Tardis:Format for novels

This is a tutorial for writing entries for novels

Basic requirements Before writing an article you should consider what information is available, as you may not have enough information to write a valid article.

At the very least, a valid article should have a publisher's summary, character list, the correct infobox and information to fill out a majority of the fields of the infobox (see below) and the official image of the novel's cover within the infobox. It should also have the correct layout for a novel as detailed below.

Please do not attempt to write a novel article if you are unable to provide these.

If you do not have the necessary information or time to complete any of the other headings or sub-headings listed below, please include them and add ''to be added'' below the sub-headings so that other editors may add to them when more information becomes available.

By the very nature of a wiki all the other information will eventually be completed. No one here is expected to go it alone.

• First onto the article is the infobox infobox for Novels containing a Doctor and infobox for novels not containing a Doctor such as Bernice Summerfield and companion-only novels). Follow the links for a copyable version of the infobox, the page also has an explanation of all the fields in the infobox.
• An infobox contains basic information such as Doctor, companions, publishing date, enemy, setting and year the novel's story takes place...etc.

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Publisher’s summary

• This is what is on the back of the novel (sometimes called the blurb).

Plot

• This is a detailed summary of the story. Plot descriptions must be original content and not plagiarised or otherwise copied from another source. Please see our Plagiarism and copyright policies for more information concerning plagiarism and copyright.

Characters

• This is a list of all the characters, both introduced previously to the novel and introduced in the novel.
• Create links to a character if one does not exist.

You can also place information pertaining to characters that does not fit within the 'references' list. (Indent and bullet point by using :*)

References

References are anything that is referred to in the novel, these are generally links to other things in the Doctor Who universe, and are in-universe, links to other stories should go in Continuity)

• This is a list of characters, organisations, planets, races and species and other items which are referred to in the novel.
• The list should be divided into categories, and for better clarification short descriptions of what it is (or how it fits into the story).

Notes

• This contains extra information about the novel, behind the scenes writing, other information about it etc.
• Any other information which does not fall under other headings.

Continuity

Continuity refers to the links between the novel and other Doctor Who universe stories.

Tie-ins between this novel and other stories i.e. other novels, TV stories or audios. These should be listed (in the same manner to any other story) with the prefix of the story's group followed by the story's title in italics, it does not need to be in brackets.

Timeline

Timeline refers to all Doctor Who universe media and attempts to place this story within the personal timeline of the protagonist(s).

Timeline is generally only used for the Past Doctor Adventures, Virgin Missing Adventures, Big Finish Bernice Summerfield Series, Telos Doctor Who Novellas, BBC Torchwood novels and any short stories (there are of course exceptions with everything but with regards to the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures or the Virgin New Adventures if the next story in the timeline is in the infobox it needn't be repeated with a timeline section and the timeline can be omitted).

The timeline should be written something like this:

• (page story title) occurs after: (prefix): (story title)
• (page story title) occurs before: (prefix): (story title)

External links

• Here you should place outside links to any sites you used in researching the article, or to sites which may have more information. A suggestion of the kind of links possible for this section has been given in a forum thread.