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Wales crew

Hello and welcome to our community! I assume you're the IP editor who requested some changes made to [[tl|Wales crew}} a few weeks back. I wanted to hold off making changes to it, because I rather suspect I'm going to have to make a ton of changes due to the differing styles necessary for Miracle Day. I did want to assure you that it's on my radar to change, but I wanted to do a lot of changes at once, rather than nickle and diming it. I also wanted to take some time to review the credits on UK transmission as opposed to those on US transmission of MIracle Day.

So my plan, at present, is this. I'm going to wait until the end of July. by that time, I'll have copies of a few episodes of Torchwood from both transmissions. I'll then be able to have a fairly representative slice of series 4 credits and be able to figure out a decent way to code the thing. I may well have to make a completely different template, anyway, because New World credits were pretty radically different than anything else so far.

Until a further announcement, please don't use {{wales crew}} on Miracle Day episodes. You may see me making an attempt to use it, but this is just for testing, and doesn't signal that it's okay to proceed generally with the template.

Thanks — and it's great to have another user dedicated to getting the credits right on our story pages!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  00:44:41 Thu 14 Jul 2011

Cool. I don't want this to stop your work on other seasons of other series, though. It's so awesome to have someone else who wants to do this work! Please just keep doing what you're doing. When you run across a credit that doesn't yet exist as a variable, pick a variable name, assign the person to that new variable, and write the variable at template talk:Wales crew. I promise I'll get to it. And if you have any suggestions about how to make the thing work better, let me hear those too. Thanks :)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  00:58:01 Thu 14 Jul 2011

Yep, not only are your new variables in, I've begun the process of Miracle Day-ing the template. You'll find that the latest episode, Dead of Night, has the MD version of {{Wales crew}} already installed. You may certainly feel free to populate the form with the credits after 2300 EST today. I haven't quite worked out all the formatting, but that doesn't matter. I've filled out the details on The New World, but haven't quite gotten to Rendition just yet. Important thing at this stage is simply to have the data in the form; I'll be tweaking things this weekend to get it all displaying properly. The blank form is in a special Miracle Day section over at {{Wales crew}}. Please note that I have detected very slight differences between the Starz and BBC One versions' credits on ep 1, thought I'm not sure that'll necessarily be the case in other episodes. Still, it'd be helpful to me if, when you're filling in things, you noted which version your info comes from, so that I know that I need to verify it against the other version.

Thanks, as always, for your help with this stuff.

Oh, you may have noticed that I took some of the rigid column structure away from the top box. This should help SJA and TW pages, which don't necessarily have all 12 main credits, to have "neater" headline credits. I'm still going to be playing around with the basic formatting, because honestly it all's looking a bit tired. But, anyway, for the moment, I hope you'll find it's improved a bit for non-DW episodes.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  22:51:41 Fri 22 Jul 2011

Yeah, you're prolly gonna find glitches from time to time over the next few days. It's mindnumbingly painstaking work, and sometimes I "drop a stitch", as it were. Oh, and minor thing, but could you please put a link to this talk page in your signature? It helps with communication — and it's da law. :)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:13:03 Fri 22 Jul 2011

Okay, I think the template has now been fixed to handle Miracle Day. I left you Rendition (TV story) to try the new template on. Just remember to cut and paste the T:MD form from {{Wales crew}}, and you should find that it'll take you at most five minutes to enter the variables. There is one remaining problem that I see, and it's that the "costume" section appears as empty. This is because headings are turned off or on on the basis of either the page name or by testing to see whether a variable that always appears in that section is present. The costume department it weird, because there is no single credit which has always appeared in all three programmes, so there's nothing to test for. I think ultimately I'll just have to test for the ten episode names, but my mind's a li'l tired of looking at this very detailed coding.

Point is, it's ready for use with MD, and it should be working better with other series. Let me know if you notice problems with it.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  00:24:46 Tue 26 Jul 2011

Forum:Story pages should have reception sections

The above-named forum thread got additional formatting after you posted your thoughts. I wasn't quite clear which of the two sections best represented your views. Please return to the thread to confirm that your thoughs are under the appropriate heading. Thanks. :)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  15:27:42 Fri 15 Jul 2011

Tooth and Claw

So there's a couple hundred links to Tooth and Claw. Are we certain these should all be moved to Tooth and Claw (TV story)?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  13:55:30 Sat 23 Jul 2011

You misunderstand my question. Obviously our disambiguation policy calls for the move. I've been kinda waiting to see how long it would take someone to notice. It's kinda amused me that no one has noticed, and yet we've had fierce battles of The End of Time, a much later story. (The answer, by the way, is: five years, three months). The question I had for you is whether anyone involved here — you, Mini-mitch or Skittles — has actually checked the list of links to Tooth and Claw to verify that they all are meant to be links to the TV episode. The bot can take care of the re-linking in a matter of minutes, but it can't contextualise anything. It has no idea whether a particular link is meant to be for the comic strip or the TV story. So what's needed here is for someone to just check to make sure that anything currently linking to Tooth and Claw is meant to be pointing towards the TV story. Once that's verified, the actual changeover is a snap.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  14:15:29 Sat 23 Jul 2011

(Oh, and thanks for making an attempt to comply with tardis:signature policy, but you're not quite there yet. There must be a link both to user:Tybort and user talk:Tybort in your sig.)

