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Master images

Sorry about that. Was transferring information from my Master sandboxes over to the main page, and some images got transferred over by accident as well. Although I did leave the images on the appearance section there on purpose, since it made sense to have a visual reference on that section.

Actually, I've been meaning to ask you about the possibility of reopening the debate to make separate Master pages. I've been experimenting with it on my sandbox, and you can find the results here.BananaClownMan ☎ 02:03, January 28, 2019 (UTC)

Reply Problems

Hey there....I hadn't been able to get on the discussions page of the wiki for a while and now that I can, I am not able to respond to conversations. Wondering if I've been blocked again or if there's something wrong.

thanks User:Mister_Fifty

"Personal attacks"

Hello!

First-off, let's clarify that the remainder of this message is purely object-level and not an attack against you as a person. (I'd hope this'd be obvious, but I might as well be careful considering what just happened.) You no doubt committed the error detailed below with good intentions, and simply got carried away because running a Wiki is hard. (I know, I run one too, though it's smaller than Tardis by a wide margin.)

So. You blocked me for three days, three days ago, with the rationale that a comment of mine on Thread:171578. I'm sorry but it very much wasn't. For one thing, I used a silly "nonsense word", not some actual serious insult; it's an incompetent bully indeed who'd expect "Poppycock" to be taken as actual offensive name-calling these days.

But more importantly, even if it were an attack (which really isn't how I meant it), it was in no way a personal attack. The whole point of "personal attacks" as defined on Tardis:No personal attacks is that they're attacks ad hominem — insulting a person instead of disputing their ideas. Well, I did no such thing. Even if we ignore that the "Poppycock" declaration was not at all meant to be taken seriously, you yourself, in your blocking rationale, seemed to get that it was about AdricLovesNyssa's comment — nay, a specific idea therein. Not about AdricLovesNyssa themselves.

So first, whatever of the rest, I meant no harm, and if AdricLovesNyssa perceived such I'm sorry but that was in no way the intent of my words. But second, I don't see how my comment in any way fits Tardis's (or, indeed, most any) definition of a "personal attack".

Obviously, this is hardly a first-priority message, though I'd very much like to get a clear answer at some point. Reply whenever you find the time. In the meantime, I'll be back on the Forums, very much not insulting anyone thank you very much. Blah. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 23:21, February 13, 2019 (UTC)

Scrooge MacDuck's block

Hi. As you suggested, Scrooge MacDuck contacted me. I wrote a response explaining why I stand by my block. I also noted in my response that I am not quite sure why Scrooge MacDuck persistently misspells your name in a way that might be interpreted as an offence. This hesitation caused me to abort the idea of shortening the block. However, if you do not find this misspelling offensive and are satisfied with Scrooge MacDuck's reaction to the blocks, I would not object if you shorten my block. However, I remain of the conviction that the second block must remain longer than the first. Amorkuz ☎ 01:16, February 15, 2019 (UTC)

Doctor Who spin-offs

Amorkuz removed Free-Fall Warriors from Doctor Who spin-offs because it was implicitly listed in the "Spin-offs set in the DWU" section of the page, while no inclusion debate has actually made that conclusion. In the meantime, the position of our wiki is that the Free-Fall Warriors spin-off is not set in the DWU (see also Amorkuz's deletion of the page Free-Fall Warriors). Rather than simply re-adding something an admin had deleted, I was moving it to the appropriate section of the page (namely, the "Spin-offs not set in the DWU" section). At the same time I was also adding to the list and fixing multiple formatting errors, all of which was also reverted in your undoing of my edit. Now I've written all this explanation (satisfying, I hope, the "talk to an admin about it" part of your requirement) I'm going to go ahead and undo your undoing of my edit. Thank you regardless for your thoroughness in double-checking! – N8 ☎ 03:04, February 19, 2019 (UTC)

Re: Party Animals

Before I hand you a list of pages to delete (if that is your implication) out of my own free will, I must say pages like Captain Britain, Bart Simpson, Sapphire and Steel, John Steed have been on this wiki for a few years and have never been subject to scrutiny by an admin until now.

