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Due to the current lack of a proper forum system, this temporary forum system has been created as a stand-in to allow essential community discussions to take place. This system will be used until the regular system is re-instated by those with the power to do so.

To propose a thread for discussion, add it to the bottom of the table in the proposed threads section below. If you would like an already created thread to be discussed, you can sign your name next to the proposed thread to show support.

To maximise the number of topics and issues that can be discussed in as short a time as possible, there can only be 6 active threads at once, each with a timelimit of 3 weeks. This is to encourage people to focus on a small number of issues rather than try to tackle too much and lose focus. If no consensus has been reached in this time limit, the thread will be closed as unresolved and may be discussed further at a later date. Threads closed as unresolved will be added to the bottom of the proposal table where they must regain signatures to be discussed again. When a current thread is closed, the thread idea with the most support (tiebroken by precedence)[1] will be selected from the proposal table to be discussed next. A discussion space for it will then be created by an admin in one of the slots listed below.

When proposing threads, please bear in mind that they should be actionable within the time limit and that they should affect a large number of pages or otherwise have a significant impact on the wiki and its readers. Proposed threads that don't meet these criteria may not be selected for discussion, at least until other threads that do meet these criteria have been discussed. Note that this does mean that, while you may still propose and support these proposals, specific validity debates about specific stories or series may not be selected for discussion in the immediate future as they generally do not have a wide enough impact on the wiki as a whole.

Current threads

Only 6 threads can be open at once, each with a timelimit of 3 weeks.

Thread slot Thread topic Deadline for consensus
Slot 1 Non-valid Continuity sections, categories, and prefixes 15th May
Slot 2 Creating a formal navbox policy 16th May
Slot 3 10,000 Dawns crossovers 15th May
Slot 4 Doctor Who? and The Daft Dimension as parallel universes (and related discussion of an edit to T:VS regarding parodies) 27th May
Slot 5 Validity: The Book of the Enemy's Biographies of Authors 15th May
Slot 6 Validating some deleted scenes 21st May
Admin announcements

Proposed threads

To propose a topic to be discussed, please add it to the "thread topic" column of this table, alongside your name (see below for how to add it easily).

To support a pre-existing proposal, add your name to the "support" column by entering three tildes, i.e. "~~~" (note that this is only 3 "~", not the usual 4, as the date your signature was added is not important) as a new argument in the {{PS}} template: in short, before "}}", type "|~~~".

When an admin has decided to greenlight the proposed thread, they will indicate this in the "verdict" column, and the thread can be opened in one of the "slots" in the above section.

You don't need to have prepared a full opening post before your proposition is greenlit, but it can be a good idea, particularly for complex proposals. You can type out such a "draft OP" as a sandbox, and link to it in your proposal on the table. If you go this route, when the admin greenlights your thread, they will move your sandbox directly to the relevant slot's namespace.