Hey, I notice you're hand-editing link moves to Tooth and Claw (TV story). You know you don't have to do that, right? All I'm looking for is that you or Skittles or Mini-Mitch or someone verifies that each one of the links to Tooth and Claw is meant to be to the TV story. Once that happens, it's a matter of minutes before everything gets changed over. It's kind of a waste of your time to physically make the changes to Tooth and Claw (TV story) yourself.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  17:40:36 Sat 23 Jul 2011

Okay. Well, I don't have time today to look at each and every link to make sure it's liking to the TV Story. So I'm going off Skittles the hog's word that it's okay to proceed with the bot. The bot is therefore running. Pleas do not hand-edit any Tooth and Claw links for the rest of the day, just to be on the safe side.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  19:32:37 Sat 23 Jul 2011

Changeover complete. There were like 6 highly random serials which claimed a link to Tooth and Claw, but when I went to the page and actually did a search for the word "tooth" in edit mode, I came up with nothing. So I have no idea what the link is. Maybe it's a template, but damned if I know what the link is between The Mysterious Planet, [[The Invasion of Time and Tooth and Claw. The page Tooth and Claw has now been deleted, as we need 3 pages for a disambig, and because keeping it around will only encourage more improper linkage. In a day or so, when the MediaWiki software clears its cache and "catches up", the two Tooth and Claws, and only those two, will present themselves on autosuggest, and people will start to "get" how to link to these stories.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:43:50 Sat 23 Jul 2011

Doctor image

Not sure how you missed it. After spin-off media was proven to be as much a part of the image as any other image, the discussion moved onto layout.

An image with all the Master on was created and introduced, but subsequently removed per the discussion as the layout was under scrutiny. This does take up about half the argument so I'm really not sure why you're confused.

Anyway, until a layout for both images is decided upon, the field should remain blank.--Skittles the hog - talk 14:34, July 26, 2011 (UTC)

Best practices for categories being moved

Hi :) If you notice that pages are being moved from one category to another, please don't flag it with {{delete}}. This prevents the bot from automatically deleting the old category. Thanks :)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  20:12:56 Sun 14 Aug 2011

Your input is needed!

You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:A second look at wiki achivements.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  17:03:06 Mon 22 Aug 2011

Incarnations of River

Please don't create categories for River's incarnation as there is or is going to be a discussion as to whether we have incarnation pages for her or not. Thanks. --Revan\Talk 14:43, August 28, 2011 (UTC)

The Met

Thanks for sorting out the Metropolitan Police Service chaps into the category. I completely forgot about unnamed characters, so at least someone's on the ball.--Skittles the hog - talk 19:17, August 31, 2011 (UTC)

Wales crew

Phew. I think I'm done with the current "to do" list on variable names at template talk:Wales crew. The only one I haven't put in is the simple "designer" credit, cause I need to do some research on that to figure out what kind of designer it's most likely to be.

I haven't yet added these new variables into template:wales crew/doc. I may do that today; I may not. It's incredibly tedious work and I'm feeling like a little less strenuous editing.

The biggest current issue with the template is that the UK crew stuff on Miracle Day isn't working as expected. So you may experience the absence of that section from the few pages that have it. Otherwise, do take a look around and notify me of any errors you find.

As always, thanks so much for helping with this project.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  20:33:09 Thu 01 Sep 2011

Cyber-ship vs Cyber Ship

Thanks for attempting to sort out the Cyber Ship. As you cleanup tag says, some clarity is needed over the differences between the two, but without a clear indication of who the Cybermen in The Pandoica Opens and A Good Man Goes to War are, we're pretty much stumped. The fact that article is a tip doesn't help, it seems to be in need of Contingency Plan A. Thanks again--Skittles the hog - talk 12:37, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Racist vandalism at Chloe Webber

Oh yeah, I'm the right guy for that kinda thing. Anytime you see obvious racist remarks send me or any active admin the bat signal. You can gimme a jingle if there's simple foul language, at your leisure — but racism I definitely want to know about immediately. So thanks for the heads up! The IP is blocked forever, but that doesn't mean the user won't just sprout a new IP and return.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  00:47:19 Wed 07 Sep 2011

Terserus out of the box

Done.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  02:11:50 Thu 08 Sep 2011

Torchwood cats

I have left a message on Redranger241's page explaining the necessity of edit summaries, and the presence of an active discussion about ths substantive issues surrounding those particular categories' names. However, I wouldn't get too worked up abut these Torchwood categories at the present time. My guess is that they won't remain as they are, anyway. If we ultimately do decide to move the history of Torchwood on to the one page — so that it's all just Torchwood — then any allies/enemies categories are going to be folded into category:Torchwood enemies or cateogory:Torchwood allies, anyway. Technically, there's no real distinction. It's not like enemies of Torchwood 3 aren't enemies of the Torchwood Institute. I mean, if you offend one part of a chartered organisation, you offend the organisation entire. Likewise, if you're a friend of Torchwood Three, you're a friend of Torchwood, period. We would have to have a category like "21st centry Torchwood Three allies' before we could get a distinction between Torchwood Three's interests and the Torchwood Institute's. It's Jack's reaction against Torchwood's stance at Canary Wharf that starts to make the distinction between T3 and Torchwood as a whole. So it's not even 21st century Torchwood Three, nor is it even Torchwood Three under Jack, because we know he takes over Torchwood Three on Jan 1 2000. The split doesn't happen until the summer of 2007, at Canary Wharf. The Doctor, for example, is an official enemy of Torchwood Three for many decades while Jack is working there, as we learn in Fragments.