A Dalek or a Meep can be identified without being named with no argument. As for non-DWU characters, Worf, Death's Head, the Thing, and the Human Torch are in a similar situation. They are not named in Party Animals / The Incomplete Death's Head but do appear in stories ruled valid by this wiki.

Some characters are named in DWU stories (e.g. Hulk, John Steed), so at the very least a mention/image of their appearance in Party Animals in a behind the scenes section would be warranted.

This is all to illustrate that Party Animals certainly is an unusual story. I think it's valuable to have a complete list of all the obscure characters seen in this story and you truly have to "see it to believe it." Perhaps a Forum thread should be opened to discuss this in-depth with other users and admins before the recent hard work of myself and others is swept under the rug. And I'm not sure how I feel about an admin wanting to make an extreme decision about pages regarding a story they have not read. LegoK9 ☎ 22:56, March 2, 2019 (UTC)

Re: Party Animals 2

A potential compromise has come to mind. If the individual pages for Axel Pressbutton, Cusick and Doot, et al. must be deleted, would it be acceptable to have a gallery at the bottom of Party Animals (comic story) Showing the images of characters that cannot have a separate page for lacking mentions in DWU stories? (Edit: LegoK9 ☎ 23:17, March 2, 2019 (UTC)) I wouldn't want the work I put into getting these images be erased so soon.

Also, I'm aware admins aren't employees and I apologise for implying otherwise. LegoK9 ☎ 23:16, March 2, 2019 (UTC)

Images

You deleted my images for lack of info on source of work and copyright HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THE SOURCE OF WORK AND COPYRIGHT OF A MEME CAT IMAGE? GarfielfStuff ☎ 14:11, March 4, 2019 (UTC)

Hi Shambala108,

I hope you can help me. I'd like to apologise for the edits on my author page - I hadn't seen the guidelines when I posted the synopsis and notes, and I didn't get a notification for the first removal, so I assumed it was a glitch.

I have now seen the guidelines for authors, and I think I understand the reasoning behind the no-self-editing rule. I can see that comments by other people would be less subjective and more detached.

Can I explain why this is important to me? I have spent the last 18 months writing a series of YA novels. Not DW-related in any way, so they won't be showing up here. For long and complicated reasons, I am self-publishing the series, and for this I need an audience. My only previously published work of fiction is the short story in 'Iris Wildthyme of Mars', so that's my shop window, for anyone who wants to find out about me, and my writing.

Self-publishing is really, really hard. I have to spend precious writing time building my presence online, and trying to reach as many people as possible. I'm putting myself out there on social media, and trying to make sure that if people search for me, they find useful and interesting resources.

A synopsis for my short story on this website would be a massive help for me - for my exposure, and as a place to direct people who want to know more about my writing. To this end, the synopsis I posted is short, accurate, and reflects the as-published text of the story. It's not DW canon. It doesn't reinterpret anything. I haven't added anything that isn't in the text. But it is the only place online where my name could be associated with information about my story.

The notes are more subjective, but I have read reviews from people who hadn't made the connection between my story and the source material, and this would be a great place to share those notes. Again - there is no additional interpretation, and nothing I have written reinterprets DW canon in any way.

So I guess I'm pleading for a chance to incorporate these pages into my online presence in a way that would be helpful to my readers. I can see that the rules are there to prevent writers from adding extras or referring to unpublished versions of the text - but that's not what I've done here. I have worked as an editor, and written blurbs and synopses for other books - that's all I'm doing here.

As an indie author, I don't have an agent or a publisher to do this stuff for me, so I have no option but to write my own online content. It seems unfair that someone with a team could use the rest of their team to post for them, while I am barred from posting at all because I have to be my own agent and publisher.

