The Panopticon/Let's drop "index file" from our name
I recently came across a 2005 question from one of our original admin that never got answered. It left me curious enough to rewatch Castrovalva very closely. The truth is that our article at TARDIS Index File is wrong, and therefore our name is, too. At no point do Nyssa and Tegan ever use the complete phrase "TARDIS Index File". They're merely looking for the not-proper-noun "index file" for the TARDIS information system.
- Admin note: Since this discussion began, the in-universe article TARDIS Index File has been deleted in the move to TARDIS information system.
And that's what the name of the article should be, as there is no such thing as the "TARDIS Index File". An index file is just a gateway, a thing like Forum:Index, or a home page. It's not some specialised or independent part of the TARDIS. Most significantly, it is not the database onboard the TARDIS — which is what I think Freethinker1of1 maintained in the early years of this wiki. It would be most proper to call it the "index file of the TARDIS Information System".
Because there is no such thing as the "TARDIS Index File", I propose that we just call ourselves the Tardis Wiki, and that we switch to this simpler logo:
This would have the added advantage of being in harmony with our Twitter handle, email address, and the way that everyone in the broader wiki community generally thinks of us. In other words, "Index File" is already generally truncated, so let's just kill it in the logo, which is really one of the few places where the term remains.
