User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130110024510/@comment-88790-20130116145827

The T:TARDIS section is somewhat oddly written, I'm hesitant to edit it while the discussion is still going on, but it just needs some editing to word it stronger and clearer.

It also needs to state that Tardis/TARDIS Data Core is the name of the wiki, Tardis is how it's listed on wikia and is the web addy. It needs to be clear about why these things are as they are. The tech side of things a little hand wavey, and you have to go down into the table of Help:Namespace to find our what Tardis: has to do with the namespace.

I understand the reasons behind why Tardis as a namespace needs to exist as it is (though am a little fuzzy on whether it could be all uppercase and if that would influence our Wikia listing).

Having re-read and thought through everything I think we might be able to make it clear that the Tardis in "Tardis Data Core" doesn't refer to THE TARDIS but to the project. That needs to be really clear.

I think some readers may see it as us bastardising a DWU concept for our own purposes. That's something both our two names share (sort of) TARDIS Index File was something we appropriated but wasn't actually said. Tardis Data Core is something that was said though only sort of. Reading CzechOut's suggestion in the other thread the "Fourth Doctor tells K9 to look for the Record of Rassilon buried deep in the TARDIS' data core" - the apostrophe is key in that sentence and would've changed how TARDIS was said and the intention.

In relation to that quote and how we use data core our wiki's name makes sense. If you imagine a change (for a moment) Tardis to Project (that's what all wikis namespaces are originally called) then this wiki's name becomes Project Data Core. Swap Project for Tardis and it returns to Tardis Data Core.

So, what I'm saying is I understand why Tardis needs to be lower case, I still think it looks odd, though only from a POV of "TARDIS should always be uppercase". From a tech point of view I know it should be "Tardis" when relating to wiki matters.

I think, in the matter of wiki name Tardis/TARDIS my role as admin and my personal opinion conflict and would further complicate this discussion, so should any vote or decision making process come up regarding specifically the name's casing on the pagetitle I will abstain from that portion of the discussion.