User talk:Ghastly9090

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• Ghastly9090 •

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Spoilers aren't cool

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Admin

To be an admin you need to understand the policies, procedures and workings of this wiki. You also need to have a good working knowledge of Doctor Who and the Doctor Who universe. A lengthy edit history is also required as when a serious request to be an admin is made the editor's edit history is looked through by other admins to determine if the editor has the skills necessary to be an admin on this wiki. At this time I can't really consider your request to be an admin as you have a far too low edit count to be able to judge your skills as an editor.

Most duties an admin carries out can be done by a regular editors on this wiki. If you're looking for a direction to begin there is the Tardis:To Do List, see also the Tardis:Help page for our policies and other useful pages for this site.

Also, just on a side note, when uploading images please select a copyright tag from the licensing drop down box, in the case of the image of a Doctor Who Magazine that you recently uploaded you would have needed to clicked the licensing menu box, and scroll down to 'Magazines' and select 'Doctor Who Magazine covers', this adds a copyright tag for Doctor Who Magazine covers. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 13:02, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

Article sections

Please do not add puns as titles for sections or other to articles. These have no place in the article and will be removed. Thank-you. The Thirteenth Doctor 15:11, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

Stuff

In terms of being an admin, read Tangerineduel's comments above. When you've been around for a few months, then you can start to think about becoming an administrator.

For the upcoming Christmas special, there has been no title announced as yet, and until the episode is just about to air (as in, same day), an article will not be created for it. This is due to the policies of the wiki. -- sulfur 23:14, July 15, 2010 (UTC)

As I and sulfur have said about being an admin.
In more specific terms with regards to you wishing to be an admin just to create a Christmas special article, as there is no confirmable information, such as a title there is very little information.
However you can still be a valuable editor on this wiki, many of the duties accomplished by an admin can be done by regular users.
Also please remember to cite a source when adding information, such as your recent edit to the Series 6 page. While you have mentioned that the 'Doctor Who website' showed it you did not link to any article so others may check the information.
Please also remember that in-universe articles need to be written from an in-universe perspective (not as you did in this edit to the Heart of the TARDIS article. As I said above knowing our Tardis:Manual of Style and looking through the Tardis:Help pages with the various policies and such listed there will be a assistance in becoming a good editor. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 13:59, July 16, 2010 (UTC)

Eighth Doctor

I'm going to use your recent edits to the Eighth Doctor's page to explain a few things to you. Please don't add information from audio dramas etc. that have not yet aired, these are classed as spoilers. Plus, all you did was link to the page, no explanation as to what the section was to be about. If you don't have any information, don't create a new section. Simply linking to the drama articles makes the page out of universe. Also, any new information goes in it's chronological place on the Doctor's page, ie. they can't take place after his regeneration. Thanks. The Thirteenth Doctor 11:07, July 25, 2010 (UTC)

  • You don't have to apologise. Just take note of it and remember it in future. The Thirteenth Doctor 12:59, July 25, 2010 (UTC)


== Rumours ==




Please do not add rumours without sources. This is seen as vandalism. Looking at your talk page, I would strongly suggest you have a read at the policies, otherwise you may be listed as a vandal. The Thirteenth Doctor 19:50, July 31, 2010 (UTC)




It was the rumour that Omega would return on the series 6 page. Fan based rumours do not belong there, only rumours supported by an outside source. Perhaps I should not have said "this is seen as vandalism" but this could be seen as vandalism if repeated continually. Sorry for not being clear enough. And I do suggest that you have a read through the policies as I know they are good faith edits and you are generally a good editor, but continuing to breach policies, like the above messages could end up with a block. If you read through the policies, you'll know what not to do and you'll remove the risk of accidentally getting a block. The Thirteenth Doctor 17:36, August 5, 2010 (UTC)


Adventure Games

To whichever admin is telling me off

I'm sorry if I made a mistake on the adventure games page because i can't remeber the links but mabye you could look into it and find them. The text that i left on the page is 100% true. I got the underwater one from a magazine in WH Smiths and I got the Tardis one from a reliable source within the adventure game crew. Ghastly9090 18:26, August 18, 2010 (UTC)

Citing sources

Hey. When you are citing the sources, if you want the little number you use <ref>url here</ref> instead of using [url here]. --The Thirteenth Doctor 11:57, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

Puzzle pieces and ref tags

If what you're talking about is what I think you're talking about, it's what The Thirteenth Doctor has said above. The "puzzle piece" you mentioned means an external link out, but on real world pages sources are cited using the method The Thirteenth Doctor describes above and that is visible throughout the Series 6 page. You links appear as they do because they're not ref tagged. --Tangerineduel 13:24, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

