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:I imagine it's fairly easy to create a new forum, sure. But my question would be, why is it necessary? What's wrong with The Howling? When I read the description of The Howling, it matches exactly what I think all this discon stuff is. Do you somehow think this stuff is "too good" for The Howling? '''[[User:CzechOut|<span style="background:blue;color:white">Czech</span><span style="background:red;color:white">Out</span>]]''' [[User talk:CzechOut|☎]] | [[Special:Contributions/CzechOut|<font size="+1">✍</font>]] 22:10, March 26, 2010 (UTC) | :I imagine it's fairly easy to create a new forum, sure. But my question would be, why is it necessary? What's wrong with The Howling? When I read the description of The Howling, it matches exactly what I think all this discon stuff is. Do you somehow think this stuff is "too good" for The Howling? '''[[User:CzechOut|<span style="background:blue;color:white">Czech</span><span style="background:red;color:white">Out</span>]]''' [[User talk:CzechOut|☎]] | [[Special:Contributions/CzechOut|<font size="+1">✍</font>]] 22:10, March 26, 2010 (UTC) | ||
:::I don'y think the stuff is too good for the Howling. Can we please decide what happening and end this debate? Mini-mitch 22:14, March 26, 2010 (UTC) | :::I don'y think the stuff is too good for the Howling. Can we please decide what happening and end this debate? Mini-mitch 22:14, March 26, 2010 (UTC) | ||
::::Okay, but that would be helped by an explanation of why you don't want it on The Howling. What's confusing me, and I daresay [[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] is that The Howling is: | |||
:::::"a forum where all contributors to this wiki can solve problems and create fixes for continuity holes, speculate, discuss trivia, and offer up theories on continuity and other points of trivia" | |||
How is that '''not''' the place to put discontinuity information? | |||
::::Hmm, thinking about this more before you respond . . . Is it that you want a nice, orderly article that neatly puts all the stories in order, then branches out to a bit for each story? If that's the case, it could easily be achieved without leaving the howling. What you do is just create a single forum page with 220 subpages (or however many stories there are). The subpages could be easily called up (but only from that page) by use of the following syntax: | |||
<pre> | |||
[[/An Unearthly Child]] | |||
[[/The Daleks]] | |||
etc. | |||
</pre> | |||
:::This syntax is a shortcut for typing some big long thing out. So if the main page were [[Forum:The Howling:Doctor Who Discontinuity by episode]], then [[/An Uunearthly Child]] would stand in for [[Forum:The Howling:Doctor Who Discontinuity by episode/An Unearthly Child]]. | |||
::::I can see why you might want to have it centralized, but it can definitely be centralized on The Howling. The Fora are just a different namespace, or ''folder'', on the wiki. They're not a barren wasteland where the rules wiki coding fail to apply. You have precisely the same abilities in The Howling as you do elsewhere. '''[[User:CzechOut|<span style="background:blue;color:white">Czech</span><span style="background:red;color:white">Out</span>]]''' [[User talk:CzechOut|☎]] | [[Special:Contributions/CzechOut|<font size="+1">✍</font>]] 22:26, March 26, 2010 (UTC) | |||
