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PLEASE COMMENT ON MY COMMENT ON THE DISSCUSION PAGE ON SERIES 5 PLEASE - WHATS YOUR OPINION ???????????? Michael Downey

Thanks

This unit is most appreciative of your assistance in upadted the Big Finish audio links. --Colleyd 17:44, 11 February 2008 (UTC)Woof.

Dark Ages

Thanks for fixing the Dark Ages link and the redirect. -- Q1712 01:31, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Novelisation addition

Hi, I removed the novelisation from the classicTV info box, as the novelisation info should really be kept separate from the TV information. --Tangerineduel 14:26, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Doug86

I've been a bit absent recently caught up in life and all that but just having a browsw and two things drew my attention one was brief encounters and the other was the BIT comic strips. As both of these are of interest to me and on my list to look at I thought I might make a few suggestions.

Re Brief encounters

I had a discussion some time ago regarding how to list them. I think it was Tangerineduel, started giving them all an individual article, but after discussion we thought about referencing them to a single page. One of the reasons for this is quiet a few had no title assigned to them and would be difficult to find, and the other was the fact that content was concise, but lacking in available depth to warrant a whole page, without reprinting the text anyway. As their were I think just over 30, it seemed to be quite a short series, containable on one page. Anyway don't know if you found the previous discussion, or if these points had been considered, and if so I'd like to know how you're planning on dealing with the unnamed ones.

Re BIT comic strips

On a similar line, but not quite.
I see you've started to give the strips individual pages. Here' a thought! As the strip is so short (running to only four pages, individually titled but often with a running narrative. Could 'we' (and I only say that because its something I've been looking at with regards Tenth Doctor Comic strips recently), combine the comic strip article in the BIT Issue page (yet to come). It would give the Issue page a bit more interest, strip continuity, and as the strip is limited to the magazine with a definite (so far) partwork issue of 52 be more contained.

Anyway just a few thoughts let me know what you think.The Librarian 15:02, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Just to jump into this conversation, after actually reading through some of the Brief Encounters recently (while working my way through various DWMs), they almost can qualify for a page, and with 30 stories would make for a long single page. As for the untitled ones, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. --Tangerineduel 15:29, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

I agree about giving Brief Encounters stories single pages, and I think I have a solution for the BIT comics. The Comic Book Database has given unofficial titles for the story arcs. If we borrow from them, it would be like this:

Just a suggestion, let me know what you think. Doug86 20:49, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Altering other user's personal pages and postings

Hi, I've not mentioned it thus far. However please do not alter any further person's personal pages/postings, this is against our Vandalism and Unhelpful Content Policy, further actions such as those described may result in action being taken. (But on a side note, you've been doing a great job thus far). Thanks --Tangerineduel 13:07, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Status

Hi. Have changed your user rights to sysop (I think), put a message on my talk page if it's not done. --Tangerineduel 08:50, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

It works, thanks! Doug86 08:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Name Confusion Reply

The Oakley/Oakely spellings are taken straight from the official Big Finish pages. So unless someone has the actual cds, I don't have a way to verify which is the actual spelling, or if they're actually two different people with similiar names. --Colleyd 13:35, 27 May 2008 (UTC)Woof.

Stubs

I'm trying not to put the tag on all of them, if you think some aren't stubs, then just remove the tag. --AnimeNoKyouran 04:49, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Absent Admins

I'm sending this out to all the currently active Admins here, with regards to this Forum posting Forum:Absent Admins.

It's the suggestion that all the admins who have not been active in the last two years have their admin user rights dropped.

This is the list of users to be dropped back from admins.

User:Freethinker1of1 was also on the list, though as he started this wiki I think that would be a bit of a kick in the teeth.

