User talk:The Librarian
Hi, just to let anyone know I've currently started on Doctor Who Magazine related pages which I hope will be comprehensive (I promise I'll catch up soon).I had to start somewhere but if anyone has suggestions or requests for details they would find useful / interesting or both, please let me know.Hope I can help! The Librarian 01:36, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
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- Hi, thank you for contributing to the TARDIS index file, there are however a few issues with your formatting etc of the pages, please see DWM Issue 1 for an example of the new Infobox I have created for the magazines.
- Please also see the Help and Manual of Style pages. Thanks (any questions leave in the forum or on a talk page). --Tangerineduel 13:54, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
- The alterations to the DWM pages are minor and are merely to bring them in line with other pages on the TARDIS wiki. Should you have any problems please leave a message on a talk page. --Tangerineduel 15:48, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Tangerineduel, hope you get to read this cos I am now stuck!
- The template you have applied to my pages on the whole is appreciated as are the minor edits you've done however, as there wasn't previously a template to use could we clarify a few points before I decide to carry on?
- You've taken out the brackets (refering to related wiki topics) after the article and replaced them with in-title references. Can I ask that it reverts back. The reason I chose to do it the way I did was because, as you will see on my way to issue 383, the article title doesn't always reflect the content of the article. It only really applied to the early issues aimed at younger readers.
- Would it be ok to remove the `to be added' line where none appeared in that particular issue or would you prefer I put `none` to leaving it blank as there is nothing to be added. I would be unhappy with removing the content category as it gives a continuity to the overall pages?
- If I continue to use your template it does not include 'credits' for issue production which are revealed more with later issues. I feel these should be included as an acknowledgement of other peoples work (many of who are now key figures in shaping and determining the type of Doctor Who we get to share).
- Could the infobox be reduced slightly in width as this would increase the definition of the cover image, and not encrouch as much across the main contents, which like everything else become longer and more detailed with later issues?
- I don't want to mess with site convention but am curious as to how existing pages (often stubs)can be expanded to include additional information that may not however appear in the template used for the article. If such information can be included throughout a section, does it need approval first, and from who if a template is to be expanded?
The Librarian 17:47, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
