User talk:Memnarc

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• Memnarc •

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Spoilers aren't cool

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Redlinks are good!

Hiya :) Thanks for your edits to the Earth mammals pages. I hope you're enjoying playing the Game of Rassilon. However, I must ask you not to deprive articles of their redlinks, as you did at porcupine. Redlinks, like that articles link to the non-existent salt, provide a valuable counter. The more redlinks there are to a word, the higher it goes up the list at Special:WantedPages, and therefore the more likely it is that someone will create hte pages.

If you've been taking out redlinks on other Earth mammals pages, please now put them back. Think of it this way: you'll have gotten double points in the game for making an honest mistake! That's a deal, right?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  06:33: Fri 23 Sep 2011

No worries. Easy enough mistake to make. I didn't figure you were being malicious. Yeah, our general rule of thumb around here is that anything that is mentioned in a narrative potentially gets a page. And salt is clearly mentioned in several stories. We just haven't gotten around to writing the page yet.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  06:47: Fri 23 Sep 2011

Recent category adding

Hi, I've rolled back a series of your edits where you've added categories like Category:United States of America locations to Wall Street, this article (and similarly others you've added "country/region locations" categories) are already within a sub-category of USA locations. See Category:New York City locations, you can see that it's within the USA locations category. So because it's in that category the USA locations category doesn't need to be added to this article. The same goes for European locations.

Usually the most specific category had been added, the more general location categories are an upper level category used to hold the sub-categories or for general subjects that don't fit into the smaller sub-categories. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:14, September 23, 2011 (UTC)

That's fine. Everyone has to learn and making mistakes is part of that.

Though, I would suggest exploring the wiki, categories and all so you can get a handle on the logic of how everything works.

The Manual of Style while long does give explanations of most of the questions that are likely to arise.

If there's any questions feel free to ask, if I can't provide an answer I can point you to a help page, example or another user who can assist you. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:34, September 24, 2011 (UTC)

Recent summary adding

I've noticed that you've been adding summaries to some of the short story pages. However, these have been taken verbatim from the Doctor Who Reference Guide, which is Plagiarism according to this wiki's rules. Please undo at your earliest convenience. Doug86 14:01, September 24, 2011 (UTC)

Pic tips

Hey, great job on most of your pic uploads today! Thanks for taking the time to capture some relatively obscure characters. They were all nicely licensed and well within our size limits.

I did have to delete a few, though, because they were longer than they were wide, which is especially problematic on pages where there's not likely to be much text. Stick to pictures that approach widescreen (16:9) dimensions. (See T:ICC for more.) This means you sometimes do have to crop things.

Note, also, that minor characters don't necessarily have to appear in a one-shot. Two-shots are acceptable, especially when the other person in the frame is well known. For instance, the vidographer at Donna's wedding (Rodri, is it?) is, I think, only in two-shots with the Tenth Doctor. Since we know who the Tenth Doctor is, there's no particular problem in Rodri's infobox pic including the Tenth Doctor. Also, take care to remove any black which frames the pic, which you tend to get when you take the whole frame.

In general, though, your pics today were great! Keep 'em comin'!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  13:28: Sun 13 Nov 2011

By the way

Just so you know, it is not acceptable for a user just to edit pages that give them achievements; as you seem to have over the past 24 hours. Achievements are there to encourage users to edit there as well as other places on the wiki; you should not just edit there. Your recent edits mainly been around Torchwood television stories and Sarah Jane Smith audio stories.

Please remember that editing soley for achievement reasons can get you blocked and kicked of the Game of Rassilon, which you and we don't want. So just remember to edit every where you can on the wiki, not just in the places where there are achievements. MM/Want to talk? 20:16, December 18, 2011 (UTC)

Your input is needed!

You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Can we disable visual editor please?.

czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  19:54: Tue 20 Dec 2011

Your input is needed!

You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Reference books - what do we cover?. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:21, January 16, 2012 (UTC)

X century individuals

Please note that a person's age does not factor into what century of individual they are. (i.e. 20th century individual) The only factor that really counts is the era we see them in or hear about them in. In other words, if we see a person in a sotry that take place in 2009, we say they are 21st century individuals. Even if they are 50 years old. However, if they mention something from 1980 and that they were present there, then they would be 20th and 21st century individuals. MM/Want to talk? 23:28, January 29, 2012 (UTC)

Exactly. We don't know there background, for all we know they just have 'pop out the ground' or an alien from the future. If that was the case to say a century purely based in age would be wrong. It is simpler, and makes more sense to only categorise them by what era we see them in. MM/Want to talk? 23:41, January 29, 2012 (UTC)

Your input is needed!

You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:What makes an ally and an enemy?. --Tangerineduel / talk 12:27, February 1, 2012 (UTC)

Short block for spelling

Sorry about this, but I need to implement a short block on you so that you can understand the importance of following T:SPELL. As it says at the top of this very page, British English, please. If you had introduced American spellings onto page, I might not block you. But you have recently reverted back to American spellings on namespace:0 pages like Boar (Mad Dogs and Englishmen), which means you're actively — though possibly not maliciously — undoing existing correct spelling. (In the case cited, the spelling is fulfil not fulfill, as is outlined at T:SCC.) Please don't think this blocking reflects badly on you, or suggests that you're generally doing poor work here. Your contributions are valued and appreciated. However, as one of our more prolific editors, it must be stressed how important it is that you adhere to our spelling rules. Since you work on so many pages, there's the likelihood is that you would spread/are spreading spelling errors throughout the wiki.