I would really, really appreciate it if the synopsis and notes could be reposted. It would make an enormous difference to me, and to my ability to reach my audience.

I apologise for the reposts yesterday - I had not fully understood the situation, and it was not my intention to break any rules or cause trouble.

Thank you for reading this far! I appreciate your time and attention.

Rachel Churcher. Rachel Churcher ☎ 14:00, March 6, 2019 (UTC)

PS. I'm also struggling with the author photo on my author page. Which licence should I be using from the drop-down list? It's a photo taken of me, by my husband, where I hold the copyright, so technically I guess that there isn't a licence, because there doesn't need to be. It's me using my own photo. Any advice would be very welcome - thank you!

Novel

Hello, apologies for the move. May you please rename Destination: Bandril to Destination: Bandril (novel)? Thanks.--Crazyface201 ☎ 03:34, March 12, 2019 (UTC)

IP user block

For one thing, there wasn't quite an edit war, as it did not go on for long enough to meet the technical definition at T:NO WARS. 6 month bans are absolutely correct for IP users who are outright vandalising, or disrupting the wiki repeatedly in bad faith. 6 months for an IP user is nearly an infinite block, as their IP is likely to have changed by that time.

In this case, as the block summary you selected suggests, the most said user needed was time to "cool down". As this didn’t fully become an edit war, from the outside it seems more like you were trying to silence this user for their other edits, essentially taking another POV. As it stands, we have not yet established the best way to deal with real world trans people's deadnames on the wiki, so their method of dealing with it is entirely valid.

I understand your intentions, but it was only almost an edit war, and on a point we have not yet decided. As it happens, I think the majority of this user's edits were positive. These are real world people, and we have to do our best to actually respect them. It's one thing to speak of fictional characters more theoretically; it's quite another not to do our utmost as editors to treat the real people we cover with dignity and respect. This user could have used the talk page instead of undoing edits, certainly, but they were not at all acting out of bad faith, so a lengthy ban does not match the level of that mistake.
× SOTO (☎/✍/↯) 15:08, March 20, 2019 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't reply to your message sooner. I had some other things to deal with, both here and in real life. Just to clarify, in case I mispoke, what I was trying to get across is that to an outsider it might seem you had other motives. We have worked alongside each other as admin for many years now, and I do not believe that you would do such a thing myself. If that is what came across in my message above, I apologise.

Seeing your message to Amorkuz, though, I do have to remind you once again that I am not a "he". In case you hadn't realised from past exchanges, or perhaps from reading the masthead on my user page and user talk page, I am nonbinary and I use they/them pronouns. I have never misgendered you and called you anything other than "she", to my knowledge, and I would ask that you do the same. In the spirit of assuming good faith, as you point out, I'm assuming you hadn't yet realised. I did use other pronouns when I started out back in 2012, so I understand how that might be confusing.

Cheers,
× SOTO (☎/✍/↯) 01:27, March 22, 2019 (UTC)

Re:Images

Ahh, that makes a ton of sense, especially on long pages like Eleventh Doctor. I guess I'd be curious about how that guideline would apply to significantly shorter pages: for a relevant example, I don't think Time corridor's two images posed much of a serious burden to loading speeds, and it's a real shame to see one of them removed like that. Probably one of those scenarios where I should pester CzechOut about it?

Thank you for such a speedy reply, and for digging up that quote as well! – N8 ☎ 00:27, March 21, 2019 (UTC)

Images

I see what you mean, but having one image per section means that the plot section of, say, Deep Breath can have only one image whilst The Daleks' Master Plan can have twelve because it has different sections for each episode. If the goal is to make it easier for mobile users, this doesn't make much sense to me. -- Saxon 10:45, March 21, 2019 (UTC)

Recent blocks

Hi, Shambala108. I would like to explain why we are hesitant to put up the nascent deadname policy for public discussion. Generally, I am all for democracy and power to the people. But the recent years have clearly shown that there are wedge issues where the people's will can lead to complete chaos, which benefits no one. In addition, the rights of minorities are hard to secure by a general consensus, especially when the minority is really small and their problems are, on the face of it, alien and unknown to the majority.