Thread topic Support OP status
Finding an alternative to using "(TV story)" for episodes that do not actually constitute a story, e.g. The Empty Child and The Halloween Apocalypse
Jack "BtR" Saxon ☎
Re-examining and discussing how the wiki understands "valid sources" and a potential proposed major change to T:VS to eliminate bias and arbitrary restrictions, hopefully preceding any validity inclusion debates. (Note: this itself does not intend to change the validity status of any sources, but is for when they are discussed.)
Chubby Potato ☎ 		In progress, but on hiatus.
Validity debate: An Adventure in Space and Time
MrThermomanPreacher ☎
Validity debate for the "alternate reality" online games (The Last Dalek, K9: Deja Who, Daleks v Cybermen).
MrThermomanPreacher ☎ 		Ready
Validity debate: Introduction to the Night
MrThermomanPreacher ☎
Discuss conflict of interest rules regarding relatives/close friends editing wiki pages. See Russell McGee.
Najawin ☎ 		Ready
"Splitting" UNIT. The UNIT page shouldn't cover info that really belongs on UNIT-UK, but there is more naunce to this I can't explain briefly here.
Interpreting the "neutral" in Tardis:Neutral point of view on in-universe pages.
Chubby Potato ☎
Changing/tweaking of the Tardis:Video policy.
Danniesen ☎
Determining whether LEGO Dimensions trailers, spotlight videos and the like that only contain DWU links via gameplay footage (as opposed to specially-made footage) actually qualify for pages.
WaltK
Using the "Support/Oppose/Neutral/Lukewarm" structure to organize these forum discussions.
How exactly do we treat the Casanova crossover?
MrThermomanPreacher ☎
Changing/tweaking of Tardis:Don't over-wikify.
Danniesen ☎
Working out the most optimal way to cover alternate reality games. As they typically comprise of one narrative, and virtually every other resource on the internet treats each ARGs as a single story, we should not split it up in the way we have with FindTheDoctor (series), for example.
In/validating information that only appears in foreign language translations (see GoldenEye 007)
WaltK 		Not ready
Loosely related to the above: creating a series of "DWU around the world" pages, that go in depth about DWU media as it is presented in non-English-speaking regions (stuff like when it first arrived in that region, what has and hasn't been localised there, listing any notable translation quirks, et al.), with it being emphasised that no info from these pages should spill out onto the rest of the wiki unless editorially justified.
WaltK
Splitting the Doctor's sonic screwdriver
MrThermomanPreacher ☎
Discuss creating a proper footer navbox to link all incarnations and versions of the Doctor (as opposed to the tiny, limited navfobox currently seen under the infobox).
PintlessMan ☎
Invalidity debate: The Curse of Fatal Death
Najawin ☎
Validity debate: Fourth wall-breaking sources such as COMIC: Pugwash Ahoy!, especially as episodes of Doctor Who itself break the fourth wall (e.g. "The Feast of Steven"), and are unquestionably valid.
Cookieboy 2005 ☎
In contrast to the mere validity discussion User:Cookieboy 2005 is suggesting, I suggest we open up a larger discussion about how this wiki handles varying levels of metafiction in general, such as Life-Cycle or The Editor.
Najawin ☎
Discussion of "Quickstart" guides and "cliffsnotes" recaps in preparation for the 60th and beyond, either in their own namespace, or in the theory namespace. (See discussion on updating our main page theme.)
Najawin ☎ 		Ready
Figuring out the exact context of the jokes in the Knock! Knock! Who's There? joke book.
WaltK
2 supporters
Ready
Discussion of how best to cover lost media with missing narrative details, and a new set of templates a la {{unprod}} and {{unproduced stories}} to go alongside. This also covers unreleased stories, depending on how we decide to interpret "lost media".
Overhauling our IU citation system with {{cite source}}.
Bongo50 ☎ 		Not ready
Clarifying the exact nature of The Trial of a Time Lord and Flux
Jack "BtR" Saxon ☎
Creating guidelines to determine which characters should be considered companions in story infoboxes.
Jack "BtR" Saxon ☎
Validity Debate: Children's Ward
Tellymustard ☎
Validity debate: The Dr. Men series.
WaltK
Reopening discussion, that was taking place in the deleted forums, of replacing "etc" with "et al" in sourcing.
Najawin ☎
The introduction of unnamed individuals (and potentially other objects) pages in the same vein as Memory Alpha.
MrThermomanPreacher ☎
1 supporter
Discussion regarding the reduction of human anatomy pages in favour of more consolidated pages. Along with discussion about potential page protection & what constitutes a 'reasonable' inclusion for such pages.
JDPManjoume ☎
Discussion on what to do with certain previously-highlighted pages of a mature nature, in terms of potential consolidation.
JDPManjoume ☎
Reconsideration of Doctor Who Guide as a valid source for casting information (on grounds of direct Wikipedia & IMDB lifts, and their unclear verification on their open-submission acceptance of biographies.)
JDPManjoume ☎
