User talk:WaltK

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File sizes

Please note that all images uploaded to this Wiki must be smaller than 100kb in size, as per Tardis:Image use policy. OncomingStorm12th (talk) 23:48, April 2, 2020 (UTC)

My apologies. The issue is I do not know how resize images accordingly... WaltK ☎ 19:31, April 3, 2020 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hey, sorry to bother, but I just wanted to thank you for your remarkable work in making Queer representation in Doctor Who an actually good page!! I know you did most of that months ago, but still... good to have that stuff on the wiki. :) CoT ? 17:54, May 27, 2020 (UTC)

Sorry for the late response, but thank you! WaltK ☎ 20:35, July 7, 2020 (UTC)

Daft Dimension image

Ah, sorry about the colours. But that's actually my own scan, not any variation of yours. If you can use your own file and yield a version that's 1) widescreen rather than 'tall', and 2) 420px or larger without being grainy, by all means replace my replacement. This was really just a rushed job so that the file wouldn't have to be deleted altogether (which is always messy). --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 18:30, May 27, 2020 (UTC)

Doctor Whoah!

Hi there, I saw your post on Talk:Doctor Whoah!. I have access to all the Doctor Whoah! strips via their DWM issues. I don't really want to start another big project so soon (as I'm about to conclude work on documenting Doctor Who?) but what I will do is slowly add to the table at Doctor Whoah!#Stories which will give you half a clue for most of them about which stories correspond to which issues. Does that sound alright? Feel free to contact me if it is still ambiguous from who features in them.

I see you have coverage of The Daft Dimension to be getting on with in the mean time, anyway. Good work on that so far by the way! Best regards, --Borisashton ☎ 23:53, May 30, 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! I’ve actually mostly reached my limit with my Daft Dimension coverage for now, having covered nearly all the ones I have access to. But I'm definitely raring to go on Doctor Whoah! with my trusty compilation book at the ready. Cheers for making it just that little bit easier with the table! Much appreciated! WaltK ☎ 00:03, May 31, 2020 (UTC)

Timeline discussions

Hi, since theory talk pages don't provide any form of notification, I just thought I'd like to invite you to take part in the various (slowly progressing) timeline discussions taking place at the moment. We started at Theory talk:Timeline - Second Doctor, and we've since started several more wide-reaching discussions at Theory talk:Timey-wimey detector, and then the discussion at Theory talk:Timeline - Seventh Doctor. If you're not interested, that's fine, I just thought I'd let you know in case you were. Danochy ☎ 04:05, June 9, 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for letting know! I’ll be sure to take a look. WaltK ☎ 17:52, June 9, 2020 (UTC)

Question on continuity

Hello, User:WaltK. I wanted to ask you something that could prove useful to deciphering the placement of an entry for the Thirteenth Doctor timeline theory forum. In At Childhood's End and A Little Help From my Friends, does Team TARDIS act surprised to finding out the Doctor had previous companions, or mention they've never met a predecessor of their's before? Thank you for time.BananaClownMan ☎ 15:06, June 13, 2020 (UTC)

I don't believe they act surprised in ALHFMF... when the Doctor tells her friends what happened to her in Blink, it does prompt Yaz to say "You said "we". You weren't alone, then", which could give the impression that the idea of the Doctor having past companions is a new concept to them, but it's hard to determine. I haven't read At Childhood's End, so I can't say on that one. WaltK ☎ 18:00, June 13, 2020 (UTC)

Lizzie

Hiya, on Lizzie (The Runaway TARDIS) you've uploaded a pretty good image, and as much as I like it, is there a version of the image with a larger crop, showing off more of her clothes? Epsilon the Eternal ☎ 19:37, July 1, 2020 (UTC)

I believe the current one is good enough. It fits into the standard that other profile images follow (head and shoulder shots). WaltK ☎ 19:44, July 1, 2020 (UTC)
Sounds reasonable. 👍
Epsilon the Eternal ☎ 19:47, July 1, 2020 (UTC)

Thread:277667

Hi Walt, just wanted to say that I support your position 100% on Thread:277667. I've always hated those pages, which have always looked bad and look even worse now. Hopefully, the outcome of the thread will be in favor of our position. Never Forget The Day The 456 Arrived ☎ 00:20, July 3, 2020 (UTC)