It is one thing to require community consensus for policies relating to the fictional DWU. It is quite another to make community consensus the condition for respecting a group of people or eliminating things that are hurtful to them. Consensus is a matter of awareness and did fail the humanity on multiple occasions in history. At different points, there was a consensus in support of slavery, witch trials, refusing to let women vote, GULAG, etc. For instance, there is only one country I know of (Ireland) where the issue of gay marriage was decided via a referendum. In the majority of cases, it is the judiciary that decides to stop discrimination.

Secondly, such an open debate would not be academic. It will tread on people's feelings. As you could see from yesterday, some people have very strong feelings on the matter (thanks for blocking by the way) and are not afraid to express them. I'm sure trolls from 4chan would relish the opportunity to leave their footprint too. But even discounting radicals and trolls, ordinary well-meaning users cannot be expected to be sensitive of the topic they are not aware of. Upon learning about the concept of "deadnames", I've had several discussions with cis people like myself. The first reaction is normally incredulity. The closest thing in our own experience is changing a name through marriage, which is, I am told, not the same thing at all. If incredulity is met with an unabashed attack like the one you deleted, if a person who never thought about trans people is called a "transphobic so-and-so" right off the bat, the discussion will be hurtful and not very likely to be productive. And even if everyone, including new users who, as you pointed out earlier, are often drawn to the forums first, manage to keep civil, the lack of knowledge of the issues can cause a lot of hurt too. Our editors really like to argue. Just recently, User:Scrooge MacDuck was dead set on fictionalising a real-world minor with utter disregard to her or her family wishes. It took me quite a long while to explain to him why it is wrong to play with lives of real people so carelessly. He meant well, but her privacy and right to self-determination was simply not high on his priorities' list. The same is likely to happen here: cis editors will provide their well-meaning opinion on how they think trans people should treat their names. And the smallest spark will explode the discussion.

This is why we believe it is in everybody's best interests if the issue is discussed among the admin, who represent different points of view and come from different walks of life. We would be more than happy if you join this discussion. But opening it up to the troll factories of this world would not be the best course of actions, IMHO. Amorkuz ☎ 16:46, March 21, 2019 (UTC)

Image debate

Hello, User:Shambala108.

I've been watching the exchanges between users about image policy. I wanted to ask you if you could share a link to this policy with me, as I wish to debate a changing to this "one image per section" rule.

Now, before I get turned away, I wanted to let you know that my mobile phone has never had trouble opening a page with lots of images, with the exception of the Master's page, but that's mostly due to length rather than content.

However, I am aware of the other reason images are restricted; "to many bakers can spoil the cake". Image overflowing has been an issue, which is one of the points I plan to make in my debate.

Thank you for your time. Sincerely, BananaClownMan ☎ 17:29, March 21, 2019 (UTC)

Image policy

I'm trying to get an image policy finalized, and would like to invite you to discuss it on Thread:247941.

Sincerely, BananaClownMan ☎ 22:24, March 21, 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, this link won't work because of me. BCM and I posted within less than 5 minutes of each other in separate locations, so I deleted the thread in preference for the area that already contained a good bit of useful discussion — his talk page. And the entire contents of the thread are now on his talk page. Sorry for any confusion that might have created.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  03:08: Fri 22 Mar 2019

Reply

I think blocking is a little extreme, since its not such a case of "flagrant defying of admin instructions". I thought things were being rushed into, reverted the page to the previous version while leaving a description explaining that I though a debate should be taken before removing a large chunk of information, especially since it was stated by other users that they disagreed with the current stance on image numbers, and have not reverted the pages now that a debate is going on.

You are within your right to feel that I was being antagonistic with my edit, but I assure you that it came from a genuine feeling that a mistake was being made, and I did my best to come across as non-aggressive as I could be by opening to doors for discussion, and have not repeated the offence since being directly told by and having a discussion with User:CzechOut.