For the three days you're blocked, you retain the ability to leave messages on this page, so if you have questions, please do ask them. I'd also strongly suggest that you read T:SPELL, Help:Spell checking and T:SCC, and that you take some time to generally explore the differences between British and American spelling on various websites around the web.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  18:03: Wed 15 Feb 2012

I think I might know what happened. My hard drive recently crashed so I've been using a shared computer, so while I had installed a British English dictionary on my computer, I didn't want to on this one, as the person I'm sharing it with does a lot of work which requires American English. Still, I am relatively familiar with most British spellings and have tried to use them whenever possible. I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. I'll try to refrain from making any spell checks in the future until I get my computer fixed and/or get a new one. Memnarc ^{talk to me} 00:26, February 16, 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough. Block lifted.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  01:44: Thu 16 Feb 2012

I appear to still be blocked, is there some delay until it takes effect? Memnarc ^{talk to me} 04:08, February 16, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for adding the IMDb links to the pages I create regarding the crew of the Doctor Who TV movie. I would have added them myself, but I didn't really see it as a major thing to add, hence I put a stub on the article. Can you make sure that if you add a IMDb link to an article to a minor crew person or cast persons page, you removed the stub - all these minor pages need is a description of what they did/played and their IMDb link.

Thank again, it was really great help! Keep it up! MM/Want to talk? 23:51, March 10, 2012 (UTC)

Species thingie in infobox

No . . . and yes, to answer your question. No, it's not "new" policy. The discussion to change race to species, at least in dab terms, was started last July and formally closed last month. So it had a good, long marination process. Granted, it wasn't a specific discussion to change variable names, but the concept preferencing species over race was a part of that discussion. And no one objected to the change.

But yes, I screwed up the coding slightly. I forgot to allow for the instances of race already in the system. That's been corrected now, so thanks for catching it!

However, please don't use race in any new articles as there's no guarantee that race will always be supported. Contrary to your assertion, it's actually quite an easy thing to change the variables out, and it is on my long-term list of goals to actually change all instances of race to species, then drop race from the template code. But that bot run is low priority, so race still has a few months left in 'er yet.

Thanks again for catching the error! Don't be afraid to pass along any similar notes to me!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:53: Sun 11 Mar 2012

Category:DWA comic stories

Hi, please don't add Category:DWA comic stories to any stories that are already categorised into Category:Tenth Doctor DWA comic stories or Category:Eleventh Doctor DWA comic stories. As these two categories are sub-categories of Category:DWA comic stories and therefore are already in that category. Much the same way that there are 13 subcategories in the Category:DWM comic stories and no stories in that category there should just be the sub-categories in the DWA comic stories category and no stories. --Tangerineduel / talk 08:59, April 2, 2012 (UTC)

That's okay, I've lost count of the mistakes I've made! Then there's the fixing which is far less interesting. --Tangerineduel / talk 09:29, April 2, 2012 (UTC)

Graphic novel issues

Since you didn't provide me a link, I had to take a quick look at your contribution history. Don't see anything on the front page to suggest that you've been working on graphic novels at all. Could you please provide a link to wherever you're having this problem? Hard to diagnose your problem without specifics. In the meantime, I've taken the precautionary step of formally changing links to the now-obsolete {{Infobox Graphic Novel}}. As has been widely mentioned in the forum, all stories are now handled by {{Infobox Story}}, which doesn't even have the variable you mentioned. Again, give me more specifics if you're still experiencing the problem and I'll fix your problems over the next 24 hours.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  01:59: Thu 05 Apr 2012

Uncredited tag removal

There wasn't any source stated on any of those articles.

IMDB doesn't count. See T:SOURCES - "Avoid using non-peer-reviewed sources such as Wikipedia, the Internet Movie Database, blogs, or even the TARDIS Index File as cited sources for information such as airdates, casting, etc." . --Tangerineduel / talk 06:41, April 6, 2012 (UTC)

Jaguar

At Jaguar, you removed category:Earth predators and gave a good reason. Then you immediately re-added it. If I didn't know better, I'd say you were deliberately trying to game the system, which is explicitly against the Game of Rassilon rules. Minor edits are certainly okay, even encouraged, within the spirit of the game, but doing and undoing the same edit, without good cause, aren't. I see no reason for you to have removed and added the category except to gain points in the Game of Rassilon. Please don't let it happen again. The whole point of the game is to improve articles, not just change their state.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  11:24: Fri 06 Apr 2012

User talk:Memnarc

Redlinks are good!

Recent category adding

Recent summary adding

Pic tips

See also

By the way

Your input is needed!

Your input is needed!

X century individuals

Your input is needed!

Categories

Short block for spelling

Categories

Thanks

Species thingie in infobox

Category:DWA comic stories

Graphic novel issues

Uncredited tag removal

Jaguar