Renaming Children in Need Special (TV story) to Born Again (TV story) or Untitled (CiN TV story), while establishing that pages named [[Untitled ([SERIES] [SOURCE MEDIUM])]] are placeholder names and should ideally be named with the first — or most widely accepted — name given.
 Not ready
Discussion of Category:Non-heterosexual real world people and Category:Non-cisgender real world people - we need to have a real discussion on these two since a lot of the arguments used against them explicitly violate T:BOUND and we need to work out how to proceed. (This can also discuss the proposed category for POC real world people.)
Najawin ☎ 		If needed. (I'd prefer JDPM to write it)
Inclusion debate: The LEGO Batman Movie, as it featured licensed usage of the Daleks, and seems to have originally been specifically discluded due to people falsely believing it to be unlicensed.
Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 		Not ready
Introducing subpages for plot summaries.
Bongo50 ☎
Creating a real world page about this very Wiki and reviewing our T:NO SELF REF policy due to some obvious issues it'll cause.
Italicising story titles within disambiguation terms. E.g., Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka) instead of Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka). This could easily be done with a bot.
Utilising promotional pictures of the Doctor for {{docpic}} — or the tabbed gallery that @Bongo50 proposed — instead of relying on bad, low-res screenshots. Images like File:Docpic15.jpg is horrendous. We could use Jeremy Enecio's illustrations, for example. Changes to Tardis:Image use policy to allow promotional images may need to be discussed.
(Update: as per the rulings about non-narrative fiction and images, a lot of images are now valid sources unto themselves so many character portraits are fair game.)
Converting {{you may}}, {{dab page}}, and {{for}} into a Hatnote a la Wikipedia's, considering... certain formatting issues it's creating.
See how bad this is?
Formalising/codifying a deadname policy (which could also be inclusive of personal identity in general) that also overrides T:NO RW, as currently our policies would force us to deadname any in-universe counterpart of a real world person who was mentioned/appeared prior to their real world transistion, which is harmful.
A Wookieepedia-style overhaul of how we source things, in particular the use of "ref name" (example).
MrThermomanPreacher ☎
1 supporter
The incorporation of mentions/references and archival footage appearances in Appearances pages.
MrThermomanPreacher ☎
Introducing fields for pronouns in {{Infobox Individual}} and {{Infobox Person}} based upon Wookiepedia's recent update.
Making a more detailed guide as to what does and doesn't constitute getting a page under the Real world series with DWU connections category.
WaltK ☎
Validity debate: The Doctor Appears and The Doctor Drops In.
WaltK ☎
A couple of things about dating certain stories: 1) making a rule about citing an in-narrative source for a story's setting, and 2) interpreting a story set in "the present" as being set in the year of release unless evidence from other stories say otherwise.
WaltK ☎
Incorporating a more define usage of the actor section of character infoboxes; "actor" for when the character has the same actor in television and audio, and "main actor" for when they are replaced with a "main voice actor" for audio dramas, while "actor" is used when they just have "other voice actors" replaying their portrayals.
BananaClownMan ☎
Working out a consistent naming scheme for alternate universes/timelines/realities etc as opposed to naming them all things like Jackie Reeve's universe, Godfrey Porter's universe, etc.
Acknowledging that the Marvel crossover characters from The Incomplete Death's Head and its ilk originate in Earth-616.
Slackening T:NO SELF REF as it is prohibiting a lot of citations from individuals associated with obscurer works.
The modification of THIS PAGE to include new columns for this table, eg, "support with low priority", "ambivalent", "support in order to argue against".
Najawin ☎ 		Ready
Decoupling our Category:Help pages from the CC help pages. It allows for more specialized feedback for our community.
Najawin ☎ 		Ready
Validity debate: LEGO Dimensions, preferably with discussion on how to cover it (e.g. just DWU-connected voice clips, main story, & TDEoE; voice clips, main story, and all other level packs (some containing TARDIS travel points); voice clips, main story, TDEoE, maybe all other level packs, and Doctor Who adventure world; or everything, including all voice clips, levels, adventure worlds, etc.). May require a prior discussion on non-linear sources such as this.
Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 		Not ready
Covering individual VHS/DVD/etc. releases with their own pages like we already do with graphic novel compilations.
WaltK ☎
Splitting "the Magistrate" from The War King and addressing their relationship with The Master.
n8 (☎) 		Not ready
How do we deal with Doctor Omega?
(I'd prefer if Scrooge wrote up this OP, I'm sure he knows more than I.)
Najawin ☎
Overturning stories with branching narratives being invalid under T:VS.
Pluto2☎

