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Oh, it's all still very much in progress. In fact, the bot is in category:organisations right now. But if you see something that looks weird, please do ask, because this is one hell of a big project, with lots of stages.
BTW, what did you mean by your cryptic statement in the forum about The Dæmons?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:35: Thu 01 Mar 2012
Mentions
Just did a random diff check on Jamie McCrimmon and noticed that you actively removed the "dead" mentions field. I've been reluctant to go that far, simply because my decision to make it inactive was an "emergency" move in reaction to a technical change on Wikia's part. Technically, the question of what to do about mentions is still open at Forum:"Mentions" field being deactivated.
I'm not outright saying you can't remove them, but I think it might be wise for you to specifically use the word mentions in your edit summary when you take them away. That way, if interest in that thread reignites, and someone comes up with a clever way of reintegrating mentions, it'll be easy to find in the history.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:41: Tue 06 Mar 2012
- p.s. Thanks for helping with {{you may}} and {{dab page}}. It's not something I can easily fix with the bot. Should've thought about putting it on a template years ago — or at least before the last six months, where there's been an explosion of disambiguative editing.
Infoboxes
Yeah, the bot and I are fully engaged. The problems of bulletised lists in infobox has been an unexpected "joy". It's probably best for the weekeend if you just send me notes on problems you find, instead of attempting to fix them yourself. The bot is having to make several individualised runs over the stories, which means you might trip up the bot if you decide to focus your editing on stories. I'm not saying "don't edit story pages", though. If you can improve the pages by adding new content, fine. But don't focus your energies on the infoboxes, and don't edit several infoboxes in a row, until Monday.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 23:54: Fri 09 Mar 2012
Answering your questions about {{Infobox Story}}
All great questions! Here are the answers, in the order you asked:
- The definition of a "main setting" is surely subjective, but maybe if I give a few examples it'll make sense. It's the same variable that it's always been, just with a different label. By changing the label, I was hoping to encourage a reduction in clutter a bit. A lot of these pages had ridiculous detail ("London, England, UK, Earth" when "London" is just fine). To answer your question directly, I would say it's best to keep it to just a single, broad location, unless the action really is split. With Closing Time, for instance, It's really just Colchester. The bit at the university doesn't warrant the additional space that mentioning it would take up. What people have to remember with infoboxes is that the more info they contain, the longer the infobox is, and the more the pics on the page are going to get screwed up. They're not meant to house every single detail of the production. There should be just enough to jog the memory or otherwise merely identify the programme. The article is where the details should be. If the action is truly split 50/50 between two locations, maybe it's okay to put them both down. But, y'know, The Five Doctors happens on Gallifrey, period. There's no need to say, "some of it's in the Citadel, some of it's in the Death Zone, some of it's in the Tomb of Rassilon, and a wee bit of it is back on Earth". And The Doctor Dances happens in London during the Blitz". There are smallish scenes which happen elsewhere, but "London during the Blitz" is more than enough. I guess what I'm saying is that an infobox should be about economy. Find the fewest amount of words to indicate the truest sense of the episode, and you've solved the riddle.
- Double-banked episodes aren't actually completely double-banked. In every case, one of them always enters production first. For instance, the first shot for Blink was 7 November 2006. It's just the main part of the shoot that happens around the latter part of the month, when Human Nature was also in production. I'm not aware of a case where two episodes started production on exactly the same date. If I don't get around to adding in all this production order myself, just trust Shannon Sullivan's site. He's researched this stuff quite thoroughly and has things production ordered as correctly as possible, based on the evidence available. I've independently checked him versus the Virgin Handbook series, and some DWM products. While I have very occasionally found errors in some of his facts, I've never seen an error on any production ordering.
- I would say that Dreamland is not a part of the production before/next chain, but it is a part of the broadcast chain. I personally would consider the previous/next chain to go WOM, Dreamland, EOT. But I'm open to persuasion, if you've got a compelling argument.
- {{Infobox Story}} is already in place on K9, SJA and TW pages, and appears to be handling things quite well. It will soon be on every type of story page. I don't see any good reason why we need all these different infoboxes with all these different variables. It should be possible for editors to reliable know that they can use "name" for the name of any story, regardless of medium, for instance. Ultimately, this template will be the only one you need for writing story pages.
- I haven't looked at EOT specifically yet. I'm not aware of any particular issue, though, since both {{{confidential}}} and {{{story number}}} will accommodate multiple responses. Could you be more specific about your concerns?
If you have further questions, of course feel free to ask them.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 01:59: Sat 10 Mar 2012
Images by comic stories
Hmmm, I'm not sure what went wrong there. I'm guessing these few categories got shortchanged when I had a power failure that occurred while I was AFK. Glad you caught it. I'll, um, put it on the list of things to correct.
I'm guessing btw, that The Unheard Voice and Doomcloud confusion in particular, came from the fact that a user has been obsessed with confusingly putting these "stories with disputed Doctors" into both categories, instead of just focussing on the original printing. So yeah, if I had to take a guess at the bot error, it was that they got picked up on the TVC run and then weren't added to PHS/TVA categories because the bot had already made it through.
As you might have imagined, I've moved on with the bot, so this corrective run might be a few days away. If things don't change by this time next week, remind me please.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 00:46: Sun 11 Mar 2012
Trickster
Speaking of reminders, there's something from the top of my talk page that I preserved when I archived, and I still don't know the answer to it. You asked what we should do with the Trickster. And I dunno. Apparently there's yet a third Trickster running around out there, cause there's one in Love and War. So we've got the Trickster, Trickster (Kinda) and Trickster (Love and War). I was listening to the DW Book Club Podcast about Love and War, though, and they're of the opinion that nothing prevents the Love and War Trickster from being the SJA Trickster. So at this point, I'd say, ask the question at the forums and hope that someone has a better idea than me.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 00:46: Sun 11 Mar 2012
- You'd think so, but the thing is that if you can't definitively separate them, then maybe they're the same character. Yanno what I mean? I mean, I'm sure Gareth Roberts read Love and War. He had to. This isn't like three guys all named "John Brown" or something. It's more akin to the situation of Gorgon. We currently have two pages, but there's absolutely nothing, AFAIK, which prevents us putting the SJA Gorgons and the TVC Gorgons on the same page, like we do with the Pied Piper. The Trickster is an archetypal, mythological character. I think we need definitive proof, first, that the characters are demonstrably different before we put them on different pages.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 07:07: Sun 11 Mar 2012
{{bp}}
Yeah, don't bother manually deleting {{bp}}. I'm just going to change what it does. A lot more efficient. Might take me a bit of time to get around to it, but it's a simple fix.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 07:07: Sun 11 Mar 2012
- {{bp}} has been neutered now. As for raw HTML, it's easily removed through a couple of bot processes. I'm behind schedule, so it's probably now more likes next week when I'll have all this done. But the bot runs were refined yesterday and seem to be working well enough.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:29: Sun 11 Mar 2012- Hmmmm, sorry if that was vague. The "above code you mentioned" is "raw HTML". So, yes, I'll take care of fixing all things about the infoboxes. Please move on to other things except the infoboxes for a while, if you would. Keep notifying me if you see strange things, of course. But I'll take care of both the {{bp}} and HTML ways of creating bulleted lists. It'll be fine :)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:26: Sun 11 Mar 2012
- Hmmmm, sorry if that was vague. The "above code you mentioned" is "raw HTML". So, yes, I'll take care of fixing all things about the infoboxes. Please move on to other things except the infoboxes for a while, if you would. Keep notifying me if you see strange things, of course. But I'll take care of both the {{bp}} and HTML ways of creating bulleted lists. It'll be fine :)
Vehicle images
Well I hadn't really thought one way or the other about interior images. I'd guess there's nothing wrong with interior images, but I had not envisioned there being too many of those. What did you have in mind? Something like shots of people strolling on the decks of the SS Bernice? Shots of Torchwood in the SUV?
I guess the way I'd use the category is that if it's a useful shot of the interior, then I'd count it. If it's not, I wouldn't. Like, if you can see the dashboard of the SUV, that's prolly a good vehicle shot. If it's a close shot from behind the windshield, just looking at the people in the SUV/helicopter/whatever, then I personally wouldn't call that a vehicle shot, so much as a shot of the people involved.
