User talk:Runcible the Fatuous

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Welcome

Welcome, Runcible. I trust the accommodation's to your satisfaction? ;)

Anyway, DAB here. I noticed the three pages you created today, and just have a few things you might want to learn.

  1. We don't usually allow HTML code in our namespace 0 articles. So <br/> is a no-no. Please just use the enter button to get a new space. If you're writing a list like appearances in an infobox, use {{il}}. Instructions can be found there.
  2. Always, without exception, create articles with categories. Every article should have at least one category by one hour after its creation. If you can't think of anything, don't worry, someone else will likely come by and add one themselves. But our category system's pretty organised here; just type in what you think might be a category, and autosuggest will give you a full name. For people, the easier form of categorisation is singling them out by time period (ex. category:20th century individuals) or by profession (ex. category:human chemists)
  3. When linking to the Master, always try to specify which incarnation. We use templates when linking to him, usually the last name of the actor who portrays that incarnation. With Beevers it's slightly more complicated, but he plays the Delgado version, so {{Delgado}} will give you the Master. {{Delgado|c}} to get "The Master".
  4. You won't come across this often, but I'll mention it anyway. 59A, Barnsfield Crescent shouldn't have a comma. This format was essentially decided here, and has been consistently followed.
  5. This makes no actual difference, but there's no real need to use pipe tricks in the {{{only}}} infobox variable; it gets automatically truncated.

Other than those five small things, though, great work so far. I look forward to more in the future. :)
--SOTO ☎ 05:44, October 27, 2013 (UTC)

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