This topic has been merged with MrThermomanPreacher's submission about Attack of the Graske and 66 Seconds's submission about The Lonely Assassins 		Not ready, being drafted.
Changing how we cover multi-part stories to make the wiki more useful as a reference source and better aligned with DWM and TCH on story counts and titles.
n8 (☎) 		Not ready
Creating subsections for THIS SECTION, and separating the table into multiple tables to match, based on month of proposal, so that editing becomes easier for users and so that earlier threads with lots of votes are more easily identifiable.
Pluto2☎
2 supporters
Relaxing Tardis:Honourifics further to encourage the use of honourifcs for further disamguition, for example moving Sabbath (Movers) to Godfather Sabbath with a redirect. For characters where this does not help disambuguate, they should probally not be moved, unless they excusivley refered to with their honourific. This is simply an extension of our current policy, as it already allows for some honourifc use in the case of disambuation, such as Grandma Connolly, but this aims to prioritise honourifcs over story dabs.Plus additional nuance for Faction Paradox characters, who often have honourifcs are deserve at least redirects from them.
Cousin Ettolrhc ☎ 		Ready
Changing the "Non-DWU" in our "invalid categories" to "invalid" or "from an invalid source" or something similiar, in order to strive away from attempting to declare a canon of what is and isn't in the DWU.
Cousin Ettolrhc ☎ 		Ready
Reviewing whether the temporary forums meet the wiki's needs and discussing potential changes people would like to see.
Bongo50 ☎
Improving our coverage of fan works that are of historical notability in the fandom, while still making sure that any articles created stay entirely of a real world nature. This would entail giving works that have had a significant impact on the Doctor Who fandom, such as the fan film Time Rift and the fan novel The Doctor and the Enterprise, articles in the same vein as the Audio Visuals, discussing the impact they had during the Wilderness Years. We could also discuss revamping our coverage of charity publications at the same time.
Pluto2☎ 		Ready
Restoring categories cataloging stories based on them being of the pure historical genre. This genre is easily defined and removing categories related to it has arguably hindered our readers' ability to find them.
Pluto2☎
Whether or not to make unique pages for "fictional" versions of in-universe individuals, as we already have for the Doctor.
WaltK ☎
Creating Shada (home video) as a separate article for the 1992 release featuring linking narration by Tom Baker, and reclassifying it as a valid source as it bears far more resemblance to reconstructions like Ian Chesterton: An Introduction (home video) than to deleted scenes.
Pluto2☎
Working out how best to create a "Tardis Expanded" Wiki for technically-unlicensed-but-semi-official works ranging from charity publications to fanfilms with established authors/actors and the merging of the Doctor Who: Lockdown Wiki.
2 supporters
As the categories were barely addressed in the non-narrative fiction thread, I feel we should discuss that; if we should either use the terminology "works of fiction" or "sources" and whether to make those new categories or rename the already existing hub categories such as Category:Stories that crossover with non-DWU series to Category:Sources that crossover with non-DWU series. Also will cover renaming templates such as {{Master stories}} to be inclusive of non-stories.
Working out the best way to display names of characters with multiple names, diminuitives, and nicknames and all that. I personally feel primary name(s) should be in the lead and anything more should be in a new == Name == section.
Introducing more specific citations for Doctor Who Magazine. Citing DWM 360 - Production Notes instead of just DWM 360, for example, should be standard. It'd be like citing just Zodiac instead of Jealous, Possessive!
The TARDIS Wiki Logo.png

