User:Najawin/Sandbox 7

Trying to do a bit of a historical dive into forums/talk pages and flesh out what is important and for why. Might be subjective, but hopefully I can figure out what might give some insight into what other people care about. GAAAAHHH people didn't archive talk pages in the early days. They just deleted them. Makes things hard to find.

Talk pages, 2011

Talk:Dalek history - some early discussion of the possibility of an Essay namespace or suchlike. Interesting discussion of an analysis that doesn't really translate, I think, to a timeline quite right. But it's the genesis of timeline pages, even if they're not 1-1.

Talk:Series 6 (Doctor Who)/Archive 3#Death is the Only Answer canon? - "Every canonical televised Doctor Who must be on BBC One. It can't be canon." Compared to A Fix with Sontarans (TV story). People were not convinced.

Talk:Blue Humanoid - See also Forum:Proposed Deletion of Blue, Red and White humanoids - Yes or No. Not even sure what to say about this except some very strong statements against speculation, perhaps on the subject of visual appearance? idk

Talk:Alexa Havins - Relevant to our recent update to spoiler policy.

User Talk:Revanvolatrelundar/Archive 1#Graceless, User talk:CzechOut/Archive 3#Graceless - the beginning of a later discussion about the validity of Graceless.

User talk:CzechOut/Archive 4#Curse of Fatal Death, User Talk:Revanvolatrelundar/Archive 1#Curse of Fatal Death, User talk:CzechOut/Archive 4#Forum Page - What led to Forum:Is The Curse of Fatal Death canon?

While the story is essentially a parody, PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows portrays the events of this story as occuring in an alternate timeline for the Eighth Doctor's immediate future. The community decided that we should canonize this story due to it being directly mentioned in a canon story.

User Talk:Revanvolatrelundar/Archive 2#Ministry of Chance, User Talk:CzechOut/Archive 6#The Minister of Chance - quick notes about why a spinoff was made invalid.

Talk:A Textbook of Botany for Students - Small little discussion, and I do mean small, of how to deal with real world books that are so old that don't have ISBNs. No conclusion.

User Talk:Skittles the hog/Archive 4#Generic job (ep title) - If it's obviously the case that a name / job title is going to need to be disambiguated in the future, it makes sense to do so when creating the page.

User Talk:Skittles the hog/Archive 5#Bold Clone block - Evidence that blocks used to be much shorter. In addition, this, User Talk:CzechOut/Archive 3#Block, User Talk:Skittles the hog/Archive 5#Changes to blocking policy, and User Talk:CzechOut/Archive 3#Blocking policy might arguably constitute the first discussion of T:BOUND?

User Talk:Skittles the hog/Archive 6#River Song, User Talk:CzechOut/Archive 4#Protection - Some musings on when and when not to protect a heavily trafficked, plot significant page.

Talk:Mechanoid - Doctor Who was a mistake.

User Talk:Mini-mitch/Archive Talk 7#User image policy, User Talk:CzechOut/Archive 5#User's Images Poilcy - Self explanatory imo.

User talk:CzechOut/Archive 8#REF books., User talk:OttselSpy25/Archive 1#Doctor Who: Cybermen - follow up on the Cyberman thread above, discussion of how non narrative works were exiled. Ties in with User talk:Tangerineduel/Archive 4#in-universe material from official reference sources, User talk:CzechOut/Archive 6#Dalekese, User talk:Victory93#Dalekese, User talk:CzechOut/Archive 6#Proposition and User talk:Victory93#In-universe material to a lesser extent.

User talk:BroadcastCorp/Archive 1#Rollback - Discussion of why Rollback doesn't really exist on this wiki.

User talk:BroadcastCorp/Archive 1#You are infinitely banned - Example of procedure followed when encountering suspected sockpuppets.

Talk:List of companions/Archive 2 - Interesting proposal where someone suggests a page in the main namespace with the sole content as a template we have, since the content on the page had been largely outmoded by said template. Proposal failed, but serves as an idea that is an interesting path not traveled.

Talk:Apalapucia - BBC website used as source for spelling, even if not IU.

User talk:Tangerineduel/Archive 1#The consequence of CSS manipulation - just an interesting note that one of our bureaucrats only applied for adminship because they wanted to mess with the CSS. Fun little tidbit!

User talk:Tangerineduel/Archive 2#Canon policy rewrite, User talk:CzechOut/Archive 4#Canon policy rewrite - Arguably the start of T:VS.

User talk:Tangerineduel/Archive 2 (Can't link to this one without getting blocked, just know that the subject is Doug86 +1) - Just a note that admins being targets of personal attacks should not be involved in punitive actions.

User talk:Tangerineduel/Archive 2#Discontinuity should be its own forum, User talk:CzechOut/Archive 4#Discontinuity, User talk:Tangerineduel/Archive 2#Forum overhaul continues; infobox response - Start of the Theory:Discontinuity Index.

