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Thanks for your edits! We hope you'll keep on editing with us. This is a great time to have joined us, because now you can play the Game of Rassilon with us and win cool stuff! Well, okay, badges. That have no monetary value. And that largely only you can see. But still: they're cool!

We've got a couple of important quirks for a Wikia wiki, so let's get them out of the way first.
British English, please
We generally use British English round these parts, so if you're American, please be sure you set your spell checker to BrEng, and take a gander at our spelling cheat card.
Spoilers aren't cool
We have a strict definition of "spoiler" that you may find a bit unusual. Basically, a spoiler, to us, is anything that comes from a story which has not been released yet. So, even if you've got some info from a BBC press release or official trailer, it basically can't be referenced here. In other words, you gotta wait until the episode has finished its premiere broadcast to start editing about its contents. Please check the spoiler policy for more details.
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Aside from those two things, we also have some pages that you should probably read when you get a chance, like:

• the listing of all our help, policy and guideline pages
• our Manual of Style
• our image use policy
• our user page policy
• a list of people whose job it is to help you

If you're brand new to wiki editing — and we all were, once! —  you probably want to check out these tutorials at Wikipedia, the world's largest wiki:

• How to edit a page
• Editing, policy, conduct, and structure tutorial
• Picture tutorial

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Thanks for becoming a member of the TARDIS crew! If you have any questions, see the Help pages, add a question to one of the Forums or ask on my talk page. -- Tangerineduel (Talk) 21:09, 27 December 2012

Helping out at the forums

I think it's great that you want to be so friendly at the forums. But I need you to curb your enthusiasm just a tad. You've only been here a few weeks, so it's probably best if you just answer questions directly, rather than opining about site philosophy or saying "if you have any questions, you can always contact me". Please holster that phrase a little while, until you've been here for a bit longer. It's probably best if you go through one season of Doctor Who with us before you offer yourself up as a "wiki helper".

It's also really important that you do not speak on behalf of admin, as you did when you said "We never revert edits just because people don't have accounts. Especially not admin." We absolutely do revert edits from IP editors. We also actively stop them editing some pages. Nothing that Mini-mitch did in the case described is inconsistent with normal admin behaviour. We do treat IP editors differently, because they are different — not least because IP editors are frequently not individuals, but a range of people using the same address. IP editors are, as is evident from Special:Userrights a different class of editor. We would much rather have people in registered accounts. You seemed to be going down the path of suggesting that all editors — IP and registered — are one big happy family, and it therefore doesn't matter whether you register an account. That's not true. There are a ton of benefits to registering an account. If these differences aren't stressed, fewer people will register.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:17: Mon 21 Jan 2013