So what I'm saying is simple. At the end of the day, there are category:Torchwood enemies and category:Torchwood allies — and that's it. Any other distinction we make is kinda "wobbly".

The only specifically Torchwood Three cat that is logically arguable is Torchwood Three personnel, because you can say that Yvonne is a member of Torchwood but not Torchwood Three. Personally, though, I think it's silly for our organisational structure to be based on a throwaway line that many people won't even remember at this point. It was a big deal in series 1, but how long has it been since we've even heard the term "Torchwood Three"? A long damn time, I think. Long enough that the average user of the site won't be thinking that's how the info should be categorised. But, like I said, I can see that the personnel category is arguable.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  19:39: Mon 19 Sep 2011

Nintendo

I dont think the pae nintendo is relevent. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by CharmeRuler (talk • contribs) .

Per your request, a message was left on user talk:CharmeRuler, with a view towards explaining the distinction between "real world" and "from the real world", as practised on this wiki. The addition of {{real world}} was reverted by me, with clear edit summary given. In chat today, however, he still seemed intrigued by this particular article.

Because your read of the situation is unassailably correct, I am deputising you as an administrator with respect to the protection of Nintendo. Should you find that he is continuing to put {{real world}} on it, or if you find that he is trying to move the page to a name which would logically displace it from its in-universe status, you may revert however many times is necessary to keep Nintendo an in-universe article with the name "Nintendo".

You may not be accused of edit warring for any actions deemed necessary to the pursuit of the above goal.

Thanks for your concern for the integrity of "from the real world" pages.

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  20:08: Thu 22 Sep 2011

Your input is needed!

You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Page Creation time. MM/Want to talk? 22:25, October 1, 2011 (UTC)

News anchors

I've reverted you at News anchor (The Wedding of River Song), and here's why. Common titles should always be dab-ed, because we simply can't assert that "there's not another news anchor (or secretary, or nurse, or waiter, or bartender or whatever)" out there. And indeed, there are at least two other credited news anchors out there, in the shape of the KKBE News Anchors from the TVM. This means there should be a page at news anchor which describes what the job is, and gives a bit of dab help to people find the right one. It's probably a good idea to never assume that any person credited by their job is the only one doing that job in the DWU, or the only one that will ever do that job.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  02:11: Tue 04 Oct 2011

2009

I found the quote, "You find it all so difficult. GCSEs and Judoon. Your parents and Sarah Jane Smith." Is that the only reference? 'Cause it wouldn't rule out that she already took a GCSE in the summer. The wikipedia page for "General Certificate of Secondary Education" says they're taken by students aged 14-16. -- Noneofyourbusiness ^{talk to me} 21:44, October 11, 2011 (UTC)

On the other hand, Sarah Jane says that Luke is 15 in "The Gift", and going by the Wikipedia article "Education in England", he would have to turn 16 before starting Lower Sixth. Correct? -- Noneofyourbusiness ^{talk to me} 23:14, October 11, 2011 (UTC)

Aha! Clyde takes GCSE Biology in "The Gift". But, although specific results are maddeningly elusive, my Google search does seem to say that there are GCSE's in autumn as well as summer. And it seems strange that there could be enough time for "The Mad Woman in the Attic", "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith" (including two weeks and a few days before the actual wedding), "The Eternity Trap", "Mona Lisa's Revenge" and "The Gift" after June 23 (when Samuel Lloyd turned 15) and before mid-July (when summer term ends, according to wikipedia:Academic_term#United_Kingdom). Your thoughts would be appreciated. -- Noneofyourbusiness ^{talk to me} 00:14, October 12, 2011 (UTC)

And there are no regular American exams in the summer (for Maria to be taking). American schools offer summer courses only for remedial purposes or extra subjects of interest. Though that could be down to ignorance on the part of the writer. -- Noneofyourbusiness ^{talk to me} 02:55, October 12, 2011 (UTC)

Actually, it occurs to me that it was Sarah Jane who said Sam Lloyd was 15 in "Mad Woman", and that was before Mr. Smith said his birthdate, so she was approximating and (based on the time that would have to elapse between this episode and the mid-July end of term over the course of Series 3) it probably wasn't June 23 yet. It's still odd that Sarah Jane says "Clyde's got exams coming up". Unless it's a subject-based thing (like art) or Clyde is somehow in a younger year than Luke (which would also make Series 5 autumn instead of summer), in defiance of the normal laws of time. -- Noneofyourbusiness ^{talk to me} 14:10, October 12, 2011 (UTC)

Ah, odd no longer. I had only been able to find a transcript, but now I've reviewed the scene in question. It makes sense for Sarah Jane to only mention Clyde, because Luke wasn't onboard and Rani had stepped out of the room for the moment. -- Noneofyourbusiness ^{talk to me} 15:06, October 12, 2011 (UTC)

City of the Daleks and bot theory

Hey, you likely wouldn't know anything about the details of bot operation, so understand that I'm not angry at all. I'd much rather have slightly incorrect attempts at disambiguation than no-one caring at all.

So please don't detect the slightest hint of disappointment when I say: please just alert me to a disambiguation that needs to be done. Please don't even rename the article, when there already exists another title of the same name. It makes it considerably harder to use the bot. Also, never hand-edit any links to a new name. It's a waste of your time. The bot can do these things in one swift run, so long as you touch nothing and just ask for help.

