User talk:Tangerineduel
"Proper" wiki Merges
As an aside, things like Border Princess and Border Princes should be merged properly in order to merge the histories into one place. Have you ever done this before? If not, the process is as follows:
- manually copy the information from the destination to the source article.
- delete the destination article
- move the source article to the destination (this creates the redirect too)
- undelete all deleted revisions of the page
And voila... you're done. You have all of the history from every instance of the article in one location. :) -- Sulfur 15:58, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
- Right (didn't know how to do it, or probably thought about it and did the easier way). Will bare it in mind for the future thanks. --Tangerineduel 16:06, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Doctor Who theme
I just made a major move and revision, taking the article called "Theme Arrangement" and changing it to the more-likely-to-be-searched Doctor Who theme. I expanded and reorganized the article thoroughly. The only catch is that there's a ton of "What Links Here" artifacts where Theme Arrangement is still linked.
I'm prepared to spend some time (when time allows) removing the redirects, but if you happen to have access to a bot that can do this, please feel free. (Alternately, if you don't mind redirects - they make Wikipedians antsy which is why I'm asking here - then we can just leave it be). I put the word "theme" in lower case for the renamed article, but I wonder if it should be "Theme". Do you know if the piece of music is actually called "Doctor Who Theme"? 23skidoo 01:34, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
- I just realized I accidentally posted the thread to your userpage instead of your talk page. Apologies. I think keeping everything together in one article is probably best. Someone looking for information on the theme music and its various versions would probably just want to go to the one article. Spinoffs related to specific versions such as Pertwee's vocal version might be feasible later, but for not I was able to turn it into a general article on the theme by just adding a few paragraphs to what already existed regarding the different arrangements. 23skidoo 04:49, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Battles in Time
Hi, thanks for recent page suggestions they were helpful. I'm about to revisit, adapt and upload BIT pages over the next few weeks as the title is coming to an end soon (well, next month). Pages will include Trading Cards (listing and information), the Magazines, Magazine Issue guide (WITH the Dalek Wars!), galleries and Comic Strip pages. In light of this, and after having now tweaked Growing Terror, I was wondering if you could just scan it through, let me know what you think, and flag up anything that I specifically need to incorporate.
I've removed the stub as the content seems to be more than adequate (I think!) and am looking to create a new 'Doctor Who: Battles in Time' category.
PS If the new look is favourable I may work backwards with the other strips! Thanks again The Librarian 22:59, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
Thanks again!
That’s just the sort of constructive comments I needed.
Because it was a bit wordy I’ll sum up my reply if thats ok down the page order.
Infobox
Series: I hope to see the Doctor Who Comic Strip Stories expanded to include a wider overview of the publishing history (non-specific to the Doctors eras) in the future. And as a more direct link I just felt that the Tenth Doctor Comic Strip Stories would be, usefully, more direct. (I certainly find it useful) I would like to retain it as I don’t think they are duplication.
Image: Please hear me out on this one with an open mind! Its something I thought about for quite a bit on and off. Initially I did it rather than have an imageless page. but then I got thinking, and thought that it summed up what the page was about instantly. A Tenth Doctor Strip from BIT. The artwork is so simplistic that there really wasn’t the scope in just 4 pages to pick an image that summed up the story Which is why I moved towards representing the strip with notible snipets further down the page. Originally I was intending a look that had characters ‘faces’ in a column on the left of the page next to a brief entry on the right but I couldn’t get the format right. (It added to the page length a lot - too much blank space in the text side) So I opted for a image break after the summary before characters so its not like they’ve been overlooked and actually offer a better representation I think. The other much longer option was to show an image of the Tenth Doctor from each strip, but as the artist was consistent not sure about the effort against content.Besides is the image any less intrusive than some of the stub boxes!
Image tag. Sorry I couldn’t see a way of of adding a tag to each image when uploading. Do you just bring the image up and edit the page, inserting the line?
Enemy. And self page referencing.. OK
Main Article
Lettering (and others): I didn’t want to leave it empty like it had been missed, but able to be recognised as something to add at some stage if revealed. Not stated wins over unstated: OK
Summary (Opening Tag). This line is included and taken direct from the first frame. The reason for inclusion here is that it not only states for new readers where in the story you are (important for the younger of the magazine), but mainly becomes sometimes the stories do not tie-up with the previous frame and the TAG is used to move the story on. If the various parts of the strip had a linking title (on one article page) then I wouldn’t use ‘The story so far…’ bit but BIT clearly has individual but linked stories, with most of the entries like separate quests eventually leading to a final reveal. They (mostly) read more like self contained stories with a variable length story arc.