For these reasons, I humbly request not to be blocked from editing, not only so I can continue to talk with User:CzechOut and others on the debate on my talk page, but also because my actions were not born out of aggression or trolling, but out of a belief that I was doing the right thing, and I have ceased my actions after being informed otherwise.

P.S. It would seem that the reason the link doesn't work is because the debate was deleted and moved to my talk page for some reason.

Sincerely, BananaClownMan ☎ 10:22, March 22, 2019 (UTC)

I can see where you're coming from. I'm sorry that I didn't take how newcomers could be influenced by such actions. I guess I just don't see myself as such a big deal. I just see myself as one of thousands of editors that can be interchangeable at times. Besides, since a debate has started, I no longer feel the need to revert those edits, as it is being discussed whether or not they should be there, and the debate is currently leading into the negative, and I will follow which ever way that talk ends.BananaClownMan ☎ 15:20, March 22, 2019 (UTC)

Re page moves

Hi Shambala108, so if I think a page needs renaming should I just put a Speedy rename template on it and put T:DAB TERM as the reason? Doc77can ☎ 00:32, March 31, 2019 (UTC)

Could you please explain why you deleted the cyberman weapons page. I do not mean to be hostile.

What topics could I make a page about without them being deleted?

What topics could I make a page about without them being deleted?

-Your lord, cuthulu

Question?

Do images that i made have to have a license if I upload them --GarfielfStuff ☎ 00:38, April 10, 2019 (UTC)

Season 10 trailer

Do we consider the small scene from the "Season 10 Blu-ray box set"-trailer as part of the official continuity in-universe, or do we consider it out-of-universe (Behind the scenes) material? --DCLM ☎ 13:45, April 16, 2019 (UTC)

Oh No It Is!

Hey, I saw you deleted most of my painstakingly collected explanations behind all the multiple references freely dropped in Oh No It Isn't!. Admittedly, these are a bit hard to classify as they straddle the in-/out-of-universe divide. In a way, the whole story does, much the same way as the Land of Fiction. Was that the reason? I wouldn't want to lose them completely. Some are more obscure, like "cat on a hot tin roof". I really think a reader may benefit from having them spelled out, the same way that people are interested in lists of Easter eggs in movies and even trailers. Thus, my question: what was the problem and is there a way to avoid it while keeping the references on the page? Amorkuz ☎ 23:11, April 19, 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me and for your understanding. I do agree that sometimes such references can really be quite spurious, like Automots in The Cars That Ate London!, which were a little unnecessary nod to Autobots from the Transformers franchise. On the other hand, when the author heavily leans on the metatextual connections, I believe it is worth mentioning them even when they are not in-universe. I can think of several such allusions: the apple and its seed in The Secret in Vault 13 was quite biblical and there are enough crumbs to see it as a deliberate comparison; incessant references to The Sound of Music in Better Watch Out/Fairytale of Salzburg that take place in Salzburg. In fact, these references are hinted to be in-universe, and the name of the movie is mentioned. In my mind Oh No It Isn't relies on these literary connections even stronger. Partly because the whole genre of panto does. Partly because the author is playing with the reader by relying on archetypal, commonly known storylines. I feel the same in museums. People of the time did not need labels to figure out which saint is on a painting because they had commonly known identifying symbols. But I need an explanation. Returning back to DWU, with readers from all over the globe, it's quite possible that some of them would not know the more British references, which the author relied on, sometimes in a subtle fourth-wall-breaking kind of way. This is why I tried to collect everything I could gather and record on the page. And this is why I have no real preference whether it is recorded in references or in notes. This is not for universe-building. This is the expert commentary for a novice reader. Thanks once again, and happy editing! Amorkuz ☎ 12:09, July 6, 2019 (UTC)

Page "Jamie's Awa' in His Time Machine"

In reference to the page you deleted, yes it is in the DWU, on the basis of it being found in the BBC's archives under "TV Press Office: Doctor Who" described as "tells about some of the monsters Jamie has met on his travels" (T66/25/1)- see here.

