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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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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. Shambala108 ☎ 18:57, May 30, 2014 (UTC)

Re:Questions

OK, let's see...

We have pretty strict guidelines for aliases. In short, nicknames and descriptions are not aliases, nor are variations of a person's name (including married names). We also only want notable aliases, so minor ones for characters who have several aliases will not be listed in the infobox. Infoboxes are not meant to be long lists or descriptions of things, and not every field needs to be filled out.

One thing to keep in mind, as the Mr Pond example shows, is that there are plenty of rules violations that haven't been corrected yet, so any time you're in doubt, just ask.

As for the journalist article, my edit summary was "prefix", not previous fix. I don't know if you did it, or if it was just the visual editor at work, but a couple of the [[TV]] prefixes were changed to something like "TV Century 21". It was probably just the auto-suggest, and you didn't even notice what it did. Since I don't really know for sure, it's hard to say how to prevent it, but the best way to prevent errors on any edit is to use the "preview" button to check out your edit before you hit "publish".

Now about the questions you didn't ask ;) I've put cleanup tags on the occupation pages you created. There were quite a few issues, and if I list them here, you'll have a handy place to guide you next time you create pages.

• In universe articles must relate to the DWU. So far these pages are just job descriptions. There should be examples from stories on these pages. In addition, the descriptions should come as much as possible from story sources. For example, on the vegetable page, the definition comes directly from the text of the story.
• Please see Tardis:Citation for how to source pages in the correct format. (Not a problem you had, just a useful page to read.)
• All pages must have a category. Tardis:Categorization explains the policy and links to other category-related policy pages.
• As you've already discovered, in-universe pages must be written in the past tense. You can read more about types of pages at Tardis:Point of view, Tardis:In-universe perspective and Tardis:Out-of-universe perspective.

I realize this is a lot of policy pages that I've thrown at you, but to be honest, they explain the rules far better than I can. Also, at the risk of sounding like a complete geek, I actually like reading the policy pages; I've learned a lot about the wiki by doing so.

If you plan to create more occupation pages, I suggest you look at the existing ones at Category:Occupations to get an idea of how to write them.

Sorry for the length of this post and thanks for your attention. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or any other admin. Shambala108 ☎ 02:31, June 2, 2014 (UTC)

Looks good. I fixed a couple of issues: vehicle names are italicized (as you can read at Tardis:Italics), and it looks like the Visual Editor was doing some weird stuff (again) by inserting "span" tags around some of your sources, so I removed those. Good job! Shambala108 ☎ 21:23, June 2, 2014 (UTC)