User talk:RogerAckroydLives
RogerAckroydLivesThanks 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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British English, please
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Spoilers aren't cool
We have a strict definition of "spoiler" that you may find a bit unusual. Basically, a spoiler, to us, is anything that comes from a story which has not been released yet. So, even if you've got some info from a BBC press release or official trailer, it basically can't be referenced here. In other words, you gotta wait until the episode has finished its premiere broadcast to start editing about its contents. Please check the spoiler policy for more details.
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Remember that you should always sign your comments on talk and vote pages using four tildes like this:Thanks for becoming a member of the TARDIS crew! If you have any questions, see the Help pages, add a question to one of the Forums or ask on my talk page. Shambala108 ☎ 06:49, June 6, 2015 (UTC)
Number of edits
Please try to make less edits and instead fit all the changes into one or two edits. It is fair enough that contributers forget some of the stuff they wanna change, but instead of 6 or 7 edits to span the changes you wanna make, try to fit it into two or less edits. You know, while changing one thing, try to change what else you wanna change in the same edit. Just a friendly tip. --DCLM ☎ 09:51, June 26, 2015 (UTC)
- I would also like to suggest that you use the "preview" button to check your edits before you hit "publish". If you have a mistake in one edit in the middle of a long series of edits, it's just easier for an admin to rollback your entire set of edits than to hunt and find the one mistake. So it's in your best interest to streamline things. Thanks. Shambala108 ☎ 13:15, June 26, 2015 (UTC)
Silent page
Hi! Please do not ever move pages on this wiki. There are two main reasons for this:
- One, the page you moved was still under discussion. One user does not have the authority to move a page in these situations. Rather, the community agrees as a whole whether or not a page needs to be renamed/moved. This will often require discussing several of our naming policies before making a final decision.
- In addition, only admins are allowed to move pages. The move requires several steps that non-admins don't have the ability to do. When a non-admin moves a page, it always leaves behind extra work for admins. Therefore, though it is physically possible for non-admins to move pages, we don't allow it on this wiki. Please see Thread:128198 and Thread:123493.
Lastly, please make sure you read Tardis:No personal attacks. The use of the word "ridiculous" when describing a debate often leads to violation of this policy, so I want to make sure you are aware it exists. Thanks. Shambala108 ☎ 14:22, July 8, 2015 (UTC)
Categories
Hi! Please be careful when you edit. A few times, you have somehow accidentally deleted the categories from pages. Since I don't know how it's happening, I can't tell you how to avoid it, so make sure you preview edits before publishing. Thanks. Shambala108 ☎ 00:57, July 12, 2015 (UTC)
The Master
Please note that, as stated in several hidden messages on the page (some of which you accidentally removed), no user is to change the headings on The Master page. Thanks. Shambala108 ☎ 13:25, July 17, 2015 (UTC)
BF production codes
I noticed you've made a lot of edits at List of production codes, and I was wondering what are your sources for the Big Finish ones? In recent years, they've not been listed on the BF website, and there have never been codes for the Fourth Doctor Adventures. The code currently listed for The Burning Prince actually contradicts the one listed on the website. Are the codes listed on the physical CDs? P&P talk contribs 18:53, July 18, 2015 (UTC)
- OK, thanks for the info. It might be useful to make a note on the article about the sources and such. P&P talk contribs 13:00, July 19, 2015 (UTC)
STOP!
Look, pal, I've told you I am busy, and quiet frankly, seriously stressed out because of it. So forgive me if I don't go gallivanting towards every little debate that is going on. Good day to you, sir.BananaClownMan ☎ 10:04, July 31, 2015 (UTC)
The Master
Hi! Whatever content you want to add to The Master page, you cannot change or remove the headings. This is a unique page because we have templates set up so that users can cite specific sections of the page, depending on the Master's incarnation. Removing or changing the headings makes the templates worthless, so the article has several hidden messages scattered throughout, reminding users to leave the headings as they are. Please do not continue to remove these headings. Thanks. Shambala108 ☎ 13:59, August 18, 2015 (UTC)
Spelling
Hi! Please note that on this wiki, we use British spelling, as stated at Tardis:Spelling. Please correct your recent edit at The Magician's Apprentice (TV story). Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 14:44, September 24, 2015 (UTC)
Edit summaries
Hi! I've noticed that a lot of your edits consist of undoing the edits of others. Yet you never provide a reason in the edit summary. I'm going to have to require you to provide a reason when you undo an edit.
Also, as a side note, User:Nahald's edit regarding the dash v. the hyphen was correct. Please see Thread:124059 for more on proper use of this punctuation.
Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 13:56, October 8, 2015 (UTC)
Claim
I feel like I need to say what the word "claim" means. It means that you tell someone something that is somewhat doubtful to some degree and can turn out to be either true or false. The Doctor telling himself to calm down to not get overly excited like when he met Shirley Bassey is not a claim. That means he once met Bassey and got extremely excited at that point as he did when encountering the ghosts. Therefore not a claim. The Doctor worried Clara had angered the ghosts as she tended to do that like when she had an argument with Gandhi. Meaning she angered Gandhi and the Doctor feared she had done the same to the ghosts. Therefore not a claim. I've noticed you like to use the word "claim", but just because it haven't been shown on-screen doesn't mean it didn't happen. --DCLM ☎ 10:55, October 11, 2015 (UTC)
- Talking to himself the Doctor tells himself to calm down before getting overly excited about the ghosts, as he had once gotten that excited, namely when he met Shirley Bassey. This cannot be a claim in that matter and thus not the correct use. --DCLM ☎ 11:06, October 11, 2015 (UTC)
Re: use of "claim"
(Please note that I am leaving the same message at both User talk:Danniesen and User talk:RogerAckroydLives, just to save myself a bit of work.)
Looking over the messages on your talk pages, I think I have to side with Danniesen on this one. While the use of the word "claim" may be grammatically correct, it does have a connotation that the person doing the claiming may not be telling the truth. If you look at Tardis:Neutral point of view, you'll see that we try not to make value judgments about characters and their actions (we don't even call the Master or the Daleks "evil" unless we're attributing it to the Doctor or someone else). Therefore, to preserve an air of neutrality, I suggest the words "said" or "stated" as alternatives. Or in the specific example mentioned, that of Shirley Bassey, you could put in the references section something like "The Doctor mentioned Shirley Bassey", link to Bassey, and when the article is created a neutral explanation of the mention could be given. Hope this helps sort the issue out. Shambala108 ☎ 23:40, October 11, 2015 (UTC)
Article mention
I'm terribly sorry about that. My upper-most sincerest apologies about that misunderstanding. I forgot it was said under that particular episode. You are right. I am wrong there. Hope you can forgive me. --DCLM ☎ 08:17, October 12, 2015 (UTC)
Re: Forum discussion
Hi there,
I'm sure I won't struggle to understand anything, so you don't need to worry about me. On rereading the forum discussion, I realise that by 'novelisation', I actually meant 'short story'. No idea how I got the two terms mixed up. Business as Usual is a short story set a few months after a novel called Business Unusual. It was just an insight into the idea of 'validity' and how we could use that example in connection to that particular scene in question.
Also upon rereading the discussion and with direction from Shambala, I can acknowledge that two phrases that I used may be seen as blunt or disrespectful, but I'd like to explain them.
- By "Get over it", I was referring to a very wide selection of fans who refuse to accept most mediums of Doctor Who that's not on TV. It wasn't intended to be directed at you. Fans do need to get over that some aspects of established televised parts of Doctor Who are rewritten. Again, that comment was directed at that group of fans.
- When I used "Do you even know how this Wiki works?!", I can't defend that. I can admit that it was uncalled for. However, this was me referring to short stories. For that moment, I was assuming you were dismissing them. But regardless of the subject matter, I can see that I let frustration get the better of me, so for that, I'd like to apologise.
I will just say this- I've worked on this Wiki for five years solid. I have been wholly active for that period and have added a lot of trustworthy content. As a polyglot and a grammar nerd, I also do a lot of proofreading for the Wiki to make us sound as professional as possible. And if you could see the amount of work I've been doing on the Welsh Wiki over the past month or two, you'd hopefully acknowledge and appreciate how seriously I take this Wiki- it's gone from completely empty to almost reaching 300 articles! With that in mind, I do refute the fact that I was bullying you. At no point in that discussion do I see myself coming off as a bully.
If you read it, I'm sure all you'd see is my attempt at adding more content to the discussion and more angles. I know a lot of users on here don't read the novels or watch the Classics. So I wanted to provide examples beyond New Who for any wanderers who decided to read. Whether you deemed the forum closed or not, it wasn't. And so I dropped by not realising. I wasn't going to read a couple of hundred comments before leaving my own two pence worth. I do think at the current moment, you and I are on the right page and we agree.
Anyway, it's a quarter to five in the morning and I'm having severe insomnia haha. I'm going to try to grasp any sleep available before the morning. Can we draw the line under this? It's a trivial argument/dispute to get ourselves into. I'm seriously not a bad guy, nor do I ever wish to offend. But like everyone else in the world, there are moments when I get frustrated and leave a silly comment.
Hope you have a nice day, Matthew TheFartyDoctor Talk 03:43, October 15, 2015 (UTC)
