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czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">20:13:17 Fri 11 Mar 2011
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czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">04:42: Sun 02 Oct 2011
Shada
Uh... Did you mean to bland out Shada (TV story)? --OS24 21:50, November 30, 2011 (UTC)
Sorry - made a mistake. I was trying to add the cover of the 2012 novelisation and must have pressed the wrong button by mistake. I think I fixed it now. Sorry again.
It's okay, a lot of people actually make that mistake. Oh, and just to remind you, always add four tides (~) when you add to a talk page to indicate your identity. Cheers! --OS24 21:50, November 30, 2011 (UTC) (p.s. I added the original cover in order to complete the gallery.)
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czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">07:34: Wed 21 Dec 2011
Thanks
I just wanted to say thanks for your hard work throughout the year in keeping the comic pages, particularly the IDW ones, in good and current order. It's freed me up to concentrate on the more obscure and ancient areas of Doctor Who comic goodness.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">15:40: Sat 31 Dec 2011
You're welcome!Ventry Girl talk to me 15:43, December 31, 2011 (UTC)
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ISBN numbers and links
I see you put the link brackets back on the ISBN numbers for The Coming of the Terraphiles. They really don't need it. Without the brackets the Wiki treats those numbers as Help:Magic words, and links them to a general book lookup page. With brackets in place, they go to a blank (not yet created) page within the Tardis Wiki, and no further. Pages titled with ISBN numbers are counter to the Naming conventions, since those should be under the book's title (which they already are), so they're not useful in their current form. Is there a reason you're adding them? -- Gousha talk to me 00:51, January 22, 2012 (UTC)
I did not add the link brackets to the ISBN numbers. All I did was add the sentence saying that the book is also available as an ebook. Somehow the link brackets must have been added automatically as I was using visual editor at the time. I understand there has been problems with the visual editor before. I'm sorry - I should have checked the formatting in the source editor before publishing. I've just re-edited that section using source code to remove those brackets. Thanks for letting me know about this - in future I'll check the source code before publishing any edits.Ventry Girl talk to me 12:33, January 22, 2012 (UTC)
Irving Braxiatel short stories
I have created a category for Irving Braxiatel short stories, please use this rather than category: Irving Braxiatel stories. That category should only be an "umbrella category" for its subcategories, and only used in rare circumstances such as the Dead and Buried webcast. Thanks. --Revan\Talk 17:12, January 24, 2012 (UTC) Thanks for setting up that category!Ventry Girl talk to me 17:19, January 24, 2012 (UTC)
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czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">02:34: Sun 05 Feb 2012
Please don't enclose external navigation templates, like {{dwrefguide}}, in italics. The template already contains proper italicisation. If you then manually add italics — as you did several months ago at The Eye of the Jungle — you will completely reverse the italicisation. In other words, it goes from being completely right, to being completely wrong.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">20:53: Tue 21 Feb 2012
Animal
Thanks for the prompt service. You must have corrected the page title within seconds of my request on its Talk page. That's been noticed and appreciated. --2.96.23.119talk to me 20:55, March 1, 2012 (UTC)
You're welcome!! If you come across any other mistakes just leave a message here and I'll fix it.Ventry Girl talk to me 21:00, March 1, 2012 (UTC)
Will do. My ISP uses dynamic IP addressing, so my signature changes every time I connect. (I know I could stop that by signing up but I've a bit of an aversion to joining things.) Thanks again. --2.96.23.119talk to me 21:10, March 1, 2012 (UTC)
It's me again, though my IP address will have changed. I've discovered that links to "Animal" get redirected to "Animan (audio story)" -- the misspelled version -- automatically but that the further redirect to "Animal (audio story)" -- the version you corrected -- is manual, so the user has to click on it. I've tracked down several links to "Animal" and fixed them by making them links to "Animal (audio story)" with "Animal" as the display text (like this Animal). I'm quite certain there'll be links I've missed, though. If you run across any "Animal" links, it'd be worth checking if they need fixed, too. TIA. --78.146.185.254talk to me 18:01, March 9, 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know. I'm after finding more broken links and I fixed them. There might be more out there that I missed however. Ventry Girl talk to me 18:25, March 9, 2012 (UTC)