Would it be possible to restore the page on this basis? Especially since Fraser confirmed it was recorded. RavenclawDBS (MCKA DevilboyScooby) 16:38, April 20, 2019 (UTC)

Redirects

Who's "we"? I'm unaware of any decision to delete redirects of the kind you describe. It's still quite useful to have un-dabbed story names (like Let's Kill Hitler) redirect, unless that un-dabbed term is itself a valid in-universe term (like Castrovalva). And even then, Castrovalva should still link to Castrovalva (TV story) via {{you may}} or a similar template.

In other words, no, there's no change I know about, nor would I support. Within the reality of Doctor Who published fiction, it's gotta be as simple and as multi-vectored as possible for readers to find pages about stories.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  00:04: Sun 05 May 2019

Doctor Adventures

Sorry I took so long to get back to you. The Doctor Adventures ranges were created by Big Finish after the recent website redesign. I have now added links to the applicable pages. --Borisashton ☎ 02:00, May 8, 2019 (UTC)

Deletion request

Hi, I've updated the Third Dr Big Finish stories released today. However I stupidly named The Scream of Ghosts, the Scream of Death by mistake. I've now done a second article with the proper name but could you go and delete the original page for me? Thanks.– The preceding unsigned comment was added by Vincent VG (talk • contribs) .

Twelfth Doctor edit

Why was the edit in the Twelfth Doctor article undone? However, Clara, angered by the position the Doctor had put her in and threatening to make him regenerate by slapping him so hard... 19:17, April 21, 2019‎ - https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Twelfth_Doctor?action=history Doctor 25 ☎ 11:22, May 9, 2019 (UTC)

the imperator

can we merge imperator and morbius pages it is saying in behind the scenes page of morbius two characters same i already but merge sign.

Categories

How do you propose that pages such as Todd (Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy) come under the Category:Humans umbrella? -- Saxon 12:22, May 10, 2019 (UTC)

Category:21st century individuals and the like aren't exclusively for humans, though. -- Saxon 21:53, May 10, 2019 (UTC)

Bumping. -- Saxon 20:11, May 23, 2019 (UTC)

But... surely humans should come under the humans category just like members of any other species. I bumped because I received no response. -- Saxon (talk) 16:26, May 25, 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Manager

Hi Shambala108! My name is Playsonic2 and I’m the Fandom Wiki Manager assigned to TARDIS Data Core. I am here to help the community and be a liaison to full-time Fandom staff.

I also happen to be an administrator at the Spanish Doctor Who Wiki, which has me spending considerable amount of time here (adding interlanguage links mostly). I know this wiki wonderfully organised and that CzechOut assists with any technical issues, but if there is anything I could assist with, I would be pleased to help. I will be available on my talk page! ~Playsonic2 09:06, May 20, 2019 (UTC)

page removal

Why has the page "French Tax Rebate for International Production" been deleted again? --DCLM ☎ 14:16, May 25, 2019 (UTC)

Oh, right. --DCLM ☎ 09:40, May 30, 2019 (UTC)

Sabine Bohlmann

Hi I've just added a stub for Sabine Bohlmann. Can you look over it and add categories etc., please? Scout Finch ☎ 08:45, June 6, 2019 (UTC)

T:SOCK violation

Not to be a snitch or anything, but since a violation of T:SOCK is such a serious offence that it carries an infinite ban I thought I should inform you that the user, Mr Bootel 2 has been created and I make the fair assumption that this is the same person as Mr bootel. Since you were originally the blocking admin and you just reverted some of their edits I thought you would be the best to tell. --Borisashton ☎ 21:20, June 7, 2019 (UTC)

T:SOCK violation confirmed. Case closed. Amorkuz ☎ 21:56, June 7, 2019 (UTC)

