User talk:Cookieboy 2005

Proposed deletions

Hi I just wanted to let you know that we have a template for suggesting page deletions. If you use it, the page is added to the list of suggested deletions, making it easier for admins to find which pages are suggested for deletion. When you use the template, {{Proposed deletion}}, after the word deletion you would place a | (vertical bar, sorry I don't know what it's actually called), then write your reason for proposing the deletion. Thanks Shambala108 ☎ 20:10, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Didn't I do that with one of the vandalism pages? Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 20:36, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Vandals

Hi please don't engage with vandals. They want attention. Thanks Shambala108 ☎ 22:50, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Re: Typo in Special:Preferences

I'm not an admin, but I am knowledgeable about this topic which is why I am responding to your message intended for Shambala. You're right that we don't have the ability to edit most of Special:Preferences, but the gadgets tab is actually entirely editable as all of the features on it were added by the wiki instead of being Fandom-wide. In fact, I'm the one who set up the gadgets currently available (with the help of an admin to perform edits to pages that only admins can edit) and so that typo is mine. The relevant page that needs editing is MediaWiki:Gadget-search bar so I'll pass it onto to an admin to get fixed. Bongo50 ☎ 15:43, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Ah, I don't know much about how gadgets work. Glad to hear that it'll be fixed (hopefully). Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 17:00, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Other users' pages

Hi please note that it is against our vandalism policy to edit other users' pages, whether sandbox or otherwise. Your intentions were good, but if you see something on another user's page that needs fixing, please ask an admin to take care of it thanks Shambala108 ☎ 21:57, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

This also applies to other users' comments on talk pages. If you see something that needs to be removed, contact an admin. Shambala108 ☎ 14:19, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Quick question (feel free to delete)

Hi Cookieboy 2005, I added the Batmobile to the category 'Fictional vehicles', and I've just seen that you recently removed this tag. Since I'm new to this wiki and I want to make good contributions, and I was wondering if you could let me know why this tag was wrong so I can avoid making similar mistakes in future? Apologies if this isn't the correct way of getting in touch! Looking forward to hearing back, Dan – The preceding unsigned comment was added by DanPPower (talk • contribs) .

As it hasn't appeared in content considered "DWU" by the wiki, the fact that the vehicle only seems to be presented as "real" in the game, and the fact that the category "Fictional vehicles" is for DWU fictional vehicles, it seemed no more valid than the Black Pig (which is in "Non-DWU technology"), which also appeared only in "invalid" sources. T:VALID may be a good read for further information. (also the correct way to sign a comment is with "~~~~" at the end). Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 15:13, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Brilliant, thank you for the explanation and the link! I'll give it a read now :) DanPPower ☎ 17:46, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

Re: Noat

Edit summaries exist for a reason. Your change had already been reverted before due to lack of explanation and you then went on to make the same unexplained change again. If you see something that you admit is important rather than removing the information completely you should start a discussion on how to work around the issues, such as I did at Talk:Diane Holmes. DrWHOCorrieFan ☎ 11:34, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Re: categories and sandbox

Yes, that is correct. Or else they should be turned from "[[Category:" to "[[:Category:", to make them into links rather than, well, actual category tags. Although "never return to the main namespace" may come across harsher than I meant to, haha. Under current policy and in their current states they shouldn't be brought back, but I'm hardly saying "salt the earth where they were written and burn the records" here. I could see at least some of those drafts being brought back someday, for example if new accounts are published which justify their outlook better. Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 22:14, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

File on sex page

Why was the file deleted by the admins? Did I do something wrong while uploading it? Tellymustard ☎ 09:02, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Does the bot detect what is NSFW via the description text or some sort of image scanner? – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tellymustard (talk • contribs) .

'Eevee' figure in SJA.

Hi, the figure appeared in The Curse of Clyde Langer (TV story), I have however added a timestamp and a screenshot to the Eevee page. Georgebenee ☎

BBC DVD covers

Hi, I've been gathering every BBC DVD cover image on the wiki into one of my sandboxes, in order to see where there are any missing covers or duplicates.

Pop over and have a look, and feel free to upload any of the missing covers.

User:Doc77can/sandbox12

P.S. I'm messaging several users so check the upload log first.