Updating the logo of Tardis Wiki to better match the new era of the show to match with the RTD2 logo. This was in the midst of happening in a previous forum, but the topic was discarded.
OS25🤙☎️

Ready
Adding an out-of-universe summary or lede to the top of character pages.
On Samsung's "Doctor Who" channel, the slideshow of classic Doctors gives three facts for each incarnation: their incarnation number; actor name; and the years they were the main Doctor. This last one isn't findable anywhere on our incarnation pages!
An out-of-universe box at the top of character pages would be a flexible solution to this usability problem and others.
n8 (☎) 		Not ready
How best to cover the countless meta-fictional elements that appear in Doctor Who Adventures.
WaltK ☎
Legitimising the "Individuals killed by the Doctor" sandbox page, as well as the one concerning the Master, and potentially starting a series of body count pages, akin to the "Characters killed by..." catagories on the MCU wiki.
BananaClownMan ☎
Expanding our {{invalid}} template to include reasons for invalidity, as this makes it easier for future valdity debates (both on the supporting and opposing sides), as we know what to argue for/against. Plus potentially adding a {{fan}} template, similiar to the already existing {{unprod}}, for fan series we already cover to some extent, such as Audio Visuals.
Cousin Ettolrahc ☎
Clearing up what precisely Talk:Legacies (short story)/Archive 1 entails, if there was any policy implications at all, and how to deal with When Times Change...
Najawin ☎
Potentially reevaluating how to date stories that run afoul of the Aliens of London dating controversy.
WaltK ☎
1 supporter
Addressing the apparent contradiction that Poems are considered valid PROSE but songs are not considered valid AUDIO. So something like Who is the Doctor, which is really just spoken poetry, isn't valid simply for being performed instead of written down. A path to validity for a few select songs might be appropriate.
OS25🤙☎️
Restoring the Dalek history page.
MrThermomanPreacher ☎
2 supporters
Making our OOU citation system more consistent and detailed with new templates similar to {{cite source}}.
Bongo50 ☎
Introducing a "First non-covered Appearance" variable, to be used when a character originated in a story we do not cover. (Examples: Death's Head, Iris Wildthyme, Mickey Mouse, Jean-Luc Picard, Jeff Tracy, et. al)
OS25🤙☎️ 		Ready
Adding new prefixes which we now need. Example: FILM or CINEMA for things that premiered at the theatre. Perhaps a prefix for unproduced concepts and stories. Also think we should have something for animated reconstructions of episodes which include new details. Am open to other suggestions.
OS25🤙☎️
Make it official site policy that any publication/issue which includes Doctor Who content (or any content we cover) should have a page on the wiki, even ones which are not "Doctor Who" branded. For instance, TVC 1380, ETE 400, the individual issues of the The Marvel Bumper Comic and such non-DW collections as Death's Head: Volume 1. We've previously had pages like these deleted simply for not having Doctor Who in the title, but they are essential for fundamental navigation and research. OS25🤙☎️
Establish a header template which would link to an article's subpages, so readers can quickly find them without conflict. So the top of the Ninth Doctor's page would link to Ninth Doctor/Gallery, Ninth Doctor/Appearances, and Ninth Doctor/Non-valid sources in one go, so a reader can find all of them at once.

OS25🤙☎️

Story page section naming reform:
1. Replacing the ambiguous and confusing "References" with a self-explanatory alternative such as "Worldbuilding".
2. Splitting footnotes which are source citations from footnotes which are explanation or commentary.
3. Clarifying which sections are written from in-universe or out-of-universe point of view.
n8 (☎)
Distinguishing between actors and characters in things like It's Showtime and Consider Yourself One Of Us. As in, is Jessica Raine player herself or Nurse Jenny?
WaltK ☎
Speedround 2.0: Charity stories created with total licensed permission, Infidel's Comet, Hacker T Dog, K9 stories, Sleeze Brothers.
OS25🤙☎️ 		Not ready. 2/5 OPs done.
Loosening T:NO RW to a more acceptable standard. For instance, we should be able to say with certainty that the man giving the I Have a Dream speech in Remembrance of the Daleks is Martin Luther King. When the Ninth Doctor says his Spider sense is tingling, we should be able to say this is a reference to Spider-Man. When the Thirteenth Doctor recites a "classic bedtime story", and it's the opening page of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, we should be able to say this is a reference to the Harry Potter series. Not being able to make basic connections is not only greatly unhelpful to the reader, it actively stands against authorial intent.
OS25🤙☎️ 		Ready
Standardising whether to use "Series" or "Franchise" as dab terms for pages on real world series with DWU connections.
WaltK ☎
Extending the thread time limit from 3 weeks to a longer timeframe. i think 6 weeeks may be sensible (remembering they can be closed early), but this is up to debate. Additionally, setting 2 weeks as a minimum thread time.
Cousin Ettolrahc ☎
Reopening discussion of R4bp motivated in part by threads available to us in the recovered forum archives, such as Thread:212365.
Najawin ☎
0 supporters
Not yet.
Reopening discussion of Dimensions in Time. The R4bp thread failed to note that the story has been historically held to fail R2 as well. Should have been addressed before being validated.
Najawin ☎ 		Not yet.
10 years on, for the 60th anniversary's Christmas, we hand out another round of amnesty.
Najawin ☎ 		Not yet.

Archived threads

Main article: Tardis:Temporary forums/Archive

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ In the case of a tie, the thread proposed earliest generally gets priority. This should be the thread higher up in the table as threads are ordered by date added.
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