I managed to find and fix a few more, mostly on pages for actors. I'm running out of ideas about where to look for the things, though. That's not to say there are none, just that systematic searching is becoming less useful. And, of course, it would be a title that's going to crop up all over the place as an ordinary word! If it had been (say) "Crime of the Century", it'd make sense to search the site using Google, but "Animal", in one form or another, is going to occur too often to make that sensible. --89.240.242.157talk to me 02:54, March 10, 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for that! I'm after searching the Wiki and finding a few more which I've fixed.Ventry Girl talk to me 13:35, March 10, 2012 (UTC)
Suzie (Father's Day)
The photo on Suzie (Father's Day) seems stretched vertically. I've no idea how to fix this (if it really is wrong and not just my imagination). I also don't know how to put a link to the page in here, or I'd have done it to save you the need to search. --2.101.58.160talk to me 19:17, March 5, 2012 (UTC)
I checked the original photo and it looks the same. I also have no idea how to fix this - maybe it's meant to be like this! You could contact the original uploader of the picture to check if it was stretched or not. You can see from http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/File:Suzie_(Father%27s_Day).jpg that it was uploaded by User:SuperHeroChaos. Let me know if you hear back from him/her. Sorry I couldn't help.Ventry Girl talk to me 19:42, March 5, 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks. It definitely looks odd -- but not odd enough to pursue, given that the file itself looks like that. --89.241.66.52talk to me 21:10, March 5, 2012 (UTC)
Brief block
Blocking you for 5 minutes basically just to get your attention. Please stop editing infoboxes. You appear to have missed all the notices around the site requesting that you do not edit infoboxes while the major overhaul takes place. See Forum:New infoboxes and you. I'll be rolling back some of you edits. Your block should just about be over when you read this. Please edit literally anything else but infoboxes. The process will be complete in about a week, if all goes well. A message will appear at that time sounding the all clear. Thanks.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">07:43: Tue 13 Mar 2012
- BTW, noticed that you reverted CzechBot at Army of One. Wanted to highlight your reversion to point something out about code. You found the following objectionable:
next story = Fallout (audio story)|Fallout (audio story)|
I know that when you're looking at the raw code it looks weird, but it's completely harmless and does not display. At some point in the future I'll run the bot to strip out the second instance, but it's a very low priority thing. Becasuse there's no variable on the second Fallout (audio story)|, the infobox just ignores it. It's not at all necessary to the proper operation of the infobox to remove it.
Also, please do not remove the dab term from previous/next fields. You changed Fallout (audio story) to just Fallout. New pages in particular should be created from the start with the appropriate dab term. There should never be a page called "Fallout" created for this upcoming story. We retain a lot of legacy instances of un-disambiguated terms, but that's mostly for the convenience of long term editors who've grown accustomed to Colony in Space, The Unquiet Dead and the like. These un-dabed terms are really just for the familiar old television series titles. But for new TV stories and the thousands of, let's face it, minor stories (like these TW audios), most people haven't "gotten used to" any particular way of linking to the stories. We might as well, therefore, link to the properly dab-ed name.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">08:00: Tue 13 Mar 2012
I'm sorry about the infoboxes edits - I didn't realise that you were in the process of changing the wiki. I had seen the new graphics but didn't know there were other changes being made.
As for reverting Army of One - when I opened that page it was empty - completely blank! I assumed someone had made an error in editing and acidentally erased the content - that happened to me before. So I reverted to the previous version hoping that the content would return.
I'll make sure to stick to the dabbed versions in future - you're right - it'll certainly help people not familiar with the stories to identify them.
Sorry again - and thanks for your advice.Ventry Girl talk to me 17:41, March 13, 2012 (UTC)
Unreleased pages
Hi there. I know you edit audio story pages quite often and I'm sure you must have been infuriated when you couldn't edit them after they were released because no-one unprotected the page. In future just drop me a line when one of the spoiler-protected pages is released and I'll unprotect the page for you. --Revan\Talk 11:20, April 4, 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for that! Just wondering, is it when it's released on the Big Finish website or when it's available on Amazon, as usually there is a lag before they're available on Amazon.Ventry Girl talk to me 11:28, April 4, 2012 (UTC)
The Big Finish release date is the official release so go by that. Also when replying could you put the message on my talk page, then I get that little message box to let me know that you've replied. Thanks. --Revan\Talk 11:31, April 4, 2012 (UTC)