User talk:Mini-mitch
Tooth and Claw
So, before you moved Tooth and Claw to Tooth and Claw (TV story) — which was fine in itself — did you give any thought about what you would do with the couple of hundred links to Tooth and Claw? Have you verified they're all meant to link to the TV story? Were you taking care of the re-linking yourself? What's going on with it? I'm getting questions on my talk page about it, so I need to know whether you're taking care of it, or whether I should be gettin' the bot ready.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">14:03:13 Sat 23 Jul 2011
- Well, here's the thing. The moment one makes a name change to an article — especially one as heavily linked as a TV story page — it's no longer an academic discussion on a talk page. The move requires additional action. And we, as admin, have to make sure that a core page like this is re-linked properly. We can't just leave it to others to take care of, because it's part of the basic "spine" of the wiki. And what's happened here is that Tybort has "taken care of it" — by just asking me to make the changes. And I don't mind doing it. But I would like to do it on my own schedule, rather than having to stop what I was doing and do it now. So in future it would be great if either you personally take responsibility for the re-linking consequent to a big name change like this; or you say, "You know, that's gonna require a bot to do it efficiently. Please put your request at user talk:CzechOut." That way I can have some control over the timing and the way that it's done. For instance, I would never have acquiesced to Tybort, no matter the validity of the request, before I knew that every single link to Tooth and Claw was meant to go to the TV story. Once you establish that, the bot changeover is a snap.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">14:42:47 Sat 23 Jul 2011
Typos on Doctor Who Series 7
You're probably dealing with them as I speak, but here goes. On the (naturally locked) Series 7 (Doctor Who) page you've been working on, you've got "annoounced the new of the new series" instead of "announced the news of the new series". -- Tybort (talk page) 22:21, July 24, 2011 (UTC)
Potential Edit War in A Good Man Goes to War
User:Bold Clone is reverting good faith edits made by me to A Good Man Goes to War, and is claiming they are unneeded but is not citing anything else. How should we resolve? Primarily, behind the scenes information of the episode. TIA Cowbert 03:32, July 30, 2011 (UTC)
Creating template talk pages
Why? I had this conversation with another user. Why? It makes it look like there's a discussion already happening when clearly there isn't. I know we had a discussion in the forums about talk pages already having the talk template on them, but I don't think we agreed about creating a talk page for ever single page, especially as there's nothing to talk about on many pages. I also seem to recall we didn't come down on a plan of action specifically for all sorts of article pages. I also really think it gives a false sense of something being discussed, especially on those templates which provide a link to the talk pages, which obviously appears red when there's no talk page, and therefore nothing to be discussed. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:07, August 7, 2011 (UTC)
- I don't agree with the rationale using the wanted pages as a reason for creating stuff that shouldn't be created. It was basically the same rationale used in the Timeline discussion.
- Creating pages before they're needed as a means of controlling random questions / vandalism is an extremely weird way of going about it.
- I really think the benefits of not having the talk pages existing and therefore allowing people to start talk pages as they're needed is a far better way of doing things. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:24, August 7, 2011 (UTC)