Thanks man! I'm glad that it's got people talking. WaltK ☎ 07:19, July 3, 2020 (UTC)

Bootstrap paradox

Hiya WaltK. You just undid my revision over on Bootstrap paradox, as it was written from an out-of-universe perspective, but isn't the entire page written like that, from the third person? Granted, it was a touch speculative, but shouldn't the info be on that page anyway? (As the whole "wibbly wobbly timey wimey" is also speculation?) Epsilon the Eternal ☎ 18:15, July 7, 2020 (UTC)

Saying "the events of [STORY TITLE] could also be seen as an example”, in those exact words, is how one would normally write something from a behind the scenes standpoint as opposed to an in-universe, biographical one. The proper way to write from an in-universe perspective would be:

Iris and Panda did a thing that caused a bootstrap paradox. (PROSE: Iris Wildthyme and the Unholy Ghost)

The only reason I opted to remove it rather than amend it is simply because I have not read the story and thus lacked the sufficient information needed to reword it accordingly. You're free to re-add it as long as you abide by the format I exemplified above. WaltK ☎ 20:16, July 7, 2020 (UTC)
Gotcha! You and User:Scrooge MacDuck raised good points,so I'll incorporate them into a revised edit.
Epsilon the Eternal ☎ 20:21, July 7, 2020 (UTC)

Clarifying stuff

Hi, so to clarify some more what we were talking about at Talk:Queer Representation in Doctor Who, what they did was more "cis gays not being aware" as opposed to Rowling or Glinner level sh*t. It's not the easiest thing to hear, but it's part of accountability and such. They are improving, which is good, and not digging in like Dreyfus or Roberts. Just wanted to clarify and such. Never Forget The Day The 456 Arrived ☎ 18:43, July 8, 2020 (UTC)

So you mean, like, the Greeks Bearing Gifts controversy (which I personally always just chalked up as Davies and Barrowman not being as enlightened on the matter at the time)? WaltK ☎ 19:02, July 8, 2020 (UTC)
Yep, pretty much, they just were not enlightened enough at the time. Anyway, so on the talk page, what do you think we can use as a "called out" source? Never Forget The Day The 456 Arrived ☎ 19:06, July 8, 2020 (UTC)
You can see my full response on the talk page, but to sum up, a "call out" section that compiles every time a cast/crew member so much as offhandedly says something out of line probably wouldn't be the way to go. With situations like Davies and Barrowman, whether or not anything they said or did in the past indicated a deep-seated intolerance would largely be up to individual opinion (some may believe there were legit transphobic tendencies there, but I'd personally disagree). No, we should only cover instances where the bigotry of an individual is undeniable; Roberts and Dreyfus, both of whom have repeatedly voiced blatantly transphobic views and have refused to back down on them, fit that bill easily. WaltK ☎ 19:36, July 8, 2020 (UTC)

I've put this on the talk page, but yeah, I'm down for that. Thanks for the convo! It's nice to talk to someone is both empathetic about change and personal growth, as well as willing to hold people accountable. Never Forget The Day The 456 Arrived ☎ 19:40, July 8, 2020 (UTC)

Re: TDOTD

Aaah, I see. That makes sense. But not only did you post it in the wrong Board, it also sounds like this isn't even really a matter for the forums (or indeed an admin's talk page) as opposed Talk:The Day of the Doctor (novelisation). But since you asked me: I would say that yes, we can derive the existence of a number of copies of "Book (The Day of the Doctor)" and of anonymous readers thereof.

The latter individuals don't necessarily deserve pages as individuals, being so nondescript, though if we did have pages on them, we'd probably call them things like Reader 1 (The Day of the Doctor) and so on. But you can definitely create Bookshop (The Day of the Doctor), with a lede along the lines of "One of the readers of the Curator's book on the Last Day of the Great Time War found their copy in a bookshop which also contained……".