Please put your thoughts on the forum or get back to me with opinions or what we should do etc, thanks. (Also if you think I've missed any active admins can you send this message onwards to them also, I've sent this to User:Azes13, User:Ghelæ, User:GingerM). --Tangerineduel 15:41, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

BIT Comic strips

Hi Doug, noticed you have been doing some editing to the reference boxes on the strips, just so you don't think I'm ignoring you, I'm just finishing off the comic strip pages (only three more to catch up with and complete).I took on board TangerineDuels feedback and have revisited with the information I had so far to bring it up to date and correct a few first time messy bits! Im intending to revist them once more add and specify references to props used. (eg. Blue suit, screwdriver used to open doors, etc). So if you want to hold back. The other thing is glasses! My view is that glasses are something to do on another page, but a page specifically to the Doctor's glasses. In Time Crash, specific references were made to the use of the glasses not sure how to head it yet or whether to keep under general Doctor page.
Thanks by the way for the list of grouped story titles. I decided not to use them in the end, deciding that they weren't well known enough in themselves and so in this case were probably more accessible as individual articles. This could still be changed at a later stage, but we'll see when the series is done and the basic areas of BIT are all covered. Keep up the good work.The Librarian 04:25, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply; my view is that "glasses" is too common for an article on this wikia - note that you didn't add a link for the Doctor's blue suit. However, if you're planning on doing an article on the Doctor's glasses, go right ahead. Doug86 13:49, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Children of Earth

Thanks for deleting this article it looks like we may have another Christmas special plague of articles on our hands Dark Lord Xander 03:01, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Cyberman

Hi there just curious what was the reasoning behind moving Cybus Cybermen to Cybermen (Pete's World) as i was unable to find any dissolution on the move. Dark Lord Xander 08:45, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

It seemed to me to make more sense this way, all the other articles dealing with duplicates in Pete's World have "(Pete's World)" to differentiate them from their main timeline counterparts, so I figured that the Cybermen should too. Doug86 22:36, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Be that as it may i think it should have been discussed while your point is valid they are Cybus Cybermen created by Cybus industries hence the big C on their chests but what ever. I am happy that this outcome atleast returned the original Cybermen to the Cybermen Page --Dark Lord Xander 07:29, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Vulcan (disambiguation)

Why was it deleted?

My understanding is that disambiguation are usually needed for three or more articles with the same or similar names. Since there are only two articles named Vulcan (the planet and the god) all that is needed to have a link to the other article at the top of the page. Doug86 07:15, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

copying from Wikipedia doesn't count as plagiarism

I noticed you deleted an article Honoré Lechasseur for copying and pasting a Wikipedia article of the same name.

Wikipedia has a Creative Commons license, same as this Wiki and even a template for indicating that you took part or all of an article from there. (though I don't know the short form of the template or else I would use it.)

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Wikipedia

and Template:Wikipedia

I myself "created" the Muriel Frost article by cut and pasting from Wikipedia. (I did the same with at least one other articles.) though I edited and changed it to fit this Wiki.

not that I have any tolerance for people cutting and pasting information from sources not under Creative Commons. I pointed out the number of comics entries stolen from Doctor Who Guide. --Stardizzy2 19:19, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Battles in Time Comic strips. Thoughts wanted

Hi Doug, I've seen you tidy up and work around comic strips and would value your opinion on some recent work. As you may have noticed I've been working on the strips in the Battles in Time magazine. I choose this series mainly because its of a limited run and could create a test-look to it. I'm still tweaking it with additional information to include, but nearly there with that bit. My thoughts are around the use of images.
For starters the info box on the story page - it clearly identifies what the article relates to. I choose to include a gallery bit on the main page, I thought better representation of the strip than a single image. (AND scanning here takes so long, not to mention the upload times). Good or bad move?
The artist Lee Sullivan has chanced across these pages and been in contact. He seems more than happy for his work to be promoted this way and was very flattering about the pages. More coming soon I hope! He said he had forgotten he had drawn some of the images when he saw them displayed as they were, which I thought was nice!Anyway...
On the main listing page underneath the listings I've duplicated the story samples. While I appreciate there is some duplicity, I believe its inclusion is for another reason. So often I find lists of comic strips boring and unhelpful, after all they are a very visual reference and the images of a frame I find are far more helpful if I want to look something up. A comment about the speed in loading the page being compromised by the amount of information (and again the question of duplicity), has been raised. Do you think the page should the page be divided up, and is this degree of duplicity acceptable?
Personally I hate linking to a page that has maybe only one line of text. With the comic strip characters the minor characters have been included in the character section of the strip page, but some have suggested they should have their own page. To remove this bit and give each a seperate article, I feel could be a bit of an unnecessary distraction.
Another option I'm thinking of exploring is imaging each comic strip character so at least each named character at least would have a visual included.And it would feature an individual infobox like Abslom Daak. I'm not aware of one specifically for comic strip characters, any thoughts?
Sorry if this is a bit longwinded but as I'm now revisting each page I thought I would ask what you think (if you have any thoughts on the matter that is!). Keep up the good work by the way! Oh and some P.S.'s

