User talk:The Librarian
Hi, just to let anyone know I've currently started on Doctor Who Magazine related pages which I hope will be comprehensive (I promise I'll catch up soon).I had to start somewhere but if anyone has suggestions or requests for details they would find useful / interesting or both, please let me know.Hope I can help! The Librarian 01:36, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
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Hi...
- It would perhaps be better for in those cases to have a | and still keep the text of the article ie: Dalek amd Mutants from the planet Skaro, they both link to the same page, but different text. Or if this doesn't suit perhaps in brackets a small explanation of what the article is about. (Also on a side note I removed the brackets mainly because it was a slightly messy way of displaying the information and looked slightly out of place.)
- Feel free to use the page layout you've implemented (the only things I ask you add is the ==External Links== at the end and [[Category:Doctor Who Magazine Issues]] also at the very bottom of the page (rather than your categories, just as this one keeps everything separate). So there could obviously be a Credits section of the page after the Contents or wherever you want, as I said when I went through and edited I kept all your headings etc.
- As for other articles just add a heading or whatever, there isn't any approval process. There are various articles spread throughout the Manual of Style and help pages which act as a guide to various topics. But in general if there's enough information (especially stub articles) then just add it, the exception is the TV, Book, CD and Anthology pages which have a very established page layout and it's generally best to stick to those. A rule of thumb is to look at similar pages around it as an idea.
Hope this is of some assistance (anything else I'll try to answer also). --Tangerineduel 18:30, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Re Message
Hi, sorry, I was trying to clean up my talk page and accidently deleted content from the welcome template. Can you please re-edit it to recover it 'cos as a newbie I appreciated it and now feel guilty. PS where do I find out how to remove it from my talk page? I won't play with it again in case you can re-edit it back. sorry. The Librarian 01:52, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
To go back through your page's history (like all pages) just click the History link at the top of the page. Also you can just highlight it all and delete it (removing all content from your page).
Also (while not nesscary...as others will inevitably place it in) categories at the base of pages is a good idea as it will help others when working on your pages. (Generally looking at other pages similar to your page you're creating will help).
This also goes for formating and other things, take a look at some of the pages that have a lot of edits, or even some of the CD or novel pages which are generally all laid out in a similar fashion to one another for ease of reading, or the TV stories (most of which have been fixed...some still aren't onto the full Manual of Style)...but the formatting is still there for the most part.
While I'm on my formating spiel, when reading large chunks of information, bullet points (first at least) makes for an easier read, after the bullet points it can be simple indentation (or indented bullet points), it just makes for an easier to read article.
Any other questions feel free to ask. --Tangerineduel 13:10, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
On a second side note I've also altered the prefixes (sorry again if you already have some typed up), but DWMH was a little specific, so I've changed it to DWMS (Doctor Who Magazine Specials).
--Tangerineduel 12:07, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