Also, don't create a disambig page for just two titles. I know you will still find examples of this elsewhere on the wiki, but that habit came, I guess, from a time when autosuggestion wasn't a major feature of Wikia architecture. Nowadays, the minimum required is three, because it's sufficient to put a dab note on top of each article and be done with it. In fact, it's really not even necessary to put a dab note when both terms are dab-ed, because the search and autosuggest features will show you (when the cache catches up) that there is a thing called City of the Dalks video game) and City of the Daleks (comic story).

And that brings us to a matter of dab theory. Disambiguation of real world items should be done using the same dab terms. This is a relatively new concept so even I will have been "guilty" of creating City of the Daleks (comic strip). The dab term is merely a standard name for the medium. So (The Adventure Games) and (comic strip) are wrong; (video game) and (comic story) are correct. Readers (and bots!) must be able to expect that disambiguation happens in a regular, predictable way, or they'll get lost. Imagine if we sometimes dab-ed by (television), (TV), (TV story) and (TV Story). It'd be chaos. Because people tend to care more about TV stories, the standard dab of (TV story) has stuck there, without incident, for years. But we've been slower to standardise non-TV stories. So both your and my confusion is understandable. But that period of confusion is ending.

The bot process will be finished within a matter of minutes. If you are currently hand-editing any links over to COTD (The Adventure Games), please stop now, as this will cause unnecessary edit conflicts, and thereby delay the cleanup process. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

As to another of our projects, I have not forgotten about my duties on {{Wales crew}}. I did just want to hit the end of SJA before I made my next round of adjustments. So please keep noting what's gone wrong, as you have in the past. It'll all get revamped by the end of the month, at the latest.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  19:30: Thu 13 Oct 2011

Wish You Were Here

Oh, you've just reminded me! There was a kind of unresolved disambig case study about this particular situation, because it's quite unusual. Forum:Disambiguation case study: Wish You Were Here predates your involvement on the wiki, I think, so if you wanna swing by there and give some thoughts, that'd be good.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:21: Thu 13 Oct 2011

More bot theory

If you tell me "disambiguate Borrowed Time to Borrowed Time (comic story)", then I'm going to assume that all current links to Borrowed Time are for the comic story. It is therefore preferred that you manually move any links to Borrowed Time that should be for Borrowed Time (novel). However, if you absolutely can't do that, I will accept a list of which links should go where. That will at least serve as a guide to help me properly disambiguate.

In other words, yes, please do move the links meant for Borrowed Time (novel).

As for Judgement Day, what a mess. The only thing we can do about it now is to check both WhatLinksHere lists carefully to make sure that the lists are wholly linking to the proper page. Then, and only then, can we do a switch to (PREFIX audio story). Let me know if you can take care of this checking, or if I need to do it. This one is the higher priority of the two disambigs you've brought to me today, as the names will obviously create the most confusion.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  15:54: Sat 15 Oct 2011

Your input is needed!

You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:What makes a rumour?. MM/Want to talk? 17:42, October 28, 2011 (UTC)

Shug, Magda

Actually, you're lucky in these cases.

There's a third Shug that should be on the list Monektoni Shug, so Shug should certainly be a dab page. (Shug (species) should be moved to Shug (Walking to Babylon), but I'll take care of that).

Likewise, there's a third Magda out there from the 7th Doctor Key2Time crossover Companion Chronicle. I can't remember if she's ever given a last name, but she's the wife of a character named Zinc. So let's provisionally call her Magda (The Prisoner's Dilemma).

So, in both cases you scrape by with just enough for a dab page. Well done!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  20:29: Fri 11 Nov 2011

To answer your latest query, if there were just two, you'd do exactly what you said. Put

:''You may be looking for [[whatever|the other character of the same name]].''

or language to that effect. You'd generally want to put a tiny two or three word bit of language in there to distinguish the other page. So something like, "You may be looking for the director of the same name," or "You may be looking for the Third Doctor's companion of the same name", or whatever.

But, again, in these two cases, we need a disambig page, so you just have to add the third character to the pages you've already created.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  20:34: Fri 11 Nov 2011

Constantine

Tricky one, this. These are the things I know:

Constantine should definitely be a disambig page. There's
- Emperor Constantine, who's perhaps more prominent in The Council of Nicaea than Shadowmind.
- Dr Constantine (The Empty Child) (which I've just moved)
- Susannah Constantine
- Constantine Ethelred Gurney.
- Constantine (The Parliament of Rats)
- King Constantine (The Shadows of Avalon)

So that's more than enough to call for a disambig page.

So what should we call an historical figure like Emperor Constantine?

Honestly, I don't have a great answer for you. I don't think the normal disambig rules apply, because it's not really like a character that starts in one story and continues through several others. The appearances in Council and Shadowmind aren't terribly related. In truth we probably should hammer out some kind of policy on real life royalty, because we're not terribly consistent on that. The only real analogue is Victoria (Queen), who's another un-numbered royal that's been in several unrelated stories. And I guess that's how I'd handle it for the time being until a policy can be hammered out. Changing over the links later, if a community discussion reveals a different nomenclature, is easy. As a placeholder Constantine (Emperor) works well enough.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:49: Fri 11 Nov 2011

Arc categorisation

I don't know what you're talking about, so I don't really have an opinion about it. I'm not really inclined to sift through his talk page to figure it all out. I notice you haven't left a message on his talk page. If it concerns you, you might consider talking to him directly about it.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:55: Tue 15 Nov 2011

Prev/next field

Please note that the previous/next fields are relative to the series line. Really, the two fields should be next to each other so that this is clear (and in the upcoming redesign of all infoboxes, they are). They should allow for navigation between annuals in the same way that we have navigation between the last episode of one series and the first ep of the next.