Almost any TARDIS interior, for instance is useful to identify as a TARDIS interior, cause you get something from the backgrounds you can see. But shots of people in cars, eh, I dunno — unless you can see some instrumentation or a significant part of the body.
Broadly speaking, though, I'm not gonna be doing a hell of a lot of correction of people on these image categories. Categorisation is almost always better than non-categorisation, even if the categorisation is iffy. If you can justify it in your own mind, I can prolly live with it.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:29: Sun 11 Mar 2012
- I'd prolly say yay to the Titanic's nuclear storm drive. But then I could see that most VOTD and Midnight shots would be fine. I'd probably go the extent of creating a separate subcat for each ("Titanic spaceship images" and "whatever-that-thing-is-called images") just because there'd be more than three images from each.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:31: Sun 11 Mar 2012
Place of origin
Do you really think it's necessary to put 'Cardiff, Wales' as someone's place of origin, when 'Cardiff' would suffice? In my opinion, it's not really needed, it like someone putting Cardiff, Wales, UK, Earth in the setting section - it just unneeded, extra info. MM/Want to talk? 20:33, March 11, 2012 (UTC)
- That's a good questions, we can't really put [place], [country] for some, and just [place] for others. I would, personally, just put [place]. People can easily click on the link to find out where it is, and it will be the article anyway. The infobox should be a summary, not exact. MM/Want to talk? 20:49, March 11, 2012 (UTC)
- Right now, it should be left till Czechout is done with the infobox. Ideally it would be good to have the same patter running through all the story infoboxes ([place]). However, we should wait and see what happens and whatever is easier. Your idea for putting it in for smaller places that people may not know, does sound reasonable. MM/Want to talk? 21:01, March 11, 2012 (UTC)
- As MM is saying go specific, go succinct. To reiterate a point I made earlier on the page:
- I guess what I'm saying is that an infobox should be about economy. Find the fewest amount of words to indicate the truest sense of the episode, and you've solved the riddle.
- So: "London", not "London, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Europe, Earth". Or "Paris", not "Paris, France" (but Paris, New Mexico, because that won't be expected). Or New York City or State of New York, because New York is too vague. Equally, I understand the distinction some people make when they link to things like Kingdom of France instead of just France, or the Colony of Virginia instead of just Virginia, but it's really not necessary for the infobox. Remember, we're trying to limit the vertical size of the infobox. I mean, I love Wookieepedia, but some of their infoboxes are truly out of control, and they make mobile viewing a sheer misery. A big part of this exercise is not just achieving a standard look to infoboxes but also to make them consumable in a matter of seconds. So, choose the right word or two, remember that our users can click on links so they don't need to be spoonfed every bit of detail, and all will be well.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 22:56: Sun 11 Mar 2012
- As MM is saying go specific, go succinct. To reiterate a point I made earlier on the page:
Please don't edit infoboxes
I feel like I've answered this question three times today. Maybe I'm not being blunt enough. Please stop editing infoboxes at all, except to the extent that you are starting new articles. Plenty of other things to edit on the wiki.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:56: Sun 11 Mar 2012
Voice actor
Yanno, I think this is just voice actors in general, inasmuch as those actors are different from the actor specified at {{{actor}}}. So Tom Baker isn't the voice actor listed at Fourth Doctor.
As this is literally a brand new article, I've not had time to think about whether the language should read a little differently. And we have time to rejigger this, because it doesn't exist on most pages yet. So there's plenty of wiggle room on these variables. I set {{{other actor}}} to read "Other TV actors". I was gonna make {{{actor}}} read "Main TV actor", but then I remembered the infobox would be used for the Dalek films characters, where TV wouldn't apply. Maybe I should make it so that, for those few film characters, there's a different variable, like Template:Film actor}. Kick it around with MM, who requested the variable, and see what you guys come up with. I do think the labels of Main TV actor, Other TV actor, Voice actor makes sense. K9's a conundrum for me, because there is no other actor involved. So why wouldn't you just put him down as {{{actor}}}? On the other hand, characters like Alpha Centauri and Judoon captain (Smith and Jones) clearly have a physical actor and a voice actor. So we probably do need to have {{{physical actor}}}.
I dunno — this part of the infobox isn't set in stone yet. Why don't you guys start talking about in on forum:New infoboxes and you and maybe we'll come to a good conclusion over time. It all can be added and fixed relatively easily later, because, again, these variables are brand new.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 22:56: Sun 11 Mar 2012
Help!
And, finally, speaking of that forum thread, could I get you to do a huge favor for me? I really need to get back to hardcore editing and infobox implementation. But I don't want to leave the community behind. Would you consider cutting and pasting these infobox conversations that I've had here, user talk:Gousha, user talk:Tangerineduel and user talk:Mini-mitch to forum:New infoboxes and you? If you can, please put them into neatly titled sections so that new readers can understand what's going on and what's already been debated. It would really help to get all this stuff onto one page, so that we are all on one page about infoboxes. It doesn't have to be an exact cut and paste. If editing it will provide quicker comprehension of the basic points, do that. But it's clear to me we need some sort of single discussion resource, and I just don't have the time to do it.
Actually, here's a better idea. Create several different, clearly labelled threads. One for each aspect covered. So Forum:Infobox:Actor variables, Forum:Infobox: Place of origin variable, Forum:Infobox:Affiliation variable, etc. Put them all into Category:Infobox discussions Then, just add the following code to forum:New infoboxes and you:
<dpl> allowcachedresults=true columns=3 shownamespace=false category=Infobox discussions </dpl>
Yeah, that's probably a better idea if you can possibly spare some time to do it. (Pretty please with a chocolate Romana I on top?)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 22:56: Sun 11 Mar 2012
- Sorry for the delay. Lost in thought over a tricky little bit of regex. As long as you've created the forum thread properly (i.e., by going to forum:panoopticon and using the new thread input box, it will automatically be in category:panopticon. If you tried to do a shortcut by using a "new page" button somewhere then you have to manually add
{{forumheader|Panopticon}}at the very top of the page. In other words, don't just put it in cat:panop, but actually use {{forumheader}} to do it.
- Oh, and here's a bit of infobox-related cleanup work you can do. Apparently, the bot went a little wild on a few TV story pages and changed the first link in the lead paragraph, rather than the last link in the infobox. So if you want to quickly scour the first paragraph of each TV story page, beginning with AUC and going through to Wardrobe, that'd be cool. The error's easy to spot. There's just a totally random (comic story) or {TV story) next to something that should be linked but isn't — like maybe
Series 2 (Doctor Who) | Series 2 (TV story).
- I think the error was limited to just DW TV story pages, not all TV story pages in general.
- At the same time, if you want to put in proper {{{made prev}}}/{{{made next}}} for all stories, based on Shannon Sullivan's site, that shouldn't interrupt the bot. I've done a little stretch as an example, from The Invisible Enemy to Warriors' Gate. It's a good mix because one of the seasons was filmed as broadcast, but the others are seriously screwed up. It shows when made prev/next are necessary and when they aren't.
- Obviously, you don't have to do any of this, but it's definitely a thing that the bot wouldn't be efficient at doing.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 02:19: Mon 12 Mar 2012- Re {{{mentions}}}, that puppy's dead. Since then I've just decided to whack it. Deleting a variable and its contents is super easy, and I can mark it with an edit summary, so that it can be found later if necessary. It doesn't need to be archived, because there's already a thread in the tech notes section about it. I'll just add a little note there later. But removing a dummy variable is sorta low on the list of the things the bot needs to do.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 02:24: Mon 12 Mar 2012
- Re {{{mentions}}}, that puppy's dead. Since then I've just decided to whack it. Deleting a variable and its contents is super easy, and I can mark it with an edit summary, so that it can be found later if necessary. It doesn't need to be archived, because there's already a thread in the tech notes section about it. I'll just add a little note there later. But removing a dummy variable is sorta low on the list of the things the bot needs to do.
Questions 12 March (early)
- Images separated only by capitalisation: both should absolutely be flagged. Actually, if you see pics that have anything but all lower case versions of file extensions, or .jpeg instead of .jpg, these should be flagged. T:ICC gives the exact form of file extensions, and they are
.jpg .png .svg, period. - For the moment, let's keep Dreamland only on the prev/next story axis. It shouldn't be on the made prev/made next axis. It's the opposite case of Shada. I think we probably could find a start date somewhere, maybe in the DWMSE relative to the last year of Ten. But that's research work that's, to my mind, of secondary importance right now. Always easily changeable later.
