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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Hey, well I decided to update the current comic infobox, rather than create a whole new one. Take a look at The Power of Thoueris! (as that was the most recent one I created or thereabouts) and has the new infobox layout implemented in there. --Tangerineduel 04:38, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
- Have added response to your question on my Talk page: User talk:Tangerineduel#Comic Strip Pages. --Tangerineduel 10:23, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Librarian. The reason to why I have put red links in pages you've written is: I don't know very much about the early Doctor Who stories, but I thought that if I create links to characters mentioned on pages it's more likely that someone who knows more then me will write some info...
By the way I think you're doing a great job! Keep on going! Rufus
Hey Rufus...there's a conversation between me and the Librarian lurking...somewhere, either on my talk page or his or in the forum. The gist is (or my argument at least) is that I left the creation of character pages up to the Librarian (as he does in fact have the Magazines in front of him) and so he would know whether or not there is enough information to create a character page for the characters mentioned (as in many cases the information such as it is can be answered in the comic's own page rather than a one line page). --Tangerineduel 15:21, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Reminders to Myself (following clean-up) The Librarian 21:23, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
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Re: Doctor Who Books Article
Just a note on why I'm deleting this. There is a lot of over lap in this article and...well practically the whole of the wiki, then there's also that you're mixing the in/out of universe. Hardly any of the books are acually referred to as such, see: Category:Prose stories, Category:Novel series Category:Reference Books is the only exception (and like most things proves the rule). Having a page such as the one you've created will lead to complicated process involving referencing and how people reference/refer to stories, as the general rule is to refer to them as such, rather than as 'books'. Also glancing over the topics you've not taken a look around as many of them exist (just not with the names you've assigned), they also already exist within their own pages.
Put simply, the page you've created is really, really going to complicate things, especially given the already established manual of style and other such processes. Just thought I'd explain my reasons. --Tangerineduel 18:00, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