You do as it described by The Thirteenth Doctor above, you put your source as follows <ref>source</ref> or look around the Series 6 page where it's done on practically all the sources except the ones you've added. --Tangerineduel 08:07, September 1, 2010 (UTC)

SJA

Yeah, it's perfectly fine as far as I can tell. The Thirteenth Doctor 17:31, September 4, 2010 (UTC)

Infoboxes

I use the following code, then fill in with the appropriate info. {{Infobox Individual |individual name = Name |alias = Known aliases |image = Image of the individual |race = Race of the individual |home planet = Planet of origin |home era = Era of origin |appearances = Appearances made in all media |mentions = Mentions of individual - Only use when information is sparse |actor = Actors playing the character }}

Delete tag

Please leave the content of a page that has a delete tag on it. Just because the tag is there does not mean the content should be removed users and admins need to judge the content and it makes for an extra step to go into the page's history and go through successive edits to check the page's content prior to the removal of the content. --Tangerineduel 17:19, September 8, 2010 (UTC)

SJA

Please stop adding that Luke and K9 are leaving the show completely in the Nightmare Man. All that has been said is that they are going to university, not that they are going and not coming back. I clearly stated that in the edit summary when I removed it. The Thirteenth Doctor 10:56, September 12, 2010 (UTC)

Info box on you User page

To get the info box on your User page, feel free to copy the template from my page (Go to edit, then copy the template - and don't click save) then just paste it on your page and edit it how you want. Mini-mitch 16:19, September 14, 2010 (UTC)

Infobox

I'll actually place the infobox on your page, then you can fill it out yourself. The Thirteenth Doctor 15:29, September 23, 2010 (UTC)

Infoboxes

Ask User:Tangerineduel. He knows about all that sort of thing. Thanks--Skittles the hog 15:30, September 23, 2010 (UTC)

Contents & Admin

Sean-Black's move to adminship is a bit before my time on this wiki, however, looking through the User rights log, Sean-Black's move from user to admin was made very early in this wiki's inception.

I can only guess at this point but Sean-Black is a current wikipedia admin and obviously also knowledgable about Doctor Who, and when setting up this wiki there were several things the original users who set up the wiki were learning quickly, and I would assume that Sean-Black as an admin on the English Wikipedia was of assistance in setting up the wiki. In the case of this particular user (and indeed the other users who were made admins around the same time) it was not the number of edits that they had contributed to the wiki (as the wiki was very much smaller than it currently is) but rather their skill with the mediawiki software and their knowledge of both Doctor Who and of dealing with users and vandalism within a wiki-environment.

As to Contents, I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean the 'Contents' that appears, for instance at the top of this page. It's automatically generated by having subheadings; anything contained within two or more of these; ==. You need more than one set of sub-headings and a page of some length to get the contents to generate. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 17:00, September 23, 2010 (UTC)

Reply

I only put the page up for deletion, so please don't act like I deleted it. It would have been an admin that deleted it. If somebody did come onto this wiki, and tried to find out about Sarah Jane and her 'companions' they would more likely go to the Sarah Jane Adventures page. Mini-mitch 16:19, September 24, 2010 (UTC)

Spoilers

Please stop adding spoilers. It is against the Manual of Style. The Thirteenth Doctor 22:09, October 9, 2010 (UTC)

  • Stop adding spoilers to main pages. If you do so again, I will ask an admin to issue a warning. --The Thirteenth Doctor 15:58, October 10, 2010 (UTC)

Warning

Please do not add spaces to the 'The Vault of Secrets' infobox. Adding spaces / removing elements of infoboxes can cause conflicts within the infobox or article. --Tangerineduel 15:49, October 12, 2010 (UTC)

Picture

Put [[File:File name|pixel number e.g 250px]]. There you go, hope it helped.--Skittles the hog 16:18, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

SJA Stories - Protection

Partly it was to start with a clean slate with Death of the Doctor. The Vault of Secrets part 1 is broadcast today/tomorrow so there's not too much editing that's going on. --Tangerineduel 14:06, October 17, 2010 (UTC)

Spoilers

Please do not add information from yet to be broadcast stories to any articles. These are considered "spoilers" in that it is information from a story that has not yet been broadcast, therefore should someone read it will have their experience of the story that information is from 'spoiled'. --Tangerineduel 15:17, October 17, 2010 (UTC)

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