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Edit History?

CzechOut, this is a little trivial but I read the descriptions for all of the discussion boards and it didn't seem like my question was appropriate for any of them, even Help.

My question is how can I see the edit history of a Page? I just can't find the option to view this, like you can under History on "the other wiki". Is this view only available to Admins? It seems like it would be pretty simple feature since lots of users refer to other people's edits or reverts of edits. But I can't find it. : ( Badwolff ☎ 21:13, May 24, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply and instructions. Although a revert did just happen on a Howling thread where someone accidentally deleted some comments and the discussion had to be reverted. I guess it's an option there if you know what you're looking for! Thanks, again. Badwolff ☎ 22:10, May 24, 2013 (UTC)

Photo License Accident

I was uploading a photo of River's diary and I think I accidentally forgot to add the license to it. I realized right after I clicked to add the photo, it should've been labeled as a Screencapture, and I've been trying to figure out how to correct the mistake but I haven't been able to find a way to add the license after the fact. I know the photos have to have one and it was just a stupid oversight on my part, so I wanted to let you know so it doesn't appear that I was intentionally trying to leave off the license. I'm hoping there's an easy way to fix it. Mewiet ☎ 08:15, May 25, 2013 (UTC)

Okay, I was looking at some other uploads and I think I managed to correct the mistake. Mewiet ☎ 08:22, May 25, 2013 (UTC)

Revealing dab terms in dab pages

I'm a little bit confused about one aspect of your recent edits at Out of Time. Your edit summaries seem to imply that revealing dab terms is preferable, even though all the information in the term is then immediately revealed in more detail after the link. For example, in...

the dab term just gets repeated in fill sentence format. The same applies to the other two.

Now this is fine for out-of-universe lists like this. The problem really arises when you end up with something like this:

This is simply unreadable! Obviously, Lucy is not in such a state, but you seem to be implying that it should be. So is there a line to be drawn here, or do you truly believe that we should reveal all dab terms? If so, why?

(ps. somehow, this didn't post when I clicked publish almost a day ago. :/ )
--SOTO ☎ 16:29, May 25, 2013 (UTC)

Sort keys

Hi! If I find a page with multiple sort keys, which one should I keep? It's usually a choice between "default" and either "name" or "title", depending on the type of page. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 02:58, May 26, 2013 (UTC)

I've found two tonight: Neil Sedaka and BBC Wales VFX. Shambala108 ☎ 03:16, May 26, 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 03:39, May 26, 2013 (UTC)

Bernice GOR

I asked User:Tangerineduel for some Benny ideas and here's what he came up with:

  • Archaeology: "You've found coprolite on Apollox 4, Congrats!", "I found the Sword of Forever and all I got was...death",
  • Students:
  • Drinking: "Have a toast; M3 Variant and Potato Spirit",
  • Eating: "Ate pizza in the 60s for the first time",
  • Culture: "Star Trek TNG's a documentary right?",
  • Sex with 8: "Standing naked with the Seventh Doctor; about romantic as a fish", "A Doctor who may change but never die" (actual quote from The Dying Days)
  • Marriage/Weddings: "Sherlock came to the wedding.", "The Brigadier came to the wedding", "Ice Warriors came to the wedding", "Ace had sex with a clone of my husband at the wedding.", "Started naked in a field with an Ice Warrior ended in the arms of Jason",
  • Doctor/Companion length: "Travelled with the Doctor, then worked for his brother.",
  • Ice Warriors: "Shurr…" (It's what the Martians call Benny and is like Dame or something)

Combining his with mine, there's more than 8 so that should be enough to go on hopefully. Shambala108 ☎ 03:39, May 26, 2013 (UTC)

Re images - I pulled some images out of the Bernice image category, but they're almost exclusively cover pictures for audio & prose, so none of them really match the ideas we have. Mostly I just went with images that have a good close-up of her face. Shambala108 ☎ 02:01, May 28, 2013 (UTC)
It looks great! I think your idea of using images of different people is better than what I came up with. I just don't know Bernice very well.
I have to admit I'm glad you kept "I dig archaeology". Not only is it a really bad pun, but when I found on her page that she had a badge with that quote, I was hoping we would use it. Shambala108 ☎ 02:49, May 30, 2013 (UTC)

Society vs Planets?