Doc77can ☎ 20:29, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

This Town Cover

Politely, we were trying to get that image deleted, because This Town Will Never Let Us Go already has an image, and the image in question was uploaded under the mistaken assumption that its Prologue had a cover. Your move was counter productive, please read the edit summaries next time. Najawin ☎ 22:38, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, I left a much longer reason that Jack trimmed down. (I don't think it technically qualifies as a duplicate because it doesn't have the text.) Not the end of the world. Najawin ☎ 22:50, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

File:This Town Will Never Let Us Go.jpg. Ah, turns out it is just a copy, so says autofill, CoT already uploaded it at File:This Town Will Never Let Us Go cover art.jpg. Open and shut case, thank you for asking for that actually! Najawin ☎ 23:00, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Crossovers

Requesting permission to contribute to your crossovers sandbox. MrThermomanPreacher ☎ 19:38, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Changing page names

I was not aware non-admins could do that. Can you show me how? WaltK ☎ 21:11, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

LEGO conjecture

Hi. I've noticed that you've been making pages on characters from the LEGO Dimensions promo material, but with the "conjecture" template in cases where their names are not stated. This is not needed, as per policy. Since Assimilation², it has been our policy that we do not need characters and concepts identified in crossovers for us to identify them by name. This is why pages like Leonard McCoy have the full names of characters even if some were not clearly identified in the comic. So you can add info to Proton pack without conjecture, you don't need the tag for Shaggy Rogers or Peter Venkman or Abby Yates or any of the other pages where this info will end up someday. OS25 🤙☎️ 20:56, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Weetabix

Hey, I saw you added an image to the Weetabix add page. Thank you, but I was wondering if you had an image where the Red Dalek was in full shot. I feel that'd best represent the article. Much obliged. 81.108.82.15^{talk to me} 21:48, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your help 81.108.82.15^{talk to me} 22:55, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Page move

Hey, any chance you’d be able to move the page “Peter Capaldi and the Shy Cyberman” to the more common titled that appeared on screen. As I feel it’s the intended name and certainly the one used the most. Many thanks. The other title is on the rename tag on the page. 81.108.82.15^{talk to me} 17:59, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Re: Disney XD promos

They're all on YouTube, but I can't link to them because they're unofficial uploads. It's also impossible to get any good screenshots because the uploader had to go and put their watermark in the corner. The only reason I was able to get that higher quality Mystery Shack image is because I knew what GF episode it originated from took it from there. WaltK ☎ 15:39, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Okay, where the heck did you get those images? Not only is there no watermark, but the resolution is stunningly high. WaltK ☎ 17:13, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Disney Time logo

Hello again! I just wanted to make sure that you got that Disney Time logo screenshot from the actual episode itself? I only ask because it looks remarkably similar to the logo from the unofficial fan restoration that Ottel sent me. WaltK ☎ 16:38, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Re: Duplicate files

Ahh, was not aware. Thanks for the tip! WaltK ☎ 20:21, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Re: File types

Thanks for letting me know. I got the wrong impression from the policies on the upload page and assumed they were only used for transparent photos, and I had seen articles with older images deleted for that reason. That's my bad for not double-checking. BlueSupergiant ☎ 11:19, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Question about a page you wrote

Hi, I was just looking at https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Giant_X-Word_(game) which is supposedly in TV Comic Holiday Special 1971 but there is no such feature in there, nor in the TV Comic Annual or Countdown Holiday Special 1971. Since you're the only editor of that page wondering if you might know where it's actually from? Just curious really! Tmjjmt ☎ 22:01, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Ah, it's actually the 1974 special I've realised! I'll correct the page, thanks for the quick reply! Tmjjmt ☎ 22:52, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Simpsons images

Hey, so, if we're really gonna go all in on providing visual evidence for each DW reference in Simpsons media, maybe, at the very least, you should think about putting them all into gallery sections rather than having them cluttering everything up? WaltK ☎ 17:29, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

I'm personally not a fan of the Wikisimpsons method but… I dunno. To be honest, I personally rather you didn't bring all the images in to begin with, primarily for this exact reason, but also because I personally don't think visual depictions of comic word balloons should qualify for this sort of thing. WaltK ☎ 23:36, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Re: TV Comic's Counter Game

Both done! Bongo50 ☎ 20:39, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Re: Hedz

I did wonder that myself, but it would require covering every episode. WaltK ☎ 16:34, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Re: Using Talk pages as forums

There is a link to T:DISCUSS above the edit box on talk pages and this policy does include the fact that talk pages are not for general discussion. I don't see any harm in making this more explicit though, so I will go ahead and do so. As for a notice on the pages themselves, this is definetly possible but would require a forum discussion. Bongo50 ☎ 17:20, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

About those SpongeBob images

I don't mean to sound rude, but don't you think that having reference images for a crew connection like comic book lettering is just a bit excessive? WaltK ☎ 17:37, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Wallace & Gromit

