User talk:Acardwell415
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Apologies
I'm sorry for not getting back to you on your proposal. You know, I'm here normally 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. But it seems like in the coupla weeks I stepped back for personal reasons, all of Wikia descended on my talk page, and I've disappointed more Wikia Staff members than I knew existed.
While Tardis definitely does want to participate in the wider Wikia world, your fashion proposal would invite our community to break with our local spoiler policy. It's against site policy to reveal casting before episodes have been broadcast. So officially, our wiki doesn't even know who's been cast — and I personally, actually, honest-to-God, do not know. (You apparently revealed the casting in your comment, but another user helpfully redacted your revelation before I could read it.) I just wouldn't feel comfortable recommending that our users, who are used to a very strict spoiler policy, go off to a place where they would, of necessity, encounter that very spoiler. It would create an administrative headache that's just not worth having. Maybe I'm not thinking creatively enough, but I don't see how I can on the one hand say that people will be blocked if they reveal this casting information on Tardis, but on the other recommend that they dress the new Doctor on another wiki.
Put another way, I feel like this asks me to help the development of w:c:fashion to the detriment of w:c:tardis. Before this spoiler rule, this wiki was an absolute nightmare to administer. We had so much maintenance caused by articles replete rumours and speculation and supposed future knowledge. Although this rule has to be defended quite often, that is nothing compared to the cleanup work required before.
So while I'm happy to engage and enhance w:c:fashion — we have plenty of articles in Category:fashion and clothing — I don't initially see how I could possibly recommend this to our community prior to 25 December 2013. That may seem like a really late date to you, but remember that Twelve is not going to be in costume on that date; he or she will be wearing Smtih's outfit. And principal photography hasn't started on series 8 yet, nor do we have a start date for it. So there is every possibility that we'll get to the Christmas special without a picture of Twelve in costume. (Having said that, I have been largely away from my computer for two weeks and a production start date may have been given.)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 08:13: Tue 03 Sep 2013