I noticed you moved the categories Skaro, Traken, and a few others to the "Society" category, rather than planets. I changed some of them back without really thinking about it, but I thought I should get your reasoning (does it have anything to do with planets being part of the Game of Rassilon now?) before I dug myself any further into a possible faux pas. Memnarc ☎ 03:28, May 28, 2013 (UTC)

Gotcha'. I undid Traken and Skaro, but I'm a little hazy on Sol System planets. I mean with the other two, I get that recursion's a factor, and no other category really fits, but Sol System planets already has another category and could probably be put under Mutter's Spiral planets (which I'm having a hard time finding any recursion on). Memnarc ☎ 05:22, May 28, 2013 (UTC)

Navigation Help

I want to know how to set up the wiki navigation and the font on my wiki, UEFA Wiki. Here's a link http://uefa.wikia.com/wiki/UEFA_Wiki. I know it has something to do with the css but I want the code. Thanks --QuestionRules 21:09, May 28, 2013 (UTC)

Abuse filter tweak

Somehow, this diff did not trigger the abuse filter, even though I'm sure that most of those words are on the list. Could you look into that when you have the time? --SOTO ☎ 15:39, May 29, 2013 (UTC)

Really? I kind of remember you getting blocked temporarily for editing a MediaWiki page that was a long list of every piece of profanity that you could ever imagine. Did you rethink, and get rid of that page?
Anyway, that's actually good news. I've had to refrain from adding things like Owen's amazingly complete definition of "fuck buddy" in fear of getting blocked by the abuse filter.
--SOTO ☎ 20:04, May 29, 2013 (UTC)
I don't remember what it's called. If I did, I'd have linked you. But it was just a long paragraph of almost every single possible swear word and combination. I tried to find it through your block and abuse logs, but it didn't seem to be there. I do distinctly remember such a page. I'm positive that it was sometime in April, as it was after CBG (what happened to her?) triggered the filter at the beginning of the month, and before the page user:abuse filter was created at the end of it (it was a redlink at the time). --SOTO ☎ 20:34, May 29, 2013 (UTC)
Here, I found it: MediaWiki:BadWords. What's its purpose, if not to block people to use those words? --SOTO ☎ 22:19, May 29, 2013 (UTC)
Lol. Probably. Okay, thank you for clearing that up. It's good to know that I can relay "bad words" into our articles from NAs and Torchwood. --SOTO ☎ 23:11, May 29, 2013 (UTC)

Bad words

Might as well put it under a new heading here too. Actually, here is the dialogue in which it comes up in Out of Time:

Owen: We could be fuck buddies.
Diane: What's a fuck buddy?
Owen: It's, um, it's a friend that you have casual sex with.

So the article would say something like:

A fuck buddy was, according to Owen Harper, "a friend that you have casual sex with." Owen offered Diane Holmes such a relationship after she accidentally travelled from 1953 to 2007 through the Cardiff Rift. (TV: Out of Time)

You see? Not just a page for the sake of having the word "fuck" in it, but just a nicely defined term getting its own page. This seems fine to me.
--SOTO ☎ 23:38, May 29, 2013 (UTC)

Created it. I created category:sex in the process. I hope you don't mind it being under category:culture. Should it be under biology as well? --SOTO ☎ 00:04, May 30, 2013 (UTC)

Celestial Toymaker clip

The official Doctor Who YouTube channel has a clip from The Celestial Toymaker on it. Could you upload this, please? Cult Of Skaro Here.|Communicate here. 22:18, May 30, 2013 (UTC)

Exhibitions and days of the year

I'm currently in the process of adding opening/closing dates for Doctor Who exhibitions to day of the year articles. But, once we split the pages up, where will they go? I suppose the most fitting page would be releases, although they're not technically being "released". Think on this, and get back to me if you have an answer.
--SOTO ☎ 22:24, May 30, 2013 (UTC)

John Culshaw

I noticed you said to not put Culshaw as the main voice actor, which makes sense. Would it be all right if I added him under 'other voice actor?' Cult Of Skaro Here.|Communicate here. 00:39, May 31, 2013 (UTC)

Trafalgar Square

I don't see why you had to delete it. My intent was to not include the video, and just ignore the second half of it, and it's not really part of the story anyway. I'm assuming that the spoiler you're referring to is the filming spoiler in the second half, right? Where in the now-deleted article did I actually include any of those spoilers? I'm fairly sure that the answer should be nowhere.

