User talk:Catkind121
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Re your message on my page
Hello Catkind Thank you for asking me my opinion about your idea. A slight modification, I would make sure there is protection on the individual pages. Bigshowbower 12:41, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
n/a on individual infoboxes
I've been altering many of the infoboxes on this wiki so if you don't put something in a field on an infobox it won't appear. So for individual infoboxes that don't have an actor, don't put anything and the actor field won't appear. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 06:04, October 14, 2009 (UTC)
Actors who have appeared in Eastenders
That should be fine, my general rule for categories is as long as there's more than 3 things within that category than it's okay to exist (anything less than three they can usually be classified elsewhere). --Tangerineduel 14:41, November 4, 2009 (UTC)
Feature Article
Hi. I've been in the slow process of trying to work out a way to make the Feature Article process get some sort of results. As such I've just implemented a new Feature Article process, see Tardis:Feature Article policy and Tardis:Feature Article nominations. I've added your nomination of The Trickster to the December nomination, if you'd like it to be for a different month feel free to move it. I'm hoping this system will give us actual results rather than the stalled system that's current in place. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 13:17, November 7, 2009 (UTC)
Templates for every Doctor
I'm fine with it in theory (I haven't really worked on any of those specific novel boxes).
The only issue I see ahead is that dealing with other Doctors (other than the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors) is that Doctors One - Seven have all been in novels across at least two ranges; the Virgin New/Missing Adventures and the BBC Books Past Doctor/Eighth Doctor ranges. (There's also the Telos Novella range to consider)
Would these Doctor novel templates be going on the individual Doctor pages or the various novel pages? I'm just worried about the size and focus of the template as these templates would cover 2-3 ranges, unlike the current novel templates that just cover the NSAs.
If all this information's going to be contained on within the template it's going to need to be clearly marked out. Though this would create quite a long list to cram into the template especially for the Seventh and Eighth Doctors.
The Torchwood novel range is actually quite simple and straight forward much like the Ninth/Tenth/Eleventh Doctor novel templates. --Tangerineduel 13:06, January 4, 2010 (UTC)
DeltonMenace
I like that you stand up to him. As I read the Howling before the last specials, he seemed to go insane! Someone needed to stand up to him, and you do a great job returning everything to the rational. I'm on your side. Zach Schmidt 23:49, January 8, 2010 (UTC)
I don't think it is about sides but he dos go of on rants. --Catkind121 09:47, January 9, 2010 (UTC)
New users
A wiki is by definition an open and editable by anyone, so forcing new users to read the MoS is tricky.
If there was a way to make them look at the MoS when they clicked an edit button it would need to be applied across the whole wiki and for all users (in theory anyways).
Any new users you come across you can always add the Template:Welcome IP template to their page: {{Welcome IP|}} (you can leave your signature after the | like this {{Welcome IP|--~~~~}}, or just leave it as this {{Welcome IP|}}. This adds template with links off to the help page and other pages that may be of use to new users. Thanks, I and the other admins will continue to keep and eye out for vandalism. --Tangerineduel 13:44, February 18, 2010 (UTC)
Cleanup
For the Time Field page, what exactly is it that needs cleaning up? The Thirteenth Doctor 13:13, May 31, 2010 (UTC)