Concerning what happened to the Forums, I'm hoping User:CzechOut will chime in with an explanatory post some time soon, but the keynotes version is:

  • "FANDOM Powered By Wikia" decided to upgrade its source code wholesale, rather than keep adding patches and epicycles to an increasingly Rube-Goldberg-esque, anachronistic Frankenstein's Monster;
  • The new code architecture they've designed didn't support the Forums we used to have at Special:Forum;
  • Consequently, when they started moving Tardis's archives to the new platform (known as the UCP), all the Forums' contents were transferred to the "next best thing", namely the "Discussions" area, which already existed separate from the Forums.

Cheers! And thank you for the congratulations! --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 23:16, October 4, 2020 (UTC)


Invalid info

With regards to this: you're not quite right. If it's simply a bullet-point in a wider BTS section, the invalid information should be written in an out-of-universe point of view. But if there's enough invalid material for a full subsection in the BTS section of the valid page, then that can be written in the same in-universe way as an {{invalid}} concept page. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 19:37, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Talk pages

Hi please do not blank talk pages (or other pages), even if you think they need to be deleted. It's better to put a delete tag on such a page than to leave a blank page that an admin might not see for a long time thanks Shambala108 ☎ 04:42, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

List of actors who portrayed the Doctor

Hereby requesting permission to contribute to User:WaltK/List of actors who portrayed the Doctor. MrThermomanPreacher ☎ 13:34, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Permission granted :) WaltK ☎ 17:25, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Deletions

Hi please don't blank pages that you think shouldn't exist. It could be considered vandalism. If something needs to be deleted, just use a delete tag to bring it to admin attention thanks. Shambala108 ☎ 21:32, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Third violation

Since you were warned on 23 December 2021 and 19 April 2022 not to blank pages, but you still deleted user content on talk pages on 23 April 2022, you are blocked for violating Tardis:Vandalism policy. Since your intentions were in the right place (trying to enforce Tardis:Discussion policy), this block is only for a week, mostly to get your attention and make sure you understand the message I've left twice on this page on the proper procedure for dealing with this type of thing. Please do not just remove the content or blank the page; it's best to inform an admin who can deal with the user violating the discussion policy. Shambala108 ☎ 04:31, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

RE: In-universe versions of these stories…

IIRC they appeared in The Daft Dimension. They should be removed from the template, actually. I should never have added them.

19:52, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Ahh. I'll still create invalid pages for them, regardless. Come to think of it, shouldn't the navbox still have a sub-section for invalid material like several others do? WaltK ☎ 19:57, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
It should have invalid sections but I never got around to creating them. Also, please make sure to dab them, as it is better than leaving them undabbed and causing confusion. 20:17, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

For(u)m Letter

Hey there, I hope your Halloween was decent. As you might know, we've not had forums for over two years at this point. A few of the regular editors have been having a discussion on this topic at Forum talk:Index and we'd like the input of other prominent editors if you have the inclination. Cheers. Najawin ☎ 08:19, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

"Mayored to the Mob"

Just a heads up since your probably didn't notice, the "Mayored to the Mob" image was a .png file, rather than a .jpg file. However, it turns out a version already exists on-site, so you might want to switch to that and put the .png up for deletion. Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 21:04, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

File sizes

Hi there. I see that you've been told before that images mustn't be any bigger than 100 KB. This is the second rule that comes up when you upload an image and you've been consistently breaking it.

I'm currently in the process of going through your uploads and shrinking them or, when you've replaced a regulation image with one that's too big, reverting them. Images also have to be .jpg and you've uploaded several that are .png, so I've marked them for deletion. Jack "BtR" Saxon ☎ 19:55, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

My apologies. I simply hadn't been seeing the option to change the image sizes, until you pointed out where it was. I'll try to adhere from now on! WaltK ☎ 11:17, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
Hey. Sorry, I should've been clearer; PNGs are allowed if you need transparency but not for screenshots or anything like that. Those are the only ones I've marked for deletion. Jack "BtR" Saxon ☎ 11:26, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Re: "The wide and varied DWU"

Hi. I'm sorry to say that I don't. I didn't make the image: it was a collaborative effort between some of the members of a Doctor Who-related Discord server that I'm in. All the information is probably scattered around a lot of different messages there, but I don't have any form of collected explanations, as cool as that would be. Bongo50 ☎ 17:43, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

A Short History of Everyone

Hiya, I saw your recent edit to 2006 which involved information from A Short History of Everyone, and I was wondering if you could share a picture of the relevant section? I've just Wikified Mars, which seems to have be contradicted by ASHoE, so I want to work out exactly how. Many thanks!