- While you're fixin' Dreamland, don't forget that we now have {{{network}}} and that variable should be BBC Red Button for Dreamland.
- And just to pre-answer your next question, since the vote in Forum:Attack of the Graske: tv or video game seems to be going video game more than TV, it's not a part of the prev/next chain on TV stories, but video games.
- And just to pre-answer your next next question, The Infinite Quest is in the previous/next broadcast chain, between The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords, since both the first broadcast of the final part and the first broadcast of the entire thing was on the day before LOTL. Remember, previous and next are about whatever is in the range variable (I may in fact pull the range down to navigation to make that clearer). And the range here is "DW TV stories". The fact that Quest isn't officially part of series 3 is quite beside the point that the navigation is trying to achieve.
- Billy Wilkins unusually had a pipe trick in the image declaration, which the bot wasn't at all expecting, because pipe tricks achieve nothing in the context of an infobox.
- Revelation of the Daleks had a previous injury done by another user. The box was in fact collapsed before the bot's last few touches of it.
- Kymbra Chimera also had a weird image declaration.
- user:Americanwhofan asked about Hath Gable, but you should know about this specific type of problem too. Because I wasn't expecting people to put infoboxes all on one line — an approach that technically works, but isn't at all recommended or suggested — I didn't program the bot to expect that. Consequently, the bot may have destroyed a few pages along the way. If you see pages that are now effectively empty, the solution, which must be done manually, is to undo the bot edit (or go to the last version of the page before it was destroyed, restore it, and then manually edit the infobox to the new standard. Or you can just send me a link to the page. Now that I know I have to expect the odd page that's done this way, I'm universally changing my programming to guard against this kind of destruction. But I'm guessing there must be similar damage on less than 1% of pages.
That's it for this round of questions. Short stories and comic stories will be converted in a few minutes. Hopefully, I can get through the main conversion of all story infoboxes today.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 15:26: Mon 12 Mar 2012
- Um, what tweaks do you need to do to prev/next on TV stories? You shouldn't be seeing syntactical errors there, with TV stories. There may be the odd factual change necessary (like, the wrong story entirely is in one of the variables). Those are fine to change. But if you are seeing things like extraneous brackets or non-italicisation, I need to know where, please. I thought I was about ready to release those variables to you, but the fact that you're suggesting a need for tweaks is slightly concerning. (Prev/next are still absolutely off limits with all other story types.)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 15:52: Mon 12 Mar 2012- Yes, if you're seeing "lots" still on television pages, I need to know what they are.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 16:00: Mon 12 Mar 2012- Okay, I've just rerun the bot, and the only prev/next errors I picked up on was at Timelash, at least as far as DW was concerned. There's also the bit with those stories where people tried to put more than one preceding story, but that's not a bot error. I think I can safely release prev story/next story on television pages only to you in one hour from the timestamp of this message. (There are, to be sure other errors on television pages that I need to look at, particularly why Attack of the Cybermen is resistant to the post-bullet-removal clean.)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 16:17: Mon 12 Mar 2012- Ohhhhhh. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you appear to be talking about something that doesn't actually display, right? You're talking about the extra "name (TV story)" that happens on stories which actually need the disambuation term, like The End of Time and Castrovalva. Yeah, in a strict sense it "shouldn't be there". In another sense, though, it's harmless. I can get rid of those through a bot run, but that's super low priority because it has no effect on the way the box displays. If you're talking about something else let me know.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:17: Mon 12 Mar 2012
- Ohhhhhh. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you appear to be talking about something that doesn't actually display, right? You're talking about the extra "name (TV story)" that happens on stories which actually need the disambuation term, like The End of Time and Castrovalva. Yeah, in a strict sense it "shouldn't be there". In another sense, though, it's harmless. I can get rid of those through a bot run, but that's super low priority because it has no effect on the way the box displays. If you're talking about something else let me know.
- Okay, I've just rerun the bot, and the only prev/next errors I picked up on was at Timelash, at least as far as DW was concerned. There's also the bit with those stories where people tried to put more than one preceding story, but that's not a bot error. I think I can safely release prev story/next story on television pages only to you in one hour from the timestamp of this message. (There are, to be sure other errors on television pages that I need to look at, particularly why Attack of the Cybermen is resistant to the post-bullet-removal clean.)
- Yes, if you're seeing "lots" still on television pages, I need to know what they are.
One hour halt on all TV story editing
Please stop editing TV story pages for one hour from 19:17, March 12, 2012 (UTC) so that I can quickly get the name situation fixed. At the end of that hour, you may recommence, and the previous/next story variables will be open to your editing pleasure. Please introduce the variables {{{previous note}}} and {{{next note}}} for those two special situations like AUC and TDTWATW to indicate where there is no prev or next. I'll drop it in the template shortly, but it may not display immediately. Previous/next note will actually be of more use in other media.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:17: Mon 12 Mar 2012
Prev/next update
Can't remember where I put info about what to do when there's no prev/next item. But I just wanted to give you a heads up that I changed my programming motif on this one. Before I'd said I'd do something with {{{previous note}}}/{{{next note}}}. This has now been abandoned. Instead, simply enter none in the prev/next field. This seems much easier for users than having a whole different variable. You can see it working at An Unearthly Child.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:19: Fri 16 Mar 2012
Thanks!
Don't think I ever formally thanked you for setting up all the stuff at the forum. I think that's been extremely helpful to people because I've heard zero grumbling about these changes. Questions, comments and helpful suggestions, yes — but no actual bitchin'. Which means, I think, that you've created a system that helps people feel engaged in the process. And that means, of course, that your work was not just swift but valuable.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:19: Fri 16 Mar 2012
Companion cat
Yeah, people have gone crazy with companions lately. An easy bot fix, though, which is why I've not been terribly quick to correct it. A list from you would be helpful though, as it would serve as the basis for a more permanent, automated fix, as opposed to one I'd have to manage by hand.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 21:52: Sat 24 Mar 2012
Companions
Hey, is it okay to argue that David Campbell and H. G. Wells are companions? David travelled with the Doctor for almost all of Legacy of the Daleks, and Herbert stowed away aboard the TARDIS hoping to see the universe, similar to Zoe... And does The Time Machination suggest they Futher travelled? I think I read that somewhere... What do you think? [[OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 01:15, March 25, 2012 (UTC)]]
- Okay, I've stripped most of these guys of their companion status. There might have been one or two I missed just because the first run needed to be done manually. Later runs, done as part of regular maintenance, will be more automatic.
- Coupla points I'd disagree with you on, Tybort, only because we've had preceding arguments on the wiki.
- Biggest one is Canton Delaware. He's fully a companion as it's implied there are months between Astronaut and Moon. Plus, he gets a blue envelope not for nothin.' And he's in three eps, not just a two parter. And he's obviously been on a few TARDIS rides. By every traditional fan measurement, he's a companion.
- Jackie Tyler is a companion. Largely cause I say so. :) No, but seriously, she does all the traditional things. Multiple TARDIS journeys. Defends the Doctor. (Love & Monsters FTW). Nurses a Doctor post-regeneratively. Known in multiple dimensions. The Doctor even spent Christmas dinner with her. She's really quite different to any of the companion mothers that followed. It's really hard to find an argument against her being a companion.
- K9 Mark IV does count. Multiple adventures. Journey's End and Wedding.
- K9 III I don't have a particular problem with under Tenth Doctor companions. I mean he gave his life for the Tenth Doctor. It's a border case but I'm not really going to fight the fight on that one, cause people will always just put it back. I don't really know off the top of my head what the Six connection is, but I'm leaving it for the time being. The contentious one is actually Fourth Doctor. You're right to cite the annuals, as that's the most likely explanation. But we don't really have any narrative proof of that. An alternate explanation is that the K9/Adric stories merely take place when Romana is sleeping. At least I assume that works. Been a while since I've looked at that annual. In any case I think the category asserts something we don't know is true. Again, though, I'm leaving it in place until more study can be done.
- Aside from those, there are a few which I went ahead and removed, but are questionable.
