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This is the list of prefixes on the TARDIS Index File Wiki. Prefixes, which can be used to quickly cite sources for statements in articles on this wiki, have been created for most every resource allowed by our resourcing policy. The following article explains how prefixes are used on this wiki, then gives a list ordered by medium.

Usage

Prefixes may be a foreign concept to users coming from academia, Wikipedia, or other reference projects. They are a kind of shorthand which obviates the need for laborious in-line citation or footnotes. They allow a few letters and a linked story name to subsitute for anything more formal.

For instance, an obvious use of a prefix would be

Sarah Jane Smith met the Doctor whilst pretending to be her aunt, Lavinia Smith. (DW: The Time Warrior)

The DW saves the editor the bother of having to type,

Sarah Jane Smith met the Doctor whilst pretending to be her aunt, Lavinia Smith, in the Doctor Who television serial, The Time Warrior.

New editors may wish to bookmark this page for easy reference, at least until they become more familiar with the more arcane prefixes used on this site.

Television/Film/Video/Web

BBC

In-universe

Real world

Generally, the following sources should be used on real world pages. However, information from these sources could conceivably be used in "behind the scenes" sections of in-universe articles.

Mixed use

  • WC - Webcast, by which is usually meant, "comic, prose or animated fiction, published to websites of entities who produce licensed Doctor Who material", such as the BBC's official website. A good example of proper usage is WC: Real Time. However, official sites have, in exceptional circumstances, published behind-the-scenes material, such as WC: Doctor Who Video Explorer, or any one of a number of videos on the BBC America website. Thus the prefix can actually mean that the cited resource is either in- or out-of-universe. It can also be used beyond BBC websites, so long as that website is officially licensed, as with Big Finish's website.

Non-BBC

Audio

Big Finish Productions

BBC

  • BBCR - BBC Radio Doctor Who audio stories and BBC Audio audio-exclusive dramas.
  • BFA/BBCR: Collaborations between Big Finish and BBC Radio (i.e. the ongoing Eighth Doctor BBC Radio series).
  • SJAA - The Sarah Jane Adventures audio stories produced by BBC Audio.
  • TWA - Torchwood audio dramas and audio stories, including those made for BBC Radio and BBC Audio.

Others

Prose

Novels

Target/Virgin

BBC Books

Big Finish

Penguin Character Books

Telos Novellas

Short prose fiction

Other

Comics

TV Comic and TV Action

Doctor Who Magazine

  • DWM - Doctor Who Magazine comics and prose stories
  • DWMS - Doctor Who Magazine Special; comics and prose stories, including the holiday and season-specific specials and any other specials produced in relation to the Doctor Who Magazine.

Doctor Who Classic Comics

Other

Other

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