That said, it could and should be made clearer, I feel, to avoid the sort of confusion you've just experienced. With Dalek annuals, I've recently made it quite explicit. See, for example, The Brain Tappers and The Dalek Trap. It'd probably be a good idea to add that language to the DW annual stories as well.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  22:06: Sat 19 Nov 2011

Whoa. I've just noticed that you appear to have been editing a pattern which is destroying the navigational premise of the annual series. "Previous" and "next" fields are for the previous and next story in the annual, regardless of their format. I don't really fancy going line by line through your contribution history to undo what you've done. Since you know best how you've edited today, it'd be really helpful if you could go back and undo all the changes that you've made to infobox navigation. Thanks.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  22:31: Sat 19 Nov 2011

Yeah, I haven't quite finished the logical splitting of the Doctor Who annual page. But there is a plan in place. Certainly DWY is separate from DWAN. That's already been agreed by forum discussion, as has the fact that DWS is a distinct entity. The only real wrinkle is what to do about the fact that the first modern annual is by a different publisher, and of a different tone, to the ones that BBC Books started in 2007. So basically I think it might go something like this:

Doctor Who annuals (World Distributors)

Doctor Who Yearbooks

Doctor Who annuals (BBC Wales) glues the 2006-12 annuals together as a series. Disambiging to (BBC Wales) de-emphasises the 2006 aberration.

Doctor Who Storybooks
Brilliant Books — though there's not really much in the way of narrative material in the BBs

Brief Encounter is indeed a series unto itself, and the list currently at Brief Encounter encapsulates the entirety of that series, as confirmed by visual inspection of each and every story.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  05:04: Sun 20 Nov 2011

A New Life

And now, for your original question. A New Life is a unique case. Not only are they both short stories, both are in annuals, both have the same Doctor, and the same (primary) companion. The closest thing to this in the history of DW fiction is, I think, The Metal Eaters/The Metal-Eaters, two Third Doctor TVC comics. Difference there is that we're saved from dab by a single little hyphen.

In a sense, this case is so unusual we're free to come up with our own rules. I think I actually like the dab where it is, because it gives the only dab term of relevance: the year. If there were a story in another medium, I'd say you'd have to change these to (<year> short story), but that's as much dab as it'll ever need. Maybe when I get around to dab-ing every story title, that's what I'll do, but for the moment, the year alone is a reasonable dab term.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  22:47: Sat 19 Nov 2011

Various and sundry

Conundrum done.
Yes, The Radio Waves is the end of the line for World Distributors annuals.
Yes, Junkyard Demon II is the end of the line for DWY.
Yes, that was weird navigation at The Rival Robots. I just reverted your revision to what was there before; wasn't really expecting that the previous revision was also factually wrong.
It is simplest to consider the modern DW annuals as beginning with 2006. Don't link the first story in 2006 with any previous series. It's the start of the line. Link the last story in 2006 with the first story in the 2007 annual. (Another defensible position would be to link the 2006 DWAN to 2007 DWS, but I don't think most readers would actually understand that. The more "reader friendly" thinkg to do is just to link everything published in Britain' with the name "Doctor Who Annual 20zz".)
Either you're overthinking DWY or I'm not understanding your problem. The BE stories still are a part of the prev/next order, just like TV21 Dalek reprints are a part of the prev/next order of Dalek annuals. For prev/next "Brief Encounter" status means nothing. Prev/Next simply means, "What are the stories that surround this one?" I know that I eliminated a lot of mislabelling of "BE stories that weren't BE stories" in the past, but I'm not getting how it affects navigation. Navigation is just putting stories in page order. Please provide examples of how false BE status affects this. (Am I right to suspect you're finding this difficult because you don't actually have access to the Yearbooks, and so can't consult their TOCs? If so, lemme know and I'll give you simple story orders direct from the actual books.)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  06:26: Mon 21 Nov 2011

Series

Looking at the Yearbook mess, I see that you have got the wrong end of the stick as to what the "series" variable means. You've tripled the number of things put into this variable.

Every single series variable should have one and only one link in it. I think it might be the fact that you've tried to put additional links into the variable that has confused you as to what comes before and after. If you've got Seventh Doctor comic stories, First Doctor comic stories and Doctor Who Yearbooks at A Religious Experience, it's no wonder that it's not clear what comes before and after. The series is Doctor Who Yearbooks, period.

Of course, I understand that you're not the first to do this sort of thing, and that you might well have been copying from elsewhere. But it's important not to confuse the role of the category with that of the series variable. Yes, A Religious Experience is a 1st and 7th Doctor comic story, but that's a category. There's no such thing as a "Seventh Doctor comic story series". He's just a character in the broader DWM, DWY and IHP series. Without a firm grasp of what the series is, you, or anyone else, can't possibly do proper series navigation.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  17:52: Mon 21 Nov 2011

Nope, I know. There was clear confusion in that article before you even touched it. And I have to take some responsibility for not coming on quickly enough with the infobox redesign. There are just so many design fires to put out! The thing is, the series should be right down at the bottom, in between the previous and next story. That way it would be completely unambigiuous what was meant by "previous" and "next".

