User talk:Claude North
Claude NorthThanks for your edits! We hope you'll keep on editing with us. This is a great time to have joined us, because now you can play the Game of Rassilon with us and win cool stuff! Well, okay, badges. That have no monetary value. And that largely only you can see. But still: they're cool!
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Andrew Collins[[edit source]]
Hey, Claude. Thanks for trying to help out in clarifying the Andrew Collins situation. However, your methods have left some questions. For the time being I've restored Andrew Collins (actor) to its previous state.
Are you suggesting that Andrew Collins (critic) performed the Big Finish role stated at Andrew Collins (actor)? If so, what's your proof? Andrew Collins is a pretty common name. I know the pages were set up with uncertainty — cause I set 'em up — but I'd like to have some sort of proof that Andrew Collins (critic) actually performed the role before moving the page over.
Also, please be aware that your method of suggesting a deletion violates our deletion policy. Please don't just blank pages and change their categories. Instead, leave the text of the page alone and place {{delete|reason}} at the top of the page. This template will automatically place the page in the proper category so that it can be discovered. Had I not been randomly checking Special:WantedCategories today, it would have been a very long time before I — or any other admin — came across Andrew Collins (actor). Since admin are the people whose attention you need to attract to get a page deleted, you need to make sure your proposed deletion gets into the proper category, which you do by using {{delete}}.
Thanks again for spotting this problem and trying to help! I look forward to hearing more about why you think Andrew Collins (critic) and Andrew Collins (actor) are one and the same.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:18: Mon 09 Jul 2012
Dabbing[[edit source]]
Hi, noticed you dabbing characters on the The Natural History of Fear (audio story) page. Characters are dabbed with story title not...year or whatever else you've used on the page. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:25, January 6, 2013 (UTC)
Standard format for behind the scenes articles[[edit source]]
Hey, Claude :) Thanks for trying to help out with our Big Finish coverage. It's really important we keep to a fairly common format for our articles though. All articles about people should contain the template {{NameSort}} at the very bottom so that the names sort properly by last name first. All articles should have categories. Please never, ever walk away from an article without putting it into the right category. For the ones you recently did, you were looking for Category:Big Finish post production. You also want to avoid overuse of section heads. Most smaller articles don't need them at all.
Please take a look at Wilfredo Acosta for an example of the kind of format we're looking for. Thanks very much for your contributions!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 00:30: Sat 16 Feb 2013
- Coupla points: sound design is not "performed"; it's "provided" or "furnished". Also, please don't list beside each story things like "music and sound design". Just make simple lists of the person's credits.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 16:34: Thu 21 Feb 2013
Christmas cheer[[edit source]]
As this fiftieth anniversary year comes to a close, we here at Tardis just want to thank you for being a part of our community — even if you haven't edited here in a while. If you have edited with us this year, then thanks for all your hard work.
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