- Like OS says, David Campbell is right on the border because of Legacy, but I'm not particularly convinced. It's much more like a one-off case, like H. G. Wells. A trip in the TARDIS doesn't generally count for most fans, so it's counter-intuitive to assert Wells as a companion.
- user:Tangerineduel is, I think, of the impression that Jason Kane probably doesn't count either, but I've left that alone for now.
- Lynda Moss I've removed but honestly I don't know that I'll police it. She basically is acting, like Astrid, as a companion on her first adventure, but then she gets killed before she can enter the TARDIS. She accepted his invitation to travel with him so she's probably a companion. To be honest with you, I was moving quickly with the manual deletion and I deleted her before I fully thought about it, and can't be bothered to undo the change!
- Some people are gonna cry foul on Jago and Litefoot, but such people can suck it. Just because you get a Companion Chronicle doesn't actually make you a companion.
- I dunno that Lily Arwell counts. If anyone, the companion is Madge. In the modern era we go with billing, if the narrative gives us no indication of true companion status.
- And on your side note, what stuff is incorrectly alphabetised? Check first to make sure that {{NameSort}} isn't being overriden. If not, then I'd be interested in seeing a few examples. I can then determine if there's a way to program some new way around the particular problem.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 01:47: Sun 25 Mar 2012
Update and cleanup templates
Hey, could you please do me a favor and read the fine print on {{update}} and {{cleanup}}? You're not really using them as intended. They're meant to be for major problems on the page. For instance, you've put {{update}} on Planet of Giants just because of a problem with the home video release. That does not rise to the level of problem that the template anticipates, e.g. "omissions so great that the article's factual accuracy has been compromised." The article as a whole is hardly compromised by inaccuracies as to the Region 2 release! What you're really looking for are {{section stub}} and {{section cleanup}}, not the full-on "this article sucks" top-of-page banners. Planet of Giants is actually comparatively complete as far as our televised story articles go.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 03:13: Mon 26 Mar 2012
Species pics
Yeah, for sure, infobox pics are always best if widescreen, acceptable if 4:3-ish, allowable at other dimensions if covers. Species, as an in-universe thing, would need to be 4:3 at a minimum, 16:9 preferably, for the infobox. I think now that you've mentioned it, I maybe do need to revisit the guide and make it clearer that it doesn't apply just to people. I think maybe, too, that I should make it somehow clearer that there are times where it's appropriate to have a longer-than-wide shot, as long as the page has enough text to accept it. I can quite see, for instance, why you might want to have a full body shot of a Cyberman or whatever.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 14:14: Tue 10 Apr 2012
Rose Tyler
To answer your question, we don not cover deleted scenes. OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 02:54, April 11, 2012 (UTC)
Procedure for vandalism
No specific "procedure" per se. Just alert an admin.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:12: Sun 15 Apr 2012
Huh? Are you just reporting again what you've already reported (User:MrThermomanPreacher), or is this a new report?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:42: Sun 15 Apr 2012
Archive this page
Could I ask that you please consider archiving this page. It has grown so large that its length is affecting page load time. You don't have to, of course, but it would be helpful. Just pull down the edit button on this page to "archive" and it'll take all of about 15 seconds.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:12: Mon 16 Apr 2012
Ratings
Tardis:Format for television stories#Ratings is essentially unchanged since it was originally written back in 2006 — before SJA, TW or K9 even existed, and before the iPlayer made such a massive difference in the way that ratings were calculated.
Its reliance upon Shannon Sullivan's site is obviously outdated. I think better sources would be the DWMSEs actually. DWMSE 14, for instance has well and truly final, final numbers, along with numbers for later broadcasts on BBC Three.
Although almost none of our TV Story pages actually have a citation, to me it's vital that they all do have citations.
As to format, I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Gimme the options you're looking at. Maybe I can make up a handy little template that will ensure the ratings are delivered the same way on each page. This area of the wiki hasn't been particularly well looked-after, so let's work together to come up with something that we can use in every situation.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:12: Mon 16 Apr 2012
- Um, I never said anything remotely like that. There are all sorts of metrics for ratings. Since you're studying this problem right now, how 'bout coming up with various pemutations, and we can build a template that houses all of them. British overnights are increasingly important, and they should be noted. But overnights weren't even calculated for the classic series, and in 2006, when tardis:Format for television stories was written, they were relatively insignificant. It's only really been roughly since the Matt Smith era began that the distinction between overnights and final have been profound enough to matter.
- What I'm saying is that we need to reconsider how we do ratings. The guidelines set forth in the format page are clearly inadequate.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:19: Mon 16 Apr 2012
Archiving
Try again.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 21:08: Fri 20 Apr 2012
T:CAN
The rewriting of T:CAN was in fact started some time ago, but it's been delayed by, frankly, the need to restyle and rewrite everything else. Now that monobook and wikia skins have finally been completed with the introduction of uniform infoboxes, I can return to the rewrite. As you can see on user talk:Tangerineduel, it's on the list of priorities that I'll be completing over the next few weeks. The original attempt can be seen at user:CzechOut/Sandbox8, but the re-re-re-write will be talking place at User:CzechOut/This wiki's scope. You are of course at liberty to comment about anything you see as the project moves to its conclusion over the next week or so. Indeed, I actively welcome your notes.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 21:32: Sat 28 Apr 2012
Timeline pages
You should really direct questions about content to Tangerineduel and/or Revanvolatrelundar. On this particular project, I'm strictly the technical administrator. My relationship to forum:Timey-wimey detector ended a few minutes ago once I got it set up and deleted all the references to the old pages. I've had very little input into the writing of the example page, Forum:Timeline - Eighth Doctor, so you'd be better off talking to one of those two guys. I did have a lot to do with the actual discussion that pushed these things into the forum namespace, but I was actually pushing for their complete deletion, and am sorta accepting this namespace thing as a compromise.
The "time essay" part of the forum is something that was requested, but which I must admit I've not investigated to any great detail. Again, I'm really just the guy layin' the track; you want one of the conductors on the train.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 21:40: Thu 03 May 2012
Timeline / Timey wimey forum
The "time essays" would be things like the old Dalek history page before I cut it down (this edit shows it as it was). It was mentioned in the Forum:Timeline pages
Broadly speaking I think the Timeline - Eighth Doctor is a good outline and guide for the other pages. An intro, define the "Limiting factors" for each Timeline and layout the "Series basics" and then go for the timeline.
I think more information is always better than less, so go for overkill, because we can't rely on logic for something like this. The reasoning for the placement of each story will need to be there.
Although, as it says at the start we have to assume stories take place in broadcast/published order unless there's a really good reason why not (like Ace's pin from Greatest Show turning up in whichever story it was before the broadcast of Greatest Show), then there may be a case. More information is better than less, we can edit down info but it's a lot harder puzzling out why something's been placed where it is.
All stories must also be on the Timeline page, even if they just sit in the Undated section. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:59, May 4, 2012 (UTC)
- On things like the First Doctor I think just a covering statement that says from "From X story to Y story they each flow into the other and there are essentially no gaps between stories" or something to that effect.
- It's a yes to every companion timeline page that was around before. But, do we need a timeline page for every companion? There used to be companion pages for Sarah Jane Smith and River Song. Do you think it'd be beneficial to have a page for every companion so that we can cover stuff like Companion Chronicles and short stories? Or is that too much of an overkill because only a handful of companions leave the Doctor and continue to have documented adventures. --Tangerineduel / talk 13:14, May 5, 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, that's a yes to River Song's timeline, I'm sure that page will need notes to explain the how and whens of her timeline.
- All of Sarah's stories should be on the page, because there's several short stories lurking out there that would sit between them.
- Oh, sorry, I missed the point entirely about companions then! No, I don't think that should be noted unless it's relevant to the placement of the stories; like the gap in the early Eighth Doctor stories and the later 'Searching for Sam arc' are both related to when Sam Jones jumped ship.
- So for instance it can be noted that post-Deadly Assassin the Doctor is travelling alone or that Rose departs in Doomsday leaving a gap where the Doctor is travelling alone. The information provided should be related to the subject of the article not just providing secondary info.
- I think for now I'll say that all companions can have a timeline page. Based on some of the Companion Chronicles inserting several stories between others, and the short stories which while hard to place builds upon everything.
