User talk:Diverse Awesomeness
Diverse AwesomenessThanks 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. 23skidoo ☎ 06:03, May 1, 2017 (UTC)
Contribution
Hello. I know you want to contribute to the Wikia, and that is completely cool, because we want more users to engage in editing and creating articles. What I would like to remind you to do is think about what you'd like to contribute with, and to take a look around this Wikia to see what exists, as your recent edits have either been uninformative or have been about something already covered on here. Thanks. And happy editing. --DCLM ☎ 11:42, May 4, 2017 (UTC)
"21st century years"
Hey Elijah! Not sure if you're aware of this, but those categories you're adding to a few TV episodes aren't for stories produced in the 20th or 21st centuries, but are instead for pages like 1978 or 2017, actual pages about years in the 20th/21st centuries. We've already got more specific categories for stories, like Category:stories released in 1978 or Category:Stories released in 2017. If you've got the time, it would be nice if you could undo your recent edits. :) CoT ? 01:36, May 5, 2017 (UTC)
- Oh wait, I didn't fully understand what you were doing. Sorry. What I should've said was:
- Those categories you're adding to a few TV episodes aren't for stories set in the 20th or 21st centuries, but are instead for pages like 1978 or 2017, actual pages about years in the 20th/21st centuries. We've already got more specific categories for stories set in the 20th or 21st centuries, like Category:stories set in 1978 or Category:Stories set in 2017.
- Let me additionally suggest a simple way to avoid such situations in the future. It will inevitably happen that you will run into something that would look wrong to you or something that may be improved. And you may well be right. It requires Titanic effort to Finish all the Big stuff thrown at us by you know Who. However, many people have been working very hard for many years to put things in order here. So you may also be wrong about things being wrong (chaos is a more complex order and all that). So, before going into mass-edit mode, it is always a good idea to do a mass check-up of similar pages and how they are currently organised. Chances are you would be able to figure out the system behind what might seem like error at first. In this case, for instance, I think one look at Category:21st century years would speak more than 2100 words. Happy editing. And don't hesitate to ask if in doubt. Amorkuz ☎ 09:07, May 5, 2017 (UTC)
Creating new pages: please read policies first
Hi again! The benefit of being a new editor is that admins spend a lot of time talking to you. The downside of being a new editor is that admins spend a lot of time talking to you :)
It is understandable that you want to make the maximum impact by adding information not at all present on the wiki yet. It's great that you want to help. And you can---by improving existing pages. But I hope you will understand if I ask you to familiarise yourself with the policies before creating any more pages. As you can see from my deletion notes, the two pages packed violations of 4 different policies:
- sentences should start with capital letters (not only on this wiki by the way);
- links to story sources should have specific format and be working;
- each page must have at least one category;
- in-universe articles must be written in the past tense.
Unfortunately, at 50k+ articles in the wiki, we cannot expect that a bad article is gonna be cleaned up at some point in the future. This future may never come. Meanwhile, a bad article without sources or categories is worse than a red link: other editors would assume it's already done and move to other topics.
It is also a good idea, after you've read the policies and ready to give it another go, to start creating pages by mimicking an existing page for a similar entity. That way you would see the little tricks of the trade and be able to create pages that are genuinely helpful.
And as always, when in doubt don't hesitate to ask. Amorkuz ☎ 01:36, May 7, 2017 (UTC)
