase

Hey, CzechOut! ;-)

Drop me a line via email ([email protected]) if you're available on the evening of Tuesday, 11/12 for a G+ hangout to talk 50th fun. If scheduling is a prob, we can shift. Thanks!!

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 ::BTW, I have various versions of [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131107003141/corp/images/thumb/b/bf/FF_DrWho_BlogHeader_75.jpg/495px-FF_DrWho_BlogHeader_75.jpg this image] available if you'd like to use. We have wide ones like this and taller, narrow ones as well. If you like the look, I can email you a few to look at.--[[User:Acardwell415|Acardwell415]] [[User talk:Acardwell415|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 02:17, November 7, 2013 (UTC)Acardwell415
 :::Looks lovely! I should've sent them to you sooner. But I love the way you made it. Thanks!--[[User:Acardwell415|Acardwell415]] [[User talk:Acardwell415|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 03:06, November 7, 2013 (UTC)Acardwell415
+::::Amazing! I'm seeing them now, and they look fantastic. Thanks for all your help this month! You guys are the best.
+::::--[[User:Acardwell415|Acardwell415]] [[User talk:Acardwell415|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 00:49, November 9, 2013 (UTC)Acardwell415
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Re: Messages

Uh...

Fix FixMe

British Spelling

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Grandma Rani.jpg

Did you get my messages?

Vandals

Rotten Tomatoes pics

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Mediawiki header

RE:Nav buttons

Production days

Preloads

Help

Chat

Sequel Stories

The word Sequel is used often here

Chat

Bernice Summerfield Audio Story Bug

Licensed Videos

Parental Filter

Tenth Doctor lead-in

End Game

Licensed Videos 2

Reply

British Language

Poll Posts

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Food Fiction: Doctor Who is live!

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