I intend to include a generic title for the various installments in the notes and,
I'm going to expand the TV referencing bit with specifics. and,
Following Time Crash maybe the Doctor's glasses do deserve a page, and having listened to the commentary from David Tenant on the latest boxed set, I believe the tenth Doctors clothing could well have its own page!
Oh and finally while I'm thinking about it...any interest, or objection, do you think in uploading the Battles in Time collectable trading cards, full size scans, not on a gallery page but linked from the listing page. i was thinking ahead to a Related Merchandise link on a number of pages!

Well that is it now...bye The Librarian 02:44, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for requesting my opinion on your ideas. They are as follows--

Info box on story page - I'd change it to just the BIT logo, not the BIT logo and Tenth Doctor picture that appears now.
Duplicating story samples on main page - I personally find this acceptable, although to save space you may want to minimize the images.
Comic strip characters - these definitely should be given their own pages: after all, characters from the TV stories and novels have their own pages; plus I myself have created pages for characters from various TVC comic strips.
A glasses page has already been created, and I think the Doctor's clothes should be limited to a Gallery page.
Battles in Time trading cards and other merchandise should also be limited to just a Gallery page.

Doug86 06:01, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Doug RE: Captain Jack Harkness

I'm looking at the Torchwood bits at the moment for a distraction! and i see you are right behind me.
I see you have deleted Captain Jack Harkness (TV story). Hate to disagree but I know its a duplicate I copied it! I was intending to redo the links from the overused Captain Jack page. The distinction is made with other pages that refer to a TV story so I cant see what your hurry was. The Librarian 21:46, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

First of all, an article's name is not changed by copying and duplicating an old page in a new article, but by Moving the old article. Second, I see no reason why the episode page should be moved when it would simply be easier to fix the pages that incorrectly link to that article. The current set up seems just fine to me. Doug86 23:39, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Ok Im going to assume you know what you are talking about, but firstly unless I check with your talk page, I'd never know you replied!
Surely the whole point of ambiguous links is to clarify them. Someone searching for Captain Jack Harkness (who never refers to himself as just Jack Harkness! not that I've found yet) in the same way I would have thought would have an article headed like the Brigadier is used as a known prefix. Further it would make the distinction between the (at least) two Jack Harkness'.
Bearing in mind that this primarily a Doctor Who wiki, is it not sensible to suppose that searches for Captain Jack Harkness would more likely lead to a character search rather than the name of a TV story/Torchwood story!
I dont agree with you that the current set up is fine sorry! The Librarian 15:26, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Well I would assume that anyone familiar with wikis would know that character articles never begin with titles, but with second names. Further, if a person did search for Captain Jack Harkness the character and came to the episode page instead, they would simply realize they had made a mistake and go to the correct page. Both pages link to the main disambiguation page, which as the name suggests is there to clarify ambiguous links. Doug86 23:42, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

IP editing

I want to help this wiki but can't be bothered to create an account. Can I just edit under an IP? 121.72.207.139 05:29, 19 March 2009 (UTC).

WTF?

I was editing stuff on Atheism wiki, and suddenly got this message from you. What is a "Tardis wiki". Some sort of star trek site? BTW isn't that David Badiel or something? Notdavros 10:11, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Quotation Marks

According to Tardis:Manual of style#Series and episode names, story titles should be in "quotation marks", not italics. Please do not vandalise pages by removing properly placed quotation marks and replacing them with italics.
-- solar penguin/(talk)/(contribs) 09:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)