I originally asked if I could create the page at thread:130675, but seeing as no one ever answered it, I figured that there would be nothing wrong with the page. Once again, I only discussed the Strax scene — so how does that violate T:SPOIL?
--SOTO ☎ 00:40, May 31, 2013 (UTC)

To elaborate, if you think that mentioning that Strax spotted the Eleventh Doctor in Trafalgar Square is the violation, the Field Report is actually an officially released story. It was released a little while ago in fact. While you might quibble (and I'm sure you will) over whether or not it's a "story", you cannot deny that it has been long officially released. --SOTO ☎ 00:45, May 31, 2013 (UTC)
Okay, I respect your decision. In fact, I actually agree with you — just the title is a spoiler. I do think that it has been released in full, but I'll let that slide in favour of not spoiling anything about the 50th. I'll be more careful in the future. On a side note, you should remove Strax Field Report from category:marketing campaigns, as it's already in category:Strax Field Reports. --SOTO ☎ 02:20, May 31, 2013 (UTC)
Oh, never mind. You got rid of category:Strax Field Reports instead. Ignore that last bit, then. --SOTO ☎ 02:20, May 31, 2013 (UTC)

Strax Field Report: The Name of the Doctor

This is really a separate, but related, issue. Now that you've removed my {{rename}} and locked Strax's Field Report: The Name of the Doctor, would you mind renaming it to Strax Field Report: The Name of the Doctor (webcast)? The YouTube video very clearly names it as such, and the 's entered into the title accidentally. Thank you.
--SOTO ☎ 02:29, May 31, 2013 (UTC)

Bug cutting page in half

Hello again, big fixer! Erm, there seems to be a weird issue at David Melbourne... Half the text is there in the edit box, but disappears on the actual page. Did I make a mistake in the coding or something? I've never seen this before... --SOTO ☎ 13:03, June 1, 2013 (UTC)

I've taken care of it. He used <refname=Who-ology></> instead of <ref name="Who-ology" />.  Digifiend  Talk  PR/SS  KR  MH  Toku  JD  Garo  TH  CG  UM  Logos  CLG  DW  13:22,1/6/2013 

Breaking news

Warning, tomorrow's newspaper front pages contain a major spoiler for series 8.  Digifiend  Talk  PR/SS  KR  MH  Toku  JD  Garo  TH  CG  UM  Logos  CLG  DW  21:22,1/6/2013 

It's actually impossible to say which pages to lock without you immediately knowing what's happening. Cult Of Skaro Here.|Communicate here.
Ah, you saw the message CzechOut left on my talk page. Yeah, I was thinking of Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, and a third article whose identity would give away the spoiler. Oh, and Series 8, of course. Didn't know that page existed until just now.  Digifiend  Talk  PR/SS  KR  MH  Toku  JD  Garo  TH  CG  UM  Logos  CLG  DW  21:38,1/6/2013 
Locking everything that links from series 7 is a bit drastic. That would mean that we can't edit basic pages like London, and I can't edit any day of the year articles linked from there (which are quite a few, actually.)
--SOTO ☎ 22:20, June 1, 2013 (UTC)
To respond to your question to Digifiend, it's already got an official BBC announcement and is all over the press. Cult Of Skaro Here.|Communicate here. 03:44, June 2, 2013 (UTC)

Infobox question

I wanted to add an infobox at Rocket Men, but I'm not sure which to use. Would it be Template:Infobox Species? Cult Of Skaro Here.|Communicate here. 21:44, June 1, 2013 (UTC)

Stray bar

Yeah, sorry about that. I saw the message a while ago, but by the time I came to the Vengeance on Varos (TV story) page, I had forgotten the specifics of the bot run. When I came across another page with the problem, I realized what I had done wrong :P Shambala108 ☎ 23:32, June 1, 2013 (UTC)

Logo hover over

Minor thing, but if you hover over the logo, it still says 'TARDIS Index File.' Just thought you ought to know. :) Cult Of Skaro Here.|Communicate here. 13:24, June 3, 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, forgot to mention. This is in edit mode. Cult Of Skaro Here.|Communicate here. 13:24, June 3, 2013 (UTC)

Rename of Alice Lydell

Could you rename Alice Lydell to Alice Liddell? That's the correct spelling according to the CD booklet. Cult Of Skaro Here.|Communicate here. 06:04, June 5, 2013 (UTC)

Added template. :) Cult Of Skaro Here.|Communicate here. 06:10, June 5, 2013 (UTC)

Howling Message All Caps

Don't know if this is significant enough to put here, but I entered an all-caps word on a Howling discussion post and it said to post a reason on [link to this page]. I was just using the word "objection", quoting it in all-caps as it appears in the Phoenix Wright series. I know the message was automated, but I decided to do what it said anyway. —BioniclesaurKing4t2 - "Hello, I'm the Doctor. Basically, . . . run." 16:29, June 5, 2013 (UTC)

