Talk:Geocomtex
Rename
Okay, so as I have been Wikifying Henry Van Statten, I've been noticing the stylisation of Geocomtex's name; throughout that story, and books such as The Time Traveller's Almanac, The Doctor: His Lives and Times, The Time Lord Letters, The Secret Lives of Monsters, and other bits of non-fiction release in 2005 like WhoSpy, to cross-reference information, I've found that none of them stylise this company's name as "GeoComTex".
Now I don't think this stylisation originates from Dalek, as while I haven't recently checked, the images I can see online use "GEOCOMTEX", which seems to just be the stylisation of the company's name on branding, which is consistent with the in-universe website.
Long story short, I cannot find a source for "GeoComTex". Even if I can, at this point, it won't be the primary name for the company so the rename to "Geocomtex" will be justified. I would like some help to check sources I am unaware of, however, as I feel it would be beneficial.
There is, however, one caveat. The video description for Sven and the Scarf does use "GeoComTex". Not in the minisode itself, just in the video description. I cannot help but think this was probably a direct result of our page being named as such all the way back in 2007. So my second part of this talk asks: would be it be acceptable to assert, in the behind the scenes section that our (to be) previously erronously named page was responsible for this spelling in the Sven and the Scarf video description? I feel the alternate spelling would be justifiable to mention in the behind the scenes section, and I don't think saying "we have no idea why this happened" is realistic given... we probably indirectly caused it.
17:38, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- lmao, Forum:Loosening T:NO RW moment.
- We could just ask Cook? She probably uploaded it. Otherwise we could just decline to mention the cause of the discrepancy, note that it happened once, and move on. We don't have to say "we dunno why", just, don't comment. Najawin ☎ 18:02, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- I think it's worth owning up to since the same thing happened with Jared Ramon (actually Rahman) and reservoir of evil (never called that). Jack "BtR" Saxon ☎ 18:14, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- Well I've sent a Tweet to Emily Cook, so hopefully I'll get a response soon.
- We also really should keep a log of every instance this Wiki's mistakes have affected later official media. I feel there is likely a lot. 18:58, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- T:CITOGENESIS, with a list and a policy, or just Theory:Citogenesis, or just a sandbox. Any of those would work, I guess. Najawin ☎ 19:10, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
Or perhaps an OOU page for the wiki? EDIT: Oh, hang on, that wouldn't work; T:WIKIFY OWN. Aquanafrahudy 📢 21:10, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- A real world page about the Wiki has long since been needed, although we may have to make an exception to T:NO SELF REF to create it. It's been mentioned by official writers a bunch of times and has been covered in an issue of Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition in 2017 (IIRC?). But we need a page on ourselves. There have also been so, so many cases of text being directly pulled from the Wiki for promotional material and stuff. 21:16, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
