User talk:120d

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Upcoming releases

Hi! Please don't post any information about upcoming releases. This is a violation of Tardis:Spoiler policy. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 19:04, September 9, 2013 (UTC)

Eleventh Doctor

Hi! Please do not add a "fun facts" section to articles. If it's a valid point, there will be a place for it. Shambala108 ☎ 23:24, November 28, 2013 (UTC)

Block

Please don't personally attack people as you did at Thread:145998, because such attacks obligate me to block you, as made perfectly explicit at Tardis:No personal attacks#Consequences of personal attacks. The fact that you apologised on Digifiend's page was a positive action on your part, and so the block will be considerably less than it might have been. I'm going to have to ask — well, okay, compel — you to take a break for 72 hours. When you come back, please remember that it's Christmas, the season of good will towards others.

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czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  16:43: Sun 15 Dec 2013

Countdown clock

The countdown clock is a bit of code from w:c:dev:countdown. Instructions are there.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  23:54: Tue 01 Jul 2014

Spoiler policy

This is now the second time you have been warned about violating Tardis:Spoiler policy. Please read it immediately, and for good measure, read the warning on the wiki's front page regarding the early showings of series 8 episodes. Shambala108 ☎ 00:16, August 10, 2014 (UTC)

  • It is not a spoiler. If you are talking about the episode name itself, then that has been confirmed. If you are talking about the trailer, it was released on the Doctor Who YouTube channel here: <removed per Tardis:Video policy>

Since it is a trailer, there is very little probability that it will be in the episode. - 120d

Read the spoiler policy before you try to argue that this info is not a spoiler. While you're at it, also read Tardis:Video policy. I've removed your video link because we never allow off-site links to videos. Shambala108 ☎ 00:42, August 10, 2014 (UTC)
The rules seem to be a bit hazy on videos because it states that links to videos on user name spaces, like this one are allowed. However, it says to videos you have created. I am not entirely sure that you should have deleted the link. Things like this should really be clarified better. It doesn't really say anything about links for spoiler videos in either the spoilers section or the links section. For the info on the Eleventh Doctor, again the info is not very clear on the Spoiler policy. It says "A spoiler is any information — in-universe or behind-the-scenes — coming from a story which has not yet been officially released in its entirety." "Information" is the key word, is it all information or is it just plot? Since it is a voice over and about 10% of the time has a voice over actually been in the episode, I think that it should be allowed. However, I will not continue to fight and start an edit war, if you agree to allow this information after the episode is released. Rufus 01:03, August 10, 2014 (UTC) 120d

Per the video policy, non-admin users may not upload videos at all. That trumps the rest of the policy. Further down, it says you cannot link to off-site videos; you can only upload videos you created, but that doesn't include recording of copyright material. Most importantly, no images or videos for unreleased stories can be uploaded, period, end of sentence.

As for the spoiler policy, I don't know how it can be made more clear. It says any information from an unreleased story. The first episode of series 8 has not yet been released, so no information from it can be added to the wiki.

Off-topic, you will need to fix your user signature. All signatures must have links to the user page and user talk page (see Tardis:Signature Policy). Shambala108 ☎ 01:21, August 10, 2014 (UTC)

First, you should worry about people's signatures. I am pretty sure that you don't need to link to your user page on your own talk page because it is linked in a tab above. Also, there are a lot of policies.
Second, do you agree to allow the information after the premiere date of Deep Breath (I mean the official, not a few days ago.)
A bit off topic, but why don't you use the tildes. Rufus 10:45, August 10, 2014 (UTC) 120d

Re:Images

It's not my job (or any other admin's) to chase after users who upload images without reading through our policies. That being said, I usually try to inform users when they've violated an image policy, but I was too busy trying to keep your spoilers off the wiki (which is a far more serious issue).

The thing is, many of our basic policies are located at the top of a user's talk page, and the license policy is part of the upload process. You didn't read it, so you made a mistake. Many users do, and now you know what to do. However, I suggest you read our image policies thoroughly (you can find them all at Thread:148148), because your Peter Butterworth image is not widescreen, which is required for all images. Shambala108 ☎ 01:21, August 10, 2014 (UTC)

First, I think that I should point out, that I am not for spoilers at all. I am completely against them, the reason I added the information was because it was available. Second, did you read all of the policies before editing? Third, there are two problems with the last sentence in your message. 1. I do not own the film in which it came from, as I said before on your talk page, it came from his Wikipedia article. 2. I don't even know what movie it came from. If I did, I would probably have found a better quality image of it. The only reason I know it came from is because of the licensing on the image on Wikipedia. In other words, there is no way for me to have gotten a widescreen image. Since he died in the 1990s, there is little possibility that the movie even comes in wide screen. Rufus 10:56, August 10, 2014 (UTC) 120d
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