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::: Personally I just call it "Tardis Wiki". I don't care if it's officially called ''The Tardis Wiki'', as I'll still continue to just call it "Tardis Wiki" anyway. [[User:66 Seconds|66 Seconds]] [[User talk:66 Seconds|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 11:28, 17 July 2023 (UTC) | ::: Personally I just call it "Tardis Wiki". I don't care if it's officially called ''The Tardis Wiki'', as I'll still continue to just call it "Tardis Wiki" anyway. [[User:66 Seconds|66 Seconds]] [[User talk:66 Seconds|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 11:28, 17 July 2023 (UTC) | ||
:::: I think we can lose the "The" - "TARDIS Wiki" works on its own. — [[User:FractalDoctor|Fractal Doctor]] [[User talk:FractalDoctor|<span title="Send a space-time telegraph">@</span>]] 12:33, 17 July 2023 (UTC) | :::: I think we can lose the "The" - "TARDIS Wiki" works on its own. — [[User:FractalDoctor|Fractal Doctor]] [[User talk:FractalDoctor|<span title="Send a space-time telegraph">@</span>]] 12:33, 17 July 2023 (UTC) | ||
Just to make a minor correction to Epsilon's comment above that I didn't catch, my entire point was that "The Super Mario Wiki" is the official name and it ''does'' use "the". "Zelda Wiki" does not. There's so much variance that there's no clear cut precedent and we can do whatever we choose. [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:30, 23 July 2023 (UTC) | |||
Personally, I think this wiki should be called the [[TARDIS information system|TARDIS Information System]]. [[User:Cgl1999|Cgl1999]] [[User talk:Cgl1999|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 22:36, 16 August 2023 (UTC) | |||
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This has reached the 30-day mark, and I think we have '''clear consensus to do away with "Tardis Data Core" and officialise the ''de facto'' renaming of the Wiki to "Tardis Wiki"'''. ''Tardis Information System'', the sole competing suggestion, just doesn't have any clear advantages over "Data Core": it seems clear that people would keep calling it "Tardis Wiki" anyway. | |||
For the avoidance of doubt, though some people flip-flopped between the two spellings in this discussion, '''[[Tardis:TARDIS]] stands: we are, from this day forward, ''Tardis Wiki'', <u>not</u> ''TARDIS Wiki''.''' | |||
As regards the definitive article, there were no strong feelings on the matter, but simply "Tardis Wiki" seems to have the slight advantage, and it matches the historical practice of referring to our Wiki as simply "Tardis" (certainly not "the Tardis") for short. '''Thus we are "Tardis Wiki" or "Tardis", even if we are also "''the'' Wiki".''' | |||
When it comes to the site's banner/tagling, there were two suggestions: sticking with "''the Doctor Who Wiki''", or "''home of the Doctor Who Universe''". Of these, sticking with ''the Doctor Who Wiki'' got marginally more support, and does seem to have SEO advantages. That being said, I'm not entirely confident about this (maybe using "Doctor Who Wiki" as well as "Tardis Wiki" risks creating some confusion about what our actual name is?). '''I'm going to stick with 'the Doctor Who Wiki' for now, but if someone wants to create a second thread reexamining this issue in itself, as distinct from the site name, this will not be held to be in breach of [[T:POINT]]'''. | |||
Thank you to everyone who participated! [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']] [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]] 14:10, 19 August 2023 (UTC) | |||
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