- I'll also say that any character who has appeared across more than 2 mediums in more than 2 stories would need a timeline page this is for people like; the Brigadier, Bernice Summerfield, Davros, Irving Braxiatel all of whom have long and complicated timelines which would benefit from pages. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:41, May 5, 2012 (UTC)
- It was a typo, it should have said The Smugglers.
- I've reworded the paragraph concerning the statements on the novels to indicate that they should be placed between their indicated stories.
- I'm not totally familiar with all of the First Doctor's chronology either, but I thought I'd get started on a Timeline page for it anyways. Get the basic layout down and place the stories I'm fairly certain of, and then others can come through and work in it more. --Tangerineduel / talk 13:58, May 7, 2012 (UTC)
- Re:Addition/Subtraction
- That's effectively what all the pages do say at the moment under 'limiting factors'.
- Or do you mean to add an extra note within the Timeline itself? --Tangerineduel / talk 15:03, June 29, 2012 (UTC)
IDW
I think the reason you may be having problems with the annual thingy is that you're British. An annual, in the American sense, is, or at least was historically, just a subscriber bonus. Yanno how DWM changed from a monthly to a 13-a-year schedule? Well, same concept, except we "pretty up" the 13th issue and make it seem like a "deal" to subscribers.
Navigation is easy. All ya do is just make the series flow from whatever story preceded the annual (from memory, I think it's Don't Step on the Grass) to the first story of the annual, then through each story of the annual, then to the next regular issue. In other words, just forget it's called an annual, and treat it like a normal issue of the run that just happens to have an anthological format. In terms of the primary navigation, then, you ignore the thread and just make the navigation flow through the annual in table of contents order. I'm not sure there's whole lot of point to making a secondary navigation that ignores the stories in the annual that aren't directly linked to the narrative of the regular run. It would be like having a television navigation that ignored Night Terrors cause it's not all that related to the River Song stuff in series 6.
As for the one-shots, I suppose there are two ways to handle it. You could call the series "[[Through Time and Space]", cause that's the name of the trade paperback. However, this would only cover the six Tennant one-shots.
Personally, I think it would be much more helpful to call the series "IDW mini-series and one-shots". So the series could start with The Forgotten and continue on to A Fairytale Life and beyond. It wouldn't, I don't think, include Agent Provocateur, cause that's actually, according to indicia, Doctor Who (2008). It wasn't intended or even initially marketed as a mini-series; rather, it was an ongoing series they abruptly cancelled after the first storyline. This whole "Agent Provocateur" thing is a cover up.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 05:15: Sat 05 May 2012
Night and the Doctor
Night and the Doctor itself is not (TV story). Obviously, that's just an umbrella title/value for {{{series}}}. But the individual vignettes are indeed (TV story). IIRC, and without checking it, precedent for this position was set at Forum:Meanwhile in the TARDIS.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 13:42: Sun 06 May 2012
- As I said, I hadn't gone back to the thread. I'm glad you sort of forced me to take a second look. It reminded me that I did need to categorise it, add archivist's notes, and take action upon Rob's at-the-time rhetorical ending question. You'll now find that TV and T:LOP have been changed to reflect the consensus of the thread. (I'd wholly disagree with you, btw, that the thread is any way significantly ambiguous or unsure of itself. There was clear unanimity that TV was the appropriate prefix, and there was never, as you said, a suggestion that we were looking for some better term to come around. The only question was Rob's final, rhetorical one in which he wondered whether the text at T:LOP needed to be changed for what was at the time the singular exception of Meanwhile in the TARDIS.)
- That thread is one of around 70 or so that I archived quickly, and without assigning a category or writing any "archivist's notes". I apologise for sending you to a thread that hadn't been fully "prettied up" for the archives.
- As for the exact place where we've already done this dance about the "extra features narrative", you're looking for Forum:Story pages being moved. Looks like I directed you to the very same forum precedent, and that your questions are pretty much exactly as they've been this time around. I suppose that all this is motivated by the fact that only 2 of the 5 mini-eps was changed to (TV story) and you wanna know why. I don't have a good answer for you, just because it's not important enough for me to dig around. I can only speculate that not all of them were in the same categories at the time I made the switchover. This would have prevented the bot from running. It's definitely not that they were changed and then changed back, however. The bot just never made the name switch.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:09: Sun 06 May 2012
Prefixes and stuff
Well, in fairness, the main shortcut is T:PREFIX. The secondary is T:LOP because that's a literal acronym of its original name, Tardis:List of prefixes. And the prequels are a part of series 6, yes. I imagine you're asking in order for navigational purposes, so, yeah, it'd go A Christmas Carol, Prelude: TIA, TIA, DOTM, Prelude:TCOTBS, TCOTBS, etc.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:58: Sun 06 May 2012
New magic
Since you helped out so much with {{Wales crew}}, you should be the first to know that I'm now beginning the process of turning it into an actual database of information that we can leverage.
I'm still in preliminary stages of actually creating uses for the data, but the template itself has been fully converted into an SMW "engine".
Here's the entry level party trick. Let's say you wanted to know who was the 2nd AD on The Unicorn and the Wasp. You could go to the page and look for it. Or you could just type in {{show|The Unicorn and the Wasp|2AD}} and find out it's Jennie Fava. Or maybe you want to know the first appearance of Jilly Kitzinger. Easy — that's {{show|Jilly Kitzinger|first appearance}}, or: Rendition (TV story).
That, of course, is just the fun. It offers the potential for us to have fully, automatically updating tables of comparative complexity. But I've not gotten there yet. You will find on BBC America that we now have an updating list of original DWU content that debuts on that channel, or that it would be comparatively easy to replace our largely inaccurate "filmography" sections on just about everyone, with a simple structure like the one seen at T:SMW. Just food for thought.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:32: Sat 12 May 2012
i must protest about picture quality
tybort why...the jpeg pics are poor qualities to me, JPEG (Stands for: Joint Photographic Experts Group) are the compression rate decreasing typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.
and png pics are great qualities to me, PNG (Stands for: Portable Network Group) supports palette-based images (with palettes of 24-bit RGB or 32-bit RGBA colors), grayscale images (with or without alpha channel), and full-color non-palette-based RGB images (with or without alpha channel). PNG was designed for transferring images on the Internet, not for professional-quality print graphics, and therefore does not support non-RGB color spaces such as CMYK.
and everybody can use jpeg pics...but i don't i choose png pics.
--User:JarodMighty 17:20, May 17, 2012 (UTC)
Battles in Time sources
You are correct, sir. :) Things derived from the faux "articles" within BIT are NOT valid sources, because they're not stories. They're akin to information you'd find on the back of the playing cards, which is certainly not valid. Rule #1 of T:VALID is that it has to be a story. It's not enough to be an "illustrated opinion of an author" or a little sidebar column somewhere.
Of course, this information may be noted in "behind the scenes" sections.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:31: Wed 04 Jul 2012
Preloads
Do you think you'd be interested in going over all the standard preloads to make sure they're compliant with the new infobox standards? I've gotten to about a quarter of them, but I'm obviously juggling' a lot of tasks at the moment. I'd really like to get them absolutely set in stone by the time the new series starts, and you've previously expressed an interest in seeing them made right. Let me know, and I'll unlock them all.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 02:44: Tue 10 Jul 2012
- Better still, can I just put your name in nomination for adminship?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 02:46: Tue 10 Jul 2012
Untitled comment
Thanks for editing the pages I've newly created. Sometimes I can be a little quick when writing them, my grammar can get quite erratic at times. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cyruptsaram (talk • contribs) .
Mr Invincible
Does seem to be a direct-to-CD affair. So why not just change it on the front page? If you were thinking it's locked, it's not. Ya don't need me to make the correction.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 21:29: Sun 15 Jul 2012
Pets and dab policy
There. I changed one word at Tardis:Disambiguation policy#Finer detail. Does that cover your concern adequately?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 21:31: Sun 15 Jul 2012
Royalty
I tell ya what, Tybort: I've never liked Victoria, and I think I may have been too hasty with Neptune (Guests of King Neptune). I think it makes sense, instead, to consider the name a proper title, rather than an honorific. Thus, I think the better solution are the main titles given in Tooth and Claw:
This allows us to distinguish from what is now at Queen Victoria, which would then become, simply:
What do you think of that solution? I really, really don't want to give Queen Victoria a name that includes a story dab, because no one will find it.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:11: Thu 19 Jul 2012
- On second thought, she's the very definition of a "primary use". Basically everything else named "Victoria" is named after her, so I'm moving "Victoria to Victoria (disambiguation) and Victoria (Queen) to just Victoria. This follows the general nomenclature of most of our other monarchs who, if possible, go by their single, titular names.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:51: Thu 19 Jul 2012- No, Victoria, Empress of India is "the original, you might say". Victoria Waterfield was definitely named after her, to hammer home the point that she was from the Victorian Era. And then there's several place names, too, all derived from the "original" Victoria. It's not really about number of appearances, but overall "reach".