And the thing is there are some stories which in fact — despite what I've said above — are exceptions and are legitimately part of two series. The Brief Encounters are a perfect example. The ones in the 93 annual are both a part of the BE series and the DWY series. This can only be clearly reflected so long as we have a clear navigational box at the bottom of the infobox, which is indeed a part of the next design phase. In gneral, though, there aren't that many stories which are legitimately a part of two different series in the same publication.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  18:14: Mon 21 Nov 2011

BBC Books

The relationship between BBC Children's Books and Penguin is essentially one of publisher and distributor. The language you've encountered is literally ripped from the books themselves. BBC Children's Books has editorial control, Penguin physically publishes and distributes them. Stories from them would therefore be attributed to BBC Children's Books and not Penguin. As far as I'm aware, the BBC doesn't own any actual presses (anymore?), so every book bearing a BBC logo is actually physically published by someone else.

I'm growing a little concerned, however, that you seem to making a lot of edits to the structural elements of pages without consulting the actual source text. You've said before you don't actually have the annuals, so please consider the fact that you might be introducing false information, or info based on others' info. Even if you can find a scan of the table of contents online, that's better than using text from a fan site.

If you have this many questions in just a 36 hour period, it's possible that you don't actually have great enough access to the source material to edit this particular part of the wiki usefully. Don't read that as me telling you to stop editing or asking questions. It's just something to think about.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:28: Tue 22 Nov 2011

Cool. That's all I'm saying. Just think about the value of consulting source material directly. As you've already discovered, a lot of the navigation on the wiki is screwed up already because people have been using, for instance, the Doctor Who Reference Guide, rather than cracking open a book and simply reading things.

Apart from the infoboxes, almost all timeline information is totally screwed because sometime in the past someone decided that the DWRG was authoritative — when quite clearly it's not. So if you actually click from one timeline link to another, it usually doesn't take more than 10 clicks to get completely derailed.

And I wouldn't worry too much about not knowing the BBC/Penguin relationship. I've had the 60s Dalek annuals for decades, and I still don't quite get who was actually in editorial control of those.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  00:26: Wed 23 Nov 2011

Individual Rutan

If you think it better without, that's fine. However, when I typed "Rutan" into the field, up popped a half dozen categories, including "Individual Rutan" Boblipton ^{talk to me} 00:56, November 26, 2011 (UTC)

Promo shots

Sorry for the delay in the reply - been kind of distracted. Promo shots are not allowed in any articles, it should only be screenshots. There is a small expection and that is with characters who do not appear in any visual media, i.e. books and audio, but are depicted on the front covers of the audio/book they appear in - in this case, the cropped image can be use. That as close to a promo shot as you can get. MM/Want to talk? 15:28, December 4, 2011 (UTC)

Disambig roundup

The following things have been sorted:

The Gallifrey Chronicles, Placebo Effect, The Alliance (The Pandorica Opens), Project Infinity (audio story) [though I have no clue why you moved that title around so much], The Flood (comic story) and Fragments (TV story)

The following things are more questionable, and have not been done:

The Flood (The Waters of Mars). This is not "needlessly disambiguated" as you presume. There's a valid question of naming here. See Talk:The Flood (The Waters of Mars). I'm not at all prepared to give the name The Flood to the antagonist of The Waters of Mars. As far as I can see, it's not an in-universe term at all. So if you've started doing manual work in that direction, I must ask you to undo it, until the naming question at the talk page is definitively settled.
I don't really understand what you're talking about with Bad Blood and Sins of the Fathers. Is there work to be done there or not? And why would you have attempted any manual relinkage, given the ease with which the bot can do it? You'll have to advise me further if there's work to be done with these two titles and why.

As for your other query, the few instances of a Hartnell episode also being the name of a story are storted by appending (episode), as in An Unearthly Child (episode) and The Web Planet (episode).
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  01:14: Fri 09 Dec 2011

in youth?

Yes, it is grmmatically correct, but if it makes you uncofortable, expand it. Boblipton ^{talk to me} 00:53, December 12, 2011 (UTC)

I suppose it could theoretically mean in the doctor's youth, but that doesn't make any contextual sense. Boblipton ^{talk to me} 00:57, December 12, 2011 (UTC)

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czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  07:23: Wed 21 Dec 2011

New Earth and other stuff

Please see Forum:Renaming New Earth.
Hartnell eps - basically changed over but I think I have to redo The Traitors cause I had a power failure mid-run. Not sure.
Iris Wildthyme - best to include User:Revanvolatrelundar on this discussion, as he knows a lot about stuff on the fringe of the DWU. How bout raising it in forum:reference desk and {{Please see}}-ing him and whoever else has recently edited IW stuff? There was a recent IW question in the forums; may want to look that up, too.
It's now fallen angel not Fallen Angel, with all links moved. The title case version still exists but goes elsewhere. Dab notes should make it all clear without need for a dab page, though one is very technically justified at present.
I honestly haven't forgotten {{Wales crew}}, so please keep using template talk:wales crew, if you're the one that does the Christmas special crew and you find missing variables.

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  21:59: Fri 23 Dec 2011

What? No geronimo?

