User talk:BigFinishFan123
BigFinishFan123Thanks 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.
Other useful stuff
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:
Remember that you should always sign your comments on talk and vote pages using four tildes like this: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. CzechOut ☎ 23:46, June 27, 2013 (UTC)
Pic uploads[[edit source]]
Heya :) Thanks very much for trying to improve our photo archives! Unfortunately, several of your images had to be deleted because they violated our basic rule of being greater than 100kb. Please try to bear the following basic rules in mind as you upload more, and be sure to check out T:ICC and T:GTI for more info on best practices with images:
- photos and screenshots must be jpgs or pngs — not any other format
- images should be no narrower than 420px
- infobox images must clearly illustrate their subjects at 420px widths
- files must be appropriately licensed
Thanks again for trying to help us out!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 03:10: Fri 28 Jun 2013
- Hi, As much as I appreciate the adding of the picture to Tepesh page, I have undone you edit as we don't know what Tepesh actually looks like as the TARDIS used a past incarnation of the Doctor to aid the removal of anti0time form the Doctor so it's not Tepesh's physical form AdricLovesNyssa 19:46, July 27, 2013 (UTC)
- Please review T:ICC and all the linked image policies before uploading further images. An important point that you're violating — though not the only one — is that you must include the entire word balloon in comic images — or none of it. You must also not scrub out the words. It must either be there, or not. No ugly balloon tails, half-balloons or empty balloons. Thanks.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:45: Mon 29 Jul 2013- Also, as pointed out earlier, images absolutely, positively must be a minimum of 250px. Ones that aren't will be summarily deleted, whatever their content. This is because 250px is the width of the infobox image. Anything less will create unseemly whitespace. Furthermore, please do not use symbols in your image names, and make sure that any words you use in your names are spelled correctly. This makes it much easier to find and recall images.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:07: Mon 29 Jul 2013
- Also, as pointed out earlier, images absolutely, positively must be a minimum of 250px. Ones that aren't will be summarily deleted, whatever their content. This is because 250px is the width of the infobox image. Anything less will create unseemly whitespace. Furthermore, please do not use symbols in your image names, and make sure that any words you use in your names are spelled correctly. This makes it much easier to find and recall images.
- Please review T:ICC and all the linked image policies before uploading further images. An important point that you're violating — though not the only one — is that you must include the entire word balloon in comic images — or none of it. You must also not scrub out the words. It must either be there, or not. No ugly balloon tails, half-balloons or empty balloons. Thanks.
Christmas cheer[[edit source]]
As this fiftieth anniversary year comes to a close, we here at Tardis just want to thank you for being a part of our community — even if you haven't edited here in a while. If you have edited with us this year, then thanks for all your hard work.
This year has seen an impressive amount of growth. We've added about 11,000 pages this year, which is frankly incredible for a wiki this big. November was predictably one of the busiest months we've ever had: over 500 unique editors pitched in. It was the highest number of editors in wiki history for a year in which only one programme in the DWU was active. And our viewing stats have been through the roof. We've averaged well over 2 million page views each week for the last two months, with some weeks seeing over 4 million views!
We've received an unprecedented level of support from Wikia Staff, resulting in all sorts of new goodies and productive new relationships. And we've recently decided to lift almost every block we've ever made so as to allow most everyone a second chance to be part of our community.
2014 promises to build on this year's foundations, especially since we've got a full, unbroken series coming up — something that hasn't happened since 2011. We hope you'll stick with us — or return to the Tardis — so that you can be a part of the fun!