01:14, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Dimensions in Time proposal

Hey, just saw your Dimensions in Time proposal and I'm not sure I grasp what you intend this thread to be. Obviously now that it's valid, the First Frontier connection can be Wikified as "one account" like any other valid source that says this about another valid source — in much the same way that the Conundrum and Land of Happy Endings interpretations are listed at John Who and Gillian Who. We don't need a thread for this! As I understood it, the caveat about further threads to clarify "the nature of stories' validity" after a Rule 4 By Proxy ruling would just be for people who want to argue that no Proxy was necessary because the original story passed Rule 4 all along and its invalidity was incorrect in the first place; but there's no need for a new thread that's just about a different proxy-avenue not mentioned in the original thread. Is there something else that I'm missing? Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 23:32, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Ah. I get where you're coming from, but actually, in such cases we only cover the later retcon as "one account" — again, see John Who and Gillian Who, claimed in Land of Happy Endings to be a dream and in Conundrum to be Land of Fiction constructs. (You could also compare this to retroactive claims that the Doctor saying he was half-human was a lie, or that it wasn't really Romana in Destiny of the Daleks.) Meet the Fam! is different because — as far as we can tell — it was always the intent that it would be revealed as Just A Dream; but if we had reason to think otherwise, we would cover it primarily as real events, and only present its dream-ness as an "alternative account". This goes double when we have even more, later sources asserting that the events really happened, which, in the case of DiT, we do via Storm in a Tikka and, for that matter, Rescue.
But either way, this seems like a matter for the talk page more than something which needs to take up a slot in the Temp Forums. I'd advise you to retract the proposal. Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 00:32, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
…See my reply directly above? Did you miss this one, or does it not answer some points you need? Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 20:46, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Bumping this. Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 13:24, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

No worries! Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 14:09, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Unproduced stories

Hi Walt, my proposal about dabbing unproduced stories has (second) most votes on Tardis:Temporary forums right now, so even though all the slots are full I've prepped an opening post at User:NateBumber/Sandbox/1 which also includes your idea about distinguishing between unproduced and unreleased stories. If you get the chance, could you give it a look and tell me whether you think it's a fair write-up or if there's any other information you'd like me to add? – n8 (☎) 17:04, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Re: Changing page names

As requested, I will provide a guide on how one can move a page, as illustrated below using one of my user pages as an example.

  • First, you hover over the 3 dots at the top-right of the page, which will bring up a drop-down menu. If this list doesn't include "Move", the page may be move-locked, and only movable by administrators.

    First, you hover over the 3 dots at the top-right of the page, which will bring up a drop-down menu. If this list doesn't include "Move", the page may be move-locked, and only movable by administrators.

  • After clicking this option, you will be brought to a menu that looks like this. Since you would typically be moving mainspace pages, you would click the menu here labelled "User", just under "New title:" - this can also be used to switch between namespaces, to and from user: pages and the like. Naturally, just under this menu, you can change the actual article title. Additionally, you can choose whether or not to A) create a redirect at the current address, and B) watch the source & target pages. Once you're happy with your settings, you can press "MOVE PAGE".

    After clicking this option, you will be brought to a menu that looks like this. Since you would typically be moving mainspace pages, you would click the menu here labelled "User", just under "New title:" - this can also be used to switch between namespaces, to and from user: pages and the like. Naturally, just under this menu, you can change the actual article title. Additionally, you can choose whether or not to A) create a redirect at the current address, and B) watch the source & target pages. Once you're happy with your settings, you can press "MOVE PAGE".

  • After moving the page, you will be brought to a screen that looks like this.

    After moving the page, you will be brought to a screen that looks like this.

  • As depicted above, when visiting the page at its new address, the title is changed, as is the goal with moves.

    As depicted above, when visiting the page at its new address, the title is changed, as is the goal with moves.

I hope this helps. Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 22:22, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

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