I understand your reasons for being annoyed at the page for "Geronimo" and expect you to be annoyed at "What" and "Allons-y". However, I think that the contributor has an interesting point. What do you think about of a page on "The Doctor's catchphrases"?Boblipton ^{talk to me} 22:54, December 29, 2011 (UTC)

Utopia

I think I was ahead of you this time. Your request was handled, pretty much as you wished. However, I've retained Utopia (planet) – even though I've moved all the links — because it points to Utopia, which is now a dab page. It seems reasonable to leave it in place, since Utopia now dabs between two planets of the same name.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  21:13: Fri 30 Dec 2011

Stuff

What's your opinion about category:Actors who worked in the Sherlock Holmes franchise? There is no Sherlock Holmes franchise. The beauty of Sherlock is that he's public domain. So anyone, at any time, can make a Sherlock adaptation. You got an idea for a better name for the category? Actors who have appeared in a Sherlock Holmes adaptation, maybe?

Also, what sort of problem could you have with a page on Allons-y! or Geronimo, as implied by Bob, above? Gordon Bennett! They're fair game for articles!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  01:09: Sat 31 Dec 2011

Hey! Hey! I have problems with every aspect of every frame being subject to analysis, especially something so marginal as a catchphrase, which is less a matter of characterization than a sort of marketing device. Are we to have a page for "Matt Smith's follicles" because his hair varies so much in The Time of Angels, goes long with bits of white in The Wedding of River Song and is accompanied by a beard in two episodes? I think not. On the other hand, in my other life, I have been an English major and a part-time professional editor and am fascinated by the details of my trade. Asking about a page called "The Doctor's Catchphrases" is an indulgence on my part. Do not judge my motivations by my actions. If you want to know my motivations, ask. You may be more confused after I explain, but them's the risks you take. In the meantime, Tybort, my apologies for taking up your space. Sorry for forgetting to sign earlier. Boblipton ^{talk to me} 01:38, December 31, 2011 (UTC)

Moving back to Sherlock, I don't think it's possible for there to be a franchise anymore, now that the property is in the public domain. I mean, there's such a thing as an actor being on the Jeremy Brett version, and the Basil Rathbone, and the Tom Baker, and the Benedict Cumberbatch — but there's no overarching "franchise", because it doesn't come from a single source anymore. I mean, we could debate whether it might be useful to further subdivide this category into the various "runs". But I dunno. I really haven't given it that much thought. It just caught my eye in passing that it was an awkwardly-worded category.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  04:18: Sat 31 Dec 2011

"Franchise" is the wrong word. I tried an online thesaurus for "franchise" and "series" but couldn't find the right one. Boblipton ^{talk to me} 04:53, December 31, 2011 (UTC)

Moves: Francine, Angela Price

No problem with Francine (The Maltese Penguin). All sorted. But the Angela Price thing is trickier. We have no canonical or even out-of-universe spelling for Price. For all we know, she could be spelling it Jonathan-style: Pryce. She's only credited as Mrs. Moore. I really had no idea that the page had been moved to Angela Price in the first place, as it originated as Mrs Moore.

If we're going to spell it Price, we'll need a forum discussion, because there's absolutely no canonical or end-credits indication of that. My feeling is that it, strictly, should be Moore (Rise of the Cybermen), thus obviating the need for dab at Angela Price (Lost in Time).
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:56: Tue 03 Jan 2012

latest changes to amy pond

I see you've made some placement changes to the amy pond page. I'm sure you know that this is fine-point editing and a matter of emphasis. As it was it slugged the reader with the sense of betrayal. Now it does not. Unsurprisingly, I prefer the way it was shaped before -- otherwise I would have changed it -- but you think there's something superior this way. Could you explain why you think it's better? Boblipton ^{talk to me} 03:50, January 4, 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay in replying. I agree that your prposed rewrite does make sense in terms of a straightforward recitation of events and that would speed up the reading. However, in order to have it make sense, the section about the Doctor promising to returning in five minutes would have to be removed, changing the narrative impact and should be removed. Since I se thtat up, I am understandably fond of it and so feel my opinion would be compromised. I hterefore leave the decision up to you:: leave the structure as it currently exists and I'll remove the now irrelevant sentences -- which will make it read even faster -- or restore it. It's a tough decision and I'm passing the buck to you. I've you want to retain the new structure but can't figure out where to chop, let me know and I'll do it. Boblipton ^{talk to me} 21:34, January 4, 2012 (UTC)

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czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  16:00: Mon 09 Jan 2012

Bane

No problem with that move, but please remember not to move the page before I get to it. It helps out my work flow pattern a lot if I'm the one who does the actual page moves.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  18:00: Wed 11 Jan 2012

About my photo.

I apologize for the cruddy image I uploaded, I have a crappy camera, and an old television that is not camera friendly.

I actually thought that was pretty good for what I had with me. But if it's not up to standards then fine.

It was the best out of seven photos. Sadly...

But thank you for telling me why you removed it :)

Moogleknight24 ^{talk to me} 19:45, January 12, 2012 (UTC)Moogleknight24

My talk page

Please read the message at the top of my talk page. Unless you are using it on a post that you yourself signed, please do not use {{unsigned}}. I know you had good intentions, but it gets in the way of easily determining whether young editors are beginning to learn the importance of a signature. AngelBill is now blocked because of his unwillingness to sign posts, and it'd be better just o see a completely unsigned post than one on which he might have later added {{unsigned}}, himself. In other words, I'd rather not have to do a history search to see who left the late sig.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  19:39: Fri 13 Jan 2012

Father Gregory

Father Gregory should go to Gregory (Tsar Wars). Gregory still goes to Greg (but see the next paragraph). Common names, especially first ones, should always be "future-proofed" by disambiguation. The fact that there is not now another Gregory doesn't mean much. We're hardly a complete encyclopedia. Besides, I'm wondering a little bit about the quality of your search. Without even pressing "page down", I can see an in-universe Mark Gregory, for a start. And don't forget that he's credited as just "Gregory" in The Invasion roll-up. So people might be searching just for "Gregory". Going a bit lower, I can see that The Banquo Legacy makes Pope Gregory IX canon, so that's three in-universe Gregorys without even trying hard. Remember that searching should be done through Special:Search, not just the search bar that appears at the top right of most pages. Special:Search searches through the entire text, not just the titles.

