User talk:Thunderush
ThunderushThanks for your edits! We hope you'll keep on editing with us. This is a great time to have joined us, because now you can play the Game of Rassilon with us and win cool stuff! Well, okay, badges. That have no monetary value. And that largely only you can see. But still: they're cool!
We've got a couple of important quirks for a Wikia wiki, so let's get them out of the way first.
British English, please
We generally use British English round these parts, so if you're American, please be sure you set your spell checker to BrEng, and take a gander at our spelling cheat card.
Spoilers aren't cool
We have a strict definition of "spoiler" that you may find a bit unusual. Basically, a spoiler, to us, is anything that comes from a story which has not been released yet. So, even if you've got some info from a BBC press release or official trailer, it basically can't be referenced here. In other words, you gotta wait until the episode has finished its premiere broadcast to start editing about its contents. Please check the spoiler policy for more details.
Other useful stuff
Aside from those two things, we also have some pages that you should probably read when you get a chance, like:
- the listing of all our help, policy and guideline pages
- our Manual of Style
- our image use policy
- our user page policy
- a list of people whose job it is to help you
If you're brand new to wiki editing — and we all were, once! — you probably want to check out these tutorials at Wikipedia, the world's largest wiki:
Remember that you should always sign your comments on talk and vote pages using four tildes like this:Thanks for becoming a member of the TARDIS crew! If you have any questions, see the Help pages, add a question to one of the Forums or ask on my talk page. -- CzechOut (Talk) 06:51, 2013 March 12
Categories
Hi! I've had to remove some of your recent category edits, and I wanted to let you know why.
Our category system is structured so that we only put the most specific category name on a page. For example, on many of the K9 pages you put the categories Category:Robots and Category:Individual robots. However, the Individual Robots category is a subcategory of the Robot category, so we do not put both on a page. Before putting a category on a page you can go to Special:CategoryTree and type your desired category in the field to see if there is a more specific category already on the page.
A general guideline would be that if a page has been around for a while, it will probably have all the categories it needs, and if you think one is missing you should check the Category Tree first before adding it.
In general, it's also a good idea to click on the category link before you add it so you can take a look at the description (if it has one) and the other pages in the category. This will help determine if the category fits the page you want to put it on. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 04:31, April 16, 2013 (UTC)
- I completely understand; it took me a while to get the hang of categories, and I still mess up sometimes. I've been trying to see if the wiki has a guideline page for categories. If I find it, I can pass it along to you. Shambala108 ☎ 04:58, April 16, 2013 (UTC)
Distant past
Hi! Please don't put Category:Stories set in the distant past on stories that happen only a few hundred years ago. The category is meant for thousands of years ago, not hundreds. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 02:12, May 5, 2013 (UTC)
Britain's Golden Age
Hi! About the page you created, Britain's Golden Age, I have a few comments.
First of all, nice page. It's a bit surprising it hadn't been created yet.
I had to fix a few things, and I'd like to leave the links to the affected policies here for you to read when you get a chance.
- Tardis:Neutral point of view - we try to avoid labelling things as "evil", "immoral" etc.
- Tardis:Use sentence case - deals with capitalization of headings.
- Tardis:In-universe perspective - we tend not to use the conditional "would" for something that actually did happen.
Also, off-topic, I recall that I had promised I would let you know if there is a good policy page on categories. Czechout recently finished this long project; you can find it at Tardis:Categorisation.
Thanks, and keep up the good work! Shambala108 ☎ 18:51, May 7, 2013 (UTC)
Pipe-switching
Hi! I just wanted to pass along a couple of tips to make your editing a little easier. There are some times when you don't have to pipe-switch to get a link to look the way you want it.
- If you want to write something like "psychic locket" with a lower case p, you can just type [[psychic locket]] instead of pipe-switching. You can do that with the first letter of all article names.
- If you want to pluralize something, like "pyramid", you can just type [[pyramid]]s.
This might save you a little effort as you edit. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 06:06, June 14, 2013 (UTC)
Days of the year
Nope, you haven't wandered into a place where you weren't wanted. The pages were indeed unlocked so that all registered users can help. Please feel free to continue! I just happened to notice that you seemed not to be transferring the birth/death info over to the vital stats pages. As a general rule, it'd be helpful if you did all three moves (to production, people, and releases) rather than just one or two.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 02:06: Sat 15 Jun 2013
- Pretty much, what Czech said. You are very welcome to edit those pages, and I very much appreciate the effort you're putting into this (even if you're just doing it for the badges — that is what they're for, after all :P). However, it would be more helpful to me if you would concentrate your efforts between, say, 16 January and 4 April. See, moving info from days after 4 April will make my job of cleaning up and adding info a little harder (ironically, as you're technically taking away from my workload). In fact, if you take care of some of the days between 16 January and 4 April, that would most definitely take off my workload and make my job easier! So, yes, you can edit any day page you want, but between the two aforementioned days would be doubly helpful.
--SOTO ☎ 02:48, June 15, 2013 (UTC)- Hey, you're almost on the leaderboard! Anyway, thanks for the help. Also, don't do 17 January. Start at 18 Jan if you want — I'm already halfway through 17.
--SOTO ☎ 03:04, June 15, 2013 (UTC)
- Hey, you're almost on the leaderboard! Anyway, thanks for the help. Also, don't do 17 January. Start at 18 Jan if you want — I'm already halfway through 17.