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:02: Thu 19 Jul 2012
- No, Victoria, Empress of India is "the original, you might say". Victoria Waterfield was definitely named after her, to hammer home the point that she was from the Victorian Era. And then there's several place names, too, all derived from the "original" Victoria. It's not really about number of appearances, but overall "reach".
- On second thought, she's the very definition of a "primary use". Basically everything else named "Victoria" is named after her, so I'm moving "Victoria to Victoria (disambiguation) and Victoria (Queen) to just Victoria. This follows the general nomenclature of most of our other monarchs who, if possible, go by their single, titular names.
- BTW, are you sure about the first appearance being Impreial Moon? 2000 seems awfully late in the day to me. She was really never in an annual story or a TVC or something from the 1960s/70s?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:07: Thu 19 Jul 2012- Yeah, appearances are tricky things with famous people from the real world. Just doing a cursory review, I think you're right in that Moon might be her first actual appearance. But her existence goes back at least to Ghost Light, where it's stated that she is Queen and that her reign is going to be ended for the benefit of the story's antagonists — much like the plan in Tooth and Claw, actually. Then the idea of her appears again in Prelude Birthright and All-Consuming Fire. So the question is, do we need to see royalty for an appearance to be counted? I guess. Appearance is appearance.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:18: Thu 19 Jul 2012
- Yeah, appearances are tricky things with famous people from the real world. Just doing a cursory review, I think you're right in that Moon might be her first actual appearance. But her existence goes back at least to Ghost Light, where it's stated that she is Queen and that her reign is going to be ended for the benefit of the story's antagonists — much like the plan in Tooth and Claw, actually. Then the idea of her appears again in Prelude Birthright and All-Consuming Fire. So the question is, do we need to see royalty for an appearance to be counted? I guess. Appearance is appearance.
Dab stuff
Alpha Centauri should be for the person, and be undisambiguated. It's clearly the primary term. You can't use Alpha Centauri (The Curse of Peladon) at all, because it doesn't dab: both the planet and the person were introduced in Curse.
So it'd run something like this:
- Alpha Centauri (disambiguation)
- Alpha Centauri, the person
- Alpha Centauri (planet)
- Alpha Centauri (system)
- I'm gonna have to think about the Sontar thing, too. I'm not sure how well that actually disambiguates.
Come to think of it, I may have well been wrong with the whole Peladon thing, so forget I did it. It's all easily correctable. Yeah, I am wrong. The planet and the individual were both introduced simultaneously, so (The Curse of Peladon) doesn't disambiguate. Ahh well. More work for the bot!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:55: Thu 19 Jul 2012
Cyberleader thingy
Please pose your question to the forum. I'm not touching that one. (You might want to look back on previous discussions about the same.)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 22:27: Sat 21 Jul 2012
Careaker
I think this is an odd one. The natural inclination would be to make Caretaker a dab page, and move the current Caretaker to Caretaker (Paradise Towers).
But that won't work.
Because of the presence of individuals known as "Caretaker" in Paradise Towers, Caretaker (Paradise Towers) fails to disambiguate. Since people will primarily be meaning the whole class of person, and not Caretaker 345/12, subsection 3 or other individuals, it should be the primary term, with Caretaker (disambiguation) serving as the dab page.
As for a page about the profession of being a caretaker, well, I dunno. I think we're going to have to let that go by the wayside, at least until someone makes a convincing case that there's enough info out there about caretaking to warrant a page — especially since the term is itself hugely vague. I mean a caretaker can be anything from a groundskeeper to a hospice worker, really. In the DWU there's little doubt that "Caretaker" is most associated with Paradise Towers crap that shouldn't even be a valid source, but because other people edit this wiki, too, it should get primacy.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 22:51: Mon 30 Jul 2012
Removing continuity from Unbounds
Walk me through the reasoning behind removing the continuity sections entirely from the Unbound, isn't it still useful to keep the continuity? As these releases are still referencing various bits of DW continuity. --Tangerineduel / talk 13:10, July 31, 2012 (UTC)
- Certainly cut the in-universe stuff.
- I understand your reasoning, it wasn't something I'd really thought about. My default go to compare is Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., but even looking at its continuity the info would probably better reside in the Notes section on that article. Thanks. --Tangerineduel / talk 13:26, July 31, 2012 (UTC)
Revenants and Deadline
Wrong. Unmade stories never displace a produced story. All that needs to happen is the addition of {{you may}} top hat to Revenants and Deadline.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 15:19: Tue 31 Jul 2012
Glasgow
Hey. Not that long ago you put the {{rename}} tag on the Glasgow page. Can I get you to add you reason to the talk page so people see it and it gets a discussion going? Also so we can get a decision. Cheers. (I want to say 'Many cheers' (instead of many thanks), but it doesn't sound that good in my head. Oh the dilemma!) MM/Want to talk? 23:29, August 3, 2012 (UTC)
Reply
I think the colourised reprints were by Marvel, but I'm not sure as I only downloaded the comics this morning. Clone gunner commander jedi talk
Renaming pages
Hi there. If you are unsure as to whether you should be renaming a page or not, please leave a message on the talk page first, instead of going ahead and renaming it anyway. I've renamed "Clockwork (species)" back to "Clockworks" as this is the correct term for the species used in the narrative, and not the singluar "Clockwork". One example is that Iris is referred to as "a member of the Clockworks" instead of simply "a Clockwork". Thanks. --Revan\Talk 17:45, August 13, 2012 (UTC)
PNG
Line drawings, I believe are things like logos and other things like that which sit on a transparent background which a PNG can do, it's also said in the same sentence as SVG which suggests it's something on a transparent background as that's only (I think) how SVGs are.
See also the Forum:Tech note: Image use policy change. I think CzechOut (who wrote the bulk of the T:ICC means computer line drawings rather than the traditional illustrated line drawings (wikipedia calls it line art) (I'll look into changing the language to reflect this/to clarify it). --Tangerineduel / talk 17:49, August 13, 2012 (UTC)
- Response of relevance to you at user talk:Tangerineduel#PNG.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 15:07: Wed 15 Aug 2012
Asylum of the Daleks
Are we allowed to write the plot for Asylum of the Daleks, or is it too early for the people who haven't watched it yet? Are we waiting for the re-screening tomorrow?
Cyruptsaram ☎ 21:16, September 1, 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, maybe I'll ask an Admin.
Behind the scenes people
Is it my imagination, or are we seeing another seismic shift in the behind-the-scenes personnel with Asylum? I haven't seen that much red ink an a {{Wales crew}} instance since the first episode of Miracle Day.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 02:32: Sun 02 Sep 2012
Stand-In Picture
Hey, I couldn't help but notice that you recently deleted the infobox picture for Dalek Caan, because it was "too tall". While I couldn't agree more, is there any chance you could keep the current picture there until you find a suitable replacement that meets the requirements of the Image Policy? You know, just as a temp? Thanks, Dr. Anonymous1 ☎ 18:59, September 7, 2012 (UTC)
Hm. Well, then. I guess the only thing to do now is find a suitable image? I can do it, but unfortunately my iPod is unable to upload photos to Wikis.
Is there any rule against taking your OWN screenshots from episodes? I couldn't find anything against it in the rules, and while I couldn't find anything about it, I thought I'd just verify.