Yo. Would you mind giving me some context over the DWU's connections with Wallace & Gromit and A Close Shave? I'm preparing to go ahead and make the W&G franchise page, but I only have the context of Shaun the Sheep's presence in Wonder Chase. WaltK ☎ 19:18, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Eeeeehhhhhh… I think we're going to need a proper debate on this one, because I'm personally not sure it counts: if it's a mere mention of W&G in a DWU-related work, then that strikes me as nothing more than a popular culture reference. And even if you wanted to treat the actual showing of A Close Shave as part of the work itself, than I think we'd treat that in the same vein as, say, the various Disney clips that were shown in Disney Time. WaltK ☎ 20:44, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

True, true… it was me talking about the franchise page being a thing, wasn't it. Hehe. Oh well, just ignore me. WaltK ☎ 20:50, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

The Fifteenth Doctor promos

How's it going, Cookie? I wanted to ask, since you were the one who created the pages for Untitled 1 (May 2024 TV story) and Untitled 2 (May 2024 TV story), I was wondering what your reasoning is for labelling the latter as invalid, but not the former? I went and created a page for the third promo that was shown during the end credits of Space Babies, where I used what you did for Untitled 2 as a base, including keeping the invalid tag just to be safe. But I personally don't understand why either of them should be invalid: fourth wall breaking stuff is fair game now. Would you mind enlightening me? WaltK ☎ 00:09, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Recent magazine pages

Hoooold on there. I think you should take a gander at TV & Satellite Week/Gallery and Total TV Guide/Gallery before you go any further with those pages… WaltK ☎ 21:14, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

No problem! If you want to keep making your own additions to the TV guide issues, here are a couple of things to keep in mind going forward:

Our numbering system for every TV guide magazine (except for Radio Times) is one that's been made up by myself, with the permission of the mods. The issue numbering is reset with each calendar year, with the first issue of each cycle being those where the cover date is the first full week of the year. For example; the "first" TVSW issue of 2020 is dated 4-10 January. There are 51 or 52 issues yearly depending on how the weeks pan out. The last issue of each year is usually, but not always, the Christmas double issue.
When creating new issue pages, I strongly recommend using the existing issue pages as a base to keep things consistent.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! WaltK ☎ 19:03, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Oh yeah, I should also point out that TV Times also goes by this convention, in spite of the fact that they had their own numbering system up to 2018. We decided to ignore this numbering for our pages because, to put it bluntly, their numbering had absolutely zero rhyme or reason to it and thus made it impossible to keep track of outside of physically owning the issues themselves. WaltK ☎ 19:06, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Uncategorised categories

Hi Cookieboy, I've been going through the Special:Uncategorized Categories page recently, to clear out the massive backlog, and most of what's left now is character, actor, and other image categories, and so I was wondering if you'd be able to have a look at it, as it seems you know the image categorising system far better than I, and I don't want to create loads of mistakes for you to have to fix. Thanks! :)

SID'gingerfool'RAT - ☎^🔎 |📂|📝 22:09, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

My mistake, I accidentally included a space. It should be here: Special:UncategorizedCategories. SID'gingerfool'RAT - ☎^🔎 |📂|📝 22:19, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Old Woman or Woman, Old

I hope the user talk page is an appropriate place for this, I'm a bit new. If the forum would be a better location let me know.

Regarding your reversion. I’ve been attempting to clean up the "with unknown names" categories, and part of this is that there seems to have been no standardisation regarding noun-adjective order sorting for these characters. Some have been sorted "adjective noun" while others have been sorted "noun, adjective". Based on previous non-wiki experiences I've been attempting to standardise it the second way (Ex: "Angry man" as "man, angry", "Female soldier" as "soldier, female", etc.) but I'm obviously open to suggestions. Do you know if there's any official policy on this? If there is one, I have not been able to locate it. Either way the issue comes down there are pages that need to be re-sorted. Fennel Soup ☎ 01:18, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Re: The Encyclopedia split?

I'm not sure that they should necessarily be separate pages, but I feel it would be useful if the links existed at least as redirects. --MrThermomanPreacher ☎ 00:18, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

The iPlayer promo

Could you direct me to it? I cannot find it on YouTube. WaltK ☎ 02:02, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Covering cover art thread

Hey Cookie. I noticed your draft for a forum thread on covering cover art, and was wondering if you had any plans to publish it anytime soon, as I would like to contribute! WaltK ☎ 21:30, 9 December 2024 (UTC)