Religion

Argh, I was getting so far!! I didn't think my categorial expansion would be controversial. Note that I did not add people to these categories simply because they attended a church. Everyone in the new categories are either religious leaders, or very directly identify with a religion. Many of those are specifically organisations, the contents members of these organisations. I have categories there named "followers of" and "members of" — very clearly members of those religions. I understand there might be a blur in the DWU between Catholics and Protestants, so we could always group them together into one central category:Christians if necessary. Apart from that, I do not see any issues.
--SOTO ☎ 16:33, June 5, 2013 (UTC)

On a slightly related note, do we still have the "a category must have 3 pages before you create it" ruling or was that one removed in the MoS redistribution/have we done away with that requirement? --Tangerineduel / talk 16:57, June 5, 2013 (UTC)
I'm still in the midst of expanding those categories. Any categories with only 2 pages will have at least three by the end of it.
--SOTO ☎ 17:02, June 5, 2013 (UTC)
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Waterloo Road Wiki

OK, I accept your decision to remove my thread, but please respect the fact that the Waterloo Road Wiki is in need of editing help. If this here message is rude I apologize. MrSiriusBlack ☎ 16:35, June 6, 2013 (UTC)

Link spoiler

Hm, I kind of expected that response... The only other way to show it to you would be to ask you to join me in chat and link you there. But we might not be on at the same time to do so, so I was left with only one option.
--SOTO ☎ 17:46, June 6, 2013 (UTC)

Could I at least have told you the name of the page? Anyhow, if Moffat or someone official revealed that it was part of s8, then would we be allowed to add information on it to series 8, or would we still employ a zero-spoilers-even-on-pages-with-spoiler-tags policy?
--SOTO ☎ 19:31, June 6, 2013 (UTC)

Bot Run - "Moving to sentence case on BFBS Series"

On the most recent bot run for the "Moving to sentence case on BFBS Series" you/the bot mis-spelled Summerfield, changing each instance of "Big Finish Bernice Summerfield Series" to "Big Finish Bernice Summerfid series". --Tangerineduel / talk 16:01, June 7, 2013 (UTC)

The Forums

Hi, Czech. If you are talking about the orange sticky message, it does help that it provides a link to The Howling. But I think there are other Forums (Discontinuity, Help, etc.) that aren't listed on the main Forum list.

Here's the thing...when I was first discovering this place (and we are talking about the first months, not the first day), I'd make a post on a Forum or respond to another person's thread and I usually couldn't find it later to check in on the conversation. I'd go to the main Forum list, go into each of the Forums, find that most of them were inactive and only at some point later would I find that I'd gone to The Howling or had actually commented on a Talk page.

Now, I realize that the burden should be on me to remember where I posted. But, like I said earlier, it would be helpful for others who fumbled around like me if there was one location where all of the Forums (obviously not the Talk pages though) were listed. This sticky does help remind people about The Howling...although it's still not clear to me why it can't just get a regular listing on the page.

Thanks for the follow-up. Much appreciated. ; ) Badwolff ☎ 20:34, June 7, 2013 (UTC)

Well, Czech, it seems like every time I post a request or suggestion it leads you to telling me why it's not feasible (which makes me think that the wiki software is inflexible) but I always appreciate you taking the time to explain the situation to me. Admins on other wikis might just post "Ain't going to happen" but you use it as a teachable moment.
That said, I'm confused by "you'll automatically be notified when new activity in that thread arises". Does this mean I should be getting email messages? I also thought I could always check my Contributions Page but I'm not sure if The Howling posts would appear here.
As for not liking your spoiler policy, I just don't feel strongly about it because almost everything I read on this wiki is a spoiler for me. I haven't seen many Classic episodes and I end up doing a lot of reading up on Classic episodes that explain some aspect of the characters or how the DWU works. So, I know how a lot of storylines end before I'll ever see them on screen. I also didn't see the new series in order (I've caught up watching reruns) so, for example, while I've read up on The Girl in the Fireplace, I actually only saw the episode two weeks ago when it was rerun on BBCAmerica.
And I think the policy is too strict. I understand not disclosing storyline plot points. But to even squelch major news announced by the BBC, that is extensively published and talked about, seems silly. Anyone who is a fan would have to not have any contact with other DW websites, not read Twitter or other media to not be aware of what's going on. And I think the fact that even saying that something is "going on" could be interpreted as a spoiler seems extreme to me.
But, that said, I'm not going to intentionally violate the rules of this site and I hope to not accidentally do so either. This is why I've moved most of my contributions off of Talk Pages and onto The Howling, so I don't inadvertently cross some line in your spoiler policy. Yes, I know that Talk Pages aren't for conversations but the fact is that people DO raise questions on them to clarify elements of the storyline so there is some back and forth going on there. Badwolff ☎ 22:01, June 7, 2013 (UTC)
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