Thanks,
Dr. Anonymous1 ☎ 21:24, September 7, 2012 (UTC)
Re:TARDIS image
No, there's nothing wrong withnyou're image, it's a very nice image. I just think it's more appropriate to use the older image. OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 19:03, September 9, 2012 (UTC)
Dalek Project and title templates
Ahhhh, yes. The older, media-speicifc variants of {{title}} have, by their very nature, a flaw. Since they only work on one medium, they don't need a "fall through" value, which means they auto-add (<media> story), even if one isn't really there. I really should get around to redirecting all those media based versions to {{title dab away}}, which works on just about all story pages — and has a default value of just italicising the title — without adding a "ghost" dab term.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 00:05: Wed 12 Sep 2012
Annual 1970 =
The Dr Who Annual 1970 cover page you've uploaded is less "faded" because the contrast is whacked right up, losing all the detail of the Doctor's coat which now looks like a black blob instead of having folds and visible outlines etc. Can you please increase the brightness ord ecrease the contrast to restore the lost detail? Thanks! 2.24.94.78talk to me 13:54, September 13, 2012 (UTC)Frankymole
Dalek (TV story) edit
I just wanted to say that your most recent edit on the Dalek (TV story) page was a very good one and I appreciated your depth of knowledge that you utilized to make the edit. I also appreciated that you provided an in-depth reason for the edit as well. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Emersoneells (talk • contribs) .
ST
Yeah, this was a bit of a grey area that maybe never got declaratively solved. I tried to throw up a warning at Forum:Short Trips prose v. Short Trips audio, but I'm not sure everyone got what I was trying to say then. In any event, the PROSE prefix explanation says nothing other than that ST should be used for stories from books. The bot is currently correcting on that basis. If some people have misapplied the prefix, the error is with them, not the bot. ST audios by Big Finish should have been prefixed with BFA, or at least something other than ST.
Once all the instances of ST are eradicated, I can make an additional bot run later which corrects the audio stories back to AUDIO. I'm sure there can't be that many that need correcting.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 15:55: Sun 16 Sep 2012
Prefixes
Well, that little 3-minute block would have made more sense if I could have actually found a way to post to you in under 3 minutes. Hopefully you got the message I sent to you at w:c:aybs:User talk:Tybort. Anyway, {{px}} is now being deleted from the wiki. Hopefully, you didn't put much time into it before I noticed that you were changing it all. Obviously, that system doesn't work, now that we're no longer prefixing by publication title.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 22:34: Thu 20 Sep 2012
- Ohhhhhhhh. I can see by the way the bot is running that you actually had put a lot of time into it. Sorry that I didn't catch it earlier, so that I could have saved you time. Clearly, though, the new system is simple enough that it doesn't actually need "prefix helpers" like this, and it gets confusing to have multiple instances (like COMIC and PROSE) on the same page.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 22:40: Thu 20 Sep 2012
You changed the Desktop Theme!
Hey, who changed the new background? I like it. :-) Dr. Anonymous1 ☎ 19:54, October 1, 2012 (UTC)
- You've been redecorating... Hmm... I don't like it. OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 03:56, October 17, 2012 (UTC)
Vandal
Thanks for the heads up on the vandal. But please stop trying to correct the problem. You're actually making it a bit more confusing.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:11: Wed 03 Oct 2012
- I appreciate that you were trying to do the right thing. Just remember, though, that if you add to a page, and I delete it before the cache has a chance to catch up, then your addition to a page "wins". The system will almost always award a "tie" to the edit which adds to the wiki. Thus adding your {{delete}} message ironically prevented me from deleting. Remember, too, that it's not really necessary to label which page has the edit history. That's obvious in the edit history, which every admin should be checking in cases like this.
- A best practice with vandalism is simply to notify an admin and wait. Or, you could just accept adminship and then take care of the problem yourself. :)
- As for what does or does not show up in Special:WikiActivity, well, I haven't been keeping close tabs on that. The real list of changes is at Special:RecentChanges. Anyone seriously interested in tracking changes on the wiki should be using that — not the "kiddie toy" of WikiActivity. This is before your time editing with us, but there was a great uproar over the introduction of WikiActivity because it's such a dumbed-down version of the activity report.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:47: Wed 03 Oct 2012
P.S.
P.S. is a valid source. It wasn't filmed, but it was released as an animated webcast, and animated episodes are considered valid sources as much as live-action ones, as long as they are narrative sources, which this one is. 78.8.5.21talk to me 12:48, October 12, 2012 (UTC)
Update tag
Just a quick reminder that the update tag should not been added to a page just a couple of hours after an episodes airs, which you did to Vastra and Jenny Flint. It is understandable that after a few hours, even a few days a page might not be updated with the latest episodes, but the update tag is still not needed. If after a few weeks or months information from episodes are missing, then you should add the tag, but not less than three hours after an episode airs. Thanks. MM/Want to talk? 15:17, November 17, 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for lack of communication
Sorry that I've not been responding individually to the things that you put up on my talk page. Due to my limited time over the last month, I've been trying to just respond with action rather than words. Here's a roundup though:
- T:LOP has been expanded/rewritten per 5 Oct request
- Tardis:Valid sources/Detailed list has been redone in light of the bot-munching that happened there.
- [Tardis:Tardis Manual]] text will eventually all go away, so there's no need to worry too much about the fact that there's an instance of TARDIS instead of Tardis.
- Beltempest --> Beltempest (novel)
- Beltempest (Human) --> Beltempest
- finally finished up the Rob (The Chromosome Connection) thing from way back
- fixed quirk at The Dalek Project (comic story)
- ST issue should have been fixed, such that audio ST are now identified as AUDIO, while short stories are PROSE
- vandal 212.219.231.252 was banned by TD
- prefixes Robot 1 and Robot 2 were fixed
- the category is now category:Actors who appeared in Game of Thrones, per your copyedit
- The apparent contradiciton between T:VS and T:NPOV over blogs has been resolved — but do bear in mind that the impetus for T:NPOV was really Tangerineduel's, and he hasn't had time yet to give his edit. Language may change again. Still, I think the language as regards blogs and whatnot will probably stick close to what's currently at T:OOU SRC. Oh, bear in mind that there's a current forum thread about this one too. So expect some shifting as we hammer out the exact language.
- I haven't had time to ponder that Ember (planet) thing. I'm gonna have to sit with that one for a while.
Anyway, sorry for the communications blackout, but do rest assured that I've been reading all your suggestions and taking action along the way.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 16:31: Sun 18 Nov 2012
Cotton videos
Hey, do me a favour and test something, will ya? See if you can move RelatedVideos:Cotton to RelatedVideos:Cotton (The Mutants). I've no idea whether that namespace is admin-only, as we're one of the few wikis that has it.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:50: Thu 06 Dec 2012
Cotton
Actually, there are enough prominent people called Cotton that I have a bit of a hard time justifying giving the plant the primary term here. I think it's probably wise to make Cotton be the dab page.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 05:35: Mon 10 Dec 2012
Regarding T:NO TITLE
T:NO TITLE poses little problem for Sarah Jane's Alien Files, since the TV version was known by that name in full, whereas the webseries was actually just The Alien Files. If and when any one creates those individual episode pages for the webseries, it'll be under the nomenclature TAF x. I'm not sure that'll ever happen now, though, given that those video files are, to my knowledge, no longer available. Certainly, our links to them are inaccurate.
TThe individual televised episode titles will now be moved to SJAF x.
Thanks for catching the Special:WantedPages Forum --> Theory error. That's been corrected, but it'll take a while for it to actually fall out of the WantedPages list due to caching. If you notice it's still there in a week, please lemme know. It should, however, only take a day or so.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 23:57: Thu 27 Dec 2012
Graphic novel dab term
The dab term page will be rewritten as to this point. The dab term (comic story) should be used for all comic stories, regardless of length, period. So it should actually include original graphic novels. The dab term (graphic novel) should only be used as a synonym for trade paperback. So Endgame (graphic novel), but The Only Good Dalek (comic story).
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:14: Mon 21 Jan 2013
- dab term has been re-written, but on the specific point of Through Time and Space, you're right, it should be (graphic novel). And so it is, now.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:54: Mon 21 Jan 2013
Individual humans
Let it shake out for a day or so. We need to get a list at Special:Uncategorizedpages first. Then we'll have to make an individual assessment of each page. This isn't going to be a one-size-fits-all solution.
However, no: pages should not go in category:individuals.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 00:10: Sat 16 Feb 2013
Word order
Yeah, man, you've really hit on one of the massive cleanup projects. And you're not crazy. Everything you provided was bad English. But you may not have been able to articulate why, because numbers don't look a normal part of speech. And this, I'm guessing, is why so many of our editors seem to have a problem with this one. (Well, that and the fact that it's not normal to speak of a place, person or object of a specific time.)