Explanation

I believe there's been a terrible misunderstanding. I got blocked because it was believed I was adding additional images after being advised against so. But, I was not adding additional images; after counting the 43 images on the page, I removed the ones I believed were a bit random, (the Masters unmaking themselves at the Battle of the Bands, the image from Doctor Who Fights Masterplan "Q" that only features the Master at a distance) and replaced them with images that depicted more impactful moments of the Master's life, limiting myself to only 43 images, so as not the make the page harder to access for individuals with slower loading time.BananaClownMan ☎ 23:43, June 11, 2019 (UTC)

About “The Body in Question”

Hi! I have three remarks/queries about points not mentioned by you in your closing argument on the Body in Question thread. To be clear, I'm not contesting the decision, though I disagree with it; what's done is done. I merely wish to understand your reasoning, and the precedents set, better.

• First, a query: despite all the fuss we made about it, you did not mention Keepsake's Vulture in the closing argument. Why? And, thus, why do you rule that its appearance is not sufficient to induce validity? (You tell us of Vienna as an example of stories with a DWU-debuting character not being valid, but Vienna is AFAIK invalid in spite of the DWU connection due to the special circumstances of a specific statement by the production team. No such “you may think otherwise, but this story of mine ain't DWU” statement exists for Body in Question.)
• Second: not a question but a clarification: I can't speak for others, but I wasn't arguing that the mention of the Doctor was equivalent to an appearance; I was arguing that it was evidence of Rule 4 compliance — evidence that the writer did in fact intend for the story to be part of the Doctor's narrative universe, or else they wouldn't have mentioned the Doctor.
• Third: CzechOut's pronouncement about such stories being a lower priority than televised episodes is all fine and good, but whatever happened to the “we give all media equal weight, whether it's a Capaldi Christmas special or a never-reprinted 1960's photo-comics” founding principle? There's a reasonable argument for each position but they seem to me to be rather clearly at odds.

--Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 09:48, June 12, 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Shambala108. I feel obliged to inform you that NateBumber also tried to challenge or undermine your ruling on this closure at my talk page by suggesting that you had misinterpreted my words. I do not appreciate this attempt. Hence, before answering him, I inform you of this eventuality. Amorkuz ☎ 19:14, June 15, 2019 (UTC)

Hi Shambala108. It seems that Amorkuz has unfortunately misconstrued my intentions in asking (what I thought was) an innocent clarifying question about one of his prior statements; please disregard his above comment. – N8 ☎ 23:11, June 15, 2019 (UTC)

Talk:TARDIS/Archive 1

Hi, I think you might have kept the wrong name when undoing a user-performed move of Talk: Penis 8====D/Archive 1. OncomingStorm12th ☎ 19:14, June 14, 2019 (UTC)

Reply to your message

Thank you for the message you left on my talk page, and you are most welcome :)

And thank you for all the admin work that you do, keeping the site clean and user friendly. It must be such hard work monitoring and editing the many many pages in this wiki and you and the other admins do an amazing job. LauraBatham ☎ 07:25, June 23, 2019 (UTC)

Post Box

I don't really understand the point of using the past tense to describe an object that is plainly still in common usage. There are two post boxes within walking distance of my front door! Tony ingram ☎ 14:26, June 26, 2019 (UTC)

BBC and other mergers

I'm slowly working my way through the proposed mergers, after I realised some of these had been pending for ages. I've just done Cyberman, which I've not really tried to integrate and just thrown a cleanup tag on and left the two other pages below it. But it's all integrated and merged history wise. --Tangerineduel / talk 03:42, June 28, 2019 (UTC)

Prisoner of Time thread closures

Hey :) Sorry I wasn't able to respond swiftly on the thread closure issue. I read your message a week ago — but it's been an unusually heavy work week due to staff vacations at this time of the year.

