Forum:Discontinuity revisited: Difference between revisions

:::::I'm sure I was reading one of the articles you've been editing that there weren't any 'lighting directors' back in the day?. The italic explanation I must have left by accident. As for the error itself, yes now that I read it again it isn't an error, when I left it in I was thinking of backdrops and shadows falling on them, but now remember the shot in question and it's not an error (I shall fall back on the; 'it is the very nature of a wiki that things will be edited multiple times before they're correct and everyone makes mistakes'). --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 16:25, March 25, 2010 (UTC)

==STOP!==

Stop! What are you doing? I agree some pages may need a tidy up but you’re destroying many people’s hard work. All you have done is destroy and delete dozens of unanswered questions, and given it a stupid new name leaving the bear minimum, I most want to complain as I am the one who add loads to the ones that had little and now your destroying all my work, stop and undo, you don't the right. After all if people are going to add to it wanting there questions answered and they aren't stupid or obvious who said you can delete them? And I've looked over your deletions and found you have deleted many reasonable unanswered errors and reasonable answers, and before you argue why to keep answered questions, how else do you stop new comers adding the same question? Just stop, and preferably undo and leave your meddling to yourself. If people wanted them gone, they would have been got rid of by now so your reason seems bit rubbish, as is this page and your ideas, just undo you’re meddling and leave. And before you ague be prepared to know that I will fight you till you back off.

I don't see this as reasoning, I see it as failure, I spent ages making many of the Discontiuity sections and now that you are destroying them because you think there messy, and you expect me to be okay with that? I won't give up, but as I said before, to save all of us a lot of strain can we just talk about this rather than us having to keep undoing each others undos?

::::People also go to the trouble of adding unsourced rumours which are deleted and at one point in this wiki's development they were left on the pages, unsourced. However as this wiki has developed we now state that any rumours cited must have sources. As I've said it's in the nature of a wiki to change and develop. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 16:01, March 26, 2010 (UTC)

::::The problems that are left are errors in production, any issues were issues with story or in some cases not even that. Whilst editing The Moonbase I came across something about Ben knowing about thermonuclear science and other things, far from being discontinuity it's more an interesting character development. Other things like this can be over anaylsed as being a plot hole/error are actually elements of the Doctor Who universe. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 16:12, March 26, 2010 (UTC)

==Vote 2==

'''Keep Production Errors, move Discontinuity to NEW SECTION IN FORUM'''

**After reader your thoughts and opinions, I now understand that it will be easier to move into '''The Howling''', and now create a new page

'''Keep Discontinuity Section, move Production Errors to NEW PAGE'''

==General Points==

Would it not be easier, to create a new section in the Forums, for all this! '''Not''' The Howling, but create '''New''' section for all? And the Production Errors stay on the page? Mini-mitch 21:58, 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)

:::::"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"

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[[/An Unearthly Child]]

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:::::[[Forum:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes]] I've just created links for the first two seasons and created [[Forum:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/An Unearthly Child]] with all its discontinuity intact from the original page. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 04:23, March 27, 2010 (UTC)

==Putting the decision to work==

::I think it should be verbose for now, since it's new, but with the plan to edit it down a bit once people are more familiar with it. Something along the lines of "For a discussion of the narrative discontinuity, click here. You could win an iPod!"

::A related question: would it be appropriate for us at this stage to be moving things ''back'' into "Production Errors" that seem better there? I was just glancing at [[The Tomb of the Cybermen]] and noticed a number of entries actually are production errors, like the film being run backwards and such. [[User:Monkey with a Gun|Monkey with a Gun]] 01:26, May 2, 2010 (UTC)

==Slight update==

:As for the formatting, personally, I find the indentation easier. But maybe that's because now it looks like what I expect a discussion on a wiki (e.g., on a talk page or a forum thread) to look like....

:::I was thinking, rather than subbing the subpage, we could just include some sub-headings on the page like; 'Over all story discontinuity' and then 'Individuals Part/Episode continuity'. That way all the story continuity is contained on one page. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] 12:22, May 4, 2010 (UTC)

::::That's a great idea; it gets the best of both worlds. Since there would be a heading for each episode, you could even link to a specific episode if you needed to (e.g., if some specific detail in one episode contradicts something in another episode and you want to reference the earlier in the later). --[[User:Falcotron|Falcotron]] 15:53, May 4, 2010 (UTC)