Thing is this. In all these phrases, the year is actually an adjective. What do we do in English with adjectives? Let's look:
| right | wrong |
|---|---|
| Jane carried the red ball down the street. | Jane carried the ball red down the street |
In a similar way, it's: "1926 Hollywood", "1140 Worcester", "2059 Earth".
Another option you have is to turn the adjective into a prepositional phrase, as with: "the Hollywood of 1926" or "in Worcester, in 1140". But that sorta proves that years used in this way are adjectives, because one of the features of adjectives is that they can always be turned into prepositional phrases.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 21:26: Sat 16 Feb 2013
A Prequel
When watching the new prequel at 12 o' clock today, I looked at the title, and it read out A Prequel - Steven Moffat. I suppose that's the only title I have. Would you like to change it? Cyruptsaram ☎ 12:31, March 23, 2013 (UTC)
Change to how we do renames
Hey, since you're one of our principle "bad name catchers", I wanted to be sure you saw Thread:128198 for a change in the way we'll be handling easy, non-controversial renames. Instead of just listing the changes on my talk page, we can now use {{speedy rename}} to populate T:SPEEDY. This list spreads the knowledge of what needs to be changed to all users and admin, establishing an actual system for change, which should make routine changes happen more quickly.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:39: Wed 17 Apr 2013
History/Biography sections
Well my big gripe is that people just put down the word "biography" or "history" without thinking what it means. I just clicked the "random" button to come up with Merrivale Carr as an example. What's the point of adding "biography" to the article? On the one hand, it's obviously biographical information. Of course it is. What else would a page about an individual contain, since we're obliged to write in the past tense? So you don't need to state it. Worse, stating it makes it seem like it is the definitive biography. And it's not really a biography. Such pages almost always describe just a few days in the life of the person.
Granted, on bigger articles, a biography section might work, as you need to set off one part of the article from another: biography vs. behind the scenes, for instance. And if you have information about several stages in their life, then "biography" is an accurate enough word. For instance, on Sarah Jane Smith, we know enough about her to reasonably claim, "This is the biography section of the article]]. But is it really the biography of John Ransome? No way.
But such pages are the exception, not the rule. Most pages about individuals are very short, describing the contact that individual had with the Doctor, or maybe another individual. Refactoring such a short page so that it doesn't have sections at all is probably most sensible.
Similarly "history" is often not a history at all. It's just a description of a single incident, or maybe a few incidents. Makes much more sense to roll without section heads, or to be specific about the section heads. "History" is just a lazy, imprecise word. Is it really the history of the Hope? Nah. It's more like "Known voyages". And to me, something like "Sightings" would be a better section head at Trickster's Brigade. I mean, it's almost an insult to say "History" there, because I bet a lot of people would love to know the history of the Brigade, and that section head only gives them false hope. We just don't know anything much about the Brigade, and "History" gives totally false hope.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 13:41: Fri 03 May 2013
Calamity Jane
You're the Torchwood guy around here. Got any thoughts on the issue at Talk:Calamity Jane?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 05:37: Mon 20 May 2013
Prom thingy
The page you wanted temporarily reopened is now reopened. It'll be gone in 12 hours or so.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 01:51: Mon 15 Jul 2013
All caps
Seems to be caused by PRESS STATEMENT, which likely doesn't need to be in all caps. Filter is functioning correctly.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 16:06: Wed 24 Jul 2013
Wikipediainfo
Hey, I notice you used {{wikipediainfo}} when you created Richelle Mead. As the template instructions indicate, we don't really want to use {{wikipediainfo}} on real world pages. Think of it as a way to give our readers real world information without violating T:NO RW — not as a substitute for writing a real world article. Thanks!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 01:05: Sat 07 Sep 2013
Plagiarism question
Re your question at thread:142060:
It's my opinion that when it comes to plagiarism, better safe than sorry. If there is a substantial amount of text that seems to have been lifted from another site, it's gotta go. I think what has happened with some of the older stories is that it was copied word for word, but over the years numerous editors have added and subtracted text, but it's still basically plagiarism.
If you're up for rewriting any of the plot summaries, go for it. I don't want to cause you extra work, but I think in the long run it's less work to rewrite than to check sections back and forth and correct here and there. Don't forget to put an "in use" tag if you feel you need it. Thanks a bunch! Shambala108 ☎ 23:34, September 26, 2013 (UTC)
Torchwood
I wonder if you could do me a favor. I was looking through the plot summary for Day One, and there's a scene where the rest of the Torchwood crew is discussing what they know about Jack. There is a sentence in the middle of this section that says: "Ianto think she's CIA." I haven't seen this episode, so I don't know if Ianto is talking about Jack and it's a typo, or if he's talking about Gwen, who is referred to in the previous sentence. Do you have any idea which is correct? Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 17:26, September 29, 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks! I went ahead and fixed it, and if you or someone else later find that it's wrong, it can be fixed. Shambala108 ☎ 18:14, September 29, 2013 (UTC)
Something about preloads
Didn't you sometime, somewhere, within the last month say something about preloads needed to be fixed? I was looking around for that comment today but couldn't find it. If I've got the wrong man, please forgive me. But if I've got the right one, please jog my memory.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:36: Fri 11 Oct 2013
Help
Hey, can I prevail upon you for a little bit of immediate help. Any chance that you could do the crew lists for the last four eps of 7b today? I know, I know: it's my own fault for not fixing {{wales crew}} sooner, but if you could help with that, I'd be mighty appreciative. If you can't, though, lemme know.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 15:18: Sat 12 Oct 2013
Tomato check tracking
Well, I put this in the thread, but it's really hard to read it there. I thought you might like to see it at full width. This chart tells you which episodes you don't need to worry about anymore, as they've already been touched by two editors.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 01:05: Tue 15 Oct 2013
| CZ | SOTO | TYB | SH | SPR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SH | Self | ||||
| SOTO | SOTO has no common stories with CZ | Self | See above | ||
| TYB | TYB has no common stories with CZ | see above | self | see above | TYB has no common stories with SPR |
| SPR | SPR has no common stories with CZ | see above | see above | see above | self |
Chat
When you have a moment, could you please stop by chat? Thanks :) (It's nothing bad, don't worry.)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:41: Tue 15 Oct 2013 19:41, October 15, 2013 (UTC)
Kath Braxton?
I guess I don't understand why the lead-in to the Tenth Doctor article, the identity of his incarnation, depends on the attestation of a minor character from a comic that a lot of people on here probably haven't read. Clara specified that her Doctor was the Eleventh Doctor, but if I added that, I'm willing to bet it would be deleted within a day. TARDIStraveler ☎ 22:25, October 23, 2013 (UTC)
Cleanup edits
Hey, I just wanted to let you know that your recent many cleanup edits have not gone unnoticed or unappreciated. I noticed that you've been concentrating a lot on stuff that relates to 2005-Doctor Who. That's probably going to help with the Rotten Tomatoes stuff. Thanks for all your hard work! Shambala108 ☎ 01:10, November 17, 2013 (UTC)
Christmas cheer
As this fiftieth anniversary year comes to a close, we here at Tardis just want to thank you for being a part of our community — even if you haven't edited here in a while. If you have edited with us this year, then thanks for all your hard work.
This year has seen an impressive amount of growth. We've added about 11,000 pages this year, which is frankly incredible for a wiki this big. November was predictably one of the busiest months we've ever had: over 500 unique editors pitched in. It was the highest number of editors in wiki history for a year in which only one programme in the DWU was active. And our viewing stats have been through the roof. We've averaged well over 2 million page views each week for the last two months, with some weeks seeing over 4 million views!
We've received an unprecedented level of support from Wikia Staff, resulting in all sorts of new goodies and productive new relationships. And we've recently decided to lift almost every block we've ever made so as to allow most everyone a second chance to be part of our community.
2014 promises to build on this year's foundations, especially since we've got a full, unbroken series coming up — something that hasn't happened since 2011. We hope you'll stick with us — or return to the Tardis — so that you can be a part of the fun!
SOTO nomination
The admin nomination for User:SmallerOnTheOutside is drawing swiftly to a close. Did you have any thoughts on it? Please go here if you do.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 00:02: Wed 01 Jan 2014