References: Tenth Doctors checklist
An explanation. Perhaps changing the line to; “The Battles in Time comic strip often sought to reinforce the Doctor character with that as seen on screen by utilising various ‘props’ used in the TV series. Namely; blue/brown suit, sonic screwdriver, psychic paper and his intelligent glasses. Apart from the brown suit none appeared in this strip.
Publication Details:
Ok, first why its there is because of continuity with the other strip articles I’ve done.
Although it could be seen as less significant for this title. (Because they are treated as individual episodes). Overall (throughout the various ongoing comic strip adventures) it can be a significant point of reference.
The ‘problem’ with the BIT strips is one of whether to group the strips or keep them as individual pages. I suppose I have tended to lean towards the separate-but-linked pages, but was also thinking of maybe incorporating underneath a linked list to other parts of a themed story. Maybe?!
Regarding the infobox I couldn’t get the ‘number in a series box’ to show which would give the strips an easier continuity.
Italitising TV titles: OK I forgot, will try harder to remember!
References: In Continuity: Out OK I think I’ve got it! (but it still confuses me sometimes where to put somethings so I generally use notes!!).
External references: OK thanks for that, spent quite a while looking for the format. I know I had used it before to show the webpage name but for the life of me…got tired searching. It was what I was looking for so thanks again for that bit. I will reinstate the words ‘Magazine and’ (trading card details) though if that’s ok?
After saying all that (phew!), I could still be pursuaded to follow another suggestion and combine the pages under the FIRST title of the serial (eg issues 2-6 would all relate to the Growing Terror page. (which would support the 'Publication' bit)Its still not too late to get it right. Thoughts?
As the title is winding up soon (supposedly), it seemed like an opportunity to tweak comic strip coverage on this stand alone complete series so that improvements can be made to the other strips. As you have probably noticed I also follow the Doctor Who Adventures title…and its not just for the toys and inflatable Oods! Honest! (Its a slightly different type of strip that Ive been working on in tandem). Anyway sorry about the waffle. Including your comments I’ve Ok’ed, my main concern is.. is it still more right than wrong?! The Librarian 23:24, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Request assistance - not urgent!
Hi, two things, sort of related and hopefully quickies..for you!
- I see Doctor Who Magazine and Doctor Who Adventures have seperate tags for images, I'm using the comic tag but could you please set one up for Battles in Time Template:Bitcover would be good / and or a general one for Magazines (Torchwood is on my list to do). I can't seem to get things to link when I try to set these things up.
- In a similar vein I couldn't get a (Doctor Who Files) category to work. (Have a look at Doctor Who Files 1: The Doctor Category:Fiction Books to see what I mean or is their one one appropriate to include for children's books?)
Thanks The Librarian 19:53, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
Astronomical Object Page
Sorry, I deleted it because I had accidentally capitalised it, and had added the template as { {astronomical object stub}} to a number of pages, so I just changed the page over AnimeNoKyouran 07:10, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
- Also, thanks for fixing that. I'm a bit rusty on HTML :) --AnimeNoKyouran 07:18, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Re: Praise
Thanks for the support its good to know that my efforts are appreciated Dark Lord Xander 08:02, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
BBV
Yeah i guess it should be that way i just copied the format from the fraction paradox pages as they were already up shouldn't be a problem to fix Dark Lord Xander 08:23, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
All series for BBV and Majic Bullet Productions Fixed Dark Lord Xander 08:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Image:MagnifiedMaster.jpg
I note that you deleted this image with only the note "housekeeping". Not sure what that means, so I re-uploaded it. While blurry, it is a clean image of what was actually transmitted. It's making a specific point at the article, Utopia (TV story). If you deleted it for another reason, please lemme know. :) CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 22:59, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Ghosts in the Machines?
Someone has created an article for the 2008 Christmas special using this title.I did a Google and could find no official word, just some blogs using it. The article itself had some pretty blatant nonsense in it (including listing David Morrisley playing "The Other Doctor"), as well as stuff obviously cut-and-pasted from Journey's End. I've removed virtually all the content, to be honest, but I'm hesitant to delete it if in fact the title has been announced. I'll leave it up to you. I also had to do a little surgery because whoever created the article deleted all the infobox links to the Proms Special (and that article may need to be retitled Proms Cutaway as that appears to be the title RTD is using for it.) 23skidoo 04:34, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
- Good move deleting them (though Christmas Special 2008 would probably be OK as a working title article if the BBC doesn't announce a title soon). I'm adding a couple of embedded notes to the Journeys End and Prom infoboxes discouraging anyone putting in a title without it being confirmed by the BBC. 23skidoo 17:27, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
- Although i think its likely that anothor one will pop up within a few days so you may have to delete a few before the special airs Dark Lord Xander 08:07, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