User talk:Tangerineduel/Archive 2#Our name on Enttertainment, User talk:CzechOut/Archive 4#Wikia entertainment and our wiki's name, User talk:Tangerineduel/Archive 3#More about our presence on wikia.com/Entertainment - Nuances about wiki backend stuff. Largely resolved but should be preserved.

User talk:Tangerineduel/Archive 3#Persistent talk pages - "I suppose the question I'd have is why anyone would save an orphaned talk page." - So we know why you deleted it! You've made my life substantially harder!

User talk:Tangerineduel/Archive 3#Wiki spotlight - Not sure if this is defunct, but at the time if we wanted to promote our wiki this is how to do it.

User talk:Tangerineduel/Archive 4#Vandalism policy, User talk:CzechOut/Archive 5#Vandalism policy - reasoning for why our vandalism policy says you can't remove comments on your own talk page. (As a note, I can attest that Czech is correct that users deleting things on their talk pages was a common occurrence that would often be abused by bad actors in the discussions I read through, as well as making it very difficult to follow some discussions. This change is fantastic policy.)

User talk:Tangerineduel/Archive 4#Rollback and inactive sysops revisted, User talk:CzechOut/Archive 5#Absent admins - Discussion of whether admins that haven't been active on the site for long enough become a security risk.

User talk:CzechOut/Archive 4#Your thoughts on something, User talk:Tangerineduel/Archive 3#A sticky wicket, and Forum:Users should be allowed any youtube video on their user page - some weird issues related to our video policy and COPPA.

User talk:CzechOut/Archive 4#Wikia Spotlight - Response to Wiki spotlight above + How Czech got promoted to bureaucrat.

Threads, 2012

Forum:Searching is undergoing a massive, Wikia-driven change - Not sure if this workaround is still possible, but wiki search still is awful.

Forum:Tables need headers - Some helpful discussion of tables for newer users.

Forum:EVERYONE READ: Some infobox variables being upgraded to SMW links - Helpful discussion of SMW for users who don't toy with it.

Forum:Color/font coding of namespaces - Project has been completely abandoned. But I think the archivist note here has some ideas that we might want to revist for the BTS namespaces.

Forum:ST/DW crossover comic: technical naming restrictions - Tiny discussion surrounding coordination with other wikis wrt crossover products. Not even a real discussion.

Forum:New spoiler screen - Outmoded, but we might want to try it again?

Forum:Twitter feed - We absolutely no longer have access to this account, and we have a new one.

Forum:All admin please read Help:Blocking - Discussion of the origin of the unblocking procedures, might need an update, idk.

Forum:Are the Invisible Enemy clones characters in their own right? - Restatement of the continuity of consciousness approach to identity that was developed wrt, I believe, Auton Rory?

Forum:'In character' appearances by the Doctor - Statement as far back as 2012 that breaking the 4th wall may be kosher for stories being valid.

Forum:First appearance of the sun and the moon - Doesn't apply to a ton of issues, but a bit of discussion of what to do when topics touch on things that might be impacted by the missing episodes, if we know that the missing episodes would likely change the statements we put on this wiki.

Forum:Audio Visuals - Discussion of having pages for notable fan works.

Forum:Disambiguation: Omegas - Discussion of some of our disambiguation rules and when things stop needing to be dabbed.

Forum:Distant past/Far future categories - Should probably reopen, these terms are super vague.

Forum:Doctor Who prefix in titles - Establishes that we should remove the "Doctor Who" prefix from titles that have it, usually.

Forum:Foreshadowing section on Doctors pages - /Laughs maniacally/ Vortex butterflies will meet its end.

Forum:Leela Audio Story category - Some discussion of why we don't have story categories for each character/group, not sure how much we're actually doing with SMW and how much these plans stalled.

Forum:Prefix simplification - Another one of those threads that has massive impacts in a variety of different ways. Necessary reading.

Forum:Reference books - what do we cover? - Some discussion of references books/criticism/analysis, doesn't go anywhere.

Forum:References to BFDWU as alternate or diverging timeline - Outdated, but one of the old discussions about Unbound being invalid.

User talk pages to explore:

User talk:CzechOut
User talk:Tangerineduel
User talk:Azes13
User talk:23skidoo
User talk:Forgetful 10th doctor fan
User talk:MrThermomanPreacher
User talk:Josiah Rowe
User talk:OttselSpy25
User talk:Americanwhofan
User talk:The Librarian
User talk:Skittles the hog
User talk:Mini-mitch
User talk:Rob T Firefly
User talk:Nyktimos
User talk:Revanvolatrelundar
User talk:Noneofyourbusiness
User talk:Icecreamdif
User talk:Bold Clone
User talk:Ebyabe
User talk:Tybort
User talk:Shambala108
User talk:Gousha
User talk:Imamadmad
User talk:Doug86
User talk:GusF