Welcome to the Panopticon!
Like its namesake, our Panopticon is the home of all our greatest debates (though inclusion debates are held elsewhere). Here we discuss the maintenance and the development of the wiki itself.
Be aware. This space is open to all users — even if you haven't edited a single article yet, you are welcome to post here. The more voices that flow through this forum, the stronger our wiki will become.
Have an idea about how to improve the wiki? Don't understand why we do things as we do? Notice the same problem across several pages? You've come to the right place.
What to keep in mind
Please note that spoilers are only allowed on threads which clearly mark themselves as spoilery in the title. This forum isn't really the place for discussions about the narrative, anyway. Indeed, the Panopticon is not to be used for general conversation or off-topic discussions that do not directly concern the editing, philosophies or policy framework of the Tardis Data Core.
In general, any issues that relate to specific articles should be posted on that article's talk page. However, some issues are complex enough to merit discussion here. And, of course, if your point may have implications for other, similar pages, it's best to bring the issue here. Whenever an editing issue affects multiple pages, it's really a policy issue more than a small-scale inquiry.
Archives
- Main article: Forum:The Panopticon/Archive
Archives of this forum, including many important discussions that are still relevant to the way we do things on this wiki, are located at Forum:The Panopticon/Archive (and Forum:The Visionary Archives).
Previous Panopticon archives will soon be available at Forum:Archive Index, including the Rassilon Archives (2004-12) and The Matrix Archives (2012-2020).
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25 February 2024 | General Discussion of the Fork | 20:05, 4 November 2024 | Scrooge MacDuck |
28 February 2024 | The LEGO Dimensions Conundrum, Reconsidered | 23:27, 28 October 2024 | Cookieboy 2005 |
26 October 2024 | Childhood photos of characters | 17:50, 26 October 2024 | BlueSupergiant |
20 October 2024 | How to best cover exhibits | 20:06, 22 October 2024 | Bongolium500 |
16 October 2024 | Indie Wiki Partner Page | 22:55, 20 October 2024 | Kate Aces |
27 March 2024 | Twitter DidYouKnow submissions | 23:06, 19 October 2024 | CodeAndGin |
2 April 2024 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 06:48, 13 October 2024 | Tangerineduel |
29 June 2023 | Real world franchises with DWU connections: Qualification speedround | 22:50, 11 October 2024 | Cookieboy 2005 |
4 September 2024 | A History of the Universe / AHistory / Unhistory - the same book or seperate? | 18:58, 1 October 2024 | Danniesen |
20 September 2024 | A question about television channels… | 23:04, 20 September 2024 | Cookieboy 2005 |
20 September 2024 | Standards for Sorting Unnamed Characters | 21:56, 20 September 2024 | Cookieboy 2005 |
17 September 2023 | TV Comic & other periodical issues | 20:18, 5 September 2024 | Borisashton |
23 April 2024 | The Family Of Blood and naming conventions | 00:13, 30 August 2024 | CodeAndGin |
5 July 2024 | The Shared Universe Project - A new page proposal for the Timey-Wimey Detector | 15:14, 22 August 2024 | Moosana |
22 August 2023 | Cite source part numbers | 02:54, 3 August 2024 | CodeAndGin |
25 January 2024 | Adding "part of" to LOAs | 22:13, 1 August 2024 | Epsilon |
26 January 2024 | Extensions and Us. | 16:43, 31 July 2024 | Najawin |
28 June 2023 | Conversations across two user talk pages | 15:02, 31 July 2024 | Bongolium500 |
25 February 2024 | Abandoning 'sources' in favor of 'media' | 14:06, 24 July 2024 | WarDocFan12 |
28 June 2024 | What are the 'New Series Adventures'? | 12:59, 29 June 2024 | Shnupbups |
12 June 2024 | Auto-hide plot descriptions | 13:51, 28 June 2024 | WarDocFan12 |
23 June 2024 | Categorisation of locations from the real world | 16:46, 23 June 2024 | Najawin |
6 June 2024 | Clarifying the use of the (anthology) and (audio anthology) disambiguation terms | 21:49, 10 June 2024 | JSmith5504 |
22 August 2023 | Reforming Tardis:Video policy | 21:50, 6 June 2024 | OttselSpy25 |
18 May 2024 | Adding international broadcast dates | 19:56, 2 June 2024 | Gingerfool |
5 May 2024 | Subpage proposals: TV only & "Wikipedia style" subpages | 03:46, 24 May 2024 | WaltK |
26 November 2023 | Classic and New | 02:08, 16 May 2024 | MrThermomanPreacher |
25 November 2023 | Clarifying in-universe deadnaming policy in response to Rose Noble | 13:32, 1 May 2024 | Anastasia Cousins |
26 August 2023 | Where to use cite source | 18:59, 25 April 2024 | Botgo50 |
21 April 2024 | Information revealed in a foreign language | 01:07, 23 April 2024 | Scrooge MacDuck |
2 August 2023 | Rule 4 by Proxy and its ramifications: considered in the light of the forum archives | 19:23, 22 April 2024 | Botgo50 |
3 April 2024 | Incorporation of smaller wikis | 13:44, 5 April 2024 | WarDocFan12 |
14 June 2023 | Loosening T:NO RW | 01:01, 30 March 2024 | Najawin |
8 March 2024 | A minor sorting suggestion for our by-date lists of releases/births/deaths/etc. pages | 13:53, 9 March 2024 | Epsilon |
25 May 2023 | Decoupling Help from Community Central | 02:09, 26 February 2024 | Najawin |
13 October 2023 | MTG Minutiae | 00:40, 3 February 2024 | Scrooge MacDuck |
20 October 2023 | BBC writer's comics 3.0 | 14:31, 1 February 2024 | Scrooge MacDuck |
6 December 2023 | Video subpages | 16:43, 10 December 2023 | Epsilon |
14 July 2023 | A change to templates used on invalid pages | 17:56, 17 October 2023 | Aquanafrahudy |
7 August 2023 | Queen Victoria and other honourifics | 18:27, 25 September 2023 | NateBumber |
4 August 2023 | Metaltron reality | 17:43, 16 September 2023 | Scrooge MacDuck |
11 September 2023 | Hierarchy for simultaneously broadcast/released content? | 18:58, 11 September 2023 | Aquanafrahudy |
31 August 2023 | "Franchise" or "series"? | 22:49, 31 August 2023 | Cookieboy 2005 |
23 August 2023 | Pronouns in Infobox Person | 05:00, 28 August 2023 | Time God Eon |
20 August 2006 | The Panopticon | 18:37, 27 May 2023 | SV7 |