Because there are so many Gregs, there might be a point to splitting Gregory into its own disambig page, just to highlight the Gregorys over the Gregs. But Gregory should definitely not go this Father Gregory person.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  19:39: Fri 13 Jan 2012

TitleSort

Oh, no, that's a very good question! There's certainly no restriction on using {{TitleSort}} on in-universe pages. In fact, it can be quite useful, given the ridiculous tendency of DWU characters to name themselves with titles.

In many cases, the effect of using {{TitleSort}} is not that much different from {{NameSort}}.

For instance, both templates will sort The Master in exactly the same way. The sortkey for both templates will begin with "Master".

However, {[tl|TitleSort}} (hereafter TS) is superior to {{NameSort}} (hereafter NS) when a character with a prepending article is also disambiguated.

If you TS The Master (Bruce), the "The" gets lopped off and the sortkey becomes "Master". Which is what we want (in most cases).
If you NS The Master (Bruce), it gets sorted under "(Bruce), The Master". NS goes for the last word of the page title, then places a comma, then uses the first 10 letters of the title. This isn't what we want at all.

Just so you don't screw it up an accidentally use the wrong template, it's probably a good idea to use TS any time you have any article name that begins with a, an or the.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  20:29: Fri 13 Jan 2012

You've totally lost me. How are the Master's pages "very complex"? They're easy. Slap a TS on them and be done with it. Nothing hard there at all. We can only take any effort up to the limit of the underlying software, and we don't currently have a way to alphabetise but by a single term. Thus, sure, The Master (The Fallen) will be alpha'ed under "Master (The F", but that's the best we can do. It's not that big an inconvenience, surely? I mean, I suppose we could consider a change to dab policy which made it so that dab terms omitted prepending articles. I don't know how that one would fly, though. Do the benefits of alphabetisation outweigh the simplicity of "use the whole name of the story"? I dunno. I guess that might be worth a discussion. Might cause some slight confusion with stories like "The Daleks" and "The Invasion".

As for sort keys defined by individual category, nope, that's not against the rules and is often necessary. Thing is, though, it can cause a bit of a nightmare if it's not been done consistently. For instance, in that category:Slitheen you asked about in the forum, I had to strip all the DEFAULTSORTS and category sort keys out to make NS work smoothly. In most instances, happily, the fact that someone has set manual sortkeys for a particular category doesn't cause a problem, because they're usually sensible enough to sort it exactly how NAMESORT would. If you encounter a particularly thorny category, though, you might want to turn it over to me.

I think in general the thing you have to remember is that DEFAULTSORT and manual sort keys predate the existence of these two templates. There was also a time where it was super-easy to do manual sortkeys. You didn't even have to edit the page to change the way it was sorted. (That might still be the case in Monobook. I forget.) Thus, you're going to find an awful lot of this sort of thing all around the wiki. Mostly, it's a lot of extra work that doesn't have any net effect on anything.

(But then, I've also turned error messages off. If I hadn't, you'd see a lot of these pages with big, ugly, red error messages, because you can only actually have one instance of DEFAULTSORT on a page.)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  21:17: Fri 13 Jan 2012

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Pipe tricks inappropriate on dab pages

As a general rule, pipe tricking is a beautiful thing that saves tons of time. Nine times out of ten, if I've got something like Reunion (ST short story), I'm gonna wanna lop off that dab term without giving it a second thought.

However, the very point of a disambiguation page is to give readers and editors a guide to the true page. So we don't want to mask the dab term on dab pages. Take a look at any wikipedia dab page and you'll see dab terms proudly exposed. And this is an instance where we absolutely follow Wikipedia's lead.

That's because the primary goal of a dab page — since wiki editing began — was to get editors to make links to the specific instance of that name. Although it's nice that readers can type in Andrew and find this whole big list of Andrews, the main thing a dab page does is to show editors that they can't just make a link to Andrew and be done with it. So we should do anything we can do to make it easier for editors to see how they're supposed to link to things.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  15:46: Sat 21 Jan 2012

Torchwood software

I was wondering if you could help me by offering any advice for the torchwood software page? -- – The preceding unsigned comment was added by TorchwoodAgent19 (talk • contribs) .

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czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:51: Fri 27 Jan 2012

Toy Story

It's no problem. The only reason that the story is included on the wikia is because it came from an official source, therefore we cover that version and not the charity version. Hope that clears some things up. --Revan\Talk 09:48, January 28, 2012 (UTC)

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+It's no problem. The only reason that the story is included on the wikia is because it came from an official source, therefore we cover that version and not the charity version. Hope that clears some things up. --[[User:Revanvolatrelundar|Revan]]\[[User_talk:Revanvolatrelundar|Talk]] 09:48, January 28, 2012 (UTC)

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