I did want to point out, however, that by convention, admin who are heavily involved in the substance of threads should avoid — where possible — being the one to close the thread. Of course, we can't always do that, but where possible we should strive to have a largely-uninvolved admin close up threads where we're heavily involved.

In fact, you were ideally placed to be the one to close the Prisoner of Time thing because you hadn't strongly participated. By contrast, I was a principle objector to the change, which — and my memory of this past event may be faulty — had already been made at the time I objected.

So, even if I had been able to answer you in a more timely fashion, I would still have thought it more appropriate for you to close the thread. Hope that makes sense!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  13:10: Fri 28 Jun 2019

RE:Cyberman

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I thought it best not to put the {{inuse}} tag so that other people could also help, if they wanted (I now see that no one did, but oh well). In any capacity, since there doesn't seem to be a great flow of people editing the page, I'll keep the tag off. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion. :) OncomingStorm12th ☎ 23:11, June 28, 2019 (UTC)

Dalek Empire

Thanks for offering to help. Specifically I was looking for way of giving a date to the Dalek Empire (audio series) to reaffirm the years currently on their pages - you'll noticed they're very specific. This could be a year itself, or a length of time relative to another story. Having listened to the full series, they often give lengths of time that has passed between series, but never, as far as I could tell, a specific year, or even a century. Thanks again, Danochy ☎ 04:22, June 29, 2019 (UTC)

Ah, I see. That's exactly what I was wanting, thanks. I guess I'll go and amend the settings from all those DE stories, now we know them to come from an invalid source. It might take a while to track down all the pages related to DE that have those years on them, but I'll do what I can. Danochy ☎ 04:52, July 9, 2019 (UTC)

Query Re: Proms

Thanks for closing the Proms thread!

Bit confused, though. If there are in-universe sections which some people might be tempted to call valid (and there are, independently from the packaged sketches; Davros's live appearance, for example), why shouldn't the Invalid tag be there, precisely with the rationale (if that's what you're going with) that they fail Rule 1?

There are tons of things which are invalid because the Wiki rules them to not be stories, which nevertheless bear the tag for clarity. Meet the Thirteenth Doctor (not a story because it is a trailer), for example. What makes the Proms different from such cases?

(To be clear, since a similar question of mine was misinterpreted as an attempt to contest the decision a short while ago, this is a genuine question, not a complaint. I'm sure you must have a reason, I'd just like to know it.) --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 23:34, June 30, 2019 (UTC)

Vandalizing hater

There might be a vandalising hater on the loose on the Wikia. Currently under the unregistered account Special:Contributions/208.184.162.181. --DCLM ☎ 18:52, July 3, 2019 (UTC)

Seven Keys to Puzzlement

Why did you revert my edit at The Doctor (Seven Keys to Doomsday)? Surely the fact that he was played by another actor in an officially-licensed production, and with such a different design, is noteworthy enough for the behind-the-scenes section? Especially since I had it properly sourced. And this same statement, with his same source, could also already be found at Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday before I got there. Why is that fact acceptable there, but not here?--Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 14:16, July 8, 2019 (UTC)

Oh, okay. It's just that you also removed the paragraph which I meant to illustrate with the picture in question — am I free to add back all that text, even if the picture has to wait? --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 14:25, July 8, 2019 (UTC)

Fandom's official Discord server

Hey there! I’m passing by to share that Fandom just launched an official Discord server. There’s a blog at Community Central with more information and the link with the invite so you can join if you want. There are channels for general talk, technical help, etc. and tons of editors have already shown up. Cheers! Playsonic2 ☎ 07:46, July 11, 2019 (UTC)

Infobox question.

Hello. Where exactly does it say that Features are for "Recurring Characters" in regards to Infoboxes? Because as far as I'm aware. You don't seem to have a Infobox Policy. --0551E80Y ☎ 00:40, July 17, 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I've noticed the Louise Falkner page should be called Louise Faulkner. I've checked with the Big Finish website & this is correct. Maybe someone misspelt it when first making The Genocide Machine entry.