User talk:PicassoAndPringles
PicassoAndPringlesThanks for your edits! We hope you'll keep on editing with us. This is a great time to have joined us, because now you can play the Game of Rassilon with us and win cool stuff! Well, okay, badges. That have no monetary value. And that largely only you can see. But still: they're cool!
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Vandalism edit
Hi! I appreciate your reverting of vandalism at Mickey Smith, but I do have a request. If you have to do so again, all you have to do is leave an edit summary stating that you are reverting vandalism (as you did on the Mickey Smith page). There is no need to leave a message on the offender's talk page for two important reasons: 1. it draws more attention to the vandalism, and 2. anonymous users don't get notifications when their talk pages are edited, so the offender will most likely never get your message.
Thanks for your help! Shambala108 ☎ 03:19, September 5, 2013 (UTC)
Thanks, I didn't know. I will avoid it in the future.PicassoAndPringles ☎ 03:30, September 5, 2013 (UTC)
Christmas cheer
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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!
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Tele-snap of Camfield's Fairy Milk Chocolate
Hi PicassoAndPringles,
Just thought I'd drop you a line to thank you for adding to Camfield's Fairy Milk Chocolate the tele-snap of the chocolate bar being removed from the platform vending machine by Driver Evans.
I very much appreciate your help and efforts in tracking down this elusive tele-snap which — until now — could only be seen on the DVD.
Who knows, perhaps one day we'll see a bar of Camfield's Fairy Milk Chocolate (which I personally consider to be the Doctor Who universe's equivalent of the real-life Cadbury's Dairy Milk) again, this time in the new series... Freddie R. Aldous ☎ 11:11, July 6, 2014 (UTC)
Spam in forums
Hi! Thanks for removing the spam in the forums, but in the future, if you do so, please let an admin know so the original poster can be blocked. Thanks. Shambala108 ☎ 14:15, August 16, 2014 (UTC)
- Gotcha, though I certainly didn't get any notifications. Must be a flaw in the system. Shambala108 ☎ 16:05, August 16, 2014 (UTC)
- Got it, thanks, I've blocked this particular name and removed the thread, which for some reason wasn't removed before. Shambala108 ☎ 17:36, August 20, 2014 (UTC)
Hidden Categories
I'm sorry. I didn't know about hidden categories I'll restore them. Slughorn42 ☎ 22:28, September 2, 2014 (UTC)
New Pages
Thanks for contacting me. I'll be sure to make sure I only create new pages I have all the info to. TheAnonJade
Re: Spam
Looks like someone already caught it but thanks for letting me know. Shambala108 ☎ 14:11, September 4, 2014 (UTC)
RE:
Ok, I'm just use to other wiki's that just say replace the file so there isn't pictures overloading the server.—TIMESHADE(TALK) 01:17, September 7, 2014 (UTC)
Screenshots sought
Hi PiccassoAndPringles,
I'm looking for screenshots to illustrate two pages I recently created for TARDIS Data Core: Imperial and Phil Madison.
As you very kindly supplied the tele-snap for another of my created pages, Camfield's Fairy Milk Chocolate, and having heard you have quite the collection where screenshots etc. are concerned, do you happen to have images of:
- the 100 Imperials coin flipped by Adric in Warriors' Gate,
- and
- the robotised Phil Madison, as played by Peter Badger in The Dalek Invasion of Earth?
If so, please feel free to add these to the respective pages next time you're on TARDIS Data Core. This would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks. -- Freddie R. Aldous ☎ 11:14, September 18, 2014 (UTC)
Re: Screenshots sought
Hi PicassoAndPringles,
Just thought I'd drop you a line to thank you for adding the image to Phil Madison; the page looks much better now.
With regard to Imperial, don't worry about the low quality image of the 100 Imperials coin, as this is better than nothing. Thanks also for putting me right about it being Aldo who flipped this particular piece of currency in Warriors' Gate part one. It just goes to show how long it's been since I watched the story! :-) Anyway, I've now revised the page accordingly and added the image of the coin.
Once again, thank you for all your help.
Freddie R. Aldous ☎ 12:12, September 19, 2014 (UTC)
Good morning, I see you've cleared out a lot of the less interesting chapter title entries I've made recently in the Target books and Virgin New Adventures entries. I was going for a consistency between entries in having a chapter titles section, but I can see where that's not necessarily ^helpful^ on my part, just a little OCD.
Have a good day, Soundacious ☎ 10:35, October 29, 2014 (UTC)
Infoboxes
I'm doing some work on another wiki and was admiring your infoboxes. Is there any advice or templates you can suggest for me to try to emulate your impressive infoboxes? – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jb masta (talk • contribs) .
Leaving messages on other users' talk pages
Hi! I'm not sure exactly how to put this, but you need to moderate your tone when you leave messages on other users' talk pages. I haven't really felt it necessary to say anything until tonight, when you left a message at User talk:BananaClownMan about Tardis:Spoiler policy. To the uninitiated user, you come off sounding like an admin. There was no need for you to mention that he's been warned before; all that is necessary is to point the user to the policy page(s) in question, and if there is a problem, then let an admin know so they can deal with it.
Please, when leaving a message on other users' talk pages, refrain from using words like "warning", "enforce", or anything else that implies you have the ability to enforce policy on this wiki. For new users, it's not always obvious who is and who isn't an admin. Thanks. Shambala108 ☎ 06:52